116 Highlighted Kindle Quotes

In the digital age, where the art of reading has seamlessly blended with technology, Kindle stands out as a revolutionary tool for book lovers worldwide. One of its most cherished features is the ability to highlight and save memorable passages, allowing readers to capture the essence of a book with just a few taps. But with countless quotes at your fingertips, how do you sift through the noise to pinpoint those truly transformative lines? Our curated collection showcases the top 116 highlighted Kindle quotes, handpicked for their profound insights and resonating impact. Whether you're in search of inspiration, wisdom, or a deeper understanding of the human experience, these quotes are sure to leave a lasting impression. Dive in and explore a world of words that have captivated Kindle readers around the globe.

1. “Nemo impune me lacessit!!” - Edgar Allan Poe

2. “I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever. I felt myself surrounded by millions of abandoned pages, by worlds and souls without an owner sinking in an ocean of darkness, while the world that throbbed outside the library seemed to be losing its memory, day after day, unknowingly, feeling all the wiser the more it forgot.” - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

3. “Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.” - Lord Dunsany

4. “Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.” - Brandon Sanderson

5. “In years to come, he would be a giver of bread, not a stealer - proof again of the contradictory human being. So much good, so much evil. Just add water.” - Markus Zusak

6. “I didn’t share her concern. “Damn it. I should have banished you the first time I saw you. I don’t have time for this, not with everything else. You should be in the Underworld by now. Kiyo isn’t going to kill me.” - Richelle Mead

7. “A curiosity . . . no, a need for a different kind of communion. One with people not of the mountain, but rather the outsiders of the Ridge. She couldn’t explain the call of Angel Ridge. Women before her, like her mother, had experienced the same longing, had tried to assimilate with the people below the mountain and had been cruelly rejected, returning to the mountain to live a singular existence.” - Deborah Grace Staley

8. “Josey?” She heard her mother’s voice in the hall, then the thud of her cane as she came closer. “Please don’t tell her I’m here,” the woman in the closet said, with a strange sort of desperation. Despite the cold outside, she was wearing a cropped white shirt and tight dark blue jeans that sat low, revealing a tattoo of a broken heart on her hip. Her hair was bleached white-blond with about an inch of silver-sprinkled dark roots showing. Her mascara had run and there were black streaks on her cheeks. She looked drip-dried, like she’d been walking in the rain, though there hadn’t...” - Sarah Addison Allen

9. “Lance told me his father didn’t think much of him. “He wishes I was better. More better. At everything. I don’t do anything right, you know, Stevie. Nothing.” He said this matter-of-factly. He believed it as truth. Polly told me her father never said anything nice to her, but she kept trying as hard as she could to make him pay her some attention. “He always says, ‘Don’t get fat as your mother has,’ but I don’t think Mom’s fat at all, but I try not to eat much, but he keeps saying it to me. Do you think I’m fat, Stevie? When my hair is messy do you think I look like a stray...” - Cathy Lamb

10. “Perfume companies ought to bottle the smell of crisp bacon. Forget pheromones. I’ll bet a woman with a little spot of bacon grease behind her ears would attract every male within a five-mile radius.” - Blaize Clement

11. “And there he lay in his bed, a broken man, worn out by a way of life which had been thrust upon him because of the antics of a wayward pig.” - Jean Plaidy

12. “Facebook also has a fundamental characteristic that has proven key to its appeal in country after country—you only see friends there.” - David Kirkpatrick

13. “For instance, when people press their lips together in a manner that seems to make them disappear, it is a clear and common sign that they are troubled and something is wrong.” - Joe Navarro

14. “Storytelling is a form of self-disclosure.” - John S. Savage

15. “It is how we respond to loss that matters. That response will largely determine the quality, the direction, and the impact of our lives.” - Jerry Sittser

16. “A popular management term used to describe efficiency is called "working smart." We are told that if we work smart instead of hard, we will be more productive. But if we do work "smart" then we are likely to have idle time, and if we are idle we will likely be thought of as being lazy or worthless.” - Charles Hayes

17. “Bits have unique properties, then, that we can use to our advantage: they’re super-small, super-fast, easily acquired and created and copied and shared in near-infinite quantity, protected from the ravages of time, and free from the limitations of distance and space. In practice, though, bits reveal several paradoxes: they’re weightless, but they weigh us down; they don’t take up any space, but they always seem to pile up; they’re created in an instant, but they can last forever; they move quickly, but they can waste our time.” - Mark Hurst

18. “The overload makes users less productive and more stressed; thus, there’s a need for some solution. Passively ignoring the problem won’t work, since bits are still heavy, even if we pretend not to notice.” - Mark Hurst

19. “All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.” - Leo Tolstoy

20. “I don’t know what boldness came over me, but the resolute heaviness of Dash’s demeanor threatened to crush my soul. My pinky finger crept over and nestled against his, for comfort. Like a magnet, his pinky finger latched onto and intertwined with mine. I like magnets a whole lot.” - Rachel Cohn

21. “Truth by definition is exclusive. If truth were all-inclusive, nothing would be false.” - Walter Martin

22. “Children can be disgusting, and often they can develop extraordinary talents, but I’m yet to meet any child who can stimulate his carotid arteries inside his ribcage.” - Ben Goldacre

23. “We’re all free agents in this noncoercive class system, and Brooks eventually concludes that worrying about the problems faced by workers is yet another deluded affectation of the blue-state rich.” - Thomas Frank

24. “In 1991, though, began an uprising that would propel those reptilian Republicans from a tiny splinter group into the state’s dominant political faction, that would reduce Kansas Democrats to third-party status, and that would wreck what remained of the state’s progressive legacy. We are accustomed to thinking of the backlash as a phenomenon of the seventies (the busing riots, the tax revolt) or the eighties (the Reagan revolution); in Kansas the great move to the right was a story of the nineties, a story of the present.” - Thomas Frank

25. “nothing knee-jerk about their politics. Two out of three of them say that abortion is “always” or “usually” morally wrong. They are far more likely than voters age thirty and over to identify themselves as politically “strictly independent.” In fact, more than any other generation I’ve tracked in my polling, Globals seem determined to find a middle ground on the hot-button issues of the day and to decide each one on a case by case basis, not because their party leaders are urging them in one direction or the other. I like to tell audiences that while First Globals might not be more...” - John Zogby

26. “I was, as the prophet said, hungering and thirsting for righteousness. I found it at the eternal and material core of Christianity: body, blood, bread, wine, poured out freely, shared by all.” - Sara Miles

27. “going to have an industrial society you must have places that will look terrible. Other places you set aside—to say, ‘This is the way it was.’ ” - John McPhee

28. “But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived?” - Markus Zusak

29. “In retrospect, I now believe this expected donation of ten percent of income to the Fellowship was based on bad exegesis of an old Jewish taxation law that Jesus Himself seemed to completely ignore.” - Dylan Morrison

30. “the Church of Rome, formerly the most holy of all Churches, has become the most lawless den of thieves, the most shameless of all brothels, the very kingdom of sin, death, and hell; so that not even antichrist, if he were to come, could devise any addition to its wickedness.” - Martin Luther

31. “At their best, religious and spiritual communities help us discover this pure and naked spiritual encounter. At their worst, they simply make us more ashamed, pressuring us to cover up more, pushing us to further enhance our image with the best designer labels and latest spiritual fads, weighing us down with layer upon layer of heavy, uncomfortable, pretentious, well-starched religiosity.” - Brian D. McLaren

32. “You’re my change of skin / my summer-winter-fall / I spring to follow you / this loss is beautiful.” - Maggie Stiefvater

33. “the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.” - Sara Zarr

34. “I realize that sometimes death comes before you expect it. That while we are rarely prepared for our friends, family and loved ones to die, we are never prepared for our own deaths. Never prepared to reconcile our own regrets.” - Carrie Ryan

35. “Mawu felt her face where the still-fresh scar had just been opened up again. She examined the blood on her fingers as if it weren’t her own. Sir returned to the table and a servant slipped through the side door and passed him a wet cloth to wipe the blood from his hands.” - Dolen Perkins-Valdez

36. “A man’s life was five dogs long, Cortland believed. The first was the one that taught you. The second was the one you taught. The third and fourth were the ones you worked. The last was the one that outlived you. That was the winter dog. Cortland’s winter dog had no name. He thought of it only as the scarecrow dog…” - Stephen King

37. “Less than a decade after the Great Exhibition, iron as a structural material was finished—which makes it slightly odd that the most iconic structure of the entire century, about to rise over Paris, was made of that doomed material. I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time.” - Bill Bryson

38. “Here’s exclusive Channel 5 video of a local man having his brain eaten by a winged gremlin. Local gremlin experts warn that—” - David Wong

39. “I am not a Federalist,” he declared in 1789, “because I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever.… If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.” - Joseph J. Ellis

40. “Table of Contents” - Joe Haldeman

41. “Don’t be insecure about aiming to be a small business. Anyone who runs a business that’s sustainable and profitable, whether it’s big or small, should be” - Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

42. “money I could hardly think of it. “Go on, take it.” - Patrick Rothfuss

43. “Mr. Lockery—my biology teacher—says if dinosaurs were magically brought forward in time today, we’d have nothing to worry about. Dogs, wolves, and bears would make short work of tyrannosaurs.” She nodded at Schrödinger, who was now padding across the floor in the opposite direction. “Big cats, too. They’re faster, tougher, and brighter than anything that existed seventy million years ago. Everything is always ramping up, always escalating.” - Robert J. Sawyer

44. “All right,” he said. “Since you asked, Webmind is an emergent quantum-computational system based on a stable null-sigma condensate that resists decoherence thanks to constructive feedback loops.” He turned to the blackboard, scooped up a piece of chalk, and began writing rapidly. “See,” he said, “using Dirac notation, if we let Webmind’s default conscious state be represented by a bra of phi and a ket of psi, then this would be the einselected basis.” His chalk flew across the board again. “Now, we can get the vector basis of the total combined Webmind alpha-state consciousness...” - Robert J. Sawyer

45. “Fitzpatrick: Back when I was doing Perl-even for people that knew Perl really well-I would recommend MJD's Higher-Order Per!. The book is really fun in that it starts somewhat simple and you're like, "Yeah, yeah, I know what a closure is." And then it just continues to fuck with your head. By the end of the book, you're just blown away.” - Peter Seibel

46. “He was so handsome, so beautiful. Inside and out.” - Jay Bell

47. “To draw close to Divinity is to come to appreciate man as a divine creation, for “If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves” (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 343).” - Robert L. Millet

48. “What are you not doing today that you were doing when I first met you?” - Tim Sanders

49. “John Andrew Holmes, “No exercise is better for the human heart than reaching down and lifting another up.” - Tim Sanders

50. “1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3. ORDER. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4. RESOLUTION. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. 5. FRUGALITY. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing. 6. INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. 7. SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you...” - Benjamin Franklin

51. “If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.” - Jennifer Egan

52. “Well, if you’re a real alcoholic, then where are you stashing it? That's what real alcoholics do, right? Hide bottles?” - Christa Allan

53. “The drawing is also a reminder that there’s an artist within each of us, and we must encourage that artist to do the work, to make something that matters, regardless of anything else that is going on.” - Steven Pressfield

54. “Jedna z nich została wkrótce potem założycielem pewnej sekty, a druga znanym politykiem.” - Martin Lechowicz

55. “You know, you remind me of my younger brother. I miss that kid, so much that I sometimes regret killing him.” - Blake Crouch

56. “I stand and grab a hefty bottle of perfume from the bathroom shelf and return to the bedroom door. It’s not much of a weapon, I know, but it’s heavy and square, and hitting someone over the head with a glass brick has got to be better than bitch-slapping them.” - Nick Alexander

57. “When they came it was as if the lord of the world had arrived, and had brought all the glories of its kingdoms along; and when they went they left a calm behind which was like the deep sleep which follows an orgy.” - Mark Twain

58. “When something needs to be ironed I put it in the ironing basket. If a year goes by and the item is still in the basket I throw the item away. This is a good system since eventually I end up only with clothes that don’t need ironing.” - Janet Evanovich

59. “Ah, Death, the spectre which sate at all feasts! How often, Monos, did we lose ourselves in speculations upon its nature! How mysteriously did it act as a check to human bliss - saying unto it "thus far, and no farther!” - Edgar Allan Poe

60. “The worst kind of poison for despots: truth.” - Kay Kenyon

61. “Maybe that's why people have friends at all. Not because they like them so much but because they don't make them feel so much worse.” - Joe Meno

62. “Slow as your own dubious grace.” - Joe Meno

63. “intrusive government and layer upon layer of regulatory red tape. When” - Matt Taibbi

64. “Gross Domestic Product—the substitution, in effect, of ideas for physical value.” - Matt Taibbi

65. “Jack looked out the window as they passed the Mormon temple, just outside the beltway near Connecticut Avenue. A decidedly odd-looking building, it had grandeur with its marble columns and gilt spires. The beliefs represented by that impressive structure seemed curious to Ryan, a lifelong Catholic, but the people who held them were honest and hardworking, and fiercely loyal to their country, because they believed in what America stood for.” - Tom Clancy

66. “Three years with Claudia had taught Ruso that when a woman said something did not matter and refused to tell you what it was, it usually mattered a great deal—to her, if not to you. Frequently her way of punishing you for not knowing what it was in the first place was to refuse to tell you until you gave up asking. This was her cue to accuse you of not caring about her, otherwise you would have known what she wanted you to know without having to be told. Finally, if you were lucky, she would explain the latest way in which you had failed her expectations. If you were not lucky, she would explain...” - Ruth Downie

67. “Listen. In every office you hear the threads of love and joy and fear and guilt, the cries for celebration and reassurance, and somehow you know that connecting those threads is what you are supposed to do and business takes care of itself.” - Susan Scott

68. “I argue here and throughout this book that if we engage students in real writing tasks and we use technology in such a way that it complements their innate need to find purposes and audiences for their work, we can have them engaged in a digital writing process that focuses first on the writer, then on the writing, and lastly on the technology” (8).” - Troy Hicks

69. “Does doing something old with new technology mean that I’m teaching with technology and that I’m doing so in a way as to really improve the reading and writing skills of the students in my classroom?” (2007, 214). Her answer, as well as mine, would be no. When we simply bring a traditional mind-set to literacy practices, and not a mind-set that understands new literacies (an idea developed by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel, which I elaborate on later) into the process of digital writing, we cannot make the substantive changes to our teaching that need to happen in order to embrace the...” - Troy Hicks

70. “Logan steps in between us.” - Addison Moore

71. “Theoretically the planet could suddenly crack in half, leaving me on one side and you on the other side, forever and tragically parted, but I’m not worried about that, either. Some things,” Jace said,” - Cassandra Clare

72. “Execution is everything. Even if you start a business with the wrong idea or too many competitors, you can out-execute all the better ideas in the right market.” - Robert Jordan

73. “From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment.” - Jon Kabat-Zinn

74. “his had disappeared. “Did you know they have mystical powers?”  ” - Desiree Holt

75. “or dead is coincidental. Copyright 2010 by Karen Fraunfelder Cantwell Chapter” - Karen Cantwell

76. “If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.” - Frank Herbert

77. “virtue does not spring from riches, but riches and all other human blessings, both private and public, from virtue.” - Plato

78. “If all the evidence in the universe turned in favour of creationism, I would be the first to admit it, and I would immediately change my mind. As things stand, however, all available evidence (and there is a vast amount of it) favours evolution.” - Richard Dawkins

79. “Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.— Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!” - William Shakespeare

80. “Behold! Allah said: "O Jesus! I will take thee and raise thee to Myself and clear thee (of the falsehoods) of those who blaspheme; I will make those who follow thee superior to those who reject faith, to the Day of Resurrection: Then shall ye all return unto me, and I will judge between you of the matters wherein ye dispute.” - Anonymous

81. “They’re both bungholes who think they’re too noble to shit,” - George R.R. Martin

82. “This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

83. “For most of the hours of the day—and most of the months of the year—the sun had the town trapped deep in dust, far out in the chaparral flats, a heaven for snakes and horned toads, roadrunners and stinging lizards, but a hell for pigs and Tennesseans.” - Larry McMurtry

84. “You keep out of my bed,” said Danny, for he knew that Joe Portagee had come to stay. The way he sat in a chair and crossed his knees had an appearance of permanence.” - John Steinbeck

85. “Mama says it’s just her nature. Some people are flowers, and some are thorns.” - Jennifer Archer

86. “adults forget how difficult that task was.” - Donald A. Norman

87. “You create a file called user.rb in the /models directory:” - Paul Dix

88. “The next step in the process is to measure the impact that these increases in reach have on your number of new transacting customers. The secret to a company’s reach strategy lies in the program’s ability not only to acquire fans, followers, subscribers and connections, but to convert them through its use of social media into transacting customers.” - Olivier Blanchard

89. “Myth Number 4: Social Media Is the Shiny New Thing. Two Years from Now, That Bubble Will Burst Yes, it is the shiny new thing. No, two years from now, that bubble will not burst. There is no bubble. What social media represents is an evolution in the field of communications, just as the Internet and mobility before it. The tools will change, the platforms will evolve, but the way in which people communicate with other people through digital networks and electronic devices has been fundamentally transformed through the development of social media. We did not grow tired of the telephone, of the...” - Olivier Blanchard

90. “People who work in offices are crazy, they create an environment they hate, write rules they want to break, cast each other in roles they despise. It’s like they’re sixth formers in an end of term drama acting out the agony of everything they fear most in their life but they forget to end the play.” - Helen Smith

91. “However, for the purposes of migrating existing Rails applications to services, the shared database approach may be necessary in the early stages.” - Paul Dix

92. “I think the single most reassuring thing about doing a startup is knowing in advance how difficult it is going to be.” - Jared Tame

93. “and Billy rolled in. “Thought you might like some wake-up.” Bingo,” - J.R. Ward

94. “I fell, as they say. Into love. I practiced saying it, first to myself, in my head. I believed in it. I did. I thought love and I bought it completely. I was excited by my belief but was careful not to let this excitement influence or manipulate the belief in any way. The belief had to be pure. So I said it to her, I love you, and she said it back. And this was our contract. We treated the words seriously and respected that they came with implications.” - Kyle Beachy

95. “I wasn’t a fabulous cook. I didn’t have a boyfriend, much less a husband. And I wasn’t a big financial success. I could live with all those failings as long as I knew that once in a while I looked really hot.” - Janet Evanovich

96. “I wasn’t sure anymore what made a good marriage. There had to be love, of course, but there were so many different kinds of love. And clearly, some love was more enduring than others.” - Janet Evanovich

97. “that you will become entrapped in someone else’s recent careless thoughts.” - Jaron Lanier

98. “enduring at the time played in his formulation of the test.” - Jaron Lanier

99. “Think of the inconvenience of vanishing as it were from your friends and, correspondents three times in one's natural life.” - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

100. “You come before the judgment seat of God full of rebellion and mistakes. Because of his justice he cannot dismiss your sin, but because of his love he cannot dismiss you. So, in an act which stunned the heavens, he punished himself on the cross for your sins. God’s justice and love are equally honored. And you, God’s creation, are forgiven.” - Max Lucado

101. “Loving means losing control of our schedule, our money, and our time. When we love we cease to be the master and become a servant.” - Paul Miller

102. “But there is one more reason to protect other species. One seldom if ever mentioned. Perhaps we are the first to talk and think and build and aspire, but we may not be the last. Others may follow us in this adventure. Some day we may be judged by just how well we served, when alone we were Earth’s caretakers.” - David Brin

103. “I thought, Hey, maybe these people shouldn’t be making up holidays to drink more. Maybe if they drank less they might be able to title their newspaper articles more specifically. For example, I would title this last article “Drunk Driver Hits Drunk Walker Drunkety-Drunk I’m So Drunk.” - Mike Birbiglia

104. “I try to think up material that might apply to the subjects they are studying. How many mitochondria does it take to power a cell? One. Because mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell. Not ready for prime time, that one.” - Mike Birbiglia

105. “Witek popatrzył na urządzenie z taką nienawiścią w oczach, że, gdyby nie jego wrodzona tępota, Optymista z pewnością spaliłby się na popiół.” - Martin Lechowicz

106. “Olek natomiast usiłował złapać którąś z dziesiątek lecących w jego stronę strzał. Jego refleks był jednak tak beznadziejny, że nie pozwoliłby mu złapać nawet sędziwego ślimaka z drewnianą protezą zamiast nogi.” - Martin Lechowicz

107. “Categories No. 4 and No. 5: Three small cards to a straight and two small cards with an ace.” - Ray Zee

108. “You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.” - Emily Giffin

109. “Maybe he didn’t really encourage me to do things, but he didn’t prevent me from doing them either. But after a while, I didn’t do things because I didn’t want him to think different about me. But the thing is, I wasn’t being honest. So, why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn’t really even know me?” - Stephen Chbosky

110. “When you feel dissatisfied, or when you’re working too hard, the problem could be a mismatch between your goals and actions. Write out your goal ladder and make sure it all lines up. First start with your actions and ask “Why?” to find your subgoals. Keep asking why until you map up to your larger-level goals, at least two or three levels.” - Stever Robbins

111. “our countrymen are starving, she is decorating herself with diamond aigrettes!” - Michelle Moran

112. “There is no better point of entry to the religious experience than the Sabbath, for all its apparent ordinariness. Because of its ordinariness. The extraordinariness of the Sabbath lies in its being commonplace.” - Judith Shulevitz

113. “this process isn’t suitable for complex decisions that have nuance, and those who use it in such situations run the risk of being perceived as rubberstamping when the decision had already been made.” - Charlene Li

114. “Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how many victims it has claimed, for they worship a God who does not merely take the part of those victims, but who was himself one of them, murdered by the combined authority and moral prudence of the political, religious, and legal powers of human society.” - David Bentley Hart

115. “Lobster-both-ways is popular tonight. The preparation is easy enough. Take a two-pound lobster. Kill it with a sharp chef’s knife straight between the eyes. Remove the claw and knuckle meat. Steam for five minutes, chop into salad with aioli, celery, and lots of shallots and chives. Chill. Reserve the tail until ordered. Paint with herb-infused oil, season with kosher salt and fresh ground pepper, grill for two or three minutes until it’s just cooked through. Serve with spicy organic greens.” - John Delucie

116. “Fall. Stand. Learn. Adapt.” - Mike Norton