๐Ÿ’ฌ Quotes

8,724 quotes from great books

"Prometheus was the great rebel against injustice and the authority that wants to crush freedom. He is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the human spirit."
โ€” Mythologyby Edith Hamilton
"To love is to be vulnerable, to open the door to a room that can be devastated, but it is the only way to truly live."
โ€” Watchersby Dean Koontz
"In the early days myths were early science, a way of explaining what man saw around him; but they were also something much more: a way of expressing the way man felt."
โ€” Mythologyby Edith Hamilton
"So all the miseries flew out, nameless evils for men. Hope only remained there, caught under the great rim of the jar, and it did not fly out."
โ€” Mythologyby Edith Hamilton
"He knew that the moment he held that object in his hand he was choosing his life."
โ€” Native Sonby Richard Wright
"What I killed for must've been good! It must have been good! When a man kills, it's for something."
โ€” Native Sonby Richard Wright
"They don't let you feel what you want to feel. They offer you food and clothes and money, but they won't let you feel that you are a man."
โ€” Native Sonby Richard Wright
"The white folks didn't have to dream; they had the world in which they lived and it was made for them."
โ€” Native Sonby Richard Wright
"I didn't want to kill! But what I killed for, I am! It must've meant I was alive!"
โ€” Native Sonby Richard Wright
"The city was a vast, cold, white, and frozen landscape, and he was a stranger in it."
โ€” Native Sonby Richard Wright
"The world is full of things we don't understand, but that doesn't mean they aren't real."
โ€” Keeper of the Lost Citiesby Shannon Messenger
"Itโ€™s not about how strong you are. Itโ€™s about how much youโ€™re willing to lose to protect the people you love."
โ€” Keeper of the Lost Citiesby Shannon Messenger
"Being different isnโ€™t a flaw. Itโ€™s a superpower, even if itโ€™s a terrifying one."
โ€” Keeper of the Lost Citiesby Shannon Messenger
"We are all broken, in one way or another. The trick is to find someone whose broken pieces fit with yours."
โ€” Keeper of the Lost Citiesby Shannon Messenger
"Trust is a fragile thing. It takes a lifetime to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair."
โ€” Keeper of the Lost Citiesby Shannon Messenger
"Sometimes the greatest courage is just showing up and being brave enough to keep going, even when you're terrified."
โ€” Keeper of the Lost Citiesby Shannon Messenger
"Nature is to be found in the place where it is allowed to exist, and it is almost nowhere."
โ€” Oryx and Crakeby Margaret Atwood
"Everything is educational, if you look at it right."
โ€” Oryx and Crakeby Margaret Atwood
"The problem with people is that they're only human."
โ€” Oryx and Crakeby Margaret Atwood
"Art is a way of looking at the world, but it's also a way of creating it. And if you create it, you can control it."
โ€” Oryx and Crakeby Margaret Atwood