Literature Quotes

Some books must be sipped slowly like a strong bourbon. Most books must be devoured more than once because as you age you distill more.

...Sigerius realized that every academic looked like every other academic." - Bonita Avenue, p.49

We work all our lives to be who we become. And, it's who we become that determines what becomes of us.

Life really is a story, and every story comes to an end. At the same time, it seems we all leave in the middle of our own stories. It's who we become that gives the story body, form and meaning.

Dear family, I am drafting a new laundry protocol for better and more considerate usage of the washing machine

How you spend your time when you are not working or studying says everything about who you are and what is motivating your life.

You battled monsters. You sweat and cried your way to this one prolific moment where you finally realize that those dark days and sleepless nights were pre-requisites to your becoming.

I never want a girl to lose all hope that her life can’t completely turn around, even if she feels that she is at the edge, standing on one foot, and ready to say goodbye.

We live in a world where there is such a clear definition of what a girl should be that it takes almost no effort at all to completely hate ourselves.

Remember, nothing happens before it’s supposed to, so trust that, as you are striving for authenticity and personal excellence, the recognition of your life’s purpose is nearing closer.

The only way that you can identify and then fulfill your life’s purpose is for you to love yourself, charge up your life and serve the world.

... she was a pudding of immaturity and precocious wisdom that had not yet set into a stable mold.

How can you be kissing at a time like this? Have you no respect for the dead?

It wasn’t playing both sides of the fence – it was betting against yourself but still playing to win – and it encapsulated everything absurd and paradoxical that I loved about the French.

And I had just kissed my ex-girlfriend, who had cried, while my current girlfriend was in jail. So far, it had not been my best day.

I congratulate you on your success stealing the painting.

This was a crime of passion, but unlike most crimes of passion, it had been meticulously and diabolically well-planned.

All the great novels are about obsession and people who are obsessed.

Like the 'good' characters in literature, the sane don't have any memorable lines.

That's sounds right. Another $5, 000 went to dress up the Little League park where he had played so many games. Seems like he paid off the MORTAGE on his parents' home, which wasn't that much.

...to use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself.

My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart.

Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human beings.

I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.

It’s okay to dress up like another person, but never try to be someone else. Just try to be yourself, because that’s what makes you special. Oh, and watch out if a dragon ever starts to dance ballet.

Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except of course when they are alone.

You will come across people who always affirm by everything you say, but at the hour of need, they simply disappear! Stay away from such people or simply don't fall for their promises.

A story has to break your heart or it's not worth telling.

..home INSIDE is home shining brightly above all homes in physical world.

Energy manipulation took place completely in mind, same way believing in telepathy caused telepathic abilities to grow STRONGER.

Defining moment in new telepathist's life, moment when intuitive individual learns most of society isn't telepathic, doesn't see auras, doesn't know what life on ethereal astral plane is like.

You don't turn your back on your destiny.

I am gone tomorrow. And there and gone again by the time you read this.

A man [Joyce] whose earliest stories appeared next to the manure prices in the Irish Homestead knew that columns of prose, like columns of shit, could both recultivate the earth.

He pries me from his chest and drops his hand from the back of my head, tracing my ear, along my jawline. He snatches his fingers a moment before they press into my lip.

The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.

Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be.(Southey's reply to Charlotte Bronte)

Psychologists cannot fix the world so they fix women.

I think the truth is that finding ourselves brings more excitement and well-being than anything romance has to offer, and somewhere we know that.

I don't believe there is a God", I said fiercely, "and if there is, He's not the merciful being He's always depicted, or He wouldn't be always torturing me for His own amusement.

Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!

A society where everyone is following his own unique path has a much better chance to find the truth than the society where everyone is following some known cliché paths!

You must wear clothes which suits your own soul, not your own society! What you wish to do is much more important than what your society wants you to do!

The journey of every ignorant and obedient society always ends up in the same place: In the desert!

A society with a great number of prisons is a totally failed society because it has terribly failed to create a marvellous society where crime is not something widespread but an exception!

Who is the most worthy of admiration, musician or audience?Probably the musician will tell that his audience and the musician that his audience

If you tell me bad things about someone, you're telling bad things about me behind me

Whom boasts about his happiness, cause doesn't got it!

A small amount of good literature can often teach more about the inner life than volumes of psychology.

Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books.