Quotes

Words worth keeping

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

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

— Maya Angelou
Art & Beauty Solitude

Don't talk to me.""Why not?""Because I want to fix that in my memory for ever. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret...

— J.K. Rowling
Humor

Fear cuts deeper than swords.

— George R.R. Martin
Courage & Strength Fear

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
General

Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.

— Roy T. Bennett
Inspirational Life Love Change & Growth Positive Thinking Happiness

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

— Lewis Carroll
General

People haven't always been there for me but music always has.

— Taylor Swift
Art & Beauty

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!

— Hunter S. Thompson
Life Death & Loss

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
General

You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it.

— Roy T. Bennett
Inspirational Life Positive Thinking

War is what happens when language fails.

— Margaret Atwood
Society & Politics

I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.

— J.R.R. Tolkien
Death & Loss

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

— Martin Luther King Jr.
Wisdom

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

— J.K. Rowling
General

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Self & Identity

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.