Literature Literature Quotes Quotes & Sayings

Let the 'why not' philosophy be your life principle! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Nothing is part of everything. — Dejan Stojanovic

To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides. — Dejan Stojanovic

Sometimes, authors' descriptions of unique fictional characters are like mirrors that reflect the readers image back. — Ben Abix

Money has the power to get, all that you want.
Money has the power to make you forget, all that you want. — Akash Lakhotia

Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure. — Dejan Stojanovic

A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape. — Dejan Stojanovic

I think sometimes in literature we kind of police ourselves. I know a lot of people talked about Twilight, and they would say, oh, but the heroine, she lets this man make her decisions. And I thought, that may not be the particular fantasy or trope that works for me.
But listen man, I read Wuthering Heights. I wanted me a little Heathcliff action. I mean, why can't we indulge that fantasy and also be like, And now I would like the ERA passed, please. Also, this lipstick is fuckin' killer. — Libba Bray

... she was a pudding of immaturity and precocious wisdom that had not yet set into a stable mold. — Mark Zero

Every man needs his Siren
To check his courage and strength
When he hears her song
In his travels through the unknown. — Dejan Stojanovic

Human communication and literature are all made of words; thus, it's hard to overestimate their unbelievable power. — Sahara Sanders

When all is lost, there is still a memory. — Dejan Stojanovic

There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin. — Dejan Stojanovic

There are countless circles of hell; believers never penetrate the ninth circle. — Dejan Stojanovic

Do not look too far for you will see nothing. — Dejan Stojanovic

Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge. — Dejan Stojanovic

The road to heaven isn't much of a road," he was saying. "It's more like a dusty trail, roughly cut out through the underbrush. Most people don't even notice it. It doesn't look like a path at all, so they walk right by. Others see it, but don't go down it because it's ugly. Dirty. Difficult. Overgrown. If they took the road to heaven, their progress would be slow, maybe immeasurable. They'd have to give up a lot because the path is narrow. — Bonnie Grove

He yelled, Charlie, you know where I am, don't you? All right, Charlie, this isn't literature. This is life. — Saul Bellow

We will go far away, to nowhere, to conquer, to fertilize until we become tired. Then we will stop and there will be our home. — Dejan Stojanovic

The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you. — A.K. Kuykendall

When you are falling short in vocabulary to explain the emotion in your story.Than you are writing the right story — Tushar Upreti

One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject, though it may seem but an ordinary one. How, then, with me, writing of this Leviathan? Unconsciously my chirography expands into placard capitals. Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius' crater for an inkstand! Friends, hold my arms! For in the mere act of penning my thoughts of this Leviathan, they weary me, and make me faint with their out-reaching comprehensiveness of sweep, as if to include the whole circle of the sciences, and all the generations of whales, and men, and mastodons, past, present, and to come, with all the revolving panoramas of empire on earth, and throughout the whole universe, not excluding its suburbs. Such, and so magnifying, is the virtue of a large and liberal theme! We expand to its bulk. To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it. — Herman Melville

The game itself is bigger than the winning. — Dejan Stojanovic

Who knows, maybe one day there will no longer be Literature. Instead there will be literary web sites. Like those stars, still shining but long dead, the web sites will testify to the existence of past writers. There will be quotes, fragments of texts, which prove that there used to be complete texts once. Instead of readers there will be cyber space travelers who will stumble upon the websites by chance and stop for a moment to gaze at them. How they will read them? Like hieroglyphs? As we read the instructions for a dishwasher today? Or like remnants of a strange communication that meant something in the past, and was called Literature? — Dubravka Ugresic

Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert? — Dejan Stojanovic

Books should not be loved selfishly. Neither books nor anything else, in fact. — Marie Sabine Roger

For the cowards, all doors are locked; for the daring, all doors are open! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is a pledge of the big and of the small in the infinite. — Dejan Stojanovic

After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare? — Dejan Stojanovic

With a foggy mind you see nothing but fog! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

What you gain here, you lose on the other side. — Dejan Stojanovic

It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day. — Dejan Stojanovic

Literature is a vast ocean, in which one has to drown themselves to be able to conquer it. Those on shore can see a side of it or have tasted a part of it. And I choose to drown myself in it than just to see it. — Nikita Dudani

Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn't live off fame, but rather deeds. — Dejan Stojanovic

Wherever I go, I meet myself. — Dejan Stojanovic

God is busy and has no time for you. — Dejan Stojanovic

Reading books makes us more attentive to our personage and the aesthetic world that we live in. Writers that we idolize use language, logic, and nuance to paint physical and emotional scenes with refined precision. A writer's use of vivid language creates lingering aftereffects that work their wonder on the reader's malleable mind. A stirred mind resurrects our semiconscious memories; it causes us to summon up enduring images of our family, friends, and acquaintances. Just as importantly, inspirational writing makes us recognize our own telling character traits and identify our formerly unexpressed thoughts and feelings. — Kilroy J. Oldster

The most complicated skill is to be simple. — Dejan Stojanovic

If your mind is loaded with many burdens, you will not feel yourself empty even in an empty place! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You can see your real face only when you stop deceiving yourself! Until then, you will always see someone which is not you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Of everything
I have ever endured,

Y
O
U

are
My Favourite Tragedy. — Meraaqi

What would be the description of happines? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it, can be told. — Andre Gide

I cannot perceive that you're still a girl. Ur kisses don't seem so innocent. They just drive me crazy!" #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion — Olga Goa

In trying to be perfect,
He perfected the art of anonymity,
Became imperceptible
And arrived nowhere from nowhere. — Dejan Stojanovic

Unseen, one summer eve, you kissed me in four places. — James Joyce

When he is most powerful, nothing does he become. — Dejan Stojanovic

If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses. — Dejan Stojanovic

To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple. — Dejan Stojanovic

Literature provides a person with a conceptual framework for recognizing human beings recurrent challenges in life. Reading good literature deepens a person's understanding of the variable ways that somebody might respond to circumstances in their world, thereby adding to their own potential intellectual and spiritual depth and expands their understanding of the nuances of their own personal behavior. — Kilroy J. Oldster

We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards. — Dejan Stojanovic

Beauty is a cheap word, but beauty remains priceless. — Dejan Stojanovic

Long ago an uncalled rain fell and a called-upon God stayed equally distant. — Dejan Stojanovic

In a myriad of ways you tell one truth. — Dejan Stojanovic

Find a right and a beautiful idea; stick to it tightly and drag it strongly from your mind to the reality! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

He thought others were small; that was his greatness. — Dejan Stojanovic

Some political leaders in the world make big mistakes but they never resign; some make a small mistake but they immediately resign! What makes a political leader to resign or not to resign has something to do with having an honour or not! Those who have honour always choose the honourable way: Resignation! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Deceit dispels the boredom of the Absolute. — Dejan Stojanovic

My grandma, Mrs Grace Ayorkor Acquah said 'Educating the child is everybody's business. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In the lie of truth lies the truth. — Dejan Stojanovic

Teaching others, he corrected himself. — Dejan Stojanovic

Pretense cannot sustain blind power. — Dejan Stojanovic

He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love. — Dejan Stojanovic

The night is still waiting. — Dejan Stojanovic

Say No! Accept the burdens of revenge. — Dejan Stojanovic

My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I dare not stall; my mind perpetually alert for my magnum opus call. — A.K. Kuykendall

Unborn eternity does not die; existence is dying and falls asleep in the eternity beyond existence. — Dejan Stojanovic

If you want to consume the cream of Christ's philosophy, then don't read the Bible, read Tolstoy. — Abhijit Naskar

The universe is God's son. — Dejan Stojanovic

The world cannot be translated;
It can only be dreamed of and touched. — Dejan Stojanovic

Hope without love is hopeless. — Dejan Stojanovic

Darkness does not age; nothing is always nothing — Dejan Stojanovic

We need knew knights, but without swords. — Dejan Stojanovic

When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV. — Dejan Stojanovic

History will be erased in the universal purgatory. — Dejan Stojanovic

A word into the silence thrown always finds its echo somewhere where silence opens hidden lexicons. — Dejan Stojanovic

I imagined I was God for a millisecond
And became speechless for a long time. — Dejan Stojanovic

That's the thing about living vicariously; it's so much faster than actual living. — Audrey Niffenegger

Nothing is made, nothing disappears. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping. — Dejan Stojanovic

That is marriage, he thought, remaking yourself in someone else's image. And who knew where the truth of it began or would end? — Ashley Hay

Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten. — Chinua Achebe

To write good poems is the secret of brevity. — Dejan Stojanovic

We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery. — Dejan Stojanovic

Absolute equals nothingness. — Dejan Stojanovic

People recover differently. Some change cities, some fall in love and some begin writing. — Kanza Javed

New Rome will be destroyed
By the attacks of new vandals.
God always remains silent. — Dejan Stojanovic

A precious performance, Blaine had called it, in that gently forbearing tone he used when they talked about novels, as though he was sure that she, with a little more time and a little more wisdom, would come to accept that the novels he liked were superior, novels written by young and youngish men and packed with things, a fascinating, confounding accumulation of brands and music and comic books and icons, with emotions skimmed over, and each sentence stylishly aware of its own stylishness. She had read many of them, because he recommended them, but they were like cotton candy that so easily evaporated from her tongue's memory. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting. — Dejan Stojanovic

Time in the most powerful thing.
Not money, not power, not hope.
A person can have everything they
desire but without time they are,
all useless. — Akash Lakhotia

You are hurrying to the sweet place,
To the nonsense chasing your spirit
And in the nonsense you look for answers. — Dejan Stojanovic

Unusual doors often take you to the unusual worlds! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In the essence of truth lies deceit. — Dejan Stojanovic

If you are good, they say you are weak. — Dejan Stojanovic

Oblivion cures the old wounds. — Dejan Stojanovic

Rationality is the way to lead life. So high time,
let's stop feeding our dreams and shake hands with the reality. — Parul Wadhwa

Make mistakes, a thousand of them because we are only humans.
Never repeat your mistakes because we are humans. — Akash Lakhotia

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit. — Dejan Stojanovic

Your life will be colourful if you just add colours to your life! It is your own decisions that will determine to have a miserable or a marvellous life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When the star dies,
Its eye closes; tired of watching,
It flies back to its first bright dream. — Dejan Stojanovic

You may be able
to fly to heaven with my love.
But for real, my love is only
a cheap wine.
Seriously,
Only God's love is the precious wine.
And She even
gives it to everyone.
For free! — Subhan Zein

Without books, everything would have been crooked. Without books, the wisdom in books today would have been fairy and folk tales. Without books the whole truth about life would have been imaginations and a guessing game — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah