The best Quotes by Lemony Snicket (2024)

All nights are dark days, because night is simply a badly lit version of day.

Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.

Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.

Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both.

I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.

It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is the one who is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right. Right?

Night changes many thoguhts.

Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.

Stephenie Meyer in Twilight

Things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.

Ernest Hemingway

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Fate is called as such, for it cannot be changed, nor can it be reversed. It can only but be accepted.

Mona in Genshin Impact

May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face and may the wings of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars.

In Italy, you know you've found a truly authentic restaurant when they don't have an English menu. In India, it's when there are no utensils and you must eat with your hands.

Aziz Ansari

Dinner's a very intimate activity. It requires a level of connection and eye contact, that sex just doesn't. Call me old-fashioned, but I need to have sex with a girl at least three times before I'll even consider having dinner with her.

Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother - Season 6 Episode 3

Marshall: "Let the dinnertainment begin!"
Barney: "That reminds me there's this other restaurant we should try sometime. What they do is, they cook you a meal, in a little room called a 'kitchen'."

Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother - Season 7 Episode3

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed, it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

A living poem had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.

John Green

The world is dark, and light is precious.
Come closer, dear reader.
You must trust me.
I am telling you a story.

Kate DiCamillo in The Tale of Despereaux

Reading is a hobby, but for some of us, it's an escape from the difficulties we face. To all of you who escape into books, I want to thank you for escaping into this one.

Colleen Hoover in Reminders of Him

To Michelle - my love and life's partner and Malia and Sasha - whose dazzling light makes everything brighter.

Barack Obama - A Promised Land

After all, you still need time to just sit there and take a look around.

Astrid Lindgren

"Oh yes, time flies and before you know it you're old," said Pippi. "Come autumn I'll be ten, and I suppose I'll be past my prime then."

Astrid Lindgren in Pippi Longstocking

It's real, Six. You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

Colleen Hoover in Hopeless

I want you to help them open... because I need you to watch me give you the very last piece of my heart.

Colleen Hoover in Hopeless

What other people think of you is none of your business.

Paulo Coelho

If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

Paulo Coelho

This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light.

J.R.R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion

The Elves made many rings; but secretly Sauron made One Ring to rule all the others, and their power was bound up with it.

J.R.R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Joanne K. Rowling

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

Joanne K. Rowling

The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby

Hope is like a shard of glass. Tread on it, and you'll end up wincing with every step. The best policy is to tweezer it out. Sure, it will hurt like billy-o and the wound will take a while to heal, but after that you can walk again.

Sebastian Fitzek in Therapy

"Lost something?"
"Yes, my mind."

Sebastian Fitzek in Splinter

The dead are dead, and talking won't bring them back to life.

Otfried Preußler in Krabat

"It's no use fretting for what you can't get," croaked the raven. "Does being angry make any difference? Be sensible! What can you do about it?"

Otfried Preußler in Krabat

There are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

Cornelia Funke

The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out of his room. All was drowned by its silence. But Jacob loved the night. He felt it on his skin like a promise. Like a cloak woven from freedom and danger.

Cornelia Funke in Reckless

That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.

John Green in The Fault in Our Stars

If you want the rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.

John Green in The Fault in Our Stars

"How do you spell 'love'?" - "You don't spell it... you feel it."

A.A. Milne in Winnie the Pooh

If you live to be hundred, I hope i live to be hundred minus one day. So I never have to live without you.

A.A. Milne in Winnie the Pooh

Perfection is impossible. In the 1,526 singles matches I played in my career, I won almost 80% of those matches. But what percentage of points did I win? 54%! In other words, even top ranked tennis players win barely more than half the points they play. When you lose every second point on average, you learn not to dwell on every shot.

Roger Federer - Juni 2024