Quotes

Words worth keeping

2,684 quotes — from Indian and world voices, in English, Hindi and Urdu — while our publisher catalog grows.

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

— Marthe Troly-Curtin
Happiness Time

Reality continues to ruin my life.

— Bill Watterson
Life Humor

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.

— Stephen Chbosky
Life Change & Growth

There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.

— Cassandra Clare
Relationships

Who are you to judge the life I live?I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers...make sure you hands are clean!

— Bob Marley
Life

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.

— Marilyn Monroe
Love

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

— Toni Morrison
Books & Writing

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered."Yes, Piglet?""Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.

— A.A. Milne
Friendship

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

— C.S. Lewis
Love

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

— John Green
Life Sadness & Pain Kindness

He's like a drug for you, Bella.

— Stephenie Meyer
Relationships

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.

— J.K. Rowling
General

The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

— George Carlin
Truth Humor

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

— Marilyn Monroe
General

Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.

— Benjamin Franklin Wade
Humor Philosophy

World quotes adapted from the Abirate/english_quotes dataset (CC BY 4.0). Indian-figure and Hindi/Urdu quotes are a curated compilation of widely-attributed public sayings.