๐ฌ Quotes
8,724 quotes from great books
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once."
โ Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him."
โ Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare
"His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world 'This was a man!'"
โ Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare
"I wanted only to try to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?"
โ Demianby Hermann Hesse
"The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world."
โ Demianby Hermann Hesse
"It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is."
โ Demianby Hermann Hesse
"Every man has a destiny waiting for him, a destiny he must fulfill; there is no escaping it."
โ Demianby Hermann Hesse
"You must find your own dream, then the way becomes easy. But there is no dream that lasts forever, each dream is followed by a new one, and one should not cling to any particular one."
โ Demianby Hermann Hesse
"He who wants to be born must first destroy a world. The idol is broken. The god demands sacrifice."
โ Demianby Hermann Hesse
"The war was not a place. It was a mouth, and it was eating everything."
โ Warm Hands of Ghostsby Katherine Arden
"There are no ghosts in this place. There are only memories that refuse to lie still."
โ Warm Hands of Ghostsby Katherine Arden
"It is a dangerous thing to go looking for someone who has already been erased."
โ Warm Hands of Ghostsby Katherine Arden
"The dead donโt leave us. They only wait for us to notice them."
โ Warm Hands of Ghostsby Katherine Arden
"Some wounds do not bleed; they simply grow cold until there is nothing left to feel."
โ Warm Hands of Ghostsby Katherine Arden
"To survive is not a victory. To survive is merely to be the one who stayed behind to count the cost."
โ Warm Hands of Ghostsby Katherine Arden
"The war was not a place. It was a condition. It was a hunger that ate the earth and spat it back out in pieces."
โ Warm Hands of Ghostsby Katherine Arden
"There are places in this world where the veil is thin, and then there is the Salient, where the veil has been shredded entirely."
โ Warm Hands of Ghostsby Katherine Arden
"Memory is a treacherous thing, Laura. It rearranges itself to suit the heart, or to spare it."
โ Warm Hands of Ghostsby Katherine Arden
"You think death is a wall, but itโs just a door, and some people are paid to keep the hinges oiled."
โ Warm Hands of Ghostsby Katherine Arden