4,370 Quotes About Literature

Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.

I love the escape. Academics aren’t supposed to say that, but it’s true. I love to dig into somebody else’s vision, nightmare, utopia, whatever. I love how books put a dent in our egos— turns out we’re not the first sentient generation on the planet after all. Other people have been just as perspective, just as worked up, about the same damn human problems we face.

History is the greatest book of all time. It is time.

Kein Philosoph würde ein dickes Buch schreiben, wenn er im Vornherein wüsste, auf welche Weise er später zitiert werden wird.

Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment.

It was as if everything would lead to sorrow, so long as man refused to forget the past. The wrongs of Uther and of Cain were wrongs which could have been righted only by the blessing of forgetting them.

The world they had built was accepted, and as they kept walking together the mountains moved in admiration

Literature speaks in a perfect language .

The way in which we view human life and society is the same whether we are concerned with things of the past or things of the present.