Browse Quotes

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

It is not down on any map; true places never are.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Words are like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

The small flower that has its home in the dust of the earth, is a living poem.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

To know is not enough; we must apply. To be willing is not enough; we must do.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are portals of discovery.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.