Quotes

Words worth keeping

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

If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl,' I'm going to kill you.""Who's Magnus?" Max inquired."He's a warlock," said Alec."A sexy, sexy warlock," Isabelle told Max, ignoring Alec's look of total fury."But warlocks are bad," protested Max, looking baffled."Exactly," said Isabelle.

— Cassandra Clare
General

If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?

— Cassandra Clare
General

there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.

— Nicole Krauss
Sadness & Pain

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

— James Baldwin
Sadness & Pain Fear

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter

— John Keats
Philosophy Science Faith & Religion

Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.

— Melissa Marr
Love

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

— Oscar Wilde
Women

Always be a poet, even in prose.

— Charles Baudelaire
Books & Writing

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.

— Victor Hugo
Love

Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.

— Steve Maraboli
Inspirational Life Change & Growth

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

— John Lennon
Faith & Religion

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

— Washington Irving
General

I know how devastated you must be to miss me, but leave a message, and I'll try to ease your agony

— Richelle Mead
General

Did you really want to die?""No one commits suicide because they want to die.""Then why do they do it?""Because they want to stop the pain.

— Tiffanie DeBartolo
Sadness & Pain

The past is never where you think you left it.

— Katherine Anne Porter
General

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.