In the world of literature, certain phrases and passages transcend the confines of their original context and become timeless treasures of wisdom, inspiration, and reflection. These snippets of brilliance, commonly known as book quotes, have the remarkable ability to encapsulate profound emotions, provoke thought, and resonate with readers across generations. The importance of knowing famous book quotes extends beyond mere trivia or literary trivia.
These quotes serve as portals into the minds of great authors, offering glimpses of their unique perspectives and invaluable insights. They become guideposts on our own journeys, reminding us of the power of words and the enduring impact of literature. In this article, we delve into the significance of book quotes, exploring how they enrich our reading experience, ignite our imagination, and ultimately shape our understanding of the human condition. So, let us embark on a captivating exploration of the world of book quotes and discover the magic they hold within their carefully crafted words.
We absolutely love these book quotes from the most famous books ever written.
- “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
- “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” – Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
- “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” – Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
- “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost
- “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” – John Green, Looking for Alaska
- “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
- “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
- “Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.” – J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
- “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” – Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
- “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
- “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
- “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke
- “It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” – William Shakespeare, Macbeth
- “We accept the love we think we deserve.” – Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” – André Gide, Autumn Leaves
- “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” – Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
- “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.” – Jack Kerouac, On the Road
- “Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn’t make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.” – Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
- “It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” – Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
- “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” – Moulin Rouge (based on the book “La Dame aux Camélias” by Alexandre Dumas fils)
- “It is not the length of life, but the depth of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
- “Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.” – William Goldman, The Princess Bride
- “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all.” – Emily Dickinson
- “I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” – Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
- “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” – Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
- “We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.” – John Green, Looking for Alaska
- “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.” – Agatha Christie, An Autobiography
- “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
- “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
- “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” – Charles M. Schulz
- “The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.” – J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
- “We are all fools in love.” – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
- “Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in the face of certain defeat.” – Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
- “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” – Madeleine L’Engle
- “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “All you can do is be brave enough to get out there. You fought. You loved. You lost. Walk tall.” – Alyson Noel, Evermore
- “Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- “The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” – Jordan Belfort, The Wolf of Wall Street
- “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” – Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
- “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” – Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
- “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
- “I would always rather be happy than dignified.” – Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
- “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
- “For you, a thousand times over.” – Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
- “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
- “It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.” – Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
- “What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.” – Jane Austen, Emma
- “We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- “To love is to burn, to be on fire.” – Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
- “I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.” – Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
- “It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces.” – Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary
- “The only limits for tomorrow are the doubts we have today.” – Pittacus Lore, The Power of Six
- “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” – G.K. Chesterton
- “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” – Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
- “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke
- “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” – Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
- “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
- “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.” – Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
- “A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge.” – George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
- “It’s the questions we can’t answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he’ll look for his own answers.” – Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear
- “When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive.” – Paulo Coelho, The Zahir
- “I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.” – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
- “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” – Charles M. Schulz
- “It is not the length of life, but the depth of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.” – J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
- “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” – André Gide, Autumn Leaves
- “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It
- “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
- “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” – Madeleine L’Engle
- “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “I would always rather be happy than dignified.” – Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
- “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” – Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
- “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
- “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” – Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
- “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” – Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
- “Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in the face of certain defeat.” – Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
- “Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn’t make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.” – Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
- “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
- “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” – Maya Angelou
- “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.” – J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
- “Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.” – J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
- “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” – Dr. Seuss
- “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet
- “The heart was made to be broken.” – Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
- “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
- “I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.” – Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
- “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” – Ernest Hemingway
- “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” – Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
- “The measure of a man is what he does with power.” – Plato
- “You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.” – Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
- “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” – André Gide, Autumn Leaves
- “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” – Madeleine L’Engle
- “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” – Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
- “Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in the face of certain defeat.” – Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
- “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet
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