Quotes

Words worth keeping

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

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

— Margaret Mitchell
Life Hope

It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.

— Stephen Chbosky
General

My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.~ Falsely yours

— Kinky Friedman
Love Death & Loss

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

— George Burns
Humor Happiness Family

Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not," he added hastily, "that this has ever happened to me.

— Cassandra Clare
General

More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.

— Roy T. Bennett
Inspirational Life Love Faith & Religion Kindness Positive Thinking Happiness

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

— Mahatma Gandhi
Sadness & Pain Society & Politics Courage & Strength

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

— Robert Louis Stevenson
Inspirational

Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!

— Suzanne Collins
General

But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.

— Martin Luther King
Inspirational Hope

You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.

— Nicholas Sparks
Love

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

— Edgar Allan Poe
Inspirational

Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

— Veronica Roth
Happiness

What you seek is seeking you.

— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
General

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

— Bill Watterson
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.