Literature Quotes

English is the language through which I reach hearts from various corners of the world. English is the language through which I flirt with my species. English is the language through which I make my species think.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The same Sermon on the Mount that influenced Tolstoy to write “The Kingdom of God is Within You”, inspired me to a great extent in my work “Principia Humanitas”.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Collect memories, not things.Fill-up dreams, not pockets.Rise above your calling and be the person you always wanted to be.

~ Akash Lakhotia

Don’t look up to people, don’t be someone’s following.Now a days everything you see is just a lie,Instead be the person you want to follow.

~ Akash Lakhotia

Never fade into your life,Never stop imagining,Never give up on your dreams,You only fail, when you think you have failed.

~ Akash Lakhotia

Never stop dreaming,Never get satisfied,Make you goals bigger, every-time you reach them.Be more then you were, every day.

~ Akash Lakhotia

The difference between an achiever and a loser is,An achiever never gives up, never settles and lastly never forgets.

~ Akash Lakhotia

Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time.

~ Julian Barnes

Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Without space, there is no time.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

There is only as much space, only as much time, Only as much desire, only as many words, Only as many pages, only as much ink To accept all of us at light-speed Hurrying into the Promised Land Of oblivion that is waiting for us sooner or later.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time's malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others slow it down; occasionally, it seems to go missing--until the eventual point when it really does go missing, never to return.

~ Julian Barnes

You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

It was like hiking into a Hemingway story everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext.

~ Leslie What

Dear Literary World, Sorry for breaking down your door...I'll pay for that!!! Since I'm here and planning to stay a while, let me tell you some stories!!

~ C.k. Webb

This is nice,' Melody said, picking up a red leather box with a vintage watch inside.'Yes, it is nice. It's the watch I gave Walker as a wedding gift.''He gave it back?''Actually, he sold it back to the person I bought it from who alerted me and I reacquired it.''I'm sorry. That sounds upsetting.''It was. Very. Especially since he sold the watch to buy combs for my long hair and without knowing what he had done I sold my hair to buy a leather case for this watch.

~ Cynthia D'aprix Sweeney

All the latchkey children cursed and smashed bottles, teased about underwear, and puffed on those unfiltered cigarettes that only the cowboys could roll.

~ Bremer Acosta

One must always be careful of books,' said Tessa, 'and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.' 'I'm not sure a book has ever changed me,' Will finished. 'Well, there is one volume that promises to teach one how to turn into an entire flock of sheep-' 'Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry,' said Tessa, determined not to let him run wildly off with the course. 'Of course, why one would want to be and fire flock of sheep is another matter entirely,' Will finished.

~ Cassandra Clare

There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

~ George Washington

I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature couldn't exist without imagination. And so anything that strengthens imagination, and reading certainly does that, can help us for the rest of our lives.

~ Lloyd Alexander

Science begs literature to develop wings.

~ Santosh Kalwar

One night I begged Robin, a scientist by training, to watch Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' with me on PBS. He lasted about one act, then turned to me in horror: 'This is how you spend your days? Thinking about things like this?' I was ashamed. I could have been learning about string theory or how flowers pollinate themselves. I think his remark was the beginning of my crisis of faith. Like so many of my generation in graduate school, I had turned to literature as a kind of substitute for formal religion, which no longer fed my soul, or for therapy, which I could not afford.... I became interested in exploring the theory of nonfiction and in writing memoir, a genre that gives us access to that lost Middlemarch of reflection and social commentary.

~ Mary Rose O'reilley

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

~ Italo Calvino

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

~ Annie Dillard

A good book is an event in my life.

~ Stendhal

Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity.

~ G.k. Chesterton

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

~ John Green

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

~ George Gissing

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. There was poetry for quiet companionship. There was adventure when she tired of quiet hours. There would be love stories when she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could read a biography. On that day when she first knew she could read, she made a vow to read one book a day as long as she lived.

~ Betty Smith

What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working m

~ Carl Sagan

Literature is news that stays news.

~ Ezra Pound

So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.

~ Roald Dahl

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

~ Roald Dahl

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

~ René Descartes

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

~ H.p. Lovecraft

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

~ Emily Dickinson

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.

~ Günter Grass