4,370 Quotes About Literature

Life is a rich literature. We are only writing the history of our time.

Death has been said to be the leveller in that it does not recognize one’s class, race,ethnicity or nationality. Death does not look at the face before it strikes; it pays noattention to one’s beliefs or outlook to issues in life. Death has often been said to beinevitable. So it is glaring that for as long as people are born, people are bound to diesomeday but how man dies is a huge mystery.

Von allen Abenteuern ist Selbstmord das literarischste, mehr noch als Mord.

About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.

If religion is true, one must believe. And if one chooses not to believe, one’s choice is marked under the category of a refusal, and is thus never really free: it has the duress of a recoil.” With literary belief, however, “one is always free to choose not to believe.” This, Wood argues, is the freedom of literature; it is what constitutes its “reality.

He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

But he'll never be fully recognised, because Scots literature these days is all about complaining and moaning and being injured in one's soul.

Possible is more a matter of attitude, A matter of decision, to choose Among the impossible possibilities, When one sound opportunity Becomes a possible solution.

I'll be Bach, but I won't be Beethoven. --The Symphonator