Literature Quotes

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

Good friends, good books & a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

Love is for everyone. The good, the bad, the disabled, the mad. Show more love to someone who doesn't understand what it is and free them from the pain and isolation that surrounds them.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.

Listening to him... I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good, either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there.

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.

She wants to know if you love her, that’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the cupboard.

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.

The right word might be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.