Popular Quotes

“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”
― Mark Twain

“My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.”
― Rita Mae Brown

“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.”
― Maya Angelou

“There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

“Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Mark Twain

“It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
― Marlene Dietrich

“It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
― Albert Einstein

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“That's the thing about pain," Augustus said, and then glanced back at me. "It demands to be felt”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
― George Harrison, Cloud Nine

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

“Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein