💬 Quotes

8,724 quotes from great books

"You see, you don't have to be everything, to everyone, do you? You just have to be you."
— The Midnight Libraryby Matt Haig
"A person was like a city. You couldn't let a few less desirable zones in them stand for the whole thing."
— The Midnight Libraryby Matt Haig
"Sei nicht traurig, dass es vorbei ist. Lächle, weil es passiert ist."
— Das Reich der sieben Höfeby Sarah J. Maas
"Es gibt verschiedene Arten von Licht. Es gibt das Licht, das blendet, und das Licht, das wärmt."
— Das Reich der sieben Höfeby Sarah J. Maas
"Ich habe nicht überlebt, um bloß zu existieren. Ich habe überlebt, um zu leben."
— Das Reich der sieben Höfeby Sarah J. Maas
"Hoffnung ist eine gefährliche Sache. Sie kann dich zerstören, aber sie kann dich auch retten."
— Das Reich der sieben Höfeby Sarah J. Maas
"Dinge, die wir lieben, können uns zerstören, wenn wir nicht aufpassen."
— Das Reich der sieben Höfeby Sarah J. Maas
"Es ist leicht, das Licht zu sehen, wenn man ewig in der Dunkelheit gelebt hat."
— Das Reich der sieben Höfeby Sarah J. Maas
"I am so tired of being afraid of the things I cannot change."
— Unravel Meby Tahereh Mafi
"My pain is a symphony of things I haven't said."
— Unravel Meby Tahereh Mafi
"I’ve spent my life folded between the pages of books. I’ve lived in houses I’ve never visited, slept in beds I’ve never owned, and loved people I’ve never met."
— Unravel Meby Tahereh Mafi
"It has always seemed to me that nearly everyone in the world has had a marvelous idea... but the people who have the ideas are never the people who can do the work."
— Cannery Rowby John Steinbeck
"The virtue of a thing is the success of its function. A good hammer is a tool that pounds well; a good man is a man who acts according to his nature."
— Cannery Rowby John Steinbeck
"There are people who tell you you can't do this or that, but the truth is you can do anything you want if you can just handle the consequences."
— Cannery Rowby John Steinbeck
"Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of observation to the cat and the owl and the man, let us see truly."
— Cannery Rowby John Steinbeck
"Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream."
— Cannery Rowby John Steinbeck
"It is a wonderful thing to be able to look at the world and see not just what it is, but what it might be if people were only a little more like themselves."
— Cannery Rowby John Steinbeck
"I’m not a damsel in distress. I’m a pilot."
— Scarletby Marissa Meyer
"They say that memories are dreams we've already lived."
— Scarletby Marissa Meyer
"It is not a weakness to need someone. It is a strength to find the one person who makes you whole."
— Scarletby Marissa Meyer