Top 450 Dan Brown Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “You should not have run.”

— Dan Brown

352. “I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.”

— Dan Brown

353. “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.”

— Dan Brown

354. “Sometimes the only choice is the lesser of two evils.”

— Dan Brown

355. “I learned early on not to listen to either critique – the people who love you or the people who don’t like you.”

— Dan Brown

356. “No good deed goes unpunished.’ Langdon.”

— Dan Brown

357. “Atheism is simply an admission of the obvious.”

— Dan Brown

358. “I have witnessed people transform cancer cells into healthy cells simply by thinking about them. I have witnessed human minds affecting the physical world in myriad ways. And once you see that happen... once this becomes a part of your reality, then some of the miracles you read about become simply a matter of degree.”

— Dan Brown

359. “Never interrogate before you disable your prey. A cornered enemy is a deadly enemy. The.”

— Dan Brown

360. “Robert Langdon stood frozen in the doorway of the National Statuary Hall and studied the startling scene before him.”

— Dan Brown

361. “If you could throw a switch and randomly kill half the population on earth, would you do it?”

— Dan Brown

362. “The Divine Comedy has nothing comedic about it. It’s called a comedy for another reason entirely. In the fourteenth century, Italian literature was, by requirement, divided into two categories: tragedy, representing high literature, was written in formal Italian; comedy, representing low literature, was written in the vernacular and geared toward the general population.”

— Dan Brown

363. “The truth will be twisted, Langdon knew. As it always is with the Masons.”

— Dan Brown

364. “An unbreakable code is a mathematical impossibility! He knows that!”

— Dan Brown

365. “I am a cosmic accident, and soon I will be dead.”

— Dan Brown

366. “The early Christians built a small shrine over his tomb. As Christianity spread, the shrine got bigger, layer upon layer, culminating in this collosal basilica. The entire Catholic faith had been built, quite literally, upon St Peter. The rock.”

— Dan Brown

367. “Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! – LEONARDO DA VINCI.”

— Dan Brown

368. “Penjelasan paling sederhana biasanya adalah penjelasan yang paling sulit dipahami.”

— Dan Brown

369. “Edmond found it deeply distressing,” Winston continued, “that the human mind has the ability to elevate an obvious fiction to the status of a divine fact, and then feel emboldened to kill in its name. He believed that the universal truths of science could unite people – serving as a rallying point for future generations.”

— Dan Brown

370. “At night, this is a heavier world.”

— Dan Brown

371. “I call it ‘Prayer for the Future’.” Edmond closed his eyes and spoke slowly, with startling assurance. “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.”

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372. “I have just removed a dozen of my best men from Vatican City on the eve of conclave. And I have done this to stake out the Pantheon based on the testimony of some American I have never met who has just interpreted a four hundred-year-old poem.”

— Dan Brown

373. “Technology is linking us in ways we never imagined possible: Twitter, Google, Wikipedia, and others – all blend to create a web of interconnected minds.”

— Dan Brown

374. “The fog began to lift. Langdon felt a wave of relief. He hated hospitals, but they certainly beat aliens harvesting his testicles.”

— Dan Brown

375. “Nature – in an effort to promote disorder – creates little pockets of order.”

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376. “Well, this machine is no more me than your physical brain is you. Observing your own brain in a bowl, you would not say, ‘That object is me.’ We are the sum of the interactions taking place within the mechanism.”

— Dan Brown

377. “The envious must climb with their eyes sewn shut so they cannot covet; the prideful must carry huge stones on their backs to bend them low in a humble manner; the gluttonous must climb without food or water, thereby suffering excruciating hunger; and the lustful must ascend through hot flames to purge themselves of passion’s heat.”

— Dan Brown

378. “You have won, but you haven’t won fairly.”

— Dan Brown

379. “Langdon decided not to say another word all evening. Sophie Neveu was clearly a hell of a lot smarter than he was.”

— Dan Brown

380. “A formal invitation had just been delivered. Someone was summoning Langdon to unlock a mystical portal that would unveil a world of ancient mysteries and hidden knowledge.”

— Dan Brown

381. “The age of religion is drawing to a close, and the age of science is dawning.”

— Dan Brown

382. “Although many people erroneously interpreted apocalypse as a cataclysmic end of the world, the word literally signified an “unveiling,” predicted by the ancients to be that of great wisdom. The coming age of enlightenment.”

— Dan Brown

383. “William Blake himself had written a similarly themed work titled All Religions Are One.”

— Dan Brown

384. “By way of fairy tales, this primeval battle of “good vs. evil” is ingrained into us as children through our stories: Merlin vs. Morgan le Fay, Saint George vs. the Dragon, David vs. Goliath, Snow White vs. the Witch, and even Luke Skywalker battling Darth Vader.”

— Dan Brown

385. “It is God’s will!” someone was yelling, his voice echoing in the Sistine Chapel. “Who but the chosen one could have survived that diabolical explosion?” “Me,” a voice reverberated from the back of the chapel.”

— Dan Brown

386. “Genius accepts genius unconditionally. -Anonymous.”

— Dan Brown

387. “How I long for more time... but time is a commodity even my vast fortune cannot afford.”

— Dan Brown

388. “Edmond found it deeply distressing,” Winston continued, “that the human mind has the ability to elevate an obvious fiction to the status of a divine fact, and then feel emboldened to kill in its name.”

— Dan Brown

389. “The most essential ingredient in creating our universe is the consciousness that observes it.” The.”

— Dan Brown

390. “If thoughts affect the world, then we must be very careful how we think. Destructive thoughts have influence, too, and we all know it’s far easier to destroy than it is to create.”

— Dan Brown

391. “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.”

— Dan Brown

392. “If we don’t embrace them, then we are as undeserving of life as the caveman who freezes to death because he’s afraid to start a fire.”

— Dan Brown

393. “I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they’re written from a skeptical point of view.”

— Dan Brown

394. “When science offers an answer, that answer is universal. Humans do not go to war over it; they rally around it.”

— Dan Brown

395. “Female intuition was a potent instinct that she had learned to trust.”

— Dan Brown

396. “Consider this!” Edmond declared. “It took early humans over a million years to progress from discovering fire to inventing the wheel. Then it took only a few thousand years to invent the printing press. Then it took only a couple hundred years to build a telescope. In the centuries that followed, in ever-shortening spans, we bounded from the steam engine, to gas-powered automobiles, to the Space Shuttle! And then, it took only two decades for us to start modifying our own DNA!”

— Dan Brown

397. “Outside the window, a bank of clouds appeared on the horizon, inching slowly across the sky, finally slipping across the Moon and blocking out its radiant light. As he clicked off his overhead light, he turned his eyes one last time to the heavens. Outside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars.”

— Dan Brown

398. “A Pope usually worked fourteen-hour days, seven days a week, and died of exhaustion in an average of 6.3 years. The inside joke was that accepting the papacy was a cardinal’s ’fastest route to heaven.”

— Dan Brown

399. “The early Greeks had to look back centuries to study ancient culture, but we need look back only a single generation to find those who lived without the technologies we take for granted today.”

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400. “Michael,” she said, her voice raspy. “It’s time to let go.” “I can’t.” Tolland’s eyes welled. “You’re a survivor,” Celia said. “You have to be. Promise me you’ll find another love.” “I’ll never want another.” Tolland meant it. “You’ll have.”

— Dan Brown