๐Ÿ’ฌ Quotes

8,724 quotes from great books

"Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more."
โ€” The Glass Castleby Jeannette Walls
"Iโ€™d tell her that I was sorry, but she just shrugged and said that being sorry was a useless emotion."
โ€” The Glass Castleby Jeannette Walls
"Itโ€™s not my job to make things easy for you. Itโ€™s my job to help you learn how to handle things."
โ€” The Glass Castleby Jeannette Walls
"We were sort of like the cactus. We ate funny stuff and drank brackish water and lived on the fringe of civilization."
โ€” The Glass Castleby Jeannette Walls
"To understand is to forgive, even if it is yourself that needs forgiving."
โ€” Xenocideby Orson Scott Card
"The gods do not answer. They only wait for us to stop asking and start acting."
โ€” Xenocideby Orson Scott Card
"You don't have to be a god to be wrong, and you don't have to be human to be right."
โ€” Xenocideby Orson Scott Card
"I am not a weapon anymore. I am a person, and I am tired of being used to solve problems that cannot be solved with a strike."
โ€” Xenocideby Orson Scott Card
"Every life is a tragedy, because every life ends, and every life is a comedy, because while it lasts, it is so absurdly important."
โ€” Xenocideby Orson Scott Card
"We are all of us alone, except when we reach out across the impossible distance to touch another mind."
โ€” Xenocideby Orson Scott Card
"And it was true, the fire of life was not dead, it was only sleeping under the ash of a cold and mechanical civilization."
โ€” Lady Chatterley's Lover Illustratedby D. H. Lawrence
"Here we drink three cups of tea to do business; the first you are a stranger, the second you become a friend, and the third, you are family, and for our family we are prepared to do anythingโ€”even die."
โ€” Three Cups of Teaby Greg Mortenson
"If you want to educate a man, you educate an individual, but if you want to educate a nation, you must educate women."
โ€” Three Cups of Teaby Greg Mortenson
"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."
โ€” Three Cups of Teaby Greg Mortenson
"We donโ€™t want your money. We want your help to build a school."
โ€” Three Cups of Teaby Greg Mortenson
"The only way to fight the plague is with common decency."
โ€” Plague Albert Camusby Albert Camus
"There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise."
โ€” Plague Albert Camusby Albert Camus
"All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences."
โ€” Plague Albert Camusby Albert Camus
"It comes to this: that the only way to realize one's own freedom is to be able to say no."
โ€” Plague Albert Camusby Albert Camus
"I wondered if the moon was the same one he was seeing, and somehow, that made me feel better."
โ€” Dear Johnby Nicholas Sparks