Quotes about kind
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“I was kind of excited to go to jail for the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.”

Quentin Tarantino (1963) American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor

“I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I’m being drowned by some kind of black wave.”

Elizabeth Wurtzel (1967–2020) American author and journalist

Dreams

“I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.”

Madeleine L'Engle A Swiftly Tilting Planet

Source: A Swiftly Tilting Planet

“Or perhaps this hostility of yours is the pretense. Love does make liars out of your kind.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Love, Hostility

“Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

Fate, Family

“There are many kinds of delusion.”

Michael Ende book The Neverending Story

Source: The Neverending Story

“For me, the release was a spot in time with no past and no future. Just the extraordinary simplicity of a moment— the kind of moment that has a funny way of making a person believe that life and love can last forever.”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

Love, Life, Way, Time

“Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.”

Scott Adams (1957) cartoonist, writer

"A Kind Word", in DNRC Newsletter #9 (December 1995) http://web.archive.org/web/19970412134441/www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/newsletter/html/newsletter09.html

“A truth was being revealed to me: that I had always tried to attach myself to the light of other people, that I had never had any light of my own. I experienced myself as a kind of shadow.”

Zadie Smith book Swing Time

Source: Swing Time

People, Truth, Light

“I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.”

Jonathan Ames (1964) American novelist, memoirist

Source: My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays

Life, Hope

“There's all kinds of love in the world, and not all of it looks like the stuff in greeting cards.”

Jennifer Weiner (1970) American writer

Source: Best Friends Forever

Love, World

“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”

Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi

Variant: When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.

People

“Alas, we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.”

Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director

“What kind of man refers to himself as safely dead?”

Megan Whalen Turner (1965) American children's writer

Dead

“I was glad to be with her, but it also kind of hurt, and it hurt when I wasn't with her, too.”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

Hurt

“You are the best kind of killer, Cassel Sharpe, the kind that never has blood on his hands. The kind that never has to sicken at the sight of what he's done, or come to like it too much.”

Holly Black book Red Glove

Source: Red Glove

“I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It’s an unpardonable sin as far as I’m concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction on a waiter or busboy.”

Anthony Bourdain book Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

Medium Raw (2010)
Source: Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

People, Business, Personality

“You think they are kind, that the Nephilim are kind, because they are good, but goodness is not kindness, and there is nothing crueler than virtue.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Thinking

“It may not seem obvious at first glance, but the way we make decisions in life tells a lot about the kind of faith we have in Jesus Christ.”

Jim Cymbala (1959) author, pastor

Source: Fresh Faith: What Happens When Real Faith Ignites God's People

Life, Faith, Way, Decision

“Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Decision, Sense, Time

“What the hell kind of revolution have you got just tossing out big words that working-class people can't understand?”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

People, Hell, Understanding

“The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.”

Joanne Harris book Blackberry Wine

Source: Blackberry Wine

Madness

“What in the world is this abomination?”
Lissa, only slightly more tactful, asked, “Adrian, is this some kind of joke?”

Richelle Mead book Silver Shadows

Source: Silver Shadows

World

“(Kindness) is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen."
-David Levithan (Every Day)”

David Levithan book Every Day

Variant: I no longer think she's just being nice. She's being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.
Source: Every Day

“Melbourne, I always knew you'd need to learn about this kind of thing. I 'd just kind of hoped you'd learn it on a real guy.”

Richelle Mead book The Fiery Heart

Source: The Fiery Heart

Hope, Guy, Learning

“It was the kind of kiss that made
me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Life, Happiness, Kiss, Happy

“When you asked me how I was doing, was that some kind of joke”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

“You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that's all.”

Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Love, People, Truth

“I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity”

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist

“Social scientists sometimes talk about the concept of "identity". It is the idea that you have a particular vision of the kind of person you are, and you feel awful when you do things that are out of line with that vision.”

Steven D. Levitt (1967) American economist

Source: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Feeling, Idea, Personality

“It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“Leo: I'm almost out of gas! Woah, that came out wrong. I meant the burning kind!”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

“I know this is insane, but I somehow wish I had been in Auschwitz with my parents so I could really know what they lived through! I guess it's some kind of guilt about having had an easier life than they did.”

Art Spiegelman (1948) cartoonist from the United States

Source: The Complete Maus

Life, Parent

“If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask.

If you want a different kind of love I'll wear a mask.

If you want to strike me down in anger here I stand.

If you want a partner in life take my hand.

I'm your man.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

Love, Life, Lovers, Anger

“Evident in every small act of kindness, it was love as a verb. Love that made me feel more complete than I had ever felt in my glamorous, Jimmy Choo filled past.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Something Blue

Love, Feeling, Past

“I mean, to me, freaking out is different. More of a running away, not telling anyone what's wrong, slowly simmering until you burst kind of thing.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

“Kindness was the last thing she needed. She had to stay in the icy place, the numb place, and their warmth threatened to melt her just when she needed the cold.”

Janet Fitch (1955) American writer

Source: Paint it Black

“Dimitri: "They weren't supposed to let you in."Rose: "Yeah. Well, I kind of found a work-around."Dimitri: "Of course you did."- Dimitri Belikov and Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Source: Spirit Bound

“Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

First lines.
Source: Middlemarch (1871)

Beauty

“She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.”

Stella Gibbons book Cold Comfort Farm

Source: Cold Comfort Farm

Reading

“Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.”

Arturo Pérez-Reverte book The Fencing Master

Source: The Fencing Master

Travel, Loneliness

“how can you be true and
kind at the same
time?

how?”

Charles Bukowski book Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

Source: Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

Time

“Oh, Simon, Simon, Simon,” said Jace. “You may not remember, but that’s kind of our thing.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Whitechapel Fiend

“A loss of any kind is horrible. Not because it takes away, but because it makes you believe- in newspapers, in tomatoes, in empty whiskey bottles.”

Anosh Irani (1974) Canadian writer

Source: The Cripple and His Talismans

Loss

“Love’em or hate’em, by blood or by heart, family was a kind of oxygen. Necessary for the living.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover at Last

Family, Heart

“How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell.”

Christopher Hitchens book Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

Source: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

Question, Thinking

“Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.”

Michel Faber book The Book of Strange New Things

Source: The Book of Strange New Things

Thinking

“She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too.”

Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Love, Pain

“Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

Letter to Colonel Edward Carrington (16 January 1787)
1780s
Variant: Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Source: Letters of Thomas Jefferson

Animals

“Back off, asshole. I haven't had a woman today, so I'm in no mood for this kind of bullshit.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Night

Mood

“She was, in other words, the kind of girl who made the rest of us look bad, and whenever she glanced my way, I couldn't help but feel guilty, even though I hadn't done anything wrong.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

Way, Feeling, Girl, Help

“A will to be unkind is like a sickness. It can be healed or driven out. But to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness: difficult to cure, because you cannot see the fault even as you commit it.”

Cameron Dokey (1956) American writer

Source: Golden: A Retelling of Rapunzel

“She'd ended up passing out, and sometime later, John must have gotten up to use the loo and left the light on. Probably to make sure she didn't feel lost if she woke up.
Because that's the kind of male he was.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Mine

Feeling, Light

“War is such a dangerous business that mistakes that come from kindness are the very worst.”

Carl von Clausewitz book On War

Source: On War (1832), Book 1, Chapter 1, Section 3, Paragraph 1.
Context: Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat the enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds, it is a fallacy that must be exposed: War is such a dangerous business that mistakes that come from kindness are the very worst.

War, Business

“Then I realized that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before we ask someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: The First Bad Man

Love, People, Thinking

“You're a wonderful person, Jamie. You're beautiful, you're kind, you're gentle… you're everything that I'd like to be. If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

People, Beauty, Problem, Thinking

“And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

Life

“A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.”

Washington Irving (1783–1859) writer, historian and diplomat from the United States

Smile, Heart

“The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope.”

Robin McKinley book Sunshine

Source: Sunshine

Training

“Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?”

Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist

Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

Love, World, Family, Suffering

“I have to tell you, man, that my stalker meter is kind of registering in the red zone right now.”

David Levithan book Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“Because you can't be as in love as we were and not have it invade your bone marrow. Our kind of love can go into remission, but it's always waiting to return. Like the world's sweetest cancer.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Love, World, Waiting

“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Variant: Waiting Hurts. Forgetting Hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering.
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Pain, Suffering, Waiting, Forgetting

“Be honest.
Be kind.
Be honorable.
Work hard.
And always be awesome.”

Wil Wheaton (1972) American actor and writer

“Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as something goes wrong, that kind of love can fly out the window.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Love, Beauty, Flying

“So when a dragon is directly over you, well, even if you're me and you're kind of used to it, your medulla oblongata is still telling you 'the sky is falling, you're about to die, run like hell.”

Robin McKinley Dragonhaven

Source: Dragonhaven

Hell

“I don't know -- maybe the world has two different kinds of people, and for one kind the world is this completely logical, rice pudding place, and for the other it's all hit-or-miss macaroni gratin.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

People, World

“The main affliction of our modern civilization is that we don’t know how to handle the suffering inside us and we try to cover it up with all kinds of consumption.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

Affliction, Suffering

“I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache, wondering what it was that connected us. Was it the wounded places down inside people that sought each other out, that bred a kind of love between them?”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

Love, People

“He said it was the kind of book you made your own.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Books

“Roark smiled, "Gail, if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I like you, for reasons and standards of my own. I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

Life, Smile

“Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave, and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.”

Alice Childress (1916–1994) American playwright and author

Life, Way

“Therea kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.”

Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856–1923) American writer

Source: New Chronicles of Rebecca

Change

“When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension”

Henry Rollins book Black Coffee Blues

Source: Black Coffee Blues

“You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.”

Carol Plum-Ucci (1957) American writer

Source: What Happened to Lani Garver

Angels

“I think we got in more trouble with Aunt Tasha,ʺ said Christian. ʺShe was kind of pissed off that we didnʹt tell her what was going on. I think she probably wanted to blow up the statues herself.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Thinking

“There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.”

Michael Ende book The Neverending Story

Source: The Neverending Story

Love, Joy

“Marriage is a big word for all guys,” Shane said. “You know that. It’s kind of an allergy. We get itchy and sweaty just trying to spell it, much less do it.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Last Breath

Marriage, Guy

“Were you listening to a word I said '
'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.”

Jasper Fforde (1961) British novelist

Source: Shades of Grey

“I might have to drink the blood of animals to stay alive, but I would never feast on one of my own kind, no matter what Mr. Crepsley said, or hows much my belly growled.”

Darren Shan book The Vampire's Assistant

Source: The Vampire's Assistant

Drink, Animals

“Quick question. Does this magical skill with gray matter come with a total lack of compunction for your kind, or is it just you who were born without a conscience?

V: I beg your pardon?”

Jessica Bird book Lover Unbound

Source: Lover Unbound

Question

“There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.”

John Brunner The Shockwave Rider

Source: The Shockwave Rider

Fools

“To tell you the truth I love Sam. It's not a movie kind of love either. I just look at her sometimes and I think she is the prettiest and nicest person in the whole world.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Love, Truth, World, Thinking

“Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.”

Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright

Source: Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus

Life, Understanding, Thinking

“But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Variant: Why think about that when all the golden land's ahead of you and all kinds of unforeseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?
Source: On the Road

Thinking, Waiting