4,370 Quotes About Literature

I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family.

And when the war's over, some day, someyear, the books can be written again, the people will be called in, one by one, to recite what they know and we'll set it up in type until another Dark age.

And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry. For it would be the dying of an unknown, a street face, a newspaper image, and it was suddenly so very wrong that he had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man near a silly empty woman!!

But do you know, we never ask questions, or at least most don't; they just run the answers at you, bing, bing, bing... It's a lot of funnels and a lot of water poured down the spout and out the bottom, and them telling us it's wine when it's not.

Literasi bukan hanya sekadar membaca teks, melainkan pula diartikan sebagai kemampuan membaca keadaan sekitar.

Wenn wir jung sind, ist uns nicht so sehr die Realität unserer Lage peinlich, sondern wir fürchten uns davor, dass andere sie erkennen und darüber urteilen könnten.

The Hunter has been turned into a butterfly. Do not laugh.

By virtue of the literary work over which they meet, the reader and the writer both begin to loosen their hold on selfhood.

Aristotle's account of the Katharsis of tragedy was a philosophic presentation of a truth that Homo religiosus had always understood intuitively: a symbolic, mythical or ritual presentation of events that would be unendurable in daily life can redeem and transform them into something pure and even pleasurable.