Quotes

Words worth keeping

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

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

— G.K. Chesterton
Books & Writing

If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.

— Lemony Snicket
Humor

Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.

— William Shakespeare
General

We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.

— Marilyn Monroe
Art & Beauty

There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.

— Dalai Lama XIV
Life Sadness & Pain Courage & Strength Hope

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational Philosophy

Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!

— Mark A. Cooper
Self & Identity Inspirational Life Positive Thinking

I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend. The one who will memorize the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say them. I want to know every curve, every freckle, every shiver of your body. I want to know where to touch you, I want to know how to touch you. I want to know convince you to design a smile just for me. Yes, I do want to be your friend. I want to be your best friend in the entire world.

— Tahereh Mafi
Love

And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.

— Douglas Coupland
Life

Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation.""I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.

— Charlotte Brontë
Inspirational Books & Writing Freedom

Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy

— Ludwig van Beethoven
Philosophy Art & Beauty Wisdom

When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed.

— John Green
Inspirational Life

To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balancedlife.

— Elizabeth Gilbert
Love

Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or something -Shane

— Rachel Caine
Humor

We are always the same age inside.

— Gertrude Stein
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.