Literature Quotes

Nothing is part of everything.

Dejan Stojanovic

In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor.

Morris Raphael Cohen

People who want to change everything in the world but never think of changing themselves are clapping with one palm.

Subhan Zein

We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insulted him, or one of his friends, he didn't really mind--or not much, anyway. Whereas if anyone insulted a novel, a story, a poem that he loved, something visceral and volcanic occurred within him. He wasn't sure what this might mean--except perhaps that he had got life and art mixed up, back to front, upside down.

Julian Barnes

Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.

Dejan Stojanovic

What we call life is only talk of nature.

Dejan Stojanovic

Do not look too far for you will see nothing.

Dejan Stojanovic

When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits.

Andrea Mitchell

We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.

George Ripley

To sense the peace of extinguished passionHappiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge

Dejan Stojanovic

Art is apotheosis; often, the complaint of beauty.

Dejan Stojanovic

The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade.

Dejan Stojanovic

The metaphysicians of Tlön are not looking for truth, nor even for an approximation of it; they are after a kind of amazement.

Jorge Luis Borges

The most advertised commodity is not always intrinsically the best; but is sometimes merely the product of a company, with plenty of money to spend on advertising.

Emily Post

The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.

Northrop Frye

Like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks

William Shakespeare

...but don't tell me I'm not sensitive to beauty. That's my Achilles' heel, and don't you forget it. To me, everything is beautiful. Show me a pink sunset and I'm limp, by God...

J.D. Salinger

How does one say something new and not retell?

Dejan Stojanovic

One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is but one door one may not enter it through, which is the child room door. The critics will never forgive you such. The great Rudyard Kipling is one of a number of people to have suffered from this. I keep wondering to myself what this peculiar contempt towards anything related to childhood is all about.

Michael Ende