Quotes

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

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Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.

— Candace Bushnell
Love Relationships

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

— Jane Austen
Love Relationships

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

— Ursula K. Le Guin
Love

What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.

— Chuck Palahniuk
Love

What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.

— Suzanne Collins
Inspirational Love

My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

— Nicholas Sparks
Love

I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

— Maya Angelou
Inspirational Love Trust

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Love

It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you, because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it's so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn't coma back. You're left so alone that you can't explain. Damn, there's nothing like that, is there? I've been there and you have too. You're nodding your head.

— Henry Rollins
Life Love Relationships

And, in the endThe love you takeis equal to the love you make.

— Paul McCartney
Inspirational Love Art & Beauty

If he’s not calling you, it’s because you are not on his mind. If he creates expectations for you, and then doesn’t follow through on little things, he will do same for big things. Be aware of this and realize that he’s okay with disappointing you. Don’t be with someone who doesn’t do what they say they’re going to do. If he’s choosing not to make a simple effort that would put you at ease and bring harmony to a recurring fight, then he doesn’t respect your feelings and needs. “Busy� is another word for “asshole.� “Asshole� is another word for the guy you’re dating. You deserve a fcking phone call.

— Greg Behrendt
Love Faith & Religion Relationships

It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

— Vladimir Nabokov
Love

We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.

— Nicholas Sparks
Love

We loved with a love that was more than love.

— Edgar Allen Poe
Love

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I'll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about.

— Rumi
Love Faith & Religion Friendship Society & Politics

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.