Dan Brown
It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand ZobristCollection: Men
Nothing activates adrenaline production like pain. - Dr. Sienna BrooksCollection: Pain
The human body is amazing," she said. If you deprive it of one sensory input, the other senses take over, almost instantly.Collection: Body
Critics have found in the narrative a veneer of erudition that cloaks nothing more than a James Bond-style romp, albeit a highly addictive one. His publisher has described it as 'a thriller for people who don't like thrillers'. One newspaper put it thus: 'It is terribly written, its characters are cardboard cutouts, the dialogue is excruciating in places and, a bit like a computer manual, everything is overstated and repeated - but it is impossible to put the bloody thing down.Collection: Character
God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.Collection: Prayer
Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.Collection: Nuts
Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel.Collection: Mean
If a hippo ever wants to fight, just walk away.Collection: Fighting
Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war.Collection: War
We are the masters of our own universe.Collection: Masters
To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.Collection: Book
Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all the ways we could die. Instead, our minds block out our existential fears by focusing on stresses we can handle—like getting to work on time or paying our taxes.Collection: Morning
As you know, this little grain of sand has mass. A very small mass, but mass nonetheless." And because this grain of sand has mass, it therefore exerts gravity. Again, too small to feel, but there." Now," Katherine said, "if we take trilions of these sand grains and let them attract one another to form... say, the moon, then their combined gravtiy is enough to move entire ocreans and drag the tides back and forth across our planet.Collection: Moving
From Santi's earthly tomb with demon's hole, 'Cross Rome the mystic elements unfold. The path of light is laid, the sacred test, Let angels guide you on your lofty quest.Collection: Angel
She saved my life...and I’ve ruined hers. They sat in silence for a full minute, the air between them growing heavy, as if they both wanted to speak, and yet had nothing to say. They were strangers, after all, on a brief and bizarre journey that had just reached a fork in the road, each of them now needing to find seperate paths.Collection: Journey
Force a hand, the voice warned, and it will fight you. But convince a mind to think as you want it to think, and you have an ally.Collection: Fighting
The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh.Collection: Skins
You can point to the alleged miracles of the Bible, or any other religious text, but they are nothing but old stories fabricated by man and then exaggerated over time.Collection: Religious
If I'm not at my desk by 4 AM, I feel like I'm missing my most productive hours. In addition to starting early, I keep an antique hour glass on my desk and every hour break briefly to do pushups, sit-ups, and some quick stretches. I find this helps keep the blood (and ideas) flowing.Collection: Glasses
Coincidence was a concept he did not entirely trust. As someone who had spent his life exploring the hidden interconnectivity of disparate emblems and ideologies, Langdon viewed the world as a web of profoundly intertwined histories and events. The connections may be invisible, he often preached to his symbology classes at Harvard, but they are always there, buried just beneath the surface.Collection: Class
Every generation’s breakthroughs are proven false by the next generation’s TechnologyCollection: Technology
Act first, explain later.Collection: Firsts
The Book of Reveal-ation in the Bible predicts an unveiling of great truth and unimaginable wisdom. The Apocalypse is not the end of the world, but rather it is the end of the world as we know it. The prophesy of the Apocalypse is just one of the Bible's beautiful messages that has been distorted.Collection: Inspirational
Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's handCollection: Art
Forgiveness is God's greatest giftCollection: Forgiveness
Because most Christians want it both ways. They want to be able to proudly declare they are believers in the Bible and yet simply ignore those parts they find too difficult or too inconvenient to believe.Collection: Christian
I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have their moments.Collection: Book
FACT: The Priory of Sion - a European secret society founded in 1099 - is a real organization. In 1975 Paris's Bibliothque Nationale discovered parchments known as Les Dossiers Secrets, identifying numerous members of the Priory of Sion, including Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Leonardo da Vinci.Collection: Real
The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven. The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. The Bible did not fall magically from the clouds. Man created it as a historical record of tumultuous times, and it has evolved through countless translations, additions, and revisions. History has never had a definitive version of the book.Collection: Book
This is systems security for the Central Intelligence Agency. We would like to know why you are attempting to hack one of our classified databases.Collection: Agency
Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed.Collection: Men
...the word occult, despite conjuring images of devil worship, actually means ‘hidden’ or ‘obscured.’ In times of religious oppression, knowledge that was counterdoctrinal had to be kept hidden or ‘occult,’ and because the church felt threatened by this, they redefined anything ‘occult’ as evil, and the prejudice survived.Collection: Religious
Substantiate or suffocate, Ms. Vetra. Mickey's ticking.Collection: Mickey
Mr. Langdon, I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. There is a difference. Holy scripture is stories...legends and history of man's quest to understand his own need for meaning. I am not asking you to pass judgment on literature. I am asking if you believe in God. When you lie out under the stars, do you sense the divine? Do you feel in your gut that you are staring up at the work of God's hands?Collection: Stars
Robert wondered if any of Harvard's revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid and expected an answer.Collection: Doors
Fear cripples faster than any implement of war.Collection: War
The blind see what they want to see.Collection: Humor
When in doubt, just spit it out. That all challenges can be overcome by speaking the truth, no matter how itcomes out.Collection: Challenges
Can you keep secrets? Can you know a thing and never say it again?Collection: Secret
Soon you will lose everything you hold most dear.Collection: Dear
Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base.Collection: Faster
The only difference between you and God is that you have forgotten you are divine.Collection: Differences
One could argue that there exist certain questions that are best left unanswered.Collection: Arguing
Learning the truth has become my life's love.Collection: Learning The Truth
One does not need to have cancer to analyze its symptoms.Collection: Cancer
The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.Collection: Past
Madness breeds madness.Collection: Madness
Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.Collection: Inspirational
Never underestimate the ego of a politician.Collection: Ego