849 Quotes by Lemony Snicket

We'll see what you find out," Stew said. "You'll find out what it feels like to be thrown from a speeding train to the rocky bottom of a drained sea. Except you won't really find out, because you'll be dead. Get it? What I mean is, it'll kill you when I throw you from this train so you'll be in no state to find out what it feels like. Get it? Due to your death by falling from a train.

Is it useful to feel fear, because it prepares you for nasty events, or is it useless, because nasty events will occur whether you are frightened or not?

...It is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.

I will love you as a thief loves a gallery and as a crow loves a murder, as a cloud loves bats and as a range loves braes. I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.

I don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do.

You might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you. That’s why the dark is always close by.

It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.

There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.

There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.