Quotes about something
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Source: Lyra's Oxford

“and I wondered if, in the end, this is how all disputes are settled, with a shared silence as things become equal. You take something from me, I take something from you. We all want balance, one way or another.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Way, Silence

“[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

1900s
Source: The Irrational Knot (1905)

People, Time

“Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.”

David Eddings book Belgarath the Sorcerer

Source: Belgarath the Sorcerer

Education, Question

“I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

“The nature of the world is that when we create something, we often destroy something else in the process.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Hero of Ages

World, Nature

“Keller couldn't form any words for a moment. Then she said, "Galen? When you choose a form, choose something gentle."

I thought you thought everybody had to be a fighter." He said.

Some people shouldnt have to be.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Witchlight

People

“Barrons, Jericho: I haven't the faintest fecking clue. He keeps saving my life. I suppose that's something.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Bloodfever

Life

“.. to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.”

Jeanette Winterson book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Understanding, Nature, Evil, Change

“I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold onto.”

Elizabeth Smart (1913–1986) Canadian poet and novelist

Source: By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

Learning

“I'm dark matter. The universe inside of me is full of something, and science can't even shine a light on it. I feel like I'm mostly made of mysteries.”

Maria Dahvana Headley (1977) American writer

Source: Magonia

Feeling, Light, Universe, Science

“Once you teach me something, it's mine to use.”

Terry Goodkind book Wizard's First Rule

Source: Wizard's First Rule

“Wildflower: Don't let people walk all over you, Buttercup. It's your life. If you want something, you need to get out there and grab it by the horns because no one is going to give you what you want on a plate. Good girls always come second.”

Cecelia Ahern book Love, Rosie

Source: Where Rainbows End

Life, People, Girl

“Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.”

Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist

Feeling

“You cannot open a book without learning something.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

Books, Learning

“The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it or to escape what is bad in it but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

Past

“Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.”

Jamaica Kincaid (1949) Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer

Friendship, World, Nature

“Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?”

Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time

Source: A Wrinkle in Time

People, Feeling, Thinking

“We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

Water

“Shigure Sohma: Tohru's very cute in a sweet sort of way.

Hatori Sohma: For some reason when you say that it reeks of something illegal.”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Way

“Didn't you ever have a father yourself? You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.' So I figured it's because I never had a father that I don't want one now. A person can't miss something she never had.”

Rebecca Stead book When You Reach Me

Source: When You Reach Me

Personality

“When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.”

Enrique Jardiel Poncela (1902–1952) Spanish dramatist

Effort, Reading

“There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

Hell, Suffering

“There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.”

Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Life, Night

“Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my own heartbeat against the bedsprings… but there’s something dead about it, something deserted.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

Dead

“When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.”

Dean Koontz book One Door Away from Heaven

Source: One Door Away from Heaven

Change

“If you don't do anything, you simply end up overwhelmed by something happening.”

Matsuri Hino Japanese manga artist

“It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

Love

“[…] falling in love with someone beautiful and intelligent and the rest of it, then feeling like a blank twit put you at something of a disadvantage.”

Nick Hornby About a Boy

Source: About a Boy

Love, Beauty, Feeling, Intelligence

“I could not count the times during the average day when something would come up that I needed to tell him. This impulse did not end with his death. What ended was the possibility of response.”

Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking

Source: The Year of Magical Thinking

Death, Time

“Invention:
I always wanted to invent something that would move around & make funny noises & would change the world as we know it & I forgot all about that until we had kids & now I see I came pretty close.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

World, Change

“If he were any other man, I might have suspected him of substance abuse, of being coked up or something. But Barrons was too much a purist for that; his drugs were money, power, and control”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

Source: Darkfever

Money

“When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Bullet

Source: Bullet

Life, Personality

“Have you ever heard of the theory of relativity?"
Artemis blinked. "Is this a joke? I have traveled through time, Doctor. I think I know a little something about relativity.”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Last Guardian

Travel, Thinking, Time

“What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have?”

Cheryl Strayed book Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“I'm quite all right. I'm not even scared. You see, I've learned from looking around, there is something worse than loneliness--and that's the fear of it.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Source: The Ladies of the Corridor

Fear, Learning, Loneliness

“It's easier to find a way to make money at something you love than to learn to love a job that you can make money at.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Early to Death, Early to Rise

Love, Money, Way, Learning

“As long as there's such a thing as time, everybody's damaged in the end, changed into something else. It always happens, sooner or later.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Change, Time

“In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One

Source: The Lucky One

Imagination, Chance, Future

“Actually, you can be bad at something… but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

Love

“Sometimes I wanted to believe something so badly, I deliberately manufactured excuses and ignored painful reality.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Reflected in You

Pain, Reality

“How can such scary looking parents create something so cute?”

Chetan Bhagat book 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Source: 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Parent

“I don't think you tell someone you love them because you expect something. I think you tell them because you have something to give.”

Nora Roberts book Bed of Roses

Source: Bed of Roses

Love, Thinking

“Sydney sighed and stood up, smoothing her rumpled clothes with dismay. 'I need a coffee shop or something.'
'I think I saw one in a cave down the road,' I said.
That almost got a smile from her.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Smile, Coffee, Thinking, Clothes

“If there's something as good as [him] in my life, I'm going to pay for it.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Life

“Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.”

Lorrie Moore Birds of America

Source: Birds of America

Life, Sadness

“Tracy, the leader of the CDH group, looks at me with eyes that seem to belong to someone three times her age. It's something beyond wisdom, all the way to insanity and back. It's like her eyes are scarred from all the things she's seen.”

Augusten Burroughs book Dry

Source: Dry

Wisdom, Age, Way, Time

“If you are going to go through hell… I suggest you come back learning something.”

Drew Barrymore (1975) American actress, director and producer

Hell, Learning

“From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost….”

David Nicholls book Us

Source: Us

Fear, Nostalgia, Anger

“You learn something new everyday."
"What are you learning?" Sophos asked.
"To keep my mouth shut, I hope.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Thief

Source: The Thief

Hope, Learning

“He loved constantly, instantly, spontaneously, without thought or words. That's what he taught me. Love is not something you think about, it is a state in which you dwell. That was his gift.”

Christopher Moore book Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Love, Thinking

“It be better, I think, to climb out in search of something, instead of hating, what you're leaving.”

Lois Lowry Son

Source: Son

Hate, Search, Thinking

“I think that when you live in a world with limits… when you've met everyone and seem everything you're going to see - you lose the hope that something extraordinary will happen in your life”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Between the Lines

Life, World, Hope, Thinking

“Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.”

Alain de Botton book The Architecture of Happiness

Source: The Architecture of Happiness

Love, Beauty, Way, Feeling

“There's something about her," Caire said in a low voice. "She cares for everyone about her, yet neglects herself. I want to be the one who cares for her.”

Elizabeth Hoyt (1970) American writer

Source: Wicked Intentions

“But there was only one kiss that made me feel something stir deep inside. Only one that made me want more. But my head wound started bleeding and he made me lie down.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Lie, Feeling, Kiss

“Thwart," I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person."

"I'm pretty sure that isn't the definition." Sarissa said.

"It is today.”

Jim Butcher book Cold Days

Source: Cold Days

Personality

“Why not? Life is short, life is dull, life is full of pain - and this is a chance for something special.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Source: Unknown Book 7074565

Life, Pain, Chance

“homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.”

Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation

Source: Prozac Nation

Life

“A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out of order; it may be turned to practical account by giving proper expression to its creative character.”

William Morris (1834–1896) author, designer, and craftsman

Way, Feeling, Sense

“That's pretty weird—and when I say something's weird, you know it's serious.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

“Maybe we all just want to feel special, even for a little while, to be fooled for a bit into feeling something besides the truth of our own ordinariness.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

Truth, Fools, Feeling

“She asked me why I always had something flip to say. I said that I didn't know, but having been blessed with the gift, I felt obliged to use it.”

Robert Crais (1953) Novelist, screenwriter

“I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me."
His pupils contract to pinpoints, dialate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. "Always," he murmurs.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Pain

“I have never known what to tell anybody. Except that it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.”

Garth Nix book Abhorsen

Source: Abhorsen

“Rain amplifies your mistakes, and water on the track can make your car handle unpredictably. When something unpredictable happens you have to react to it; if you’re reacting at speed, you’re reacting too late. And so you should be afraid.”

Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain

Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain

Cars, Water, Speed

“He nods, as if to acknowledge that endings are almost always a little sad, even when there is something to look forward to on the other side.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Love the One You're With

Sadness, Sad, Moving On

“I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.”

Aleister Crowley book Diary of a Drug Fiend

Source: Diary of a Drug Fiend

Thinking

“You know, Uri, there’s something seriously wrong with me. (Acheron)
And you’re just now figuring this out? Damn, you’re the poster child for slow learning. (Urian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Learning

“The bondage of the Negro brought captive from Africa is one of the greatest dramas in history, and the writer who merely sees in that ordeal something to approve or condemn fails to understand the evolution of the human race.”

Carter G. Woodson book The Mis-Education of the Negro

Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro

History, Understanding

“But somethings in life are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.”

Jon Krakauer (1954) American outdoors writer and journalist

Life, Happiness, Thinking

“It's amazing that something as simple as a kiss can overpower the worst of worries.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

Kiss

“… perversely, it is often more fun to want something than to have it.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

“A problem is something to solve,” Phillip says. “If there’s no solution, it’s not a problem, so stop treating it like one.”

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

Source: This is Where I Leave You

Problem

“Life is pain. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Variant: Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
Source: The Princess Bride

Life, Pain, Wise, Life

“I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.”

Robyn Davidson (1950) Australian writer

Source: Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback

Feeling

“One of the Georges - I forget which - once said that a certain number of hours' sleep each night - I cannot recall at the moment how many - made a man something which for the time being has slipped my memory.”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

Source: Mike and Psmith

Sleep, Memory, Time, Night

“Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive”

Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) German fashion designer

Intelligence, Fashion

“I felt something loosen in me, that shouldn't have loosened. A stitch come undone.”

Gillian Flynn book Dark Places

Source: Dark Places

“However, there is something you should have. Something every Shadowhunter should have."
"An obnoxious, arrogant attitude?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Luke and Simon, pg. 71
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

“maybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mix— not a soul, exactly, but a spirit that hints you might one day be greater, stronger than you are now. a promise; a potential.”

Jodi Picoult book Keeping Faith

Source: Keeping Faith

Soul, Personality

“I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.”

Bob Hope (1903–2003) American comedian, actor, singer and dancer

Hope, Tear

“I feel something for you, some dangerous thing, some volatile thing.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: Genuine Lies

Feeling

“When they ran up to him, Percy said, 'Hey,' like they were just meeting for lunch or something.

'You're alive!' Frank marveled.

Percy frowned. 'The fall? That was nothing. I fell twice that far from the St. Louis Arch.'

'You didHazel asked.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

“When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Books

“To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something that could also be taken for granted.”

Cassandra Clare The Bane Chronicles

Source: The Bane Chronicles

World, Change, Time

“for 100,000 (dollars), you [can] flatten a house with a wrecking ball. Imagine how much less it [takes] to destroy something than it [does] to build it in the first place.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

Imagination, Housing

“Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Dreams, Feeling, Reality

“There are some people who will never understand what
loyalty means. They could tell you what it was, of course,
but they will never know. They will never see it from the inside.
They couldn't imagine a world where something like that was real.”

Jim Butcher book First Lord's Fury

Source: First Lord's Fury

People, World, Imagination, Understanding

“Everything is a version of something else.”

Patrick Marber Closer

Source: Closer

“As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil---well, that's something else.”

William Peter Blatty book The Exorcist

Source: The Exorcist

God

“His shoulder bumped mine again. "Can I ask you something?"
I didn't answer. He was going to ask me anyway. People don't say that if they don't want to pry something out of you.”

Lilith Saintcrow book Strange Angels

Source: Strange Angels

People

“There was also a rumor that later in the day, she walked fully clothed into the Amper River and said something very strange.
Something about a kiss.
Something about a Saumensch.
How many times did she have to say goodbye?”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Kiss, Time, Clothes

“There was something about our silence that made me comfortable. He wasn't talking to me, but I didn't feel ignored. I felt we were part of the same moment, and it didn't need to be defined.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

Feeling, Silence, Parting

“Lying next to Eliza, I had the feeling I had I'd just found something I didn't even know I'd lost.”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

Feeling, Lying

“Advice for a human

86. To like something is to insult it. Love it or hate it. Be passionate. As civilisation advances, so does indifference. It is a disease. Immunize yourself with art. And love.”

Matt Haig (1975) British writer

Source: The Humans

Love, Hate, Disease, Art

“I say if you love something, set it in a small cage and pester and smother it with love until it either loves you back or dies.”

Mindy Kaling (1979) actress, writer, comedian

Love

“One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.”

Anne Rice book Pandora

Source: Pandora

World

“Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.”

Sara Zarr (1970) American children's writer

Source: How to Save a Life

“And what is happy? It is a going always on. There is something better to be done than I have done, and spurred by the fair delusion of progress, I will seek to progress, to whip myself on, to more and more- to learning. Always.”

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

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Happiness, Learning

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