Quotes

Words worth keeping

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

When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

— J.M. Barrie
Happiness

The more one judges, the less one loves.

— Honoré de Balzac
Love

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

— Edward Abbey
Truth

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

— Anais Nin
Inspirational Life

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

— Oscar Wilde
General

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

— Harper Lee
Faith & Religion

Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.

— Roy T. Bennett
Inspirational Life Positive Thinking

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

— Phyllis Diller
Humor

Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.

— Dr. Seuss
General

Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:- I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.

— Mahatma Gandhi
Faith & Religion Sadness & Pain Kindness Society & Politics Courage & Strength

Did you see that dress?� "I saw the dress.� "Did you like it?� He didn't answer. I took that as a yes. "Am I going to endanger my reputation if I wear it to the dance?� When he spoke, I could barely hear him. "You'll endanger the school.� I smiled and fell asleep.

— Richelle Mead
Humor

One person's craziness is another person's reality.

— Tim Burton
General

You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.

— Chuck Palahniuk
General

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

— Robert Louis Stevenson
Inspirational Books & Writing

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel
Sadness & Pain

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.