Discover the power of words with our comprehensive list of the most inspiring quotes from classic and contemporary literature. From thought-provoking to heartwarming, these book quotes will resonate with readers of all ages. Perfect for book lovers and quote collectors alike.
“To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee: “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.”
“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
“Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
“One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez: “It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
“1984” by George Orwell: “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
“Moby-Dick” by Herman Melville: “It is not down in any map; true places never are.”
“The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger: “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.”
“To the Lighthouse” by Virginia Woolf: “Life stand still here.”
“Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley: “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
“The Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank: “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
“The Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R. Tolkien: “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
“The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck: “The people in flight, tired, hungry, restless, weren’t individuals any more, they were a mob.”
“The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde: “The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.”
“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain: “The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large matter—’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
“A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams: “Don’t panic.”
“The Call of the Wild” by Jack London: “The domesticated generations fell from him. He faced the fact that he was a killer, just as his ancestors were killers.”
“Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte: “He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
“The Giving Tree” by Shel Silverstein: “And the tree was happy.”
“Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott: “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
“The Odyssey” by Homer: “Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.”
“The Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri: “In the middle of the journey of our life, I found myself within a dark wood, for the straight way was lost.”
“Animal Farm” by George Orwell: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
“A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams: “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
“The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams: “Time is the longest distance between two places.”
“The Color Purple” by Alice Walker: “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.”
“The Old Man and the Sea” by Ernest Hemingway: “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
“The Stranger” by Albert Camus: “In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
“The Sun Also Rises” by Ernest Hemingway: “You’re an expatriate. You’ve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death.”
“The Stranger” by Meursault: “Maman died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don’t know.”
“The Bell Jar” by Sylvia Plath: “I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
“The Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad: “The horror! The horror!”
“Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut: “So it goes.”
“The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood: “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.” (Don’t let the bastards grind you down.)
“The Left Hand of Darkness” by Ursula K. Le Guin: “The only way to deal with fear is to face it head-on.”
“Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card: “The enemy’s gate is down.”
“The Crying of Lot 49” by Thomas Pynchon: “And if there was no message, what was the use of all the running?”
“Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley: “Community, identity, stability.”
“Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston: “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
“The Martian” by Andy Weir: “I’m gonna have to science the shit out of this.”
“To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee: “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”
“The Color of Magic” by Terry Pratchett: “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
“The Name of the Wind” by Patrick Rothfuss: “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
“The Once and Future King” by T.H. White: “The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That’s the only thing that never fails.”
“The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas: “All human wisdom is summed up in two words: wait and hope.”
“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams: “Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.”
“Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte: “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
“The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupery: “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain: “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
“Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott: “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
“The Art of War” by Sun Tzu: “Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.”
“The Secret Life of Bees” by Sue Monk Kidd: “The thing is, you can’t ever make things right again.”
“The Chronicles of Narnia” by C.S. Lewis: “Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion.”
“The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” by Arthur Conan Doyle: “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
“The Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank: “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
“The Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri: “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”
“The Diamond as Big as the Ritz” by F. Scott Fitzgerald: “It takes two to make an accident.”
“The Brothers Karamazov” by Fyodor Dostoevsky: “The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
“The War of the Worlds” by H.G. Wells: “No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s.”
“The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini: “For you, a thousand times over.”
“The Giver” by Lois Lowry: “The truth is, Jonas, that everything is not good.”
“The Odyssey” by Homer: “It is not the liability of the gods to make things easy for men.”