Literature Quotes

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.

I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism.

I would argue that coffee has been far more important to literature than alcohol.

I think there is no world without theatre.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.

All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

Books are a staircase to unknown worlds.

If you want to know a country, read its writers.

Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death, and for every (other) transformation human beings encounter.

From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

Schools provide safe spaces to talk about controversial issues, and literature presents characters portraying human experience in all its richness and contradictoriness.

The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read anything

Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.

The crown of literature is poetry.

No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We’ve got too many dexterous drudges as it is.

You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.

We must believe in free will - we have no choice.

Impairment of fertility in both men and women because of hypothyroidism is firmly entrenched in medical literature...Miscarriage and fertility problems are a red flag for hypothyroidism.

The excellence of this important contribution to genre literature CANNOT be overstated A masterwork.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.

Have faith in God; God has faith in you.

Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different.

Literature is humanity talking to itself.

She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.

Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

I don't believe in low-fat cooking.

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than lifes daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.

There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.

Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside--and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that leads you to them, it will be a hollow accomplishment.

I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal.

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.