Quotes about kind
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“Kindness eases change
Love quiets fear”

Octavia E. Butler book Parable of the Talents

Source: Parable of the Talents

“Instead of satisfying me, the kisses have the opposite effect, of make my need greater. I thought I was something of an expert on hunger, but this is an entirely new kind.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Hunger, Kiss

“He's the kind of liar who totally forgets what he told you the last time, but he believes every single lie with such conviction that sometimes he can convince you of it.”

Holly Black book White Cat

Source: White Cat

Lie, Time, Forgetting

“If it's the lack of forbidden you're worried about. You could still forbid me to do things."
"What kind of things?"
She felt him smile against her mouth. "Things like this.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Smile

“A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

People, World, Color, Light

“I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. It didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.”

Charles Bukowski book Women

Source: Women (1978)
Context: I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. On the other hand, when I got drunk I screamed, went crazy, got all out of hand. One kind of behavior didn't fit the other. I didn't care.

Personality

“music isn't just something that comforts or distracts us, it goes beyond that - it's an ideology. you can judge people by the kind of music they listen to.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: The Witch Of Portobello

People, Music

“What is the appropriate reply to make to a man who says he loves you?
Thank you. You are very kind.”

Meg Cabot The Princess Diaries

Source: The Princess Diaries

Love

“There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.”

Max Brooks book World War Z

Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Lie, Hope

“There are your fog people & your sun people, he said. I said I wasn't sure which kind I was. He nodded. Fog'll do that to you, he said.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Source: Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas

People, Sun

“And even though people try to pretend that pain doesn't do anything to them, none of us can really handle it. Everything bad we do in our life is because of pain of some kind.”

James Frey book The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

Source: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

Life, Pain, People

“What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human […] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

Fear

“But still," Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness."
"You may be right," Aomame said, "But it's too late to trade it in for another one.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

World

“Any time your life is at stake and you can't find even one woman to come forward and say, 'This is a good man,' your problem isn't what kind of woman THEY are. Your problem is what kind of men YOU are.”

Pearl Cleage (1948) American novelist

Source: Just Wanna Testify

Life, Men, Problem, Time

“I mean, really: what kind of person could possibly dislike me?”

Jeff Lindsay book Dearly Devoted Dexter

Source: Dearly Devoted Dexter

Personality

“All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.”

Thomas Pynchon book Gravity's Rainbow

Source: Gravity's Rainbow

Men, Freedom, Animals

“There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.”

Jonathan Franzen book Freedom

Source: Freedom

Happiness

“Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

Feeling

“Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Books, Home, Sense, Time

“He wasn't just masculine and sexual, he was carnal in a set-your-teeth-on-edge kind of way; he was almost frightning.”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

Source: Darkfever

Way

“We should be inspired by people… who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.”

Rachel Corrie (1979–2003) American anti-war and human rights activist

People, Beauty, Strong

“Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.”

Brad Meltzer (1970) writer

Fight

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence, so that never again will Americans be free in their own country from the noise, the exhausts, the stinks of human and automotive waste. And so that never again can we have the chance to see ourselves single, separate, vertical and individual in the world, part of the environment of trees and rocks and soil, brother to the other animals, part of the natural world and competent to belong in it. … We need wilderness preserved — as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds — because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed. The reminder and the reassurance that it is still there is good for our spiritual health even if we never once in ten years set foot in it.”

Wallace Stegner (1909–1993) American historian, writer, and environmentalist

Wilderness Letter http://wilderness.org/bios/former-council-members/wallace-stegner (1960) <br class="br">Source: The Sound of Mountain Water

People, Health, Books, World

“When you meet someone who is truly great, he makes you believe you can be great, too. This is the kind of relationship you want, and it's the only kind of relationship worth having.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

“Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they can control you, and f**k your head up.”

Irvine Welsh book Trainspotting

Source: Trainspotting

Love, Religion

“The degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can come to experience a special kind of alienation from self and a special kind of wariness of others.”

Erving Goffman book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

Source: 1950s-1960s, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, 1959, p. 229

“She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a woman's genitals was through her sadness.”

Milan Kundera book The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Source: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Sadness, Way

“I need some kind of… like… last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!!”

Bryan Lee O'Malley (1979) Artist

Source: Scott Pilgrim, Volume 3: Scott Pilgrim & The Infinite Sadness

“Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness.”

Jodi Picoult Salem Falls

Source: Salem Falls

People

“I kind of have to go to the bathroom," Aria said woozily.
Ezra smiled. "Can I come?”

Sara Shepard Pretty Little Liars

Source: Pretty Little Liars

Smile

“I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.”

Jean Webster book Daddy-Long-Legs

Source: Daddy-Long-Legs

People, Imagination, Understanding, Thinking

“She knows that whispers can be useful. Sometimes they contain real information. But usually they're fairy tales and lies. This is the worst kind of whisper, the kind that draws you in, gives you hope.”

Julianna Baggott book Pure

Source: Pure

Hope, Drawing

“Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness; the perennial infusion of springtime into the winter of bleakness.”

John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher

Source: Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace

Winter

“He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.”

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin

“Be an encourager. Scatter sunshine. Who knows whose life you might touch with something as simple as a kind word.”

Debbie Macomber (1948) American writer

Life

“Bob … the Titan … he only helped us in Tartarus because you were kind to him. You told him we were worth saving. That’s the only reason we’re alive.’ She said we so easily, as if she and Percy were interchangeable, inseparable.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Help

“I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

Silence

“What kind of assholes bring a kid into worlds like these?”

Brian K. Vaughan (1976) American screenwriter, comic book creator

Source: Saga, Vol. 1

World

“Slippery slope. I carry a spare shirt, pretty soon I'm carrying spare pants. Then I'd need a suitcase. Next thing I know, I've got a house and a car and a savings plan and I'm filling out all kinds of forms.”

Lee Child book Bad Luck and Trouble

Source: Bad Luck and Trouble

Cars, Housing

“No," Preston snapped. But he didn't protest long because, if I'm going to be honest-which is kind of the point of these reports-I was already unzipping his pants.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: United We Spy

“And there are new kinds of nomads, not people who are at home everywhere, but who are at home nowhere. I was one of them”

Robyn Davidson (1950) Australian writer

Source: Desert Places

People, Home

“I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness.”

Amy Bloom (1953) Fiction writer, screenwriter, social worker, psychotherapist

Source: Come to Me

People, Feeling

“I think fantasy is best described as a kind of fiction that evokes wonder, mystery or magic, a sense of possibility beyond the ordinary world in which we live, and yet which reflects and comments upon that known world.”

Kate Forsyth (1966) Australian writer

World, Thinking, Sense

“There are all kinds of psychological disorders in the West that don't exist in Asia.”

Amy Chua book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

Source: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.”

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer

April 18, 1775, p. 258
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II

Knowledge

“We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn’t hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be?”

Richard K. Morgan book Woken Furies

Source: Woken Furies

Dreams, Time, Hurt

“Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.”

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer

People

“Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth-breather there is.”

Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer

"Cowboy Librarians" (13 December 1997)
A Prairie Home Companion
Source: Dusty and Lefty: The Lives of the Cowboys

God, People, Question

“I don't believe in Heaven or anything. But I want to be the kind of person that qualifies for entry anyway.”

Nick Hornby book How to Be Good

Source: How to Be Good

Personality

“Paradise will be a kind of library”

Jorge Luis Borges Dreamtigers

Poem of the Gifts ["Poema de los Dones"]
Dreamtigers (1960)
Variant: I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.

“… a full moon shimmered over central Louisiana. This was no rinky-dink moon. This was a moon you had to curtsy to. A big, heavy, mysterious, beautiful, bossy moon. The kind you want to serve things to on a silver platter.”

Rebecca Wells book Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Source: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Beauty

“Vampires smiled for many reasons, but when a vampire male smiled at you from this distance with that kind of look in his eyes it was done for one purpose only: to impress. Look at my big teeth. I’m an apex predator. My genetic material is awesome.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Clean Sweep

Smile

“What kind of person doesn't let you have gummi bears?”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Source: Beauty Queens

Personality

“My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Men, Feeling

“Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild…”

Mary Karr book The Liars' Club

Source: The Liars' Club

World

“What kind of shapeshifter has orange fur anyway?" "Weredingo." Now I'd seen everything. Well, at least he didn't steal my baby.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

Baby

“I thought we had lost you. I thought we'd done something worse than let you die.' His old arms were tight and strong about me.

I was kind to the old man. I did not tell him they had.”

Robin Hobb book Assassin's Quest

Source: Assassin's Quest

Strong

“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.”

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

"The Precarious Vogue of Ingmar Bergman" in Esquire (April 1960); republished as "The Northern Protestant" in Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (1961) and in The Price of the Ticket (1985)

Art

“ʺWhy,ʺ he began slowly, ʺis Victor Dashkov joining us?ʺ
ʺWell, itʹs kind of a funny story…ʺ”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

“I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That's right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent.”

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

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

Books, Intelligence, Kiss

“Whenever something great happens, you’re always kind of poised for the universe to correct itself.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

Universe

“I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

"Evidence"
Evidence (2009)

“I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.”

Barbara Kingsolver (1955) American author, poet and essayist

Books, Learning, Reading

“I am very comfortable with conflict, be it of the legal or mortal kind. My father was a mediator, a bridge maker. I am a grave maker.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover at Last

“He was dressed just like on TV, with lots of silver chains and bracelets, ripped jeans, and a black muscle shirt (Which was kind of stupid, since he didn't have any muscles).”

Rick Riordan The Maze of Bones

Source: The Maze of Bones

Stupidity

“Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.”

Anatole France book The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

L'homme est ainsi fait qu'il ne se délasse d'un travail que par un autre.
Pt. II, ch. 4
Source: The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881)

“Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of nanosecond. Or the knock on a door.
Kind of made a male believe in the divine. It really did.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Awakened

Life

“I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me a while to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want… and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God”

Billy Corgan (1967) American musician, songwriter, producer, and author

God

“It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead I got a radio jingle for some kind of submarine sandwich place blaring over the store's ambient stereo. The movie ofmy life must be really low-budget.”

Jim Butcher Dead Beat

Source: Dead Beat

Life, Music

“I think I gave Alec a complex about what kind of fighter he was, just because he wanted to live.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Thinking

“You know, you're kind of squeamish for such a lethal person”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Personality

“DOG: A kind of additional or subsidiary Diety designed to catch the overflow or surplus of the world's worship.”

Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist

World, Dogs

“It was the kind of sword that would make a lifelong pacifist look for tall boots and a hat with feathers.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bleeds

“Something having been done just about everywhere just about always is no kind of justification for doing it now.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Eating Animals

Source: Eating Animals

“There are certain kinds of deaths that one should not be expected to re-live, certain kinds of connections that are so deep that when broken you feel the snap of the link inside you.”

Jeff VanderMeer book Annihilation

Source: Annihilation

Death, Feeling

“Fletch then kisses me on the forehead before opening the cabinet under the coffeemaker to grab placemats and napkins. Retrieving these items is his job because I kind of don't like to bend. I also refuse to carry anything heavier than my purse.”

Jen Lancaster (1967) American writer

Kiss

“But who are you?"

Percy—" I started to say. Then the skeletons turned around. "Gotta go!"

What kind of name is Percy Gotta-go?”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

“How can you smell this good after the kind of crappy day we've had?"
"I sweat perfume. Like all girls.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Kiss of Death

Girl

“At times she had thought that this was the only kind of connection you could have with people—intense, inexplicable and ultimately incomplete.”

Mary Gaitskill (1954) Novelist, short story writer, essayist

Source: Bad Behavior

People, Time

“She heard Adrian say to Christian, ʺYou know, your shirtʹs kind of grungy-looking. Seems like you could put in a little more effort since youʹre dating a princess.ʺ”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Effort

“Jace knew he was being cruel, and he barely cared. Hurting people he loved was almost as good as hurting himself when he was in this kind of mood.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Love, People, Mood, Hurt

“The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and doing it with a kind, serious pleasure that makes Christ look like the Treasure he is.”

John Piper (1946) American writer

Source: Don't Waste Your Life

God, People, Pleasure, World

“He would have been handsome—in a serial-killer kind of way—if not for those tattoos.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Night

Way, Tattoo

“She was smart and funny and vulnerable and just so goddamned beautiful, the kind of beautiful that was worth being shot down over.”

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

Source: How to Talk to a Widower

Beauty

“Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

Reading

“The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.”

Tavis Smiley (1964) Talk show host, author, entrepreneur, advocate, philanthropist

Source: The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

“I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.”

Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker

Sadness

“Part 3
BACK TO SCHOOL (THE NORMAL KIND)”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: School's Out—Forever

School, Parting

“You can either practice being right or practice being kind.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

“Where are you anyway? (Acheron)
I don't know. I hear some godawful kind of music from outside, horns blaring, and I'm in a house with a Mohawk cuckoo bird, a transvestite, and a knife-wielding lunatic. (Valerius)
Why are you at Tabitha's? (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Seize the Night

Music, Bird, Housing

“Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.”

Jean Genet book Our Lady of the Flowers

Source: Our Lady of the Flowers

Happiness

“I have always been aware of how I break.
I know what kind of situations will break me.
I know what kind of people will do it.
I know how much it will hurt.”

David Levithan book Every You, Every Me

Source: Every You, Every Me

People, Hurt

“Anything?" She laughed. "Like what kind of anything did you want?"
"Well, when I was five, I wanted to take a bath in spaghetti."
-Clary & Jace, pg.310-”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“Hatred is a most pernicious thing, finding root in any kind of soil. It feeds on itself.”

Steven Erikson book House of Chains

House of Chains (2002)
Context: "There's little value in seeking to find reasons for why people do what they do, or feel the way they feel. Hatred is a most pernicious thing, finding root in any kind of soil. It feeds on itself."
"With words."

“Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch-22 (1961)
Context: Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably.... It was easy to read the message in his entrails. Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.

Secret

“I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.”

Holly Black book Doll Bones

Source: Doll Bones

Thinking, Chance, Hurt

“The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman.”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

“Sometimes I felt like I was waiting for my life to begin and more than anything, in that moment, I wanted to force some kind of beginning. I wanted things to be different than usual. I wanted to bend reality.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

Source: My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

Life, Reality, Waiting