💬 Quotes
5,028 quotes from great books
"We pursue beauty as if it were a god, yet we forget that beauty is merely the garment worn by truth, and truth is often cold and naked."
— Pericles and Aspasiaby Yvonne Korshak
"The price of glory is the constant fear of its eclipse; we live in the noon, knowing that every moment thereafter is a slow descent into the dusk."
— Pericles and Aspasiaby Yvonne Korshak
"Love is the only empire that does not require conquest, for its boundaries are set not by geography, but by the shared horizon of two souls."
— Pericles and Aspasiaby Yvonne Korshak
"The world has ended. It's been burnt to a crisp. And we're the only ones who can fix it, or so they say."
— The Scorch Trialsby James Dashner
"Hope is a dangerous thing. It can be the one thing that keeps you going, or the one thing that crushes you when it’s gone."
— The Scorch Trialsby James Dashner
"They don't care about us. We're just pawns in their sick little game."
— The Scorch Trialsby James Dashner
"You can't trust anyone. Not even yourself, not when your memories have been tampered with."
— The Scorch Trialsby James Dashner
"We’ve been through hell, and we’ve survived. But surviving isn't the same as living."
— The Scorch Trialsby James Dashner
"The world is in ruins. The sun is a vengeful eye. And we’re the ones who have to survive it."
— The Scorch Trialsby James Dashner
"WICKED is good. But it’s a twisted kind of good, and it’s being done in a way that makes me want to scream."
— The Scorch Trialsby James Dashner
"They were pawns in a game they didn’t understand, being moved across a board by people who didn't care if they lived or died."
— The Scorch Trialsby James Dashner
"Hope is a dangerous thing. It can be the one thing that keeps you going, or the one thing that crushes you when it’s gone."
— The Scorch Trialsby James Dashner
"We’ve been lied to every step of the way. Maybe the only truth we have left is the fact that we’re still breathing."
— The Scorch Trialsby James Dashner
"The sea is everything. It covers seven-tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is healthy and pure. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides."
— 20,000 Leagues Under the Seaby Jules Verne
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."
— P.S. I love youby Cecelia Ahern