Top 450 Dan Brown Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Robert wondered if any of Harvard’s revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid and expected an answer.”

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452. “Right guy, wrong timing.”

— Dan Brown

453. “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.”

— Dan Brown

454. “Concealed within those pages, there hides a wondrous secret.”

— Dan Brown

455. “Early humans,” Langdon lectured on-screen, “had a relationship of wonder with their universe, especially with those phenomena they could not rationally understand.”

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456. “Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects.”

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457. “Langdon felt a chill. This killer is here for both of us.”

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458. “What truth do these people possess? What proof, damn it! A book of ancient fables? Promises of miracles to come?”

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459. “Sophie stopped the taxi at an imposing gate that blocked the bank’s driveway – a cement-lined ramp that descended beneath the building. A video camera overhead was aimed directly at them, and Langdon had the feeling that this camera, unlike those at the Louvre, was authentic. Sophie rolled down the window and surveyed the electronic podium on the driver’s side. An LCD screen provided directions in seven languages. Topping the list was English.”

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460. “Norah declared.”

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461. “Every great philosophical shift in history began with a single bold idea.”

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462. “A focused thought could affect literally anything.”

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463. “New World Order,” Langdon repeated, “based on scientific enlightenment. They called it their Luciferian Doctrine.”

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464. “Where we come from... is not nearly as startling as where we are going.”

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465. “It seemed no amount of praying could diminish the plague’s wrath. By the time city officials realized it was the rats that were causing the disease, it was too late, but Venice still enforced a decree by which all incoming vessels had to anchor offshore for a full forty days before they would be permitted to unload. To this day, the number forty – quaranta in Italian – served as a grim reminder of the origins of the word quarantine.”

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

— Dan Brown

467. “They had fallen onto a section of the glacier that had already begun its inevitable plunge to the sea.”

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468. “Because the vast majority of the world is made up of half-wits, the President asked Mike to come onboard and dumb everything down for them.”

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469. “This is the future I would be giving my child?”

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470. “They will prove nothing except that we viewers will watch anything if it’s sufficiently hyped.”

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471. “Let me out, or she dies!”

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472. “Operating at a loss is one way NASA keeps its grip on space, the SFF lawyers accused. And taxpayers pick up the tab. “This.”

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473. “You’re telling me that CERN dug out millions of tons of earth just to smash tiny particles?”

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474. “When he did, people across the world would realize that the teachings of all religions did indeed have one thing in common. They were all dead wrong.”

— Dan Brown

475. “Nothing activates adrenaline production like pain.”

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476. “For a thousand years,” Langdon continued, “legends of this secret have been passed on. The entire collection of documents, its power, and the secret it reveals have become known by a single name – Sangreal.”

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477. “History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that the strange ideas we deride today will one day be our celebrated truths.”

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478. “Life is not the point of the universe. Life is simply what the universe creates and reproduces in order to dissipate energy.”

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479. “It is a messy process for a culture to abandon its dieties. Sprititual beliefs are etched deeply on our psyches at a young age by those we love and trust most – our parents, our teachers, our religious leaders. Therefore, any religious shifts occur over generations, and not without great angst, and often bloodshed. – Robert Langdon.”

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480. “That is to say, when the ancients experienced gaps in their understanding of the world around them, they filled those gaps with God.”

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481. “Secrets interest us all, I think.”

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482. “You came back because you’ve been running your whole life, and you finally realized you can’t run anymore.”

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483. “Even respected science channels were doing it, asking their viewers: “Is It Possible That This Temple in Peru Was Built by Ancient Aliens?”

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484. “Fugitives were predictable the first hour after escape. They always needed the same thing. Travel. Lodging. Cash. The Holy Trinity.”

— Dan Brown

485. “As we get closer to critical hour, we will make critical decisions.”

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486. “I don’t care if he’s the prince,” she fired back.”

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487. “What’s the matter?″ She immediately started laughin. ″What’s the mattter? Everything is the matter! Rocks! Trees! Atoms! Even anteaters! Everything is the matter!”

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488. “The promises of science have not been kept. Promises of efficiency and simplicity have bred nothing but pollution and chaos.”

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489. “Debemos estar dispuestos a renunciar a la vida que hemos planeado para poder disfrutar de la vida que nos espera. JOSEPH CAMPBELL.”

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490. “I know you want to run, but I’m not going to let you. Sooner or later you need to start trusting someone.”

— Dan Brown

491. “Kirsch planned to go public with this presentation in a stunning, meticulously choreographed event. When he did, people across the world would realize that the teachings of all religions did indeed have one thing in common. They were all dead wrong.”

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492. “Faukman stared at the receiver and shook his head. Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors.”

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493. “And more recently, the world had been led to believe that weapons of mass destruction existed in Iraq.”

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494. “Proof, she knew, was a conclusion built on a pyramid of facts, a broad base of accepted information on which more specific assertions were made. Remove all the base assumptions. Start again.”

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495. “Cuando se produce un choque entre dos culturas, el perdedor es erradicado y el vencedor escribe los libros de historia, libros que cantan las glorias de su causa y denigran al enemigo conquistado.”

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496. “One does not go to Vatican City with one’s ass hanging out.”

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497. “As a tribute to the magic of Venus, the Greeks used her four-year cycle to organize their Olympiads. Nowadays, few people realized that the four-year schedule of modern Olympic Games still followed the cycles of Venus. Even fewer people knew that the five-pointed star had almost become the official Olympic seal but was modified at the last moment – its five points exchanged for five intersecting rings to better reflect the games’ spirit of inclusion and harmony.”

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498. “Since the days of Michelangelo, sculptors had been hiding the flaws in their work by smearing hot wax into the cracks and then dabbing the wax with stone dust. The method was considered cheating, and therefore, any sculpture “without wax” – literally sine cera – was considered a “sincere” piece of art.”

— Dan Brown

499. “El miedo a ser juzgado por una deidad omnisciente ayuda a fomentar la buena conducta”.”

— Dan Brown