44 Name-Inspired Quotes

Names carry a unique significance, often evoking emotions, memories, and a sense of identity. They are more than just labels; they encapsulate stories and meanings, shaping who we are and how we connect with others. In this post, we've curated a collection of the top 44 name-inspired quotes that celebrate the beauty and power of names. Whether you're looking for inspiration, a deeper understanding of the essence of names, or simply a heartfelt sentiment, these quotes are sure to resonate with you. Dive in and explore the profound impact a name can have through the words of poets, authors, and thinkers across time.

1. “Naruto: I bet you're dying to know my name!Gaara: I couldn't care less.” - Masashi Kishimoto

2. “Nobody has a good name in a bad mouth. Nobody has a good name in a silly mouth either. ” - Booth Tarkington

3. “Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It's pain, It's pleasure, Leave no path untaken.” - Neil Gaiman

4. “If you have no faith in yourself, then have faith in the things you call truth. You know what must be done. You may not have courage or trust or understanding or the will to do it, but you know what must be done. You can't turn back. There is now answer behind you. You fear what you cannot name. So look at it and find a name for it. Turn your face forward and learn. Do what must be done.-Deth to Morgon, Prince of Hed-” - Patricia A. McKillip

5. “your name your name, paragal, in the old toung, means 'one of pure light' and so you once were. but know this: when your stroke gfalls, so shall your own star fall. Your light will go out, and you will earn a newname. You shall be caled paragor - 'one of true darkness.' darkness will be your dwelling place and it will consume you. You willl ever be hungry for what you can naver have, No darkness in alleble will be as you ” - Wayne Thomas Batson

6. “Who are you?'I didn't understand the question.I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?'I gave him my name. 'Stopthief.” - Jerry Spinelli

7. “Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully.Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh; "my name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.” - Lewis Carroll

8. “Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way” - Pablo Neruda

9. “In this world one must have a name; it prevents confusion, even when it does not establish identity. Some, though, are known by numbers, which also seem inadequate distinctions.” - Ambrose Bierce

10. “So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter's field I shall soon have both. What wealth!” - Ambrose Bierce

11. “I am a mess. Like that MargieMocha, I am spilled across a floor, but there's nobody to mop me up. I have only one thing to show for the day: Perry Delloplane. The sound of a name. It is a grape in my mouth. I roll it over and over on my tongue--perrydelloplaneperrydelloplaneperrydelloplaneperrydelloplane--but when I try to crush it with my teeth, it slips away.” - Jerry Spinelli

12. “The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time and I will stab you with this ink quill.” - Cuthbert Soup

13. “When he looked up, he said, "Clare told me about Christmas." And I swear the boy's face began to shine. I recognized what I saw there: that a person's name could be infinitely precious, that just saying it could make you feel singled out for glory.” - Marisa de los Santos

14. “Remember your name. Do not lose hope ---what you seek will be found.” - Neil Gaiman

15. “It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.” - Patrick Rothfuss

16. “True or not, it's important to have stories ― they are what give us the right to walk the earth and have a name.” - David Toscana

17. “a name with a gently exotic ring to it, like birdsong, like a grain of sand in the far-off Gobi Desert or the northern steppes, whipped up by the wind, carried by storms, swirling through the sky, travelling, crossing whole countries without knowing quite how, and ending up in the crook of my ear.” - Dai Sijie

18. “Son of Krypton!” - Kirstin van Dyke

19. “... isn't breaking a supervillian out of jail a little ... much?” - Kirstin van Dyke

20. “Great is the hand that holds dominion overMan by a scribbled name.” - Dylan Thomas

21. “His name was Theo.” - Cinda Williams Chima

22. “Polly Esther Doe was born at 8:03 a.m. on August 14.” - Adam Rex

23. “Scottish Play Doe was born at 4:13 a.m. on September 6th. The ink was barely dry on his father's new tattoo.” - Adam Rex

24. “I take thee at thy word:Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;Henceforth I never will be Romeo.” - William Shakespeare

25. “Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.” - Karl Lagerfield

26. “Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.” - Chuck Palahniuk

27. “What can I be thinking of? Just imagine my not having presented myself to you even yet! But as a matter of fact I do not want to tell you my name out loud; it is a romantic one, utterly inappropriate to the typically modern environment in which we now stand. Ah, if we were only on the steep side of some mountain with the moon like a great lamp above us, or by the shore of some wild ocean, there would be some glamour in proclaiming my identity in the silence of the night, or in the midst of lightning and thunder as a hurricane swept the seas! But here in a third-floor suite of the Royal Palace Hotel, surrounded by telephones and electric lights, and standing by a window overlooking the Champs Elysees-> it would be positively anachronistic!" He took a card out of his pocket and drew near the little writing desk. "Allow me, Princess, to slip my card into this drawer, left open on purpose, it would seem," and while the princess uttered a little cry she could not repress, he did just that. "And now, Princess," he went on, compelling her to retreat before him as he moved to the door of the anteroom opening on to the corridor, "you are too well bred, I am sure, not to wish to conduct your visitor to the door of your suite." His tone altered abruptly, and in a deep imperious voice that made the princess quake he ordered her: "And now, not a word, not a cry, not a movement until I am outside, or I will kill you!” - Marcel Allain

28. “You don't need to know my name. You'll forget it soon enough.” - Norihiro Yagi

29. “For the rest of our lives, all we can hear are our names chanted over and over, until we are deaf to everything else.” - Sherman Alexie

30. “Most of us have nicknames—annoying, endearing, embarrassing.But what about your true name?It is not necessarily your given name. But it is the one to which you are most eager to respond when called.Ever wonder why?Your true name has the secret power to call you.” - Vera Nazarian

31. “I want no blood from you--not until we're both sweaty and naked and you're screaming my name.” - Nalini Singh

32. “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

33. “In the future, he will try to say her name enough, but he never can.” - Ann Patchett

34. “With no name attached to it, the place somehow declared itself nowhere and everywhere at the same time” - Adam P. Knave

35. “Your name could mean to excel and you could be useless and crap at everything. You can put a name on anything, call it whatever you want, doesn’t make it real. Doesn’t make it true.” - Katja Millay

36. “His [(Rumpelstiltskin)] feeling that his name, which is his identity, must be kept secret, or else he'll be revealed to the world as the hunchbacked, shriveled, ridiculous creature he knows himself to be. And if that happens, he'll disappear.” - Joan Gould

37. “Uh,we didn't get your name.Did we get his name Emma?" she says as if on cue."I tried,Chloe.But he wouldn't tell me,so I tackled him," I say rolling my eyes.” - Anna Banks

38. “We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration” - Milan Kundera

39. “The name sounds almost too perfect. And as I said, you look perfect, too. The only thing left... is to be perfect.” - Jay Asher

40. “Johannes. Se on pyhimysten ja mullivasikoitten nimi. Viattomien ja autuaitten, Johannes Kastajan nimi.” - Katja Kettu

41. “Hobbits always so polite, yes! O nice hobbits! Smeagol brings them up secret ways that nobody else could find. Tired he is, thirsty he is, yes thirsty; and he guides them and he searches for paths, and they saw sneak, sneak. Very nice friends, O yes my precious, very nice." Sam felt a little remorseful, but not yet trustful."Sorry," he said. "I'm sorry, but you startled me out of my sleep. And I shouldn't have been sleeping, and that made me sharp. But Mr. Frodo, he's that tired, I asked him to have a wink; and well, that's how it is. Sorry. But where HAVE you been to?" "Sneaking," said Gollum, and the green glint did not leave his eyes...."Hullo, Smeagol!" Frodo said. "Found any food? Have you had any rest?" "No food, no rest, nothing for Smeagol," said Gollum. "He's a sneak." "Don't take names to yourself, Smeagol," Frodo said. "It's unwise, whether they are true or false." "Smeagol has to take what's given to him," answered Gollum. "He was given that name by kind Master Samwise, the hobbit that knows so much.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

42. “It is good practice to never fault someone for their birth name, being that it is always of far greater importance how men speak of you, than the name by which you are addressed.” - Steven J. Carroll

43. “I'm Fred Mathews” - Carolyn Keene

44. “How many times in her thirty years had she heard the same remarks, the same feeble jokes about her name?” - Haruki Murakami