4,370 Quotes About Literature

Grief is paradoxical: you know you must let go, and yet letting go cannot happen all at once. The literature of mourning enacts that dilemma; its solace lies in the ritual of remembering the dead and then saying, There is no solace, and also, This has been going on a long time.

One realizes the immortality of true love only after the lover dies

What is life but a fucked-up factory fabricating fuckups?

Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people

Man has reached the moon, but twenty centuries ago a poet knew the enchantments that would make the moon come down to earth.

Literature provides a person with a conceptual framework for recognizing human beings recurrent challenges in life. Reading good literature deepens a person’s understanding of the variable ways that somebody might respond to circumstances in their world, thereby adding to their own potential intellectual and spiritual depth and expands their understanding of the nuances of their own personal behavior.

I enjoy it when the world smiles; the more smiles, the warmer I am.

Ist nicht eigentliches Ziel von Roman und Museum, unsere Erinnerungen so aufrichtig wie möglich zu erzählen und dadurch unser Glück in das Glück anderer zu verwandeln?

. . . enjoying literature as those alone enjoy it who have little else to enjoy.