💬 Quotes

4,062 quotes from great books

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound nought and six, result misery."
David Copperfieldby Charles Dickens
"I never can thank you, how I never can forget you, how I never can know you without thinking of you as a miracle of goodness and affection."
David Copperfieldby Charles Dickens
"It is in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present."
David Copperfieldby Charles Dickens
"My own foolish heart meant well, but it failed to discern the true from the false."
David Copperfieldby Charles Dickens
"I am a very bad hand at explanations. I am more or less given to blundering about in the dark."
David Copperfieldby Charles Dickens
"Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read."
Clockwork Princeby Cassandra Clare
"We are all the stories we tell ourselves, and we are all the stories others tell about us."
Clockwork Princeby Cassandra Clare
"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
Clockwork Princeby Cassandra Clare
"There is no such thing as a life without pain. There is only a life without meaning, and that is the only thing truly to be feared."
Clockwork Princeby Cassandra Clare
"I love you. I have loved you since the moment I first saw you, and I will love you until the moment I draw my last breath."
Clockwork Princeby Cassandra Clare
"Even when we are hurt, we must keep moving forward. We must be the light in the darkness, even if that light is flickering."
Clockwork Princeby Cassandra Clare
"I’m tired, boss. Tired of bein’ on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain."
The Green Mileby Stephen King
"We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long."
The Green Mileby Stephen King
"He killed them with their love. That’s how it is in the world, every day."
The Green Mileby Stephen King
"Billy Pilgrim says that the Universe does not look like a lot of bright little dots to the creatures who live in it. The creatures think they are looking at stars, but they are looking at all the moments of their lives, which are all present and permanent."
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by KURT VONNEGUT, JR
"I was there. O’Hare was there. We’ll have a book. Mother whose name was Mary writes that the world was created in 4004 B.C. ... I tell her that we are going to write a book about Dresden."
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by KURT VONNEGUT, JR
"Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt."
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by KURT VONNEGUT, JR
"He has always come unstuck in time."
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by KURT VONNEGUT, JR
"Il ne faut pas oublier qu'il suffit d'un sourire pour changer le cours d'une journée."
Harry Potter à l'école des sorciersby J. K. Rowling
"C’est le choix qui montre ce que nous sommes vraiment, bien plus que nos aptitudes."
Harry Potter à l'école des sorciersby J. K. Rowling