4,370 Quotes About Literature

Devil and God – two sides of the same face.

Cosmos is God, who whispered the syllable of life.

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.

Literature differs from life in that life is amorphously full of detail, and rarely directs us toward it, wheras literature teaches us to notice. Literature makes us better noticers of life; we get to practice on life itself; which in turn makes us better readers of detail in literature; which in turn makes us better readers of life.

New Rome will be destroyedBy the attacks of new vandals.God always remains silent.

The world is God's salvation.

When following God, Zero we never find.

Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life

The world is always open, Waiting to be discovered.