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