Literature Quotes

He did not profess to anybody how to reach others without professing.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Wherever there is somebody else, a war is not far away.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Say No! Accept the burdens of revenge.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than La Côte d'Azur.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Infinity is the end. End without infinity is but a new beginning.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Life is only a flicker of melted ice.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Darkness does not age, nothing is always nothing

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Get close to grass and you’ll see a star.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Eternity is a glorious word, but eternity is ice.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Universe is the Sun watching its own self.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Sunbathe from within.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Absolute equals nothingness.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Stars are only the rain of the Absolute.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Sun is a hearthstone, a merry-go-round of extinguished hearthstones.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Deceit dispels the boredom of the Absolute.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Procreation annihilates eternity.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

The universe is God's son.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Unborn eternity does not die, existence is dying and falls asleep in the eternity beyond existence.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Through words to the meaning of thoughts with no words.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion while returning.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads leading to nowhere; but, I found myself instead. -Magic in the Backyard (excerpt from American Honey)

~ Kellie Elmore

In the language of the day it is customary to describe a certain sort of book as “escapist” literature. As I understand it, the adjective implies, a little condescendingly, that the life therein depicted cannot be identified with the real life which the critic knows so well in W.C.1: and may even have the disastrous effect on the reader of taking him happily for a few hours out of his own real life in N.W.8. Why this should be a matter for regret I do not know; nor why realism in a novel is so much admired when realism in a picture is condemned as mere photography; nor, I might add, why drink and fornication should seem to bring the realist closer to real life than, say, golf and gardening.

~ A.a. Milne

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. -- William Styron (born June 11 1925)

~ William Styron

Do you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stories is a metaphor you can remember. The great religions are all metaphor. We appreciate things like Daniel and the lion’s den, and the Tower of Babel. People remember these metaphors because they are so vivid you can’t get free of them and that’s what kids like in school. They read about rocket ships and encounters in space, tales of dinosaurs. All my life I’ve been running through the fields and picking up bright objects. I turn one over and say, Yeah, there’s a story. And that’s what kids like. Today, my stories are in a thousand anthologies. And I’m in good company. The other writers are quite often dead people who wrote in metaphors: Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne. All these people wrote for children. They may have pretended not to, but they did.

~ Ray Bradbury

Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.

~ Roland Barthes

God really must have had a sense of humor, because if I had to name my biggest turn-on, it was literature. And he had just recommended a book that I didn’t know, that wasn’t taught in school. If I were single, there would be no better pick-up line.

~ Kody Keplinger

Pay attention, and use your imagination.

~ R.m. Engelhardt (Talon)

The passion to teach, to share deeplyexperienced “lessons from life,” is embedded in all literature.

~ Vera B. Williams

In The End The Words Are The All And The Nothing.

~ R.m. Engelhardt (Talon)

For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable in anticipatory excitement to what I imagine is felt by an athlete warming up for a competition, a mountain climber preparing for the ascent: it is the beginning of a process whose outcome is unknown, one that promises the thrill and elation of success but may as easily end in bitter disappointment. Committed readers realize at a certain point that literature is where we have learned a good part of the little we know about living.

~ Edith Grossman

Gazing from the moon, we see one earth, without borders, Mother Earth, her embrace encircling one people, humankind.

~ Frederick Glaysher

In politics no permanent friends, no permanent enemies but permanent interest.

~ Patience Johnson

Good is not always good.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Man lives in the midst of images. Literature offers him a critical image of himself.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

The attitude that poetry should not be analyzed is prevalent among many who consider themselves experts on children's literature. But I suspected that kids like to look closely at things and figure out what makes them go.

~ X. J. Kennedy

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

~ Alfred North Whitehead