💬 Quotes

4,062 quotes from great books

"You kill a man, you don't just kill him. You kill everything he was going to be."
Mystic riverby Dennis Lehane
"It’s the things you don't say that come back to haunt you, not the things you do."
Mystic riverby Dennis Lehane
"Maybe the world is just a dark place and we're all just trying to find a little light to keep from going crazy."
Mystic riverby Dennis Lehane
"Everyone carries a little bit of the monster inside them. It's just a matter of who decides to let it out."
Mystic riverby Dennis Lehane
"All human wisdom is contained in these two words — Wait and Hope."
The Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre Dumas
"I have been to the depths of despair, and I have learned that he who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness."
The Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre Dumas
"There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness."
The Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre Dumas
"You will be surprised to know how much a man can suffer before his heart actually breaks."
The Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre Dumas
"Moral wounds have this peculiarity—they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart."
The Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre Dumas
"To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other."
The Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre Dumas
"Manuscripts don't burn."
Master and Margaritaby Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков
"Cowardice is the most terrible of vices."
Master and Margaritaby Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков
"Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that."
Master and Margaritaby Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков
"Never ask for anything! Never and especially from those who are stronger than you. They will offer everything themselves and give everything themselves."
Master and Margaritaby Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков
"People are people... They love money, but that has always been so... they are thoughtless... but they are human."
Master and Margaritaby Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков
"He who loves must share the fate of the one he loves."
Master and Margaritaby Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков
"Everyone lies. The only difference is what they are lying about."
Never Lieby Freida McFadden
"I’ve learned that the people who seem the most perfect are often the ones hiding the darkest secrets."
Never Lieby Freida McFadden
"Trust is a fragile thing. Once you break it, you can never truly put the pieces back together the way they were."
Never Lieby Freida McFadden
"You can learn a lot about a person by looking at the things they choose to keep hidden in the dark."
Never Lieby Freida McFadden