Top 99 Famous Literary Quotes From Books
Are you a bookworm looking for inspiration? Look no further than these famous literary quotes from books. From classic literature to modern bestsellers, these quotes are sure to spark your imagination.
1. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice 2. “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” – Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 3. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…” – Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities 4. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance 5. “I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.” – T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 6. “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” – Louisa May Alcott, Little Women 7. “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone 8. “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” – John Green, Looking for Alaska 9. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates, The Apology 10. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms 11. “It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.” – Niccolรฒ Machiavelli, The Prince 12. “I cannot live without my life! I cannot die without my soul.” – Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights 13. “If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.” – Michael Crichton, Timeline 14. “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 15. “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” – Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul 16. “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” – Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest 17. “The very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.” – Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility 18. “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” – Mary Shelley, Frankenstein 19. “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar 20. “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” – Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre 21. “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.” – Jack Kerouac, On the Road 22. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison 23. “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” – Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories 24. “I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.” – Billy Joel 25. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela 26. “It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H. 27. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! 28. “To die will be an awfully big adventure.” – J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan 29. “I can resist anything except temptation.” – Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan 30. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring 31. “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” – Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own 32. “I want to put a ding in the universe.” – Steve Jobs 33. “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.” – William Ernest Henley, Invictus 34. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt 35. “It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.” – J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan 36. “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” – Edgar Allan Poe, A Dream Within a Dream 37. “The past is always tense, the future perfect.” – Zadie Smith, White Teeth 38. “I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.” – Socrates 39. “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'” – Martin Luther King Jr. 40. “I don’t want to earn my living; I want to live.” – Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism 41. “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” – Friedrich Nietzsche 42. “The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what we share with someone else when we’re uncool.” – Cameron Crowe, Almost Famous 43. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” – George Orwell, Animal Farm 44. “I have a love in my life. It makes me stronger than you can possibly imagine.” – Forrest Gump 45. “Life is a journey, not a destination.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson 46. “I think… if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.” – Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 47. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” – Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird 48. “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” – Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr 49. “I am not a teacher, but an awakener.” – Robert Frost 50. “You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” – Jack London 51. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi 52. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt 53. “I am the walrus.” – The Beatles 54. “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” – Martin Luther King Jr. 55. “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra 56. “It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln 57. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci 58. “The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates 59. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs 60. “A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” – John Lennon 61. “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb 62. “Happiness can be found in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 63. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson 64. “I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.” – Nelson Mandela 65. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke 66. “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall