💬 Quotes

4,062 quotes from great books

"We are all of us haunted by the people we have been, and by the people we might have become, and by the people we have failed to be."
Odd Thomasby Dean Koontz
"It is a rare and beautiful thing to find a person who makes you feel as if you are the only one in the world, and for that person to be your soulmate."
Odd Thomasby Dean Koontz
"I may never understand the patterns of the universe, but I understand the importance of being in the right place at the right time to do the right thing."
Odd Thomasby Dean Koontz
"The past is a ghost that walks through the house of the present, and sometimes, if you are quiet enough, you can hear it breathing."
Odd Thomasby Dean Koontz
"Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
Odd Thomasby Dean Koontz
"Le monde ne change pas, il se contente de changer de costume pour la même danse macabre."
L'héritage de saint Leibowitzby Walter M. Miller Jr.
"Nous gardons les cendres, non pas pour le feu qu'elles ont été, mais pour l'étincelle qu'elles pourraient redevenir."
L'héritage de saint Leibowitzby Walter M. Miller Jr.
"L'homme est un animal capable de construire une cathédrale pour glorifier Dieu, tout en préparant le poison qui détruira sa création."
L'héritage de saint Leibowitzby Walter M. Miller Jr.
"La mémoire est un fardeau que l'humanité s'obstine à jeter à chaque fois qu'elle devient trop lourde à porter."
L'héritage de saint Leibowitzby Walter M. Miller Jr.
"Il n'y a pas de fin à l'histoire, seulement des recommencements déguisés en progrès."
L'héritage de saint Leibowitzby Walter M. Miller Jr.
"Dieu a donné à l'homme le libre arbitre, mais l'homme en a fait une guillotine pour sa propre tête."
L'héritage de saint Leibowitzby Walter M. Miller Jr.
"A dragon without its rider is a tragedy. A rider without their dragon is dead."
Iron Flameby Rebecca Yarros
"Hope is a dangerous thing to hold onto when the world is burning around you."
Iron Flameby Rebecca Yarros
"We are the nightmare that keeps the kingdoms awake at night."
Iron Flameby Rebecca Yarros
"Love is not a weakness. It is the only thing worth fighting for when everything else is stripped away."
Iron Flameby Rebecca Yarros
"It’s not the lightning that kills you. It’s the cost of wielding it."
Iron Flameby Rebecca Yarros
"The truth is a jagged edge, and we all bleed if we hold it too tight."
Iron Flameby Rebecca Yarros
"It’s the things we love most that destroy us."
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakesby Suzanne Collins
"Snow lands on top."
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakesby Suzanne Collins
"I think there's a natural goodness born in us all, and then we spend our lives beating it out of ourselves."
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakesby Suzanne Collins