Quotes

Words worth keeping

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

Being with you never felt wrong. It's the one thing I did right. You're the one thing I did right.

— Becca Fitzpatrick
Love

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

— Friedrich Nietzsche
Faith & Religion

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

— Norman Vincent Peale
Inspirational

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson
Inspirational Philosophy Science Education & Knowledge Kindness

there is a place in the heart thatwill never be filleda spaceand even during thebest momentsandthe greatest timestimeswe will know itwe will know itmore thaneverthere is a place in the heart thatwill never be filledandwe will waitandwaitin that space.

— Charles bukowski
Inspirational Death & Loss

I decided as long as I'm going to hell, I might as well do it thoroughly.

— Stephenie Meyer
General

You’ll get over it…� It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it� is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?

— Jeanette Winterson
Love Death & Loss

Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.

— Roy T. Bennett
Inspirational Life Positive Thinking Happiness

Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.

— Mae West
Humor

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

— Vincent Willem van Gogh
Books & Writing Art & Beauty Nature & World

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love

He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world.She was the book thief without the words.Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.

— Markus Zusak
Books & Writing

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

— Oscar Wilde
General

I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.I was a survivor, and I was strong.I would not be weak, or helpless again I would not, could not be broken. Tamed.

— Sarah J. Maas
General

Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.

— Nicholas Sparks
Love Death & Loss

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.