Big Books of 2026

Simran Chandra > Simran's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 120
« previous 1 3 4
sort by

    like
  • #1
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
    148361 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
    42021 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Margaret Mitchell
    “I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived. ”
    ― Margaret Mitchell
    411 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Margaret Mitchell
    “And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
    475 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth
    16288 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth
    8182 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth
    11789 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: truth
    7128 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Margaret Mitchell
    “The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor”
    ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
    tags: courage, honor, liar
    150 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: women
    21195 likes

    • like
  • #11
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
    78299 likes

    • like
  • #12
    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
    62174 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
    42399 likes

    • like
  • #14
    Neil Gaiman
    “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
    tags: love
    36865 likes

    • like
  • #15
    Sarah Dessen
    “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
    tags: love
    31292 likes

    • like
  • #16
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
    tags: acceptance, being-loved, love, marriage, relationships, truth
    2870 likes

    • like
  • #17
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing...”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert
    tags: heartbreak, love, mourning
    2267 likes

    • like
  • #18
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert
    tags: destiny, fate
    288 likes

    • like
  • #19
    William Shakespeare
    “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
    ― William Shakespeare
    tags: destiny
    6996 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: destiny, self-determination
    2598 likes

    • like
  • #21
    Alice Sebold
    “Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
    ― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
    tags: destiny, dreams, epiphany, re-direction, re-thinking
    1545 likes

    • like
  • #22
    Nicholas Sparks
    “There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one’s cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle
    tags: destiny
    763 likes

    • like
  • #23
    J.K. Rowling
    “Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    tags: humanity, kindness, relationships
    11055 likes

    • like
  • #24
    C. JoyBell C.
    “You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: affection, communication, heartwarming, human-connections, human-nature, humanism, humanity, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-love, inspirational-quotes, relationships
    8576 likes

    • like
  • #25
    Nicholas Sparks
    “I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
    tags: energy, nicholas-sparks, relationships, the-last-song
    4771 likes

    • like
  • #26
    Gillian Anderson
    “Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.”
    ― Gillian Anderson
    tags: friendship, love, men, relationships, women
    5090 likes

    • like
  • #27
    Donald Miller
    “When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”
    ― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
    4605 likes

    • like
  • #28
    Nick Hornby
    “It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.”
    ― Nick Hornby
    tags: films, music, relationships
    3001 likes

    • like
  • #29
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
    101565 likes

    • like
  • #30
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
    50630 likes



Rss
« previous 1 3 4
All Quotes



Tags From Simran’s Quotes

attributed-no-source
human-nature
humor
infinity
philosophy
science
stupidity
universe
activism
apathy
hate
indifference
inspirational
love
opposite
misattributed-mark-twain
truth
belief
death
ideals
martyr
lies
respect
self-deception
courage
honor
liar
women
darkness
drive-out
light
peace
life
friendship
lack-of-friendship
lack-of-love
marriage
unhappy-marriage
acceptance
being-loved
relationships
heartbreak
mourning
destiny
fate
self-determination
dreams
epiphany
re-direction
re-thinking
humanity
kindness
affection
communication
heartwarming
human-connections
humanism
inspirational-life
inspirational-love
inspirational-quotes
energy
nicholas-sparks
the-last-song
men
films
music
charles-bayard-mitchell
abilities