๐ฌ Quotes
8,730 quotes from great books
"I didn't want to harm the man. I thought he was a very nice gentleman. Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat."
โ In Cold Bloodby Truman Capote
"As far as I'm concerned, it's just like shooting a deer. A few hours later, I didn't even feel it. I didn't care."
โ In Cold Bloodby Truman Capote
"Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!"
โ The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel Hawthorne
"It may serve, let us hope, to symbolize some sweet moral blossom that may be found along the track, or relieve the darkening close of a tale of human frailty and sorrow."
โ The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel Hawthorne
"She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods."
โ The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel Hawthorne
"What we did had a consecration of its own. We felt it so! We said so to each other!"
โ The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel Hawthorne
"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true."
โ The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown."
โ Watchmenby Alan Moore
"A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there is no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts."
โ Watchmenby Alan Moore
"The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, loved an open window."
โ Watchmenby Alan Moore
"All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time."
โ The Five People You Meet In Heavenby Mitch Albom
"The human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect and that those who touch your life are forever a part of it."
โ The Five People You Meet In Heavenby Mitch Albom
"Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know."
โ The Five People You Meet In Heavenby Mitch Albom
"Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that by hating someone we hurt them, but hatred is a curved blade, and the harm we do to others, we also do to ourselves."
โ The Five People You Meet In Heavenby Mitch Albom
"Sacrifice is a part of life. It is supposed to be. It is not something to regret. It's something to aspire to."
โ The Five People You Meet In Heavenby Mitch Albom