Words worth keeping
2,684 quotes — from Indian and world voices, in English, Hindi and Urdu — while our publisher catalog grows.
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.
What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.
Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.
So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.
Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you really are.
I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhereI go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)I fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)I want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is youhere is the deepest secret nobody knows(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which growshigher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apartI carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)
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.