Dan Brown Quotes

“The image on the page was that of a human corpse. The body had been stripped naked, and its head had been twisted, facing completely backward. On the victim’s chest was a terrible burn. The man had been branded...imprinted with a single word.”

“Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called on to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.”

“And yet remarkable solutions to seemingly impossible problems often occur in these moments of clarity. It’s what gurus call higher consciousness. Biologists call it altered states. Psychologists call it super-sentience. And Christians call it answered prayer. Sometimes, divine revelation simply means adjusting your brain to hear what your heart already knows.”

“The rising and setting of the sun was once attributed to Helios and a flaming chariot. Earthquakes and tidal waves were the wrath of Poseidon. Science has now proven those gods to be false idols. Soon all gods will be proven to be false idols. Science has now provided answers to almost every question man can ask.”

“Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.”

“We all benefit from a sense of contact with divinity... even if it is only imagined.”

Robert Langdon: I’m academic. My mind tells me I will never understand God. Camerlengo: And your heart? Robert Langdon: Tells me I am not meant to. Faith is a gift that i am yet to receive.

“Antimatter is highly unstable. Energetically speaking, antimatter is the mirror image of matter, so the two instantly cancel each other out if they come in contact. Keeping antimatter isolated from matter is a challenge, of course, because everything on earth is made of matter. The samples have to be stored without ever touching anything at all - even air.”

“Then, with a reeling horror, she knew. Staring up at her from the floor, discarded like a piece of trash, was an eyeball. She would have recognized that shade of hazel anywhere.”

“God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is ‘no’.”

“Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy.”

“Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true.”

Camerlengo: So although you have the power to interfere and prevent your child’s pain, you would choose to show you love by letting him learn his own lessons? Chatrand: Of course. Pain is part of growing up. It’s how we learn. Camerlengo: Exactly.”

“Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it any wonder that humans now feel more depressed and defeated than they have at any point in human history?”

“God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.”

“If it wasn’t painfully difficult, you did it wrong!”

Chatrand: Terrible things happen in this world. Human tragedy seems like proof that God could not possibly be both all-powerful and well-meaning. If He loves us and has the power to change our situation, He would prevent our pain, wouldn’t he? Camerlengo: Would He? Chatrand: Well... if God Loves us, and He can protect us, He would have to. It seems He is either omnipotent and uncaring, or benevolent and powerless to help.

“The media is the right arm of anarchy.”

“Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.”

“The most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears!”

“But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?”

“Seek the goodness, become the goodness.”

“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.”

“Silas could feel his homeland testing him, drawing violent memories from his redeemed soul. You have been reborn, he reminded himself. His service to God today had required the sin of murder, and it was a sacrifice Silas knew he would have to hold silently in his heart for all eternity.”

“The Bible represents a fundamental guidepost for millions of people on the planet, in much the same way the Koran, Torah, and Pali Canon offer guidance to people of other religions.”

“The connections may be invisible, he often preached to his symbology classes at Harvard, but they are always there, buried just beneath the surface.”

“History is always written by the winners.”

“He loved anything with multiple layers of meaning. Codes within codes.”

“Only the worthy find the Grail, Leigh. You taught me that.”

“The prospect of death is strong motivation.”

“When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books—books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe.”

“Even so, the fear that now gripped him was a fear far greater than that of his own death. ‘I must pass on the secret.‘”

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

“Sometimes, all you have to do is shift your perspective to see someone else’s truth.”

“May our philosophies keep pace with our technologies. May our compassion keep pace with our powers. And may love, not fear, be the engine of change.”

“Historically, the most dangerous men on earth were men of God…especially when their gods became threatened.”

“Love is a private thing. The world does not need to know.”

“Remember death. Even for those who wield great power, life is brief. There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces. We must seize every opportunity to show kindness and to love fully.”

“Love is not a finite emotion. We don’t have only so much to share.”

“Well, science and religion are not competitors, they’re two different languages trying to tell the same story. There’s room in this world for both.”

“My friends, I am not saying I know for a fact that there is no God. All I am saying is that if there is a divine force behind the universe, it is laughing hysterically at the religions we’ve created in an attempt to define it.”

“Love is not a finite emotion. We don’t have only so much to share. Our hearts create love as we need it.”

“To permit ignorance is to empower it.”

“For the human brain,” Edmond explained, “any answer is better than no answer. We feel enormous discomfort when faced with ‘insufficient data,’ and so our brains invent the data—offering us, at the very least, the illusion of order—creating myriad philosophies, mythologies, and religions to reassure us that there is indeed an order and structure to the unseen world.”

“And history has proven repeatedly that lunatics will rise to power again and again on tidal waves of aggressive nationalism and intolerance, even in places where it seems utterly incomprehensible.”