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You need to wake yourself up and take a grab at life. No one is going to hand it to you.
— Danielle Steel, Friends Forever
Getting married means you've won, and I hate thinking like that, I do, but let's be honest, that's just how it is. Until you're married, you're a loser, NO MATTER HOW GREAT YOU ARE AT EVERYTHING ELSE. In our super progressive, equal right, modern society, it's the one thing no one wants to say but everyone is thinking, however messed-up it is.
— Lindsey Kelk, Always the Bridesmaid
But sometimes there's a difference between being needed and being taken advantage of.
— Lindsey Kelk, Always the Bridesmaid
It is an undisputed truth of the modern age that there are now only two kinds of people in the world: people who call and people who text.
— Lindsey Kelk, Always the Bridesmaid
One that society can't forgive, but I can.
— Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island
Someone once said: "We do not make friends, we recognize them." And you'll know who they are because they play according to the same rules that you do.
— Ken Niimura, Gotham Academy #16
What Caul liked most about Tom was his kindness. Kindness was not valued back in Grimsby, where the older boys were encouraged to torment the younger ones, who would grow up to torment another batch of youngsters in their turn. “Good practice for life,” Uncle said. “Hard knocks, that’s all the world’s about!” But maybe Uncle had never met anyone like Tom, who was kind to other people and seemed to expect nothing more than kindness in return.
— Philip Reeve, Predator's Gold
Before label yourself and before you decide that there is something irreparably wrong with your thoughts or emotions, ask yourself: “Do I have a caring, unconditionally loving best friend in myself?” If the answer is “No,” then you will not find the solution to your suffering until you address this serious, life-threatening absence of self-compassion. Self-love is not a dinner mint. Self-love matters. Self-love saves lives.
— Vironika Tugaleva
An odour of camphor and burnt vinegar warned me when I came near the fever room: and i passed its door quickly, fearful lest the nurse who sat up all night should here me. I dreaded being discovered and sent back; for I must see Helen,- I must embrace her before she died,- I must give her one last kiss, exchange with her one last word.
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
It had not hurt his hands at all and the sudden release of energy, twinned with Dom's fall, gave him a sudden lunatic rush of euphoria.
— Adam Nevill, The Ritual
And although I appreciated their kindness more than they would ever know, it's a fact that friends last longer the less you use them.
— Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy
Friendship is a strange idea, difficult to quantify and, at times, even more difficult to maintain. Clearly a friend is someone you enjoy spending time with. However, a friend is also someone you continue to support even during periods when they are considerably less pleasurable to be around. The loyalty of friendship often contains a kind of tautology or feedback loop: the longer you are friends the more loyal you become, and the more loyal you become the longer you remain friends.
— Jacob Wren, Rich and Poor
Some people are just different, even in the same family.
— Danielle Steel, Friends Forever
If you are having private thoughts and ask an intimate friend to listen to them in privacy or on a date will that be considered too intimi-dating? And if the thoughts are proved to be untrue, but your friend still insists on believing in them anyway, would that be considered a cons-piracy?
— Ana Claudia Antunes, ONE HUNDRED ONE WORLD ACCOUNTS in ONE HUNDRED ONE WORD COUNT
You can't even communicate in English. Real life is not a series of levels.
— Sophie Kinsella, Finding Audrey
She says screens are the cigarettes of our age. They're toxic, and we're only going to realize the damage they're doing when it's too late.
— Sophie Kinsella, Finding Audrey
A friendship forged in the fires of adversity is a strong as one that has weathered the test of time.
— Lindsey Kelk, What a Girl Wants
A POCKET-SIZED GIRLHe keeps me in his pocket for a rainy day; he swears I'm not an object as he yo-yo's me away.A friend is what we'll call it,but my friend, he does not know,each time it rains I love him— so to his pocket, I must go.He thinks he's being clever,but I am not a fool;his love ain't worth a penny,so to my heart I must be cruel.
— Coco J. Ginger
MY MOONI'll always wonder what time it is there; if you're dreaming, or awake. My moon is your sun; my darkness, your light. I'm in the future, you'd jokingly say.And I know where you are, because I'm watching you from the past.
— Coco J. Ginger
7amThey said that I’d forget you,and I knew it wasn’t true.But sometimes I wake up now,and my heart’s no longer blue.I press the Keurig button,dancing across the room—Sometimes it’s nearly seven,before I’ve thought of you.And though we sleep together,all night side by side,one day I’ll have my coffeewithout you in my mind.
— Coco J. Ginger
I didn’t think saying good-bye would be so hard. And with everything that’s to come—We’ll face it together. To whatever end.
— Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows
WORTHYIf you ever decide to feel— feel this:I love you. I always have. I always will.Not because you're charming, beautiful or lovable.But because I choose you.Everyday I wake up and I choose you— again, and again, and again.But if you cannot feel, and if you never feel this, then know:I do not love you. I never have. I never will.Because you're not worth my love.(Come back my love, I am drowning.)
— Coco J. Ginger
A WISHSometimes I wish that he will liveand I will see him.But mostly I wish that he will die, and take my memories with him.
— Coco J. Ginger
It is beautiful to capture the soul of another being, isn't it? i nod and add, particularly when it has been a special person. We are talking about friendship, that has its own tenets so we are not talking about romantic/love/sex capture of another soul but the true captivation of another's spirit, which happens between people of the same sex sometimes.
— Ana Castillo, Loverboys
Tommy and Scootie locked eyes. Only minutes ago, he wouldn't have believed that he could ever have felt such a kinship with the Labrador as he felt now.
— Dean Koontz, Tick Tock
He can't make me love him when he's going to leave me.
— Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes
A good friend is someone who is there for me when i'm glad or sad...who I can laugh madly with or cry badly with.
— Karen Salmansohn
I know my life's meaningful because"- and here he stopped, and looked shy, and was silent for a moment before he continued- "because I'm a good friend. i love my friends, and I care about them, and I think I make them happy.
— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarrelled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
— George Eliot, Middlemarch
102. After my friend's accident I take care of her. It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain.
— Maggie Nelson, Bluets
They sat in silence on the windowsill, their hands locked across the distance between them.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire
You're not simple. You're complicated. You're difficult, challenging, beautiful, and you exhaust me. I love you, I do. You're my best friend, but I can't be with you. Not like that. Are you happy now?
— Jessica Calla, She Laughs In Pink
Tell me why you don't do it??"I can't..." what you can't "... It's too far"... why??(Sometimes you keep asking yourself why this friend don't stay out... he is going fast to home... but why and why??Why he don't want to stay with his best friend, why?So the school is important than friendship??Why?How?)...
— Deyth Banger
We grow apart because we grow in different stages and not all of our stages align.
— Dominic Riccitello
Being shameless in thinking, then talking, about male friendship because it is important. Make room for friendship in your life. Make a federal case out of it.
— Stuart Miller, Men and Friendship
Our attitudes toward human relationships are those of supermarket shoppers: we want what is cheap and quick and easy
—  we want variety
To realize the importance the imagination could have in friendship, to understand its immense power for bringing us together in a way.
— Stuart Miller
Encouragement is a mark of true friendship.
— Glenn C. Stewart
The deep love that is born of friendship can too easily become stagnant when life becomes busy.
— Glenn C. Stewart
Catch your friends doing something good and tell them about it.
— Glenn C. Stewart
The Friendship is a suicide, the question is "Are you ready to suicide?".
— Deyth Banger
Frequently, friendship is represented as something too steadily pleasant, or in certain of the masterpieces of the past -- Aristotle and Cicero, for example -- as pervaded by a constant mutual understanding and a gentle calm. Friendship is also an emotional relationship, with involvement that can get hot at times, like any other deep involvement with a person.
— Stuart Miller, Men and Friendship
I wish I could run away,” Rudger told Jersey as they both rushed in and out of various patients’ rooms, darting around like little ants. “I can’t leave and be on my own though, not right now, anyway.”“Why?” asked Jersey, waving her flashlight in mid-air.Rudger froze for a second, a regretful haze emanating from his eyes. “It’d break her heart if I left.”“Ain’t that normal? For parents to have mixed feelings about their kids growin’ up?”“Not for me, it isn’t.”Jersey made a pitying face in his direction. “So, you wanna keep bein’ towed around with your mom, livin’ in a gross town like Danvers?”“Is there a choice?”“Yeah, there sure is. You can run away and try to be a whole person before it’s too late, or you can live with mommy dearest forever and turn into Norman Bates.
— Rebecca McNutt, Danvers: The Reckoning
When storms come, we naturally want to run. What might happen in your friendships if you learned instead to stay put when storms hit?
— Afton Rorvik, Storm Sisters: Friends Though All Seasons
When storms come, we naturally want to run. What might happen in your friendships if you learned instead tasty put when storms hit?
— Afton Rorvik, Storm Sisters: Friends Though All Seasons
The Court of Dreams. The people who knew that there was a price, and one worth paying, for that dream.
— Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
When a friendship ends, people don't always give it the same amount of thought that they do relationships ... most of the time, friendships end in a different way - slowly, and without declarations. Usually people don't really notice until a friend has been gone for a while and then they just say they grew apart, or their lives became too different.
— Jennifer Close, The Hopefuls
Oakley won't," the duke said.She turned and blinked. "I beg your pardon.""Lord Oakley. He won't forget to find us rooms. I've known him for years. The only thing that is making this bearable is that he must be dying inside over all this.""You don't like him?""On the contrary. I've long considered him a friend. It's why I enjoy his misery so much.
— Julia Quinn, The Lady Most Willing...
I was with you at the beginning of your journey. It is right that I should follow you to its end.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
I wish I was friends with things," he said at last, "but I'm not. I never had anything to be friends with, and I can't bear people.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
If we love someone deeply, be they friends, family or lovers, don’t treat the relationship like a playground game of back and forth or tit for tat. See it as a loving connection and let that be the basis of it all.
— lauren klarfeld
The old you has been left behind to leave place for the new you. And it will be a new you that your new friends will admire, that your old friends will struggle to understand and that your true friends will learn to embrace.
— lauren klarfeld
I suppose you cannot hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on.
— Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You
Everybody's looking for that somethingOne thing that makes it all completeYou'll find it in the strangest placesPlaces you never knew it could beSome find it in the face of their childrenSome find it in their lover's eyesWho can deny the joy it brings?When you've found that special thingYou're flying without wingsSome find it sharing every morningSome in their solitary nightsYou'll find it in the words of othersA simple line can make you laugh or cryYou'll find it in the deepest friendshipThe kind you cherish all your lifeAnd when you know how much that meansYou've found that special thingYou're flying without wingsSo impossible as they may seemYou've got to fight for every dream‘Cause who's to know which one you let goWould have made you complete
— Westlife
That's why we make enemies of our friends as soon as they start to drift, he thought, cos that way they get stuck with all our flaws, unlike when they're shared. Maybe brief friendships are best. If you pul out in time, the vices are all theirs.
— Yuri Herrera
It's ok to understand other people. But it's not enough. Advertence is necessary too. Because it's easy to understand abstract person if you're not a victim but outside observer. Imagine you say to friend who needs your help: "I understand the man who stole from you because he was starved". Or that: "I understand that scumbag who raped you because his wife ran out on him and he wanted to blow off steam". Only most hard-hearted person can say that.
— Bryanna Reid
I know what it's like not to have friends. People need friends. Life's not much fun without them.
— Michelle Harrison, One Wish
Kelly took a deep breath. "And I'm sorry I ignored you last week." She scratched her neck. "And you know what? If you think you're a girl..."George braced for Kelly's next words."Then I think you're a girl too!
— Alex Gino
When storms come, we naturally want to run. What might happen in your friendship if you learned instead to stay put when storm hit?
— Afton Rorvik, Storm Sisters: Friends Though All Seasons
Pity is an insult. Kindness is a miracle.
— Patrick Ness
Her mother had told her that when she was a girl. Whenever you’re in trouble, just remember you’re your own best friend.
— Elizabeth Brundage, All Things Cease to Appear
Dying and living, weeping and laughing--all parts of our existence here on earth. What would happen in your friendships if together you embraced the hard parts of life and did not fear weeping together?
— Afton Rorvik
When expecting from your dear ones is a mistake, telling them not to expect is a blunder!
— Aanu
Smiling has special powers that you can't believe it is capable of doing, like calming fears, insecurities, hurt and anxiety just like beauty around you.
— Auliq-Ice
We’ve made it private, contained it in family, when its audacity is in its potential to cross tribal lines. We’ve fetishized it as romance, when its true measure is a quality of sustained, practical care. We’ve lived it as a feeling, when it is a way of being. It is the elemental experience we all desire and seek, most of our days, to give and receive. The sliver of love’s potential that the Greeks separated out as eros is where we load so much of our desire, center so much of our imagination about delight and despair, define so much of our sense of completion. There is the love the Greeks called filia—the love of friendship. There is the love they called agape—love as embodied compassion, expressions of kindness that might be given to a neighbor or a stranger. The Metta of the root Buddhist Pali tongue, “lovingkindness,” carries the nuance of benevolent, active interest in others known and unknown, and its cultivation begins with compassion towards oneself.
— Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
I didn't really expect you to have an appropriate response," Renaire says simply, taking a moment to tap ash off the tip of his cigarette. He'd hoped, yes, but never expected, not really. "I came to terms with the fact you're a possessive, self-important asshole with a superiority complex a long time ago.""Somehow, that's reassuring," Delaurier says.
— Luchia Dertien, Gnomon
It seemed to me - articulated in words of today - that not only did she know how to put things well but she was developing a gift that I was already familiar with: more effectively than she had as a child, she took the facts and in a natural way charged them with tension; she intensified reality as she reduced it to words, she injected with energy. But I also realized, with pleasure, that, as soon as she began to do this, I felt able to do the same, and I tried and it came easily.
— Elena Ferrante
Being loved is the only thing that is admirable by any stretch of the imagination.
— Auliq-Ice
A smile from the heart is a therapy that turns a bad moment to a gracious one.
— Auliq-Ice
I had no male friends now, though I did have a strong community of intelligent, supportive, funny women and I felt confused as to why they weren't enough for me,
— Charlotte Shane
It's better to be friends with someone that is willing to be your friend than someone that doesn't.
— PureDragonWolf
I'm okay with who I am.You might not understand me. That's okay as I don't understand you.We can still be friends, we just have to accept our differences.
— Tina J. Richardson
Sometimes we forget how important it is just to show up and take care of the good friendships that we have, or might like to have. Good friendships are hard to come by.
— Lik Hock Yap Ivan
The hard fact of friendship is that you need to make time for new friends by first stripping out the people who are using your energy in an unsatisfying way. You have to take that risk of being friendless to make room in your life for others who will be your new best friends
— Maggie Stiefvater
Do not stand at a distance and wave hands. Get closer and hug.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I'm looking for somekind of permanence, so my mark will linger on the world once I'm gone, in the places where I found joy.." -Page 81
— Emery Lord, When We Collided
You can ache for where you come from, and it's homesickness. A relationship, and it's heartbreak. But is there a word for missing your friends like that?
— Emery Lord, When We Collided
She can outstare anyone, and I am almost as good. We’re impervious, we scintillate, we are thirteen. We wear long wool coats with tie belts, the collars turned up to look like those of movie stars, and rubber boots with the tops folded down and men’s work socks inside. In our pockets are stuffed the kerchiefs our mothers make us wear but that we take off as soon as we’re out of their sight. We scorn head coverings. Our mouths are tough, crayon-red, shiny as nails. We think we are friends.
— Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
A friend is a person whom you can love without judging and share your thoughts without fearing.
— Debasish Mridha
Combinations of people, who should have nothing to say to each other. Yet, with hearts that do not recognize it.
— Tracy Rees, Amy Snow
I'm looking for some kind of permanence, so my mark will linger on the world once I'm gone, in the places where I found joy..
— Emery Lord, When We Collided
The quality of a friend is one who can touch your heart and soul from across the world or across the room. Trust that person who can see through the sadness behind your smile. The one who can hear your words in your silence, can feel your love in your anger, trust them. They are your REAL, TRUE and PURE friends.﻿
— Angie karan
Allow not, the shallow intentions or vile aspirations of others to taint your heart; Love always. - With an abundance of positivity you will counter the negative, always.
— Tiffany Luard
When someone shows you who they are believe them
—  the first time.
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
— Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
— John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
— Albert Einstein
I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides don't match up with my outsides.' 'Do anyone's insides and outsides match up?' 'I don't know. I'm only me.' 'Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.' 'But it's worse for me.' 'I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him.' 'Probably. But it really is worse for me.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
— Fiona Apple
Hell is—other people!
— Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
It is good people who make good places.
— Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
You are who you are when nobody's watching.
— Stephen Fry
This is my letter to the worldThat never wrote to me
— Emily Dickinson
Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.
— Audrey Hepburn
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
— Richard Lingard, A Letter of Advice to a Young Gentleman Leaving the University Concerning His Behaviour and Conversation in the World
People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Forever
I love Humanity but I hate humans
— Albert Einstein
I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
— Frank Zappa
good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws
— Plato
The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.
— Terry Pratchett, Jingo
The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.
— Deb Caletti, The Fortunes of Indigo Skye
People are too complicated to have simple labels.
— Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
A leader is bestWhen people barely know he existsOf a good leader, who talks little,When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,They will say, “We did this ourselves.
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.
— Jim Butcher, Turn Coat
There is only one way to fight, and that's dirty. Clean gentlemanly fighting will get you nowhere but dead, and fast. Take every cheap shot, every low blow, absolutely kick people when they're down, and maybe you'll be the one who walks away.
— Jeaniene Frost, Halfway to the Grave
The worst wounds, the deadliest of them, aren't the ones people see on the outside. They're the ones that make us bleed internally.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Infamous
You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, but it's not true. Generally, people don't like each other very much. And that goes for friends, too.
— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You
Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.
— Steve Irwin
Those people, who hate you, envy your freedom.
— Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
No one truly knows what they will do in a certain situation until they are actually in it. It's very easy to judge someone else's actions by what you assume your own would be, if you were in their shoes. But we only know what we THINK we would do, not what we WOULD do.
— Ashly Lorenzana
The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
— Mark Twain
We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.
— Michael  Jackson
You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
— Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
...and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave.
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
People didn't change. they liked what they liked even if they didn't understand why.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain...There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor, but that time long since passed away with the greatness of tribes that are now but a mournful memory.
— Chief Seattle, The Chief Seattle's Speech
I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.
— Janet Fitch, White Oleander
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.
— Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.
— Caspar David Friedrich
First of all," he said, "if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.
— Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.
— Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum
People are more than just the way they look.
— Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
People are who they are and, try as you might, you cannot make them be what you want them to be.
— Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
— Margaret Mead
Don't trust people who tell you other people's secrets.
— Dan Howell
I like seeing people when they can't see me.
— Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
I myself am not afraid of ghosts
—  I am afraid of people.
People are so fucking dumb. Nobody reads anymore, nobody goes out and looks and explores the society and culture they were brought up in. People have attention spans of five seconds and as much depth as a glass of water.
— David Bowie
And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people.
— Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming
When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
What's wrong with people?" she says, almost too quiet for me to hear. "Were they born with parts missing or did it fall out somewhere along the way?
— Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
People are secretive when they have secrets.
— Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming
I think if human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Wouldn't life be more interesting that way? And now that I think about it, why the heck don't they? Who made the rule that everybody has to dress like sheep 364 days of the year? Think of all the people you'd meet if they were in costume every day. People would be so much easier to talk to - like talking to dogs. 
— Douglas Coupland, The Gum Thief
Some people are magic, and others are just the illusion of it.
— Beau Taplin
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
— Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position myself away from so-called conclusions. I would like to leave everything wide open to all the possibilities in the world.
— Haruki Murakami
So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the "burning marl." Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is—other people!
— Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.
— Wallace Stevens
I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.
— Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.
— Bill Gates
Most people are full of themselves and speak only the obnoxiously superficial, in other words they're annoying as hell
— Novala Takemoto, Missin' (Novel)
It is no use trying to sum people up.
— Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
I find people confusing.
— Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people.
— Jim Butcher, Turn Coat
people don't change, they just have momentary steps outside of their true character
— Chad Kultgen, The Lie
I have one problem, I don’t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I have an escape mechanism.
— Charles Bukowski
Life isn’t like the movies. People don’t change overnight. people don’t go from arrogant and self-righteous to ashamed and remorseful. They don’t suddenly give in when they’ve spent years taking out. No doesn’t magically become a Yes.
— Randa Abdel-Fattah, Does My Head Look Big In This?
As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.
— George Harrison
People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this world’s worst kind of pain.
— Masashi Kishimoto
Every now and then, I'll run into someone who claims not to like chocolate, and while we live in a country where everyone has the right to eat what they want, I want to say for the record that I don't trust these people, that I think something is wrong with them, and that they're probably - and this must be said - total duds in bed.
— Steve Almond, Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.
— Stephen Sondheim
Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
Our people are good people
—  our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.
People can cry much easier than they can change.
— James     Baldwin
See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be
— Joyce Carol Oates, After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away
I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset cos' they act like people", said Adam severely. "Anyway, if you stopped tellin' people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.
— Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
There are four kinds of people to avoid in the world: the assholes, the asswipes, the ass-kissers, and those that just will shit all over you.
— Anthony Liccione
The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.
— Karl Kraus
People don't want other people to be people.
— Gene Wolfe, Shadow & Claw
The person you have known a long tme is embedded in you like a jewel. The person you have just met casts out a few glistening beams & you are fascinated to see more of them. How many more are there? With someone you've barely met the curiosity is intoxicating.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
Fake friends; those who only drill holes under your boat to get it leaking; those who discredit your ambitions and those who pretend they love you, but behind their backs they know they are in to destroy your legacies.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Most people are boring and stupid.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it’s as if we are one person, with one mind, one destiny.
— Gayle Forman, I Was Here
Words are like people, I think. Put too many of them too close together and they cause trouble.
— Carolee Dean, Take Me There
Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
I knew people were talking, but I wasn't listening. I wasn't interested in anything anyone had to say.
— Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes
People are... Full of contradictions. They're lonely. And then they're not. They're missed. And then they're not.
— Kou Yoneda, 漂えど沈まず、されど泣きもせず [Tadayoedo Shizumazu Saredo Naki Mo Sezu]
As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.
— Charles Bukowski, Women
Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally
—  one has to rehearse for it.
You learn to move on without the people you love.
— Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park
You could push people away, past their limits, even accidentally, and then it was just too late to get them back
— Laura Moriarty, The Rest of Her Life
There are so many people. It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
— John Green, Paper Towns
Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.
— George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of my loneliness, in the blue-silver of the cold moon, shining brilliantly on the drifts of fresh-fallen snow, with the myriad sparkles. I talk to myself and look at the dark trees, blessedly neutral. So much easier than facing people, than having to look happy, invulnerable, clever. With masks down, I walk, talking to the moon, to the neutral impersonal force that does not hear, but merely accepts my being. And does not smite me down.
— Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath
And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone or that's an evil one because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels.
— Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes.
— Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
Listen to me. They may control what you do, but no one can pee on your soul without your permission.
— A.S. King, Everybody Sees the Ants
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
— Susan Sontag
People surprise you, Frank, with just how fuckin stupid they are.
— Richard Ford, The Sportswriter
I am weird, and you know what? That's OK. So are most interesting people.
— Em Bailey, Shift
I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
— Colette, The Pure and the Impure
Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this kind of virtue has not been outlived even today. A kind of sturdy peasant simplicity, which, however, is possible in all classes and can be encountered only with respect and a smile, believes even today that everything is in good hands, namely in the "hands of God"; and when it maintains this proportion with the same modest certainty as it would that two and two make four, we others certainly refrain from contradicting. Why disturb THIS pure foolishness? Why darken it with our worries about man, people, goal, future? And even if we wanted to do it, we could not. They project their own honorable stupidity and goodness into the heart of things (the old God, deus myops, still lives among them!); we others — we read something else into the heart of things: our own enigmatic nature, our contradictions, our deeper, more painful, more mistrustful wisdom.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power
I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone.
— Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier
Then it hit me and I just blurted, 'I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
— Zig Ziglar
When people complain of your complexity, they fail to remember that they made fun of your simplicity.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did want to get close to people, I really did want to know them. It was just easier to do it on paper, one step removed.
— Charles de Lint, Dreams Underfoot
People appear like angels until you hear them speak. You must not rush to judge people by the colour of their cloaks, but by the content of their words!
— Israelmore Ayivor
People always wanted someone to blame, didn't they?
— Eileen Wilks, On the Prowl
Their life is mysterious, it is like a forest; from far off it seems a unity, it can be comprehended, described, but closer it begins to separate, to break into light and shadow, the density blinds one. Within there is no form, only prodigious detail that reaches everywhere: exotic sounds, spills of sunlight, foliage, fallen trees, small beasts that flee at the sound of a twig-snap, insects, silence, flowers.And all of this, dependent, closely woven, all of it is deceiving. There are really two kinds of life. There is, as Viri says, the one people believe you are living, and there is the other. It is this other which causes the trouble, this other we long to see.
— James Salter, Light Years
That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frightenpeople, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.
— Jeannette Walls
The most dangerous people in the world are not the tiny minority instigating evil acts, but those who do the acts for them. For example, when the British invaded India, many Indians accepted to work for the British to kill off Indians who resisted their occupation. So in other words, many Indians were hired to kill other Indians on behalf of the enemy for a paycheck. Today, we have mercenaries in Africa, corporate armies from the western world, and unemployed men throughout the Middle East killing their own people - and people of other nations - for a paycheck. To act without a conscience, but for a paycheck, makes anyone a dangerous animal. The devil would be powerless if he couldn't entice people to do his work. So as long as money continues to seduce the hungry, the hopeless, the broken, the greedy, and the needy, there will always be war between brothers.
— Suzy Kassem
People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.
— Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of other men —above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received and am still receiving.
— Albert Einstein, Living Philosophies
It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco.It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world
— Oscar Wilde
Twolegs are mousebrain
— Erin Hunter, Sunset
I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all but, to tell you the truth I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
— Bela Lugosi
I think people make their own faces, as they grow.
— Enid Blyton, The Naughtiest Girl Again
If you expect the worse, you're only denying someone a chance to be better
— Sangu Mandanna, The Lost Girl
Goodbyes are on of the hardest things about life. One way or another people were always leaving... Always moving on.
— Karen Kingsbury
Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.
— Terry Pratchett, Mort
But I discovered that people like me -- they do, you know, if you like them -- and then it was all right.
— Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle
To identify with others is to see something of yourself in them and to see something of them in yourself--even if the only thing you identify with is the desire to be free from suffering.
— Melanie Joy, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism: The Belief System That Enables Us to Eat Some Animals and Not Others
People inspire you, or they drain you. PICK THEM WISELY.
— Hans F. Hasen
I think that I am too warm to negatively judge individuals, yet I am cold enough to negatively judge humanity.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare, and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five about.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Oh how I hate people!
— Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion. Why make life miserable for someone when you could be using your energy for good? We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful. When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.
— Taylor Swift
You don't want to be rude but you have to be careful - there are a lot of strange people out there.(Goldman attributes this quote to Cliff Robertson.)
— William Goldman, Adventures In The Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood
Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
When you are so ashamed of your actions, thoughts, or intentions, you lie rather than accepting yourself for who you really are—or, in this case, pretend something happened when it didn’t. The idea of how others see you becomes more important than the reality of you.
— Michael J. Sullivan
People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I wantto vomit—and suddenly, there it is: the Nausea
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
The people who love you will guide you like bright lights into the other worlds.
— Josephine Angelini, Trial by Fire
We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.
— Kathryn Stockett, The Help
Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.
— Ian Frazier
I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.
— Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
— Joe Ancis
I'm not so fond of people myself, Evvy, but I took my vows for a reason. There are two classes of people in the world, the destroyers and the builders. I want to build, not destroy. You need to ask yourself who you're going to be.
— Tamora Pierce, Melting Stones
There will always be haters. And the more you grow the more they hate
—  the more they hate the more you grow.
A people free to choose will always choose peace. 
— Ronald Reagan
An army of the people is invincible!
— Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
People come and go.
— Cecelia Ahern
...but I guess it's better for people to shut up rather than rather than say something nasty. -ONE NIGHT @ THE CALL CENTER Chapter 1 page 22
— Chetan Bhagat
It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.
— Jodi Picoult, House Rules
I think he just loved being with the bears because they didn't make him feel bad. I get it too. When he was with the bears, they didn't care that he was kind of weird, or that he'd gotten into trouble for drinking too much and using drugs(which apparently he did a lot of). They didn't ask him a bunch of stupid questions about how he felt, or why he did what he did. They just let him be who he was.
— Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes
When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered.
— John O'Donohue
I wasn’t a nerd, mind you, but I’d spent a lot of my youth studying Epics, so I’d had limited experience with social interaction. I mixed with ordinary people about the same way that a bucket of paint mixed with a bag of gerbils.
— Brandon Sanderson, Firefight
Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.
— Ellis Peters, A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs
Indifferentism is the worst kind of disease that can affect people.
— B.R. Ambedkar, Writings And Speeches: A Ready Reference Manual
Cool people are only cool for the first thirty minutes of knowing them. After that, they just become annoying.
— Carroll Bryant
Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment — that which they cannot anticipate.
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.
— Colson Whitehead, Zone One
It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language.
— Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it.
— Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses
If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.
— Cory Doctorow, Little Brother
He was like one of those pictures full of small errors, the kind you could only pick out by searching the image from every angle, and even then, a few always slipped by. On the surface, Eli seemed perfectly normal, but now and then Victor would catch a crack, a sideways glance, a moment when his roommate's face and his words, his look and his meaning, would not line up. Those fleeting slices fascinated Victor. It was like watching two people, one hiding in the other's skin. And their skin was always too dry, on the verge of cracking and showing the color of the thing beneath.
— Victoria Schwab, Vicious
He hates me more," says Peeta. "I don't think people in general are his sort of thing.
— Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games