Literature Quotes - Page 39

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

She might not have read many books. But when she reads a book, she swallows the very words. If you open the books on her shelves, you will find that the front and back covers encase white pages.

Kamand Kojouri

One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject, though it may seem but an ordinary one. How, then, with me, writing of this Leviathan? Unconsciously my chirography expands into placard capitals. Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius' crater for an inkstand! Friends, hold my arms! For in the mere act of penning my thoughts of this Leviathan, they weary me, and make me faint with their out-reaching comprehensiveness of sweep, as if to include the whole circle of the sciences, and all the generations of whales, and men, and mastodons, past, present, and to come, with all the revolving panoramas of empire on earth, and throughout the whole universe, not excluding its suburbs. Such, and so magnifying, is the virtue of a large and liberal theme! We expand to its bulk. To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it.

Herman Melville

Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

O' melancholy,hectic chill for human soul,herewith dismal presence,any spirit does descent.

Nithin Purple

In this,journey,of reaching,to myself,I have had,many a,thoroughfares,goodbye affairs,reality checks,and,lovely overwhelms.

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Most important thing in life is family,Without them you are nothing.Whatever you do will be worth nothing,If there is no one to appreciate it.

Akash Lakhotia

Money has the power to get, all that you want.Money has the power to make you forget, all that you want.

Akash Lakhotia

Make mistakes, a thousand of them because we are only humans.Never repeat your mistakes because we are humans.

Akash Lakhotia

The truth is crazier than lies because lies are required to stick to possibilities—the truth isn’t.

Caroline George

Post-structuralism is a reaction to structuralism and works against seeing language as a stable, closed system. It is a shift from seeing the poem or novel as a closed entity, equipped with definite meanings which it is the critic's task to decipher, to seeing literature as irreducibly plural, an endless play of signifiers which can never be finally nailed down to a single center, essence, or meaning.Jan Rybicki, 2003

E. smith sleigh

Sleep is death enjoyed.

Friedrich Hebbel

Life into death— Life’s other shape, No rupture, Only crossing.

Dejan Stojanovic

Every thought about death takes a moment of life away.

Dejan Stojanovic

If birth is a manifestation of life, death is another.

Dejan Stojanovic

Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do.

Don DeLillo

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.

Thomas McGuane

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

Heinrich Heine

He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

Cormac McCarthy

When the star dies, Its eye closes; tired of watching, It flies back to its first bright dream.

Dejan Stojanovic

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

Lawrence Clark Powell

I'm not ashamed of heroic ambitions. If man and woman can only dance upon this earth for a few countable turns of the sun... let each of us be an Artemis, Odysseus, or Zeus... Aphrodite to the extent of the will of each one.

Roman Payne

Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.

John Green

I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this world except to wait for death. Searching for the word in darkness. Any little success invades me and puts me in full view of everyone. I long to wallow in the mud. I can scarcely control my need for self-abasement, my craving for licentiousness and debauchery. Sin tempts me, forbidden pleasures lure me. I want to be both pig and hen, then kill them and drink their blood.

Clarice Lispector

About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.

Virginia Woolf

Kill me, or you are a murderer.

Franz Kafka

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.", The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]

Jorge Luis Borges

Time in the most powerful thing.Not money, not power, not hope.A person can have everything theydesire but without time they are,all useless.

Akash Lakhotia

Later, you told me what your mother had said. How your father, the farmer, rose up slowly. You told me how your mother wailed on the other end of the phone, grieving her loss and complaining about the basketball of a goitre perched on her shoulder. She told you, your father walked onto the veranda and saw a chook floating ten feet above the ground. The chook didn’t flap a feather and just sat there brooding, swaying in the breeze.

Jon Gresham

Hope without love is hopeless.

Dejan Stojanovic

Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.

W.B. Yeats

This is surely the most significant of the elements that Tolkien brought to fantasy.... his arranged marriage between the Elder Edda and "The Wind in the Willows"--big Icelandic romance and small-scale, cozy English children's book. The story told by "The Lord of the Rings" is essentially what would happen if Mole and Ratty got drafted into the Nibelungenlied.

Adam Gopnik

What on earth did you say to Isola? She stopped in on her way to pick up Pride and Prejudice and to berate me for never telling her about Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Why hadn't she known there were better love stories around? Stories not riddled with ill-adjusted men, anguish, death and graveyards!

Mary Ann Shaffer

The house was the color of baby vomit.

Pixie Lynn Whitfield

She knew exactly how she ought to feel, for she was well read in our greater and lesser English poets, but the unfortunate fact was that she did not really like being kissed at all.

Barbara Pym

For thy sweet love remembr'd such wealth bringsThat then, I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.

Jane Austen

She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?" His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, "Yes," he said finally.

Holly Black

They had no conversation together, no intercourse but what the commonest civility required. Once so much to each other! Now nothing! There had been a time, when of all the large party now filling the drawing-room at Uppercross, they would have found it most difficult to cease to speak to one another. With the exception, perhaps, of Admiral and Mrs. Croft, who seemed particularly attached and happy, (Anne could allow no other exception even among the married couples) there could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so simliar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become aquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.

Jane Austen

When I met a truly beautiful girl, I would tell her that if she spent the night with me, I would write a novel or a story about her. This usually worked; and if her name was to be in the title of the story, it almost always worked. Then, later, when we'd passed a night of delicious love-making together, after she’d gone and I’d felt that feeling of happiness mixed with sorrow, I sometimes would write a book or story about her. Sometimes her character, her way about herself, her love-making, it sometimes marked me so heavily that I couldn't go on in life and be happy unless I wrote a book or a story about that woman, the happy and sad memory of that woman. That was the only way to keep her, and to say goodbye to her without her ever leaving.

Roman Payne

Happiness, said De Quincey, on his discovery of the paradise that he thought he had found in opium, could be sent down by the mail-coach; more truly I could announce my discovery that delight could be contained in small octavos and small type, in a bookshelf three feet long.

Arthur Machen

Do we take less pride in the possession of our home because its walls were built by some unknown carpenter, its tapestries woven by some unknown weaver on a far Oriental shore, in some antique time? No. We show our home to our friends with the pride as if it were our home, which it is. Why then should we take less pride when reading a book written by some long-dead author? Is it not our book just as much, or even more so, than theirs? So the landowner says, ‘Look at my beautiful home! Isn’t it fine?’ And not, ‘Look at the home so-and-so has built.’ Thus we shouldn’t cry, ‘Look what so-and-so has written. What a genius so-and-so is!’ But rather, ‘Look at what I have read! Am I not a genius? Have I not invented these pages? The walls of this universe, did I not build? The souls of these characters, did I not weave?

Roman Payne

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

Dejan Stojanovic

At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.

Benjamin J. Carey

Some stories always remain incomplete, until you do not read them complete with heart <3

Danish Ahmad Afsar Ali

He who writes to his beloved every day is not a lover, but a writer.

Dr. Kyaciss Pfiell

Writing is a bittersweet addiction. The more it drains you; the more replenished you feel, and you crave it even more.

Anthea Syrokou

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

Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space.

Dejan Stojanovic

Basically, being alive means keeping yourself ready for the sky to fall in on you at any time. If you start from the assumption that existence is only an ordeal, a test we have to pass, then you’re equipped to deal with its sorrows and its surprises. If you persist in expecting it to give you something it can’t give, that just proves that you haven’t understood anything. Take things as they come; don’t turn them into a drama. You’re not piloting the ship, you’re following the course of your destiny.

Yasmina Khadra

The night is still waiting.

Dejan Stojanovic

Dream by making and make by dreaming.

Dejan Stojanovic

We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and ideologues, teachers and beautifiers there are on the other side.

Dejan Stojanovic

Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.

Dejan Stojanovic

He knows he will be born again, And start fresh anew.

Dejan Stojanovic

He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.

Dejan Stojanovic

Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.

Dejan Stojanovic

To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.

Dejan Stojanovic

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