Literature Quotes

Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility.

Dejan Stojanovic

Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects.

Dejan Stojanovic

It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.

Dejan Stojanovic

Por lo demás, la literatura no es otra cosa que un sueño dirigido.

Jorge Luis Borges

My soul is in the sky.

William Shakespeare

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny

Henry David Thoreau

The science you enjoy now is the science we taught you. The medicine you treat yourselves with is the medicine we gave you. It's the same with the astronomy you know, the mathematics, the literature, the art...

Muammar Gaddafi

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

Mark Twain

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

William Shakespeare

Science begs literature to develop wings.

Santosh Kalwar

Sometimes two people have to fall apart, to realize how much they need to fall back together.

Colleen Hoover

The study of science, dissociated from that of philosophy and literature, narrows the mind and weakens the power to love and follow the noblest ideals: for the truths which science ignores and must ignore are precisely those which have the deepest bearing on life and conduct.

John Lancaster Spalding

When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV.

Dejan Stojanovic

While gazing at myself from yourself, I was beautiful.

Dejan Stojanovic

It's the best way of telling the truth; it's a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts. Beyond that [it's] delight in, and play with, language; also, a curiously intimate way of communicating with people whom you will never meet.

Julian Barnes

Beauty is a cheap word, but beauty remains priceless.

Dejan Stojanovic

Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality. . . in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.

C.S. Lewis

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.

David Lodge

Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens' characters are Nigerians. Do y

Ben Okri

Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.

Wendell Phillips