Quotes

Words worth keeping

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

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

— douglas adams
Life

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.

— Pablo Neruda
Love Books & Writing

I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.

— J.K. Rowling
General

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

— Groucho Marx
Humor Books & Writing Friendship Nature & World

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

— Albert Einstein
Inspirational Art & Beauty

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

— William Shakespeare
Love Trust

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

— Dr. Seuss
General

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

— Neil Gaiman
Love

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

— Steve Martin
Humor

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

— George R.R. Martin
Books & Writing

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.

— Mark Twain
Humor

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...

— Dr. Seuss
Inspirational

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

— Friedrich Nietzsche
Courage & Strength

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

— Lao Tzu
Love Courage & Strength

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.