Quotes from Dan Brown

Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes in around her

When swimming into a dark tunnel, there arrives a point of no return when you no longer have enough breath to double back. Your only choice is to swim forward into the unknown … and pray for an exit. Langdon

Time stood still. Then… pandemonium.

Worshipping God is like mining for fossil fuels," someone argued. "Plenty of smart people know it is shortsighted, and yet they have too much invested to stop!

Any life-form advanced enough to travel light-years through interstellar space would have nothing to learn by probing the rectums of farmers in Kansas.

was Hale. He glanced toward Node 3, wondering if the cryptographer were watching. "Fuck it," he grumbled. Below his feet the outline of a recessed trapdoor

don't believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect—" "—intended us to forgo their use?

Sometimes the only course of actions if the lesser of two evils.

What had once been life's quiet moments of solitary reflection—a few minutes alone on a bus, or walking to work, or waiting for an appointment—now felt unbearable, and people impulsively reached for their phones, their earbuds, and their games, unable to fight the addictive pull of technology.

how tragic it was that so many Americans pictured Baghdad simply as one of those many dusty, war-torn Middle Eastern cities in the news, never knowing it was once the very heart of human scientific progress.

Meaning … if enough people begin thinking the same thing, then the gravitational force of that thought becomes tangible … and it exerts actual force." Katherine winked. "And it can have a measurable effect in our physical world.

Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.

No good deed goes unpunished.' Langdon

What if God was wrong?

fessor Langdon? Are you there? The phones are disabled. You're my only contact. Professor Langdon?!" "Yes—Winston? I'm here," Langdon replied over the sound of applause around him. "Thank goodness," Winston said. "Listen carefully. We may have a serious problem.

desperate times offered a certain flexibility in the rules of absolution.

By the end of the eleventh century," Edmond said, "the greatest intellectual exploration and discovery on earth was taking place in and around Baghdad. Then, almost overnight, that changed. A brilliant scholar named Hamid al-Ghazali—now considered one of the most influential Muslims in history—wrote a series of persuasive texts questioning the logic of Plato and Aristotle and declaring mathematics to be 'the philosophy of the devil.

Powerful truth has its own gravity and eventually pulls people back to it.

If a Creator designed our universe to support life, he did a terrible job. In the vast, vast majority of the cosmos, life would die instantly from lack of atmosphere, gamma-ray bursts, deadly pulsars, and crushing gravitational fields. Believe me, the universe is no Garden of Eden.

Po mom iskustvu ljudi idu puno dalje da bi izbjegli nešto ?ega se boje nego da dobiju nešto što žele.

We've been reading the Bible too literally. We learn that God created us in his image, but it's not our physical bodies that resemble God, it's our minds.

No more unnerving than Christians praying at the feet of a man nailed to a cross, or Hindus chanting in front of a four-armed elephant named Ganesh. Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of prejudice.

Sejarah selalu ditulis oleh pemenang.

You wouldn't love a brand-new ship ? I don't know … a lot of memories onboard the Goya. Rachel smiled softly. Well, as my mom used to say, sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.