Quotes

Words worth keeping

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

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

— Mother Teresa
General

Why do people say "grow some balls"? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.

— Sheng Wang
Humor Women

I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.

— J.K. Rowling
Humor

Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.

— Cassandra Clare
Self & Identity Faith & Religion

My rapier wit hides my inner pain.

— Cassandra Clare
Humor

I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky
General

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

— Bob Marley
Life Freedom

No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?""They go to hell," was my ready and orthodox answer."And what is hell? Can you tell me that?""A pit full of fire.""And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?""No, sir.""What must you do to avoid it?"I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come was objectionable: "I must keep in good health and not die.

— Charlotte Brontë
Humor Faith & Religion Family

I'd rather die my way than live yours.

— Lauren Oliver
Self & Identity Freedom

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

— Maya Angelou
General

Where words leave off, music begins.

— Heinrich Heine
Art & Beauty

Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.

— Glen Cook
General

Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself.

— C. JoyBell C.
Inspirational Life Freedom

I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.

— Ayn Rand
Life Death & Loss

I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them.

— Anais Nin
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.