Top 450 Dan Brown Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.”

— Dan Brown

402. “These two mysteries lie at the heart of the human experience. Where do we come from? Where are we going?”

— Dan Brown

403. “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

404. “Actually, Da Vinci was in tune with the balance between male and female. He believed that a human soul could not be enlightened unless it had both male and female elements.”

— Dan Brown

405. “We evolved from apes and we’re going extinct.”

— Dan Brown

406. “For the youth, the changes were too slow. For the aging traditionalists, the changes were blasphemous.”

— Dan Brown

407. “Righteousness exists in many forms.”

— Dan Brown

408. “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

409. “Very little in any organized faith is truly original. Religions are not born from scratch. They grow from one another. Modern religion is a collage... an assimilated historical record of man’s quest to understand the divine.”

— Dan Brown

410. “I give you my word that the next few years in human development will be shocking, disruptive, and wholly unimaginable!”

— Dan Brown

411. “On the back of the Trike, Langdon looked ahead and immediately shared her apprehension.”

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

413. “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.”

— Dan Brown

414. “I beg you to remember that wealth without wisdom can often end in disaster.”

— Dan Brown

415. “Seeing how prominently Edmond had displayed the masterpiece, Langdon wondered if perhaps the painting itself might hold some clue as to what Edmond had discovered. At first glance, the painting’s subject seemed far too primitive to hint at an advanced scientific discovery. Its broad uneven brushstrokes depicted a Tahitian jungle inhabited by an assortment of native Tahitians and animals.”

— Dan Brown

416. “When we forgive evil in the world, we are giving evil permission to grow and spread.”

— Dan Brown

417. “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

418. “Fighting communicable disease was often like fighting a forest fire: sometimes you had to drop back and surrender a battle in hopes of winning the war.”

— Dan Brown

419. “We are the sum of the interactions taking place within the mechanism.”

— Dan Brown

420. “I’ve learned to expect the worst from people who hold power.”

— Dan Brown

421. “The appeal of modern art remained a mystery to him.”

— Dan Brown

422. “But most important... what kind of father can look his own son in the eyes... even after all these years... and not even recognize him!”

— Dan Brown

423. “Everything decayed, the perfectly ordered crystal eventually turned into random particles of dust.”

— Dan Brown

424. “The power of population is so superior to the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.”

— Dan Brown

425. “It’s called Head On,” Winston offered, unprompted. “Ninety-nine wolves racing blindly into a wall to symbolize a herd mentality, a lack of courage in diverging from the norm.”

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

427. “She was being buffeted by the air currents but grinned and flashed Langdon the thumbs-up sign. Langdon smiled weakly and returned the gesture, wondering if she knew it was the ancient phallic symbol for masculine virility.”

— Dan Brown

428. “If we all worshipped gravity, there would be no disagreements over which way it pulled.”

— Dan Brown

429. “La chiave,” the raspy voice replied. “The password.”

— Dan Brown

430. “Around their necks hung ceremonial jewels that glistened like.”

— Dan Brown

431. “Kirsch smiled politely. The word “hip” went out of style decades ago.”

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

433. “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.”

— Dan Brown

434. “In which year did a Harvard sculler last outrow an Oxford man at Henley?” Langdon had no idea, but he could imagine only one reason the question had been asked. “Surely such a travesty has never occurred.”

— Dan Brown

435. “When a computer creates art, who is the artist – the computer or the programmer? At MIT, a recent exhibit of highly accomplished algorithmic art had put an awkward spin on the Harvard humanities course: Is Art What Makes Us Human?”

— Dan Brown

436. “A little faith can do wonders, a little faith.”

— Dan Brown

437. “Nicolaus Copernicus was the father of the heliocentric model – the belief that the planets revolve around the sun – which ignited a scientific revolution in the 1500s that entirely obliterated the Church’s long-held teaching that mankind occupied the center of God’s universe. His discovery was condemned by the Church for three centuries, but the damage had been.”

— Dan Brown

438. “I am not questioning God’s power! It is God who gave us reason and circumspection! It is God we serve by exercising prudence!”

— Dan Brown

439. “It came from the world’s first computer – the Mark 1 – a room-size maze of electromechanical circuits built in 1944 in a lab at Harvard University. The computer developed a glitch one day, and no one was able to locate the cause. After hours of searching, a lab assistant finally spotted the problem. It seemed a moth had landed on one of the computer’s circuit boards and shorted it out. From that moment on, computer glitches were referred to as bugs.”

— Dan Brown

440. “She tried to make friends, but her peers immersed themselves in frivolities that held no interest to her. She tried to respect her elders, but most adults seemed like nothing more than aging children, lacking.”

— Dan Brown

441. “Hell, no. A church is the one thing we don’t have. Physics is the religion around here. Use the Lord’s name in vain all you like,′ he laughed, ’just don’t slander any quarks or mesons.”

— Dan Brown

442. “For years I’ve studied the ancients’ claims of man’s awesome mental power, and now science is showing us that accessing that power is an actual physical process. Our brains, if used correctly, can call forth powers that are quite literally superhuman.”

— Dan Brown

443. “Langdon held her tighter. “You start small. You take that first tiny step. you trust me.”

— Dan Brown

444. “I believe future generations will ask themselves how a technologically advanced species like ours could possibly believe most of what our modern religions teach us.”

— Dan Brown

445. “Something was very, very wrong.”

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

447. “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

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

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown