Quotes about someone
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“Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

Love, Hate

“I went to San Francisco. I found someone’s heart.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Heart

“There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot.”

S.M. Stirling book Conquistador

Conquistador (2003)

Books

“But what really is immorality? And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves?”

Nancy Garden book Annie on My Mind

Source: Annie on My Mind

Help

“You're a girl. Someday you'll want to be a prisoner to someone other than yourself.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

Girl

“One must be ruthless with one’s own writing or someone else will be.”

John Berryman (1914–1972) American poet

“Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it’s a villain.”

Sherwood Smith (1951) American fantasy and science fiction writer

Source: Remalna's Children (Crown & Court 2.5, 2011)

“When you love someone, you have to offer that person the best you have. The best thing we can offer another person is our true presence.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

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

Love, Personality

“To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.”

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

Source: Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

People, Communication

“Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

Source: The Art of Literature

Thinking, Reading

“Don’t be stupid, Katra. Never speak in anger and never try to force your will onto someone else. You’ll never find peace in that. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Devil May Cry

Stupidity, Peace, Anger

“To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.”

Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer

Source: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

Time

“Who wants that? I'd rather choose to fall in love and be hurt. Sometimes I can't even sleep because I love someone too much. And there's always sadness in our lives. It's that sad feeling that keeps us going. - Usagi/Sailor Moon”

Naoko Takeuchi (1967) Japanese manga artist

Source: Sailor Moon, Vol. 1

Love, Sadness, Feeling, Sleep

“It's always refreshing to meet someone crazier than us," I said. "We seem so normal afterward.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

“Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.”

Sarah Dessen book What Happened to Goodbye

Source: What Happened to Goodbye

Parting

“When someone's wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help them heal.”

Jeannette Walls book Half Broke Horses

Source: Half Broke Horses

Business, Help

“Watching them, I thought again of how we can't expect everybody to be there for us, all at once. So it's a lucky thing that really, all you need is someone.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Variant: We can't expect everybody to be there for us, all at once. So it's a lucky thing that really, all you need is someone.
Source: Lock and Key

“This is what it means to be loved… when someone wants to touch you, to be tender…”

Banana Yoshimoto book The Lake

Source: The Lake

Love

“Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?”

Sean Covey (1964) author; business executive

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide

Thinking, Tear

“Whenever someone dies, a part of the universe dies too. Everything a person felt, experience and saw dies with them, like tears in the rain.”

Paulo Coelho book The Winner Stands Alone

Source: The Winner Stands Alone

Tear, Universe, Parting, Personality

“And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first!”

Susan Kay Phantom

Source: Phantom

“If you really feel hatred for someone, and kind of send it their way, then it’s out of your system and in their hands. I always think it’s therapeutic.”

Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor

Way, Feeling, Thinking

“Art begins… when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.”

Chaim Potok book The Gift of Asher Lev

Source: The Gift of Asher Lev

World, Art, Personality

“If something happened to me, whose face will be on the front page of the paper begging for me? Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

Personality

“There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.”

Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator

This Business of Living (1935-1950)
Source: Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950

Stupidity, Feeling, Forgiveness, Indifference

“In his heart, he knew that there was no reason to be impolite to someone, even if they did work for you. There was such a thing as manners after all.”

John Boyne (1971) Irish novelist, author of children's and youth fiction

Source: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Heart

“making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

Dreams, Decision, Strong

“She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

Source: Ironside

Despair

“Rejection, though--it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

World, Feeling, Loss

“For someone who's smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.”

Gordon Korman One False Note

Variant: For someone who'e smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.
Source: One False Note

“Some moments are perfect, and then someone comes along and f*cks it up. Ain't it always the way.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Bullet

Source: Bullet

Way, Perfection

“If someone ever says you’re weird, say thank you.”

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

Source: Seriously... I'm Kidding

“You don't have to be 'adults'… but be someone who can take responsibility for their own words and actions. Believe it or not, that's actually harder.”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 8

“Sometimes I wish I had never met you, because then I could go to sleep at night not knowing there was someone like you out there.”

Gus Van Sant (1952) American film director, producer, photographer and musician

Source: Good Will Hunting

Cute, Sleep, Night

“There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”

Shmuley Boteach (1966) American Orthodox rabbi and writer

Relationship, Love, Hate

“Jeez, someone needs to push the reset button on this planet.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

“You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.”

David Levithan book Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Love, Way

“If you think of someone's good qualities as the umeboshi in an onigiri it's as if their qualities are stuck to their back! Maybe the reason people get jealous of each other is because they can see so clearly the umeboshi on other people's backs.”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 2

People, Thinking

“At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they're dead and gone.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Love, Fear, Dead

“When you break someone's heart,
you also break yours.”

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

Heart

“Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher

“Nodding, Cery strode to the door and stepped through. Though the burly guards eyes him suspiciously, Cery smiled back. Never make enemies of someone's lackeys, his father had taught him. Better still, make them like you a lot.”

Trudi Canavan book The Magicians' Guild

Source: The Magicians' Guild

Smile

“I guess, really thinking about it, I always assumed when you missed someone, it was tangible… something real you could grab and hold on to, but it's a not-there feeling.”

Norma Fox Mazer (1931–2009) American children's writer

Source: After the Rain

Feeling, Thinking

“… only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them….”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Animals

“I have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything.”

Mercedes Lackey book Owlknight

Source: Owlknight

Life

“What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back.”

Ann Brashares book Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

Source: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

God, Law, Way, Feeling

“The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.”

Idries Shah (1924–1996) writer and Sufi teacher

Source: Sufi Thought and Action

“Fine… a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Truth

“An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.”

Seth Godin (1960) American entrepreneur, author and public speaker

Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

Personality

“….. it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.”

Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer

Drawing

“The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.”

Lester Bangs (1948–1982) American music critic and journalist

World

“Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't.”

Philip Reeve (1966) English children's writer and illustrator

World, Way, Heart

“if you want someone to stop listening to you go ahead and yell. If you want them to listen to every word, whisper. -Mimi”

Erin McKean (1971) Lexicographer, dictionary editor

Source: The Secret Lives of Dresses

“It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.”

Scott Westerfeld book Specials

Source: Specials

“if someone really wants to see you, they always find a way. Always.”

Mindy Kaling book Why Not Me?

Source: Why Not Me?

Way

“Sometimes I think there’s no such thing as falling in love. It’s just the fear of losing someone.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Leaving Time

Love, Fear, Thinking

“It’s very tempting when you really want to be with someone to settle for much, much less - even a vague pathetic facsimile of less - than you would have ever imagined. Remember always what you set out to get and please don’t settle for less.”

Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian

Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

Imagination

“Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.”

Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner

Religion

“It's queer how the thing what attracted you to someone is the same as what you come to despise about them”

Lionel Shriver (1957) American writer

“I was going to kill someone today. I just wasn’t sure who when I woke up this morning. I do love mornings. So full of possibilities.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Love

“Loving someone doesn't mean you're never going to make mistakes.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Evil We Love

Love

“When faced with the scariest of things, all you want to do is turn away, hide in your own invisible place. But you can't. That's why it's not only important for us to be seen, but to have someone to look for us, as well.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Source: Saint Anything

“When someone tells you something big, it's like you're taking money from them, and there's no way it will ever go back to being the way it was. You have to take responsibility for listening.”

Banana Yoshimoto book The Lake

Source: The Lake

Money, Way

“It's strange to be so physically close to someone who's so distant”

Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist

Distant

“A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's growl, he knows damn well it's a lion.”

Sheldon Vanauken (1914–1996) American journalist

Source: A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy and Triumph

Night

“Literature was the only religion her father practiced, when a book fell on the floor he kissed it, when he was done with a book he tried to give it away to someone who would love it.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Love, Books, Religion, Literature

“No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.”

Stanisław Lem (1921–2006) Polish science fiction author

Understanding, Reading, Forgetting

“If you're feeling helpless, help someone. ”
― Aung San Suu Kyi (from Freedom from Fear)”

Aung San Suu Kyi book Freedom from Fear

Variant: If you're feeling helpless, help someone.
Source: Freedom from Fear

Fear, Feeling, Freedom, Help

“It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

Personality, Loyalty

“All romantics meet the same fate some day.
Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe.”

Joni Mitchell (1943) Canadian musician

Fate

“If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.”

Eddie Izzard (1962) British stand-up comedian, actor and writer

God

“We passed hieroglyphic scrolls, gold jewelry, sarcophagi, statues of pharaohs, and huge chunks of limestone. Why would someone display a rock? Aren't there enough of those in the world?”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

World

“I imagine the touch of someone who loves you so much, he cannot bear to watch you sleep; and so you wake up with his hand on your heart.”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Source: Change of Heart

Love, Imagination, Sleep, Heart

“Your prayer for someone may or may not change them, but it always changes YOU.”

Craig Groeschel (1967) American priest

Change

“Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them.
-Carrie Bradshaw”

Candace Bushnell (1958) American author

Women

“I’ve heard people say that the hardest thing in the world is to live with someone you don’t love. But I’ve always thought it would be far more difficult to live with someone who doesn’t love you.”

Amanda Stevens (1977)

Source: The Kingdom

Love, People, World

“I didn't call you because I'm tired of you only wanting me around when you need something. I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else - someone, incidentally, who will never love you back. Not the way I do.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Variant: No." Magnus strode toward him. "I didn't call you because I'm tired of you only wanting me around when you need something. I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else-someone, incidentally, who will never love you back. Not the way I do.
Source: City of Glass

Love, Way

“Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.”

Denis Diderot book Rameau's Nephew

Rameau's Nephew (1762)

Forgetting

“I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’m going to succeed as myself.”

Margaret Cho (1968) American stand-up comedian

And I'm gonna stay here and rock the mike until the next Korean-American, fag hag, shit starter, girl comic, trash talker comes up and takes my place!
From Her Tours and CDs, I'm The One That I Want Tour

“When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.”

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

“In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewarding.”

Brad Meltzer book The Inner Circle

Source: The Inner Circle

World

“There’s got to be someone for me. It’s not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Source: Solipsist (1998)
Context: They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have been waiting. I have been searching. I am a man under the moon, walking the streets of earth until dawn. There's got to be someone for me. It's not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.

Love

“Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Thinking

“When you realize someone is trying to hurt you, it hurts less."
"Unless you love them.”

Shirley Hazzard book The Transit of Venus

Source: The Transit of Venus

Love, Hurt

“What obsession do men have for destruction and murder? Who do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled 'enemy?”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Men, Heart

“I'm not really sure why. But… do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much - pain, frustration, anger… and I still loved her. I still do.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Final Empire

Love, Pain, Thinking, Betrayal

“If you look at the person someone chooses to have a relationship with, you’ll see what they think of themselves.”

Carrie Fisher book The Princess Diarist

Source: The Princess Diarist

Thinking, Personality

“Look on the bright side," said Simon. "If they need a human sacrifice, you can always offer me. I'm not sure the rest of you qualify anyway."
Jace brightened. "It's always nice when someone volunteers to be the first up against the wall.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“Someone once asked Somerset Maughham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by inspiration. "I write only when inspiration strikes," he replied. "Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.”

Steven Pressfield (1943) United States Marine

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.”

Elizabeth Bowen book A World of Love

Source: A World of Love

Valentine's Day, Love

“Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.”

Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Home, Distant

“If you think anyone is sane you just don’t know enough about them. The key — and this is very relevant in our case — is to find someone whose insanity dovetails with your own.”

Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy

Source: The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror

Thinking

“When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.”

Ann Brashares book Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

Variant: Live, laugh, love.

When you can feel someone else's pain and joy as if it's your own, thats when you know you really love them - Tina Lowell
Source: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

Love, Pain, Feeling, Joy