Quotes

Words worth keeping

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

This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.

— Chuck Palahniuk
Life

If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.

— Lemony Snicket
General

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

— Rick Riordan
General

The thing about growing up with Fred and George," said Ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

— J. K. Rowling
Inspirational

Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.

— Roy T. Bennett
Inspirational Life Kindness

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

— JK Rowling
Love Death & Loss

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

— Dave Eggers
Books & Writing Time

Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.

— Roy T. Bennett
Inspirational Life Kindness Positive Thinking Relationships

Believe in Your HeartBelieve in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.

— Roy T. Bennett
Inspirational Life Art & Beauty Positive Thinking Relationships

That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.

— Sarah Dessen
Life Death & Loss

Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.

— Stephen King
General

Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.

— Nora Ephron
Books & Writing

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

— C.S. Lewis
Faith & Religion

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

— Charles Dickens
Love Relationships

If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.

— S.E. Hinton
Friendship

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.