Literature Quotes
62 quotes from Literature thinkers
If you want to be loved, be lovable.
Ovid
Literature
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.
Virgil
Literature
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
Aristophanes
Literature
Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.
Euripides
Literature
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
Sophocles
Literature
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
Aeschylus
Literature
Someone, I tell you, in another time, will remember us.
Sappho
Literature
I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
Pablo Neruda
Literature
What is life? A dream. What is a dream? A shadow. What is a shadow? Nothing.
Alexander Pushkin
Literature
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
Kurt Vonnegut
Literature
I took a deep breath and made for myself the most important decision of my life: I would not be a victim.
Sylvia Plath
Literature
If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
Haruki Murakami
Literature
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
Literature
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
Anton Chekhov
Literature
I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W.B. Yeats
Literature
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Literature
It is not down on any map; true places never are.
Herman Melville
Literature
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett
Literature
Words are like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
Aldous Huxley
Literature
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell
Literature