๐Ÿ’ฌ Quotes

4,434 quotes from great books

"And you were so scared."
โ€” The Monster at the End of This Bookby Jon Stone
"It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view."
โ€” Middlemarch by George Eliotby George Eliot
"We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves."
โ€” Middlemarch by George Eliotby George Eliot
"But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts."
โ€” Middlemarch by George Eliotby George Eliot
"If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence."
โ€” Middlemarch by George Eliotby George Eliot
"Marriage, which was to bring guidance into irresistible sway, had turned into an abyss of domestic conflict."
โ€” Middlemarch by George Eliotby George Eliot
"I should like to make life beautifulโ€”I mean everybody's life."
โ€” Middlemarch by George Eliotby George Eliot
"My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt."
โ€” Black Beautyby Anna Sewell
"There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham."
โ€” Black Beautyby Anna Sewell
"I have often thought that people forget that a horse is a living creature, and that it can feel, and suffer, and be glad, just as they can."
โ€” Black Beautyby Anna Sewell
"I am not afraid of what I know, but I do dread to go on in the dark, knowing nothing of what is coming."
โ€” Black Beautyby Anna Sewell
"I have nothing to fear, for my master is a good man, and I know he will take care of me as long as I do my duty."
โ€” Black Beautyby Anna Sewell
"Do you know why this bit is cruel? Because it is a sharp steel, and if the driver is a hard hand or a careless hand, it hurts the horse's mouth."
โ€” Black Beautyby Anna Sewell
"The world is full of things that don't matter, and if you let them occupy your mind, you'll never find the things that do."
โ€” Snow Crashby Neal Stephenson
"When you're a hacker, your reputation is the only thing that matters. It's the currency of the street."
โ€” Snow Crashby Neal Stephenson
"Information is a virus, and it's spreading faster than we can build the firewalls to stop it."
โ€” Snow Crashby Neal Stephenson
"The stars are the streetlights of eternity, and we are merely the moths circling them in the dark."
โ€” Hyperionby Dan Simmons
"Pain is the only reality that can be shared without the distortion of language."
โ€” Hyperionby Dan Simmons
"We are a species that dreams of gods and builds machines to kill them."
โ€” Hyperionby Dan Simmons
"There is no mystery that time will not unravel, and no secret that will not eventually be shouted from the rooftops."
โ€” Hyperionby Dan Simmons