Quotes about wrong
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“It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

People, Hurt

“There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.”

John Updike book Rabbit, Run

Source: Rabbit, Run

Way

“There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be rich, famous and successful, but if those are our goals, we're off on a wrong foot… I just wanted to earn enough money so I could work at home on my writing.”

Phyllis A. Whitney (1903–2008) American writer

Money, Home, Success, Help

“There can be as many wrong reasons to do the right thing as there are stars in the sky. There might even be more than one legitimate right reason. But there is never a right reason to do the wrong thing. Not ever.”

Donita K. Paul (1950) American writer

Source: DragonKnight

Star

“There is no Mr. Right because there is no Mr. Wrong. There is whoever is in front of us, and the perfect lessons to be learned from that person.”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

Source: Return to Love

Learning, Personality, Perfection

“No. Haven’t you been listening?”

Marcus would always remember that moment. It was to be the first time he would ever be faced with that most vexing of female quirks: the question that had nothing but wrong answers.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: Just Like Heaven

Question, Time

“The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.”

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

Source: Very Good, Jeeves!

Love

“The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed.”

Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Change

“She is fine. She hates us both but it really didn't sound like anything else was wrong”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Hate

“But he's looking for love in all the wrong places. Like fancy under catalogs
At least he knows enough not to date while he's campaigning”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Forever Princess

Love

“And unless I'm remembering it wrong, mermaids don't sing and sirens don't swim."
"Ariel sang in 'The Little Mermaid'," Corey said.
Sam came over to join us. "Do I even want to know why you remember her name?”

Kelley Armstrong (1968) Canadian writer

Source: The Calling

Singing

“Learning is never wrong. Even learning how to kill isn't wrong. Or right. It's just a thing to learn, a thing I can teach you. That's all.”

Robin Hobb book Assassin's Apprentice

Source: Assassin's Apprentice

Learning

“Sometimes, she reflected, she dressed for courage, sometimes for success, and sometimes for the consolation of knowing that whatever else went wrong, at least she liked her clothes.”

Emma Bull book War for the Oaks

Source: War for the Oaks

Courage, Success, Clothes

“His hands are off," Gabrielle pointed out.
"Posture's wrong," Kat said.
"He's still… hot," Gabrielle said, as if it were the greatest insult in the world.
"I feel so objectified. So… cheap," Hale told them.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

World, Feeling

“If you think I’m handsome, there’s obviously nothing wrong with your vision.”

Lisa Scottoline (1955) American writer

Source: Every Fifteen Minutes

Thinking

“For most of us, I think it's easier to admit doing wrong than being stupid.”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63

Stupidity, Thinking

“I knew immediately something was terribly wrong, but you can know that and not allow the thought in your head, at the front of your head. It dances around at the back, where it can't be controlled. But the front of the head is where the pain begins.”

Sebastian Barry book The Secret Scripture

Source: The Secret Scripture

Pain, Dance

“You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.”

John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces

School, Way, Time

“After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

“You're born, you know, the wrong names, wrong parents. I mean, that happens. You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free.”

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

Parent

“You can include me, too." William blew Olivia a kiss, and her cheeks heated with a blush. "No need to say anything. I already know what words are perched on your tongue. Stop me if I'm wrong, but my getting to know you will be your pleasure.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Passion

Pleasure, Kiss

“There are some kinds of wounds you can get, internal injuries. You don't know what's wrong with you, but you're bleeding to death slowly inside.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Death

“I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun.”

George Plimpton (1927–2003) journalist, writer, editor, actor

“She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.”

Jodi Picoult Plain Truth

Source: Plain Truth

Love

“Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

“Have you fallen in love with wrong person yet?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Love, Personality

“Play on, when you're losing the game. Play on, cuz you're going to make mistakes. It's always worth the sacrifice, even when you think you're wrong.”

Carrie Underwood (1983) American country music singer

Game, Thinking

“Then marry me. For I love you, and I do not believe there is anything so wrong with you. You are fair in my eyes and you lie fair on my heart.”

Robin McKinley Deerskin

Source: Deerskin

Love, Lie, Heart

“Good and evil are merely opposite sides of a coin. Get tossed in the air enough, it's easy to come down on the wrong side.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Dreamfever

Evil

“She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.”

Stephen King book The Shining

Source: The Shining (1977)

Life, Pain, Dreams, Time

“There is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness.”

Catherine Ryan Hyde (1955) American writer

Source: Pay It Forward

Way

“I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.”

Roald Dahl book Matilda

Source: Matilda

“You're quite wrong, you know. I am the most permanent person that you will eve meet," said Magnus, his voice breathless with laughter and his eyes stung a little by tears. "It is only that it never makes a difference.”

Cassandra Clare The Bane Chronicles

Source: The Bane Chronicles

Tear, Laughter, Personality

“It's okay not to know all the answers. It's better to admit our ignorance than to believe answers that might be wrong. Pretending to know everything, closes the door to finding out what's really there.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator

“There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

Money

“How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.”

Jonathan Franzen (1959) novelist

Life

“I've read that if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there underneath all that snow, you can't tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

Way, Lying, Reading

“What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"
"Six by nine. Forty two."
"That's it. That's all there is."
"I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Universe

“Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Sugar Daddy

Personality

“It may sound corny, but what's wrong with wanting to fight for your country. Why are people reluctant to use the word patriotism?”

Jimmy Stewart (1908–1997) American film and stage actor

People, Fight, Country

“There are no wrong decisions ― only different ones.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

Decision

“For your own good, for the good of your family and your future, grow a backbone. When something is wrong, stand up and say it is wrong, and don't back down.”

Dave Ramsey (1960) American financial advisor

Source: The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

Family, Future

“Wrong arm, dear.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

“I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.”

Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped

Source: Flipped

“Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species”

Edward O. Wilson book The Ants

Source: The Ants

“All my life I've felt like there was something wrong with me. Something missing or damaged."
"Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Variant: Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants. The difference in your case is that it's true.
Source: City of Bones

Life, World, Family, Feeling

“So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Silence, Parting

“A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,” she said. “I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. ("Drink Entire: Against The Madness Of Crowds")”

Ray Bradbury book Long After Midnight

Source: Long After Midnight

Hunger, Drink, Time, Madness

“I still doubt it will work."
"You'd doubt the sun's rising if you weren't proven wrong each day," Raoden
said with a smile.”

Brandon Sanderson Elantris

Source: Elantris

Smile, Sun

“I like to be the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place. Being the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place is worth it because something interesting always happens.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

“What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong.”

Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer

Source: Green Witch

People, Dreams

“Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think. Remember, it is better to suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.”

Ilsa J. Bick (1957) American writer

Source: Ashes

Thinking, Suffering, Personality

“After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

Source: Loving Each Other

Change, Past, Future

“Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken.”

Kate DiCamillo book The Tale of Despereaux

Source: The Tale of Despereaux

Thinking, Heart

“I don't know why it's called "getting lost." Even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turnd to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected to be.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Vanishing Acts

Dead

“How do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong in the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen?”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Between the Lines

World

“They’re not dead,” I told the goat. “They both have pulses.” “Oh.” The goat sighed. “Well, give them a few more hours and they’ll probably be dead.” “What is wrong with you?” “Everything,” said the goat.”

Rick Riordan book The Sword of Summer

Source: The Sword of Summer

Dead

“Is that how you're going to take me? Scare me into voluntarily coming aboard, then steal my Ice Cube?"

"It's always cubes with you," noted Foaly, somewhat randomly. "What's wrong with a nice sphere?”

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

Source: The Atlantis Complex

“Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.”

Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist

Hate, People, Color

“If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.”

Terry Goodkind (1948) American novelist

Variant: Zedd used to tell me that if the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way." - Richard

Way

“In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

People, World, Problem, Thinking

“If it makes you feel better, I’m not happy with the way all this went down any more than you are. But sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Kiss of the Night

Happiness, Way, Feeling

“The only thing I can't stand more than seeing something done wrong is seeing it done slowly.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

“The concepts of right or wrong are always consequential. It can’t be situational or it’s not right or wrong.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Breaks

“You know who you belong to, Jack?”
“Yeah.”
“Yourself.”
He’s wrong, actually, I belong to Ma.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room

“Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you tell them, but they won't listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong direction till somebody more important gets the same idea?”

James Hilton Random Harvest

Source: Random Harvest

Idea

“We believe in the wrong things, that's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the wrong things. You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Reading

“I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves.”

Simone de Beauvoir book The Blood of Others

Source: The Blood of Others

Imagination, Thinking

“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

“A poem…begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion finds the thought and the thought finds the words.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

Letter to Louis Untermeyer (1 January 1916)
1910s

Sense, Effort

“People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it's the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

People, Heart, Hurt

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

Laurell K. Hamilton book Bullet

Source: Bullet

Life, Personality

“There is nothing wrong withmistakes, but one should always makeones. mistakes is a hallmark of dim consciousness.”

Dave Sim (1956) Canadian cartoonist, creator of Cerebus

“When so many hours have been spent convincing myself I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Variant: Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
Source: Sense and Sensibility

Fear