Best Book Quotes
"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)
"Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it."
— Nicholas Sparks (A Walk to Remember)
"Sometimes people are beautiful.Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are."
— Markus Zusak (I Am the Messenger)
"Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."
— C.S. Lewis (The Four Loves)
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
— Mahatma Gandhi (All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections)
"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you."
— Joan Powers (Pooh's Little Instruction Book)
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one."
— George R.R. Martin (A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5))
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
— Aldous Huxley (Music at Night and Other Essays)
"We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment)
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
— Benjamin Franklin (Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin)
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— H. Jackson Brown Jr. (P.S. I Love You)
Book Quotes About Life
"The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave."
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
"It's never too late to have a happy childhood."
— Tom Robbins (Still Life with Woodpecker)
"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself"
— Kahlil Gibran (The Prophet)
"Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life."
— Terry Pratchett (Jingo (Discworld, #21; City Watch, #4))
"investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. it will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you."
— Robin S. Sharma (The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny)
"Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely."
— Roy T. Bennett (The Light in the Heart)
"I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to."
— Jimi Hendrix (Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love)
"You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily."
— Walter M. Miller Jr. (A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1))
"These woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep."
— Robert Frost (Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening)
"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment)
Inspirational Quotes From Books
"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice
"And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places."
— Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms)
"Your "I CAN" is more important than your IQ."
— Robin S. Sharma (The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari)
"What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain."
— Maya Angelou (Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now)
"Excellence is doing what you can, with what you have, where you are, as you are."
— Holley Gerth (You're Loved No Matter What: Freeing Your Heart from the Need to Be Perfect)
"This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
"When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
"The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all."
— Walt Disney Company (Mulan (Disney Princess))
"Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands."
— Roy T. Bennett (The Light in the Heart)
"I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
— Henry David Thoreau (Walden: Or, Life in the Woods)
"What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain."
— Maya Angelou (Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now)
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always."
— Mahatma Gandhi
Love Quotes From Books
"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
— Robert A. Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land)
"We accept the love we think we deserve."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)
"You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not."
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)
"As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once."
— John Green (The Fault in Our Stars)
"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever."
— Alfred Tennyson
"When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable."
— Jess C. Scott (The Intern)
"I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul."
— Pablo Neruda (100 Love Sonnets)
"The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along."
— Rumi (The Illuminated Rumi)
"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)
"We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love."
— Robert Fulghum (True Love)
"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)
"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
"I think... if it is true that
there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts."
— Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina)
"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close."
— Pablo Neruda (100 Love Sonnets)
"There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Glass (The Mortal Instruments, #3))
Famous Quotes From Books
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)
"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."
— André Gide (Autumn Leaves)
"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."
— Maxim Gorky (The Lower Depths and Other Plays)
"So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
"Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it."
— Candace Bushnell (Sex and the City)
"But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry(The Little Prince)
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
— Aldous Huxley (Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929)
"I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."
— Abraham H. Maslow (Toward a Psychology of Being)
"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves"
— Abraham Lincoln (Complete Works - Volume XII)
"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
— Haruki Murakami (Norwegian Wood)
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr. (A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches)