Quotes

Words worth keeping

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

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It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.

— Bill Watterson
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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart

— Helen Keller
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Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

— Mark Twain
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I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That’s why I’m trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning.

— Stephen Chbosky
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If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

— Leo Tolstoy
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I've got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?""A regrettable choice of words," muttered Magnus.

— Cassandra Clare
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.

— J.M. Barrie
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

— Oscar Wilde
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Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

— Lewis Carroll
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Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.

— Leigh Bardugo
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You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts...but you cannot deny he's got style...

— J.K. Rowling
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Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.

— J.K. Rowling
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All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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One of the Silent Brothers is here to see you. Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually he offered to wake you himself, but since it's 5 a.m., I figured you'd be less cranky if you had something nice to look at.""Meaning you?""What else?

— Cassandra Clare
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It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.

— Cassandra Clare
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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.