Quotes

Words worth keeping

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

I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo."So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

— J.R.R. Tolkien
Death & Loss Time

When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.

— Jess C. Scott
Self & Identity Truth Life Love Friendship Art & Beauty Wisdom Relationships

Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears."After all this time?""Always," said Snape.

— J.K. Rowling
Life Love

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

— Ernest Hemingway
Books & Writing

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

— Jane Austen
Books & Writing

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

— Paulo Coelho
Inspirational

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

— Marilyn Monroe
General

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much;Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children;Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;Who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it;Who has left the world better than he found it,Whether an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;Who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had;Whose life was an inspiration;Whose memory a benediction.

— Bessie Anderson Stanley
Life Success

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.

— John Lennon
Inspirational Dreams Society & Politics Hope

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.

— Neil Gaiman
Love

′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.

— Mark Twain
Books & Writing

I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!

— Charles M. Schulz
Humor

You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.

— Suzanne Collins
General

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

— W.C. Fields
Humor

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life

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.