Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Handler

Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.

Bram Stoker

I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.

Ann Brashares

You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

Rumi

Shine like the whole universe is yours.

Steve Irwin

Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.

Sylvia Plath

I like people too much or not at all.

Shane Koyczan

I've been told that people in the army do more by 7:00 am than I do in an entire day But if I wake at 6:59 am and turn to you to trace the outline of your lips with mine I will have done enough and killed no one in the process.

Terry Pratchett

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Maya Angelou

To those who have given up on love: I say, "Trust life a little bit.

Jeffrey Eugenides

You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much.

Ernest Hemingway

You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.

J. D. Salinger

I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.

Jack Kerouac

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

Giacomo Casanova

Be the flame, not the moth.

John Green

If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

Jonathan Safran Foer

It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.

Jonathan Safran Foer

She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.

Henry David Thoreau

All good things are wild and free.

John Green

That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.

John Green

It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don’t care if that mark is a scar.

Heath Ledger

Don't let anyone ever make you feel you don't deserve what you want..

Henry James

Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.

Gustave Flaubert

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

John Mayer

Whenever they say it can’t be done, remind them that they make a jellybean that tastes exactly like popcorn.

John Lennon

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

Pythagoras

Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul.

William Ellery Channing

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.