4,370 Quotes About Literature

Literature supplements the lives of people and enables us to feel connected with the world. Shared stories blunt a sense of tragic aloneness, and endow us with the tools to understand our humanness. Reading about the lives of other people acquaints us with the hardships of other people. The authorial voices of narrative prose express our shared feelings of deprivation

A union of literary and scientific cultures – there was not the dissociation of sensibility that was so soon to come ... Davy himself was writing (and sometimes publishing) a good deal of poetry at the time; his notebooks mix details of chemical experiments, poems, and philosophical reflections all together; and these did not seem to exist in separate compartments in his mind.

Every soul that existed on earth is part of earth human history.

The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the kind of mind that is willing to have its sense of mystery deepened by contact with reality, and its sense of reality deepened by contact with mystery.

It's literature that provides solace to hearts wounded by man made divisions of religion, race, class, gender and class...

And someday,when the partiesdon’t dazzle you anymore,and when the alcohol failsto amuse your senses,come to me. We’ll lie on the grass,stare at the stars,and talk about Life. Maybe I will become the Momentyou rediscover yourself again.

Tell me of your Willoughbys, Heathcliffs and Wickhams in literature and I will tell you I met them all.

Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.

Although I love elegant parties, dancing and dining and spending the night with a sweet woman in my arms, my life belongs to literature.