Quotes

Gabriel García Márquez photo

“The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.”

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

Michael Crichton photo

“It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.”

Michael Crichton (1942–2008) American author, screenwriter, film producer
Gillian Flynn photo

“To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.”

Source: Sharp Objects

John Irving photo
Suzanne Collins photo
Patrick Rothfuss photo
Joyce Carol Oates photo

“Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.”

Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author

On Boxing (1987)

Ravi Zacharias photo

“The world is larger and more beautiful than my little struggle.”

Ravi Zacharias (1946) Indian philosopher

Source: Recapture the Wonder

Henry David Thoreau photo

“Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

“I learn more from books than from people”

William Sleator (1945–2011) Young adult science fiction novelist

Source: The Beasties

Carlos Ruiz Zafón photo

“We humans are willing to believe anything rather than the truth.”

Variant: We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.
Source: The Shadow of the Wind

Pythagoras photo

“Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.”

Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher