Quotes

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.

— Jonathan Safran Foer
Life

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.

— John Green
General

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

— Oscar Wilde
Love

Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.

— John Green
General

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

— Paulo Coelho
Love

Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.

— J.K. Rowling
General

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

— Neil Gaiman
Inspirational

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

— Margaret Mead
Inspirational Life Philosophy Change & Growth Society & Politics Nature & World

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

— Oscar Wilde
Self & Identity

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

— Mitch Albom
Life Death & Loss

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

— Dalai Lama XIV
Inspirational Happiness

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

— John Lennon
Wisdom Happiness

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.

— J.K. Rowling
Courage & Strength

If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you really are.

— H.N. Turteltaub
General

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)

— E.E. Cummings
Love Books & Writing

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.