https://atomicquote.com/author/christian-wiman/quote/when-i-think-of-the-years-when-i-had-no-faith-what-i-am-struck-by-first-of-all-is-how-little-this-lack-disrupted-my-conscious-life-i-lived-not-without-god-nor-wish-his-absence-but-in-a-mild-a 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/christopher-hawke/quote/sometimes-belief-is-the-reason-for-liberation-other-times-our-own-conviction-prevents-our-escape-it-depends-on-whether-or-not-you-believe-god-is-listening-if-you-can-cling-to-hope-in-the-grav 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/christopher-hawke/quote/i-could-almost-see-fairies-skipping-on-top-of-the-snake-tongue-flames-brief-moments-of-clarity-overcome-by-suffocating-normalcy-it-occurred-to-me-that-everything-is-believable-during-a-glimps 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/john-green/quote/i-was-surprised-id-always-associated-belief-in-heaven-with-frankly-a-kind-of-intellectual-disengagement-but-gus-wasnt-dumb 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/augustine-of-hippo/quote/among-us-on-the-other-hand-the-righteous-man-lives-by-faith-now-if-you-take-away-positive-affirmation-you-take-away-faith-for-without-positive-affirmation-nothing-is-believed-and-there-are-tr 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/wendell-berry/quote/from-my-college-courses-and-my-reading-i-knew-the-various-names-that-came-at-the-end-of-a-line-of-questions-or-were-placed-as-periods-to-bafflement-the-first-cause-the-first-mover-the-life-fo 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/michael-ian-black/quote/i-do-not-go-to-church-i-dont-go-to-christian-church-or-jew-church-or-any-other-church-i-dont-go-to-church-at-all-not-ever-a-perfect-sunday-for-me-is-spent-drinking-green-tea-while-reading-the 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/gordon-stein/quote/many-of-the-innovations-in-science-and-philosophy-have-come-from-unbelievers-some-of-whom-died-for-their-unbeliefs-without-unbelief-we-might-well-be-living-in-the-dark-ages-or-at-least-in-the 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/josh-ross/quote/maybe-the-reason-faith-is-called-faith-is-because-seeing-doesnt-lead-to-belief-but-belief-transforms-the-way-we-see 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/cameron-conaway/quote/the-ribboned-gallons-that-rule-us-like-beliefs-rooted-in-single-experiences 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/saji-ijiyemi/quote/be-careful-of-the-lie-you-believe-about-yourself-sooner-or-later-you-will-be-convinced-of-it 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/eric-weiner/quote/believing-in-everything-looks-a-lot-like-believing-in-nothing 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/linda-ty-casper/quote/he-was-the-old-breed-of-filipino-almost-extinct-who-required-that-he-deserve-what-he-received-who-would-feel-guilt-not-only-shame-or-embarrassment-who-accounted-for-each-day-in-the-office-and 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/saru-singhal/quote/nothing-is-unbelievable-just-expand-your-vision 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/damien-hirst/quote/i-like-the-confusion-you-get-between-science-and-religion-thats-where-belief-lies-and-art-as-well 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jessica-shirvington/quote/we-would-all-believe-in-god-if-he-served-our-every-whim-belief-is-not-about-an-easy-life-or-even-truth-belief-is-something-you-have-regardless 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/molly-friedenfeld/quote/love-and-kindness-are-the-hammer-and-chisel-that-gently-chip-through-barriers-and-long-held-beliefs-to-reveal-the-magnificent-soul-contained-within-every-human 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/david-paul-kirkpatrick/quote/we-must-only-believe 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/robin-lafevers/quote/what-do-you-know-of-gods-and-saints-i-ask-filling-my-voice-with-scornhis-fingers-drift-to-the-silver-oak-leaf-of-saint-camulos-on-his-cloak-i-know-that-what-our-saints-want-is-not-always-made 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/mark-leyner/quote/so-where-does-the-name-adams-apple-come-from-most-people-say-that-it-is-from-the-notion-that-this-bump-was-caused-by-the-forbidden-fruit-getting-stuck-in-the-throat-of-adam-in-the-garden-of-e 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/bram-stoker/quote/faith-that-faculty-which-enables-us-to-believe-things-which-we-know-to-be-untrue 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/glenn-beck/quote/some-things-are-worth-believing-in-that-the-little-guy-can-make-it-every-single-life-has-value-and-is-worth-living-that-honor-and-integrity-do-matter-that-justice-will-prevail-if-not-in-this- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/charles-hartshorne/quote/panentheistic-doctrine-contains-all-of-deism-and-pandeism-except-their-arbitrary-negations 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jan-potocki/quote/it-is-not-science-which-leads-to-unbelief-but-rather-ignorance-the-ignorant-man-thinks-he-understands-something-provided-that-he-sees-it-every-day-the-natural-philosopher-walks-amid-enigmas-a 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/paula-knoderer-hrbacek/quote/everybody-else-is-doing-it-is-an-excuse-not-a-reason-it-could-be-that-everybody-else-isnt-but-the-devil-is-introducing-you-to-the-few-that-are-in-the-hopes-that-he-can-fool-you 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/renee-swope/quote/doubt-keeps-us-from-believing-things-can-get-better 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/mark-fisher/quote/capitalist-ideology-in-general-zizek-maintains-consists-precisely-in-the-overvaluing-of-belief-in-the-sense-of-inner-subjective-attitude-at-the-expense-of-the-beliefs-we-exhibit-and-externali 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jerry-spinelli/quote/if-you-believe-it-it-happens-if-you-dont-it-doesnt-when-you-believe-him-you-put-your-own-power-in-his-hands 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jenny-diski/quote/we-were-greeted-by-the-minister-whose-inclusive-non-judgemental-smile-was-no-more-than-a-whisker-away-from-a-smirk-have-i-made-it-clear-i-dont-like-belief-systems-and-even-less-like-those-tha 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/dee-lestari/quote/what-people-say-realistic-may-not-necessarily-the-same-as-what-we-think-at-the-end-we-will-know-which-one-is-ourselves-which-one-is-not 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/krista-tippett/quote/for-every-shrill-and-violent-voice-that-throws-itself-in-front-of-microphones-and-cameras-in-the-name-of-god-there-are-countless-lives-of-gentleness-and-good-works-who-will-not-we-need-to-see 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/morris-west/quote/i-dont-believe-in-miracles-only-unexplained-facts 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/james-ka-smith/quote/we-all-whether-naturalists-atheists-buddhists-or-christians-see-the-world-through-the-grid-of-an-interpretive-framework-and-ultimately-this-interpretive-framework-is-religious-in-nature-even- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/morris-west/quote/each-of-us-can-walk-only-the-path-he-sees-at-his-own-feet-each-of-us-is-subject-to-the-consequences-of-his-own-belief 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/morris-west/quote/i-was-lost-a-long-time-without-knowing-it-without-the-faith-one-is-free-and-that-is-a-pleasant-feeling-at-first-there-are-no-questions-of-conscience-no-constraints-except-the-constraints-of-c 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/larissa-ione/quote/this-earth-is-hellthere-are-no-fires-no-burning-pits-of-torment-no-levels-or-rings-or-rivers-of-lava-when-we-die-we-get-put-right-back-on-earth-to-live-our-miserable-existences-over-and-over- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/alexandar-tomov/quote/life-is-a-beautiful-denial-to-belief-in-death 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/adam-bagdasarian/quote/who-you-are-and-what-you-believe-in-is-your-real-home-the-only-home-no-one-can-take-from-you-the-only-home-that-will-last 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/bryant-mcgill/quote/lay-down-your-cynicism-and-believe-in-the-transformational-power-of-love 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/bryant-mcgill/quote/we-must-question-every-inner-belief-we-possess-without-fear-or-attachment 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/haruki-murakami/quote/the-very-thought-of-such-peoples-intolerant-worldview-their-inflated-sense-of-self-superiority-and-their-callous-imposition-of-their-own-beliefs-on-others-was-enough-to-fill-her-with-rage 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/brandon-andress/quote/sometimes-i-just-wonderdo-we-believe-that-god-revolves-around-usor-do-we-believe-that-we-revolve-around-godthese-are-staggering-questions 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/george-orwell/quote/beyond-the-late-fifties-everything-faded-when-there-were-no-external-records-that-you-could-refer-to-even-the-outline-of-your-own-life-lost-its-sharpness-you-remembered-huge-events-which-had- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/john-dryden/quote/if-others-in-the-same-glass-better-see-tis-for-themselves-they-look-but-not-for-me-for-my-salvation-must-its-doom-receive-not-from-what-others-but-what-i-believe 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/erica-bauermeister/quote/when-sean-died-she-understood-for-the-first-time-how-completely-human-beings-were-dependent-upon-a-suspension-of-disbelief-in-order-to-simply-move-forward-through-their-days-if-that-suspensio 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/carol-lynch-williams/quote/do-you-believe-in-jesusjesse-looks-at-me-so-brown-eyed-it-hurtshe-nodsi-do-he-saysi-sit-upi-think-you-look-like-him 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/johna-passaro/quote/mr-passaro-let-me-teach-you-about-how-medicine-works-he-starts-outone-of-two-things-is-going-to-happen-either-the-doctors-are-going-to-say-i-told-you-so-or-they-are-going-to-say-that-jess-was 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/tim-kreider/quote/let-me-propose-that-if-your-beliefs-or-convictions-matter-more-to-you-than-people-if-they-require-you-to-act-as-though-you-were-a-worse-person-than-you-are-you-may-have-lost-perspective 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/will-bowen/quote/a-belief-is-an-absolute-but-arbitrary-mental-stance 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/wayne-gerard-trotman/quote/what-you-call-life-is-but-a-dream-and-reality-is-relative 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/andrew-lang/quote/again-if-there-are-really-no-fairies-why-do-people-believe-in-them-all-over-the-world-the-ancient-greeks-believed-so-did-the-old-egyptians-and-the-hindoos-and-the-red-indians-and-is-it-likely 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/johna-passaro/quote/i-need-to-dreami-need-to-believe-i-need-to-know-that-i-have-some-control-in-my-lifethat-if-i-work-hard-that-i-will-be-rewardedthat-life-is-not-arbitraryi-need-to-believe-that-bad-things-happe 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/gabriel-garcia-marquez/quote/the-only-consolation-even-for-someone-like-him-who-had-been-a-good-man-in-bed-was-sexual-peace-the-slow-merciful-extinction-of-his-venereal-appetite-at-eighty-one-years-of-age-he-had-enough-l 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/thomas-hobbes/quote/for-from-the-time-that-the-bishop-of-rome-had-gotten-to-be-acknowledged-for-bishop-universal-by-pretence-of-succession-to-st-peter-their-whole-hierarchy-or-kingdom-of-darkness-may-be-compared 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/marius-ivaskevicius/quote/its-about-people-who-still-are-unaware-therefore-they-strive-to-live-by-all-means-love-like-no-one-before-them-loved-believe-like-no-one-ever-believed-desire-like-no-one-else-ever-desired 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/mary-deturris-poust/quote/we-are-always-hungry-and-never-satisfied-because-we-dont-trust-and-wont-risk-can-we-reach-a-place-where-we-are-satisfied-with-just-enough-you-are-enough-you-have-enough-do-not-worry-about-tom 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/morgan-rhodes/quote/you-must-continue-to-believe-with-all-your-heart-sometimes-belief-is-all-if-takes-to-make-something-real 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jessica-sorensen/quote/i-dont-believe-that-i-dont-believe-that-there-are-bad-things-about-you-only-things-that-you-think-are-bad 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jodi-lynn-anderson/quote/i-began-to-see-that-wendy-had-something-tiger-lily-hadnt-even-known-she-was-supposed-to-have-of-all-the-things-tiger-lily-had-thought-she-might-have-to-be-for-peter-strong-brave-to-be-big-and 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/hannah-harrington/quote/you-know-just-because-you-think-bubblegum-pop-on-the-radio-represents-all-that-is-wrong-with-society-that-doesnt-mean-theres-not-someone-out-there-who-needs-that-shitty-pop-song-maybe-that-sh 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/daniel-wallace/quote/youre-not-necessarily-supposed-to-believe-ityoure-just-supposed-to-believe-in-it 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jodi-lynn-anderson/quote/but-tik-tok-believes-everythings-circular-including-men-and-women-he-says-nature-seems-to-go-around-and-around-and-that-we-all-have-bits-of-everything 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/mary-baker-eddy/quote/lulled-by-stupefying-illusions-the-world-is-asleep-in-the-cradle-of-infancy-dreaming-away-the-hours 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/richelle-e-goodrich/quote/hope-is-a-fire-more-ravenous-than-the-flames-of-temptation-for-if-only-a-portion-of-it-poisons-your-veins-it-is-enough-to-make-you-stand-against-ridiculous-odds-again-and-again-and-again 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/peter-hoeg/quote/the-great-systems-that-inform-the-world-about-the-truth-and-life-invariably-claim-to-be-absolutely-truthful-and-well-balanced-in-reality-they-are-quaking-bridges-built-out-of-yearning 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/stanley-victor-paskavich/quote/im-on-a-diet-i-plan-to-lose-guilt-fear-sin-and-doubt-then-ill-be-confident-enough-to-walk-about 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/gary-taubes/quote/what-sets-science-and-the-law-apart-from-religion-is-that-nothing-is-expected-to-be-taken-on-faith-were-encouraged-to-ask-whether-the-evidence-actually-supports-what-were-being-told-or-what-w 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/peter-heller/quote/that-is-what-we-are-what-we-do-nose-a-net-push-push-a-net-that-never-exists-the-knots-in-the-mesh-as-strong-as-our-own-believing-our-own-fears 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/andrew-levkoff/quote/strange-is-it-not-how-even-those-of-us-who-scoff-at-divine-intervention-will-fall-to-our-knees-and-clasp-our-hands-the-moment-we-realize-our-futures-are-defined-by-uncertainty-and-hazard-a-th 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/hypatia/quote/fables-should-be-taught-as-fables-myths-as-myths-and-miracles-as-poetic-fancies-to-teach-superstitions-as-truths-is-a-most-terrible-thing-the-child-mind-accepts-and-believes-them-and-only-thr 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/patricia-briggs/quote/some-people-will-tell-you-werewolves-can-only-shapechange-under-a-full-moon-but-people-also-say-theres-no-such-things-as-ghosts 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/dallas-willard/quote/we-live-in-a-culture-that-has-for-centuries-now-cultivated-the-idea-that-the-skeptical-person-is-always-smarter-than-the-one-who-believes-you-can-be-almost-as-stupid-as-a-cabbage-as-long-as-y 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/joe-abercrombie/quote/belief-without-evidence-is-the-very-hallmark-of-the-savage 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/dietrich-bonhoeffer/quote/no-one-should-be-surprised-at-the-difficulty-of-faith-if-there-is-some-part-of-his-life-where-he-is-consciously-resisting-or-disobeying-the-commandment-of-jesus-is-there-some-part-of-your-lif 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/rachael-wade/quote/she-smiled-thoughtfully-i-think-jackson-was-like-a-lost-puppy-he-needed-purpose-someone-to-believe-in-him-and-love-him-despite-his-bullshit-but-he-didnt-have-that-so-he-just-went-around-humpi 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/tom-giaquinto/quote/making-this-a-better-world-happens-one-person-at-a-time-you-cannot-force-your-beliefs-on-anyone-rather-be-the-example-that-others-can-emulate-live-your-life-so-that-others-may-be-inspired-by- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/steven-redhead/quote/open-your-mind-to-the-infinite-possibilities-that-exist-for-you-born-through-your-dreams-crystallised-into-form-by-your-desires-given-impetus-by-your-expectations-then-made-real-through-your- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/steven-redhead/quote/the-beliefs-you-hold-strongly-in-your-mind-will-become-your-dreams-and-in-time-become-your-reality 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/orrin-woodward/quote/belief-is-the-magic-key-that-unlocks-your-dreams 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/steven-redhead/quote/belief-driven-by-determination-is-one-key-factor-governing-whether-what-you-pursue-becomes-real-or-not 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/michael-billig/quote/a-banal-mysticism-which-is-so-banal-that-all-the-mysticism-seems-to-have-evaporated-long-ago-binds-us-to-the-homeland-that-special-place-which-is-more-than-a-place-more-than-a-geophysical-are 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kelli-jae-baeli/quote/if-i-say-i-do-not-believe-in-faeries-or-elves-or-trolls-does-this-imply-that-i-have-a-set-of-beliefs-and-a-lifestyle-that-adheres-to-this-lack-of-belief-no-it-only-implies-that-i-do-not-belie 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jamie-canosa/quote/a-persons-soul-reflects-more-than-just-their-actions-it-reflects-their-thoughts-and-feelings-their-emotions-and-desires-it-reflected-all-of-who-you-are 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jenny-wingfield/quote/willadee-asked-him-if-he-thought-maybe-it-should-say-happy-ever-after-but-samuel-said-no-he-thought-happiness-was-like-any-other-miracle-the-more-you-talked-about-it-the-less-people-believed- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/david-holdsworth/quote/jesus-is-a-descendant-of-david-the-beloved-of-god-jesus-is-the-only-begotten-son-of-god-who-was-born-into-this-world-and-died-and-rose-again-saint-john-calls-him-the-word-and-the-light-when-h 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/idries-shah/quote/if-a-manx-cat-tells-you-that-it-is-trying-to-preserve-its-long-beautiful-tail-you-dont-have-to-believe-it-especially-if-you-have-eyes 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/stanley-victor-paskavich/quote/most-religions-are-social-clubs-with-expensive-entertainment-cheap-wine-and-stale-crackers 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jenny-han/quote/you-were-gullible-he-said-and-then-when-you-were-really-little-you-hated-carrots-you-wouldnt-eat-them-but-then-i-told-you-that-if-you-ate-carrots-youd-get-x-ray-vision-and-you-believed-me-you 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/misty-edwards/quote/i-want-to-be-a-woman-who-lives-totally-abandoned-to-the-first-commandment-to-love-my-lord-my-god-with-all-my-heart-i-dont-want-the-reputation-that-i-love-god-i-dont-want-to-write-songs-about- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/alasdair-macintyre/quote/at-the-foundation-of-moral-thinking-lie-beliefs-in-statements-the-truth-of-which-no-further-reason-can-be-given 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/keary-taylor/quote/i-wrote-do-you-really-not-believe-in-lovei-really-wished-i-never-would-have-askedno-she-had-written-back-i-believe-people-become-infatuated-maybe-they-even-really-like-each-other-but-i-dont-b 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/carl-sagan/quote/their-position-seems-to-be-that-their-god-is-so-great-he-doesnt-even-have-to-exist 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/candace-knoebel/quote/you-cant-become-who-youre-supposed-to-be-if-you-keep-looking-back-on-what-might-have-been-alexis 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jeanine-henning-nhakira/quote/you-are-everything-you-should-be-and-all-that-is-enough-be-proud-of-who-you-are-and-love-who-you-will-become-lady-lalaigne-to-nhakira-chosen 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/frederick-buechner/quote/unbelief-is-as-much-of-a-choice-as-belief-is-what-makes-it-in-many-ways-more-appealing-is-that-whereas-to-believe-in-something-requires-some-measure-of-understanding-and-effort-not-to-believe 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/candace-knoebel/quote/youre-so-eager-to-jump-into-something-youve-barely-begun-to-understand-things-dont-just-get-handed-to-you-you-have-to-fight-prove-that-you-are-worthy-and-then-maybe-the-answers-will-be-found- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/criss-jami/quote/in-some-cases-i-am-able-to-respect-what-so-many-call-bigots-such-people-have-a-more-solid-foundation-for-drawing-their-lines-when-it-comes-to-the-security-of-their-ways-and-quite-possibly-the 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/steven-redhead/quote/belief-is-the-strongest-power-you-can-bring-to-bear-in-order-to-realise-your-dreams 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jane-green/quote/i-believed-our-touching-to-be-more-intense-because-of-its-very-holding-back-belief-is-always-a-choice 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/neil-abramson/quote/god-lives-in-the-peaks-and-valleys-the-jarring-transitions-not-in-the-mundane-the-safe-the-smooth-or-the-repetitive-but-that-means-there-must-be-at-least-a-certain-amount-of-dissonance-withou 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kingsley-amis/quote/its-never-pleasant-to-have-ones-unquestioning-beliefs-put-in-their-historical-context-as-i-know-from-experience-i-can-assure-you 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/carlton-d-pearson/quote/belief-compelled-through-fear-is-not-belief-it-is-blind-and-forced-obedience 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/gene-wolfe/quote/we-can-think-only-of-creatures-of-things-hes-made-creatures-are-all-we-know-and-can-be-all-we-know-until-we-know-him-when-we-think-of-him-like-that-we-find-we-cant-believe-he-cant-be-like-a-c 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/quote/what-people-really-believe-doesnt-feel-like-a-belief-it-feels-like-the-way-the-world-is 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/thomas-merton/quote/do-not-desire-chiefly-to-be-cherished-and-consoled-by-god-desire-above-all-to-love-himdo-not-anxiously-desire-to-have-others-find-consolation-in-god-but-rather-help-them-to-love-goddo-not-see 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/eric-chaisson/quote/science-is-agnostic-when-it-comes-to-god-not-atheistic-as-some-people-prefer-to-read-that-laden-word-wrongly-just-agnostic 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/thomas-merton/quote/the-wise-man-has-struggled-to-find-you-in-his-wisdom-and-he-has-failed-the-just-man-has-striven-to-grasp-you-in-his-own-justice-and-he-has-gone-astraybut-the-sinner-suddenly-struck-by-the-lig 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/thomas-merton/quote/we-cannot-find-him-unless-we-know-we-need-him-we-forget-this-need-when-we-take-a-self-sufficient-pleasure-in-our-own-good-works-the-poor-and-helpless-are-the-first-to-find-him-who-came-to-see 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/rebecca-sparrow/quote/for-a-moment-we-sit-in-silence-eventually-i-turn-to-him-and-say-do-you-believe-in-god-his-eyes-narrow-for-a-moment-and-he-stares-at-me-at-me-for-a-while-stares-in-a-rather-intense-way-like-a- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/edmund-wilson/quote/he-believes-but-he-does-not-believe-the-impossibility-of-believing-is-the-impossibility-which-he-accepts-most-reluctantly-but-still-it-is-there-with-the-other-impossibilities-of-this-world-wh 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/finis-jennings-dake/quote/nevertheless-should-you-have-any-doubts-that-we-are-stating-sound-doctrines-look-up-the-references-and-see-exactly-what-the-bible-says-and-believe-it-in-preference-to-any-man-you-cannot-go-wr 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/gavin-degraw/quote/belief-builds-from-scratch-doesnt-have-to-relax-it-doesnt-need-space 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/gaston-leroux/quote/all-i-wanted-was-to-be-loved-for-myself-erik 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jane-austen/quote/oh-do-not-attack-me-with-your-watch-a-watch-is-always-too-fast-or-too-slow-i-cannot-be-dictated-to-by-a-watch 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jose-rizal/quote/he-who-does-not-know-how-to-look-back-at-where-he-came-from-will-never-get-to-his-destination 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jane-austen/quote/i-could-not-be-happy-with-a-man-whose-taste-did-not-in-every-point-coincide-with-my-own-he-must-enter-in-all-my-feelings-the-same-books-the-same-music-must-charm-us-both 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/joseph-fort-newton/quote/time-is-a-riverand-books-are-boats-many-volumes-start-down-that-stream-only-to-be-wrecked-and-lost-beyond-recall-in-its-sands-only-a-few-a-very-few-endure-the-testings-of-time-and-live-to-ble 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kingsley-amis/quote/dixon-was-alive-again-consciousness-was-upon-him-before-he-could-get-out-of-the-way-not-for-him-the-slow-gracious-wandering-from-the-halls-of-sleep-but-a-summary-forcible-ejection-he-lay-spra 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/abigail-reynolds/quote/i-like-my-coffee-with-cream-and-my-literature-with-optimism 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/margaret-mitchell/quote/as-god-is-my-witness-ill-never-be-hungry-again 2026-10-23T17:36:28+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/clarice-lispector/quote/ela-acreditava-em-anjo-e-porque-acreditava-eles-existiam-she-believed-in-angels-and-because-she-believed-they-existed 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/antonia-michaelis/quote/that-cloak-of-love-you-were-wearing-hes-torn-it-to-shreds-undoing-the-seams-of-trust-that-held-it-together-how-can-you-ever-wear-those-shreds 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/carlos-ruiz-zafon/quote/in-my-schoolboy-reveries-we-were-always-two-fugitives-riding-on-the-spine-of-a-book-eager-to-escape-into-worlds-of-fiction-and-secondhand-dreams 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/brent-weeks/quote/what-people-value-in-their-books-and-thus-what-they-count-as-literature-really-tells-you-more-about-them-than-it-does-about-the-book 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/italo-calvino/quote/nobody-these-days-holds-the-written-word-in-such-high-esteem-as-police-states-do 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/cathy-caruth/quote/if-freud-turns-to-literature-to-describe-traumatic-experience-it-is-because-literature-like-psychoanalysis-is-interested-in-the-complex-relation-between-knowing-and-not-knowing-and-it-is-at-t 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/f-sionil-jose/quote/we-write-from-life-and-call-it-literature-and-literature-lives-because-we-are-in-it 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/gabriel-garcia-marquez/quote/i-must-warn-you-that-the-books-i-like-are-not-necessarily-the-ones-i-think-are-the-best-i-like-them-for-various-reasons-not-always-easy-to-explain 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/chad-harbach/quote/each-of-us-deep-down-believes-that-the-whole-world-issues-from-his-own-precious-body-like-images-projected-from-a-tiny-slide-onto-an-earth-sized-screen-and-then-deeper-down-each-of-us-knows-h 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/roman-payne/quote/it-was-a-time-i-slept-in-many-rooms-called-myself-by-many-names-i-wandered-through-the-quarters-of-the-city-like-alluvium-wanders-the-river-banks-i-knew-every-kind-of-joy-ascents-of-every-hue 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/charlotte-perkins-gilman/quote/through-it-literature-we-know-the-past-govern-the-present-and-influence-the-future 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/italo-calvino/quote/there-is-nothing-for-it-but-for-all-of-us-to-invent-our-own-ideal-libraries-of-classics-i-would-say-that-such-a-library-ought-to-be-composed-half-of-books-we-have-read-and-that-have-really-co 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/graham-parke/quote/i-shouted-the-perfect-words-to-scare-him-off-it-was-just-the-delivery-and-only-the-delivery-that-made-me-sound-like-a-twelve-year-old-girl-with-pee-running-down-her-leg-i-felt-dirty-and-stupi 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/laurence-sterne/quote/i-begin-with-writing-the-first-sentence-and-trusting-to-almighty-god-for-the-second 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/mordecai-richler/quote/i-dont-hold-with-shamans-witch-doctors-or-psychiatrists-shakespeare-tolstoy-or-even-dickens-understood-more-about-the-human-condition-than-ever-occurred-to-any-of-you-you-overrated-bunch-of-c 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/anita-brookner/quote/dr-weiss-at-forty-knew-that-her-life-had-been-ruined-by-literature 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/david-foster-wallace/quote/to-make-someone-an-icon-is-to-make-him-an-abstraction-and-abstractions-are-incapable-of-vital-communication-with-living-people1010-one-has-only-to-spend-a-term-trying-to-teach-college-literat 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/charlotte-bronte/quote/anybody-may-blame-me-who-likes-when-i-add-further-that-now-and-then-when-i-took-a-walk-by-myself-in-the-grounds-when-i-went-down-to-the-gates-and-looked-through-them-along-the-road-or-when-wh 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/daphne-kalotay/quote/there-are-only-two-things-that-really-matter-in-life-literature-and-love 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/miguel-syjuco/quote/literature-is-an-ethical-leap-it-is-a-moral-decision-a-perilous-exercise-in-constant-failure-literature-should-have-grievances-because-there-are-so-many-grievances-in-the-world 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/mark-slouka/quote/life-isnt-simple-literature-shouldnt-be-either 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/will-lavender/quote/literature-is-a-writers-secret-life-recorded-in-symbols 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/roland-barthes/quote/the-incapacity-to-name-is-a-good-symptom-of-disturbance 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sarah-smith/quote/i-shall-tell-you-what-i-believe-i-believe-god-is-a-librarian-i-believe-that-literature-is-holyit-is-that-best-part-of-our-souls-that-we-break-off-and-give-each-other-and-god-has-a-special-dis 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/william-carlos-williams/quote/there-is-nothing-sacred-about-literature-it-is-damned-from-one-end-to-the-other-there-is-nothing-in-literature-but-change-and-change-is-mockery-ill-write-whatever-i-damn-please-whenever-i-dam 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/melanie-benjamin/quote/but-oh-my-dear-i-am-tired-of-being-alice-in-wonderland-does-it-sound-ungrateful-it-is-only-i-do-get-tired 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/wilkie-collins/quote/you-are-not-to-take-it-if-you-please-as-the-saying-of-an-ignorant-man-when-i-express-my-opinion-that-such-a-book-as-robinson-crusoe-never-was-written-and-never-will-be-written-again-i-have-tr 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jane-austen/quote/nobody-could-catch-cold-by-the-sea-nobody-wanted-appetite-by-the-sea-nobody-wanted-spirits-nobody-wanted-strength-sea-air-was-healing-softening-relaxing-fortifying-and-bracing-seemingly-just- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/leon-wieseltier/quote/but-even-now-with-the-crates-piled-high-in-the-hall-what-i-see-most-plainly-about-the-books-is-that-they-are-beautiful-they-take-up-room-of-course-they-do-they-are-an-environment-atoms-not-bi 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/david-shields/quote/story-seems-to-say-that-everything-happens-for-a-reason-and-i-want-to-say-no-it-doesnt 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kenneth-mcleish/quote/the-text-contains-no-literary-criticism-i-wanted-to-describe-books-not-to-be-clever-at-their-expense 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/susan-sontag/quote/to-me-literature-is-a-calling-even-a-kind-of-salvation-it-connects-me-with-an-enterprise-that-is-over-2000-years-old-what-do-we-have-from-the-past-art-and-thought-thats-what-lasts-thats-what- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/james-elroy-flecker/quote/we-men-of-this-age-are-rotten-with-book-lore-and-with-a-yearning-for-the-past 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/tea-obreht/quote/knowing-above-all-that-i-would-come-looking-and-find-what-he-had-left-for-me-all-that-remained-of-the-jungle-book-in-the-pocket-of-his-doctors-coat-that-folder-up-yellowed-page-torn-from-the- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/saadat-hasan-manto/quote/hindustan-had-become-free-pakistan-had-become-independent-soon-after-its-inception-but-man-was-still-slave-in-both-these-countries-slave-of-prejudice-slave-of-religious-fanaticism-slave-of-ba 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/charles-baxter/quote/my-god-the-corruptions-of-literature-it-put-all-these-notions-into-our-heads 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/flannery-oconnor/quote/week-before-last-i-went-to-wesleyan-and-read-a-good-man-is-hard-to-find-after-it-i-went-to-one-of-the-classes-where-i-was-asked-questions-there-were-a-couple-of-young-teachers-there-and-one-o 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/phillip-m-hoose/quote/we-were-supposed-to-be-an-english-literature-class-but-miss-nesbitt-used-literature-to-teach-real-life-she-said-she-didnt-have-time-to-teach-us-like-a-regular-english-teacher-we-were-too-far- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/murong-xuecun/quote/genuine-bravery-for-a-writer-it-is-about-calmly-speaking-the-truth-when-everyone-else-is-silenced-when-the-truth-cannot-be-expressed-it-is-about-speaking-out-with-a-different-voice-risking-th 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lev-grossman/quote/the-idea-of-some-kind-of-objectively-constant-universal-literary-value-is-seductive-it-feels-real-it-feels-like-a-stone-cold-fact-that-in-search-of-lost-time-by-marcel-proust-is-better-than-a 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/murong-xuecun/quote/it-is-difficult-to-call-myself-a-writer-even-when-i-stand-at-a-podium-to-receive-a-prize-i-feel-uncomfortable-calling-myself-a-writer-i-am-merely-a-word-criminal 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/china-mieville/quote/i-just-cant-get-with-this-idea-that-literature-is-a-12-step-program-if-someone-wants-to-read-a-book-to-see-good-people-get-rewarded-and-the-bad-people-get-punished-essentially-what-they-want- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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https://atomicquote.com/author/jrr-tolkien/quote/literature-works-from-mind-to-mind-and-is-more-progenitive-it-is-at-once-more-universal-and-more-poignantly-particular-if-it-speaks-of-bread-or-wine-or-stone-or-tree-it-appeals-to-the-whole-o 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/northrop-frye/quote/literature-is-still-doing-the-same-job-that-mythology-did-earlier-but-filling-in-its-huge-cloudy-shapes-with-sharper-lights-and-deeper-shadows 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/washington-irving/quote/in-the-present-day-when-popular-literature-is-running-into-the-low-levels-of-life-and-luxuriating-on-the-vices-and-follies-of-mankind-and-when-the-universal-pursuit-of-gain-is-trampling-down- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/rachel-cusk/quote/as-it-happened-i-was-no-longer-interested-in-literature-as-a-form-of-snobbery-or-even-of-self-definition-i-had-no-desire-to-prove-that-one-book-was-better-than-another-in-fact-if-i-read-somet 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/elif-batuman/quote/it-was-hard-to-decide-on-a-literature-course-everything-the-professors-said-seemed-to-be-somehow-beside-the-point-you-wanted-to-know-why-anna-had-to-die-and-instead-they-told-you-that-19th-ce 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/laurie-frankel/quote/poems-are-surmountable-they-have-rhymes-and-rhythms-to-help-you-make-meaning-theyre-short-enough-to-read-and-reread-until-youve-made-some-sense-of-them-short-stories-are-a-different-ballgame- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/george-eliot/quote/mrs-bulstrodes-naive-way-of-conciliating-piety-and-worldliness-the-nothingness-of-this-life-and-desirability-of-cut-glass-the-consciousness-at-once-of-filthy-rags-and-the-best-damask 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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https://atomicquote.com/author/marcel-proust/quote/this-compulsion-to-an-activity-without-respite-without-variety-without-result-was-so-cruel-that-one-day-noticing-a-swelling-over-his-stomach-he-felt-an-actual-joy-in-the-idea-that-he-had-perh 2026-10-23T17:35:03+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/marcel-proust/quote/he-had-so-long-since-ceased-to-direct-his-life-toward-any-ideal-goal-and-had-confined-himself-to-the-pursuit-of-quotidian-satisfactions-that-he-had-come-to-believe-though-without-ever-formall 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kilroy-j-oldster/quote/writing-evinces-the-soul-of-an-active-mind-and-every-era-produced-persons-whom-devoted-their-being-to-exploring-the-mysteries-of-life-seeking-to-discern-answers-pertaining-how-to-resolve-the- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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https://atomicquote.com/author/krishan-kumar/quote/utopia-retains-throughout-its-long-history-the-basic-form-of-the-narrative-of-a-journey-the-traveler-in-space-or-time-is-an-explorer-who-happens-upon-utopia-he-or-more-recently-she-meets-its- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/amy-marie/quote/thats-the-beauty-and-the-curse-of-the-engrafted-word-it-all-comes-down-to-interpretation 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kilroy-j-oldster/quote/the-artistic-creation-of-the-poet-painter-photographer-and-writer-is-a-reflection-of-the-artists-inner-world-the-agenda-of-consciousness-that-spurs-all-forms-of-art-is-not-to-represent-the-ou 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/krishan-kumar/quote/utopia-retains-throughout-its-long-history-the-basic-form-of-the-narrative-of-a-journey-first-comes-the-picture-of-a-happy-people-in-a-beautiful-and-well-ordered-setting-then-comes-the-lectur 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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https://atomicquote.com/author/minae-mizumura/quote/the-first-prerequisite-for-fine-literature-is-that-the-writer-must-see-the-language-not-as-a-transparent-medium-for-self-expression-or-the-representation-of-reality-but-as-a-medium-one-must-s 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/minae-mizumura/quote/science-may-explain-how-humans-came-into-being-but-it-has-no-answer-to-the-slippery-question-of-how-humans-should-live-only-literature-makes-it-possible-to-pose-such-questions-in-the-first-pl 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/pasi-ilmari-jaaskelainen/quote/her-works-are-said-to-be-too-far-from-reality-to-be-considered-real-literature-why-doesnt-she-write-about-life-the-people-of-rabbit-back-ask 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/richard-j-foster/quote/the-great-writings-interact-with-one-another-they-cannot-be-read-in-isolation 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jonathan-culler/quote/this-view-of-literature-as-an-aesthetic-object-that-could-make-us-better-people-is-linked-to-a-certain-idea-of-the-subject-to-what-theorists-have-come-to-call-the-liberal-subject-the-individu 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/denham-sutcliffe/quote/but-it-seems-to-me-inevitable-that-any-person-who-gives-thoughtful-and-imaginative-attention-to-literature-must-be-awakened-in-his-sensibilities-enlarged-in-his-sympathies-sharpened-in-his-cr 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/richard-gunderman/quote/burnout-at-its-deepest-level-is-not-the-result-of-some-train-wreck-of-examinations-long-call-shifts-or-poor-clinical-evaluations-it-is-the-sum-total-of-hundreds-and-thousands-of-tiny-betrayal 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/cynthia-kadohata/quote/why-would-a-book-in-which-hardly-anything-happened-for-most-of-the-time-eat-at-me-so-much-it-was-the-weirdest-thing 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/gene-edward-veith-jr/quote/the-popular-culture-gives-us-books-that-offer-entertainment-but-no-ideas-high-culture-gives-us-books-that-offer-ideas-but-no-entertainment-the-best-books-manage-to-do-both 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/maureen-corrigan/quote/the-danger-in-reviewing-and-teaching-literature-for-a-living-is-you-can-develop-a-kind-of-knee-jerk-superiority-to-the-material-youre-decoding 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/neil-gaiman/quote/it-symbolizes-a-spear-and-in-this-sorry-world-the-symbol-is-the-thing 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/maureen-corrigan/quote/i-think-the-influence-of-books-is-neither-direct-and-more-predictable-books-themselves-are-too-unruly-and-so-are-readers 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/maureen-corrigan/quote/the-child-who-gets-lost-in-a-book-can-emerge-from-the-experience-a-changeling 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/mariusz-szczygiel/quote/the-committees-scour-the-bookstores-printing-and-publishing-houses-paying-particular-attention-to-secondhand-bookstores-there-they-requisition-countless-copies-of-incautious-maidens-or-flames 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/maureen-corrigan/quote/my-own-mother-whos-always-dazzled-by-my-faculty-and-answering-questions-in-the-literature-a-category-on-jeopardy-whenever-we-watch-it-together-keeps-urging-me-to-try-to-get-on-the-show-to-mak 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/alan-bennett/quote/dakin-the-more-you-read-though-the-more-youll-see-that-literature-is-actually-about-losersscripps-nodakin-its-consolation-all-literature-is-consolation 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/david-cronenberg/quote/the-only-authentic-literature-of-the-modern-era-is-the-owners-manual 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kat-clark/quote/i-wished-i-hadnt-majored-in-women-filling-their-pockets-with-stones-and-sticking-their-heads-into-ovens-maybe-tomorrow-the-pinhole-would-widen-and-i-would-want-to-be-a-marine-biologist 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/andres-neuman/quote/i-wonder-whether-perhaps-without-realizing-it-we-seek-out-the-books-we-need-to-read-or-whether-books-themselves-which-are-intelligent-entities-detect-their-readers-and-catch-their-eye-in-the- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/michael-schmidt/quote/to-become-a-good-reader-one-must-give-oneself-over-to-a-regime-of-concentrated-pleasure-one-does-not-set-out-to-read-a-book-a-day-there-is-no-necessary-pleasure-in-that-but-may-spend-two-or-t 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jacques-bonnet/quote/hundreds-of-thousands-of-people-live-in-my-library-some-are-real-others-are-fictional-the-real-ones-are-the-so-called-imaginary-characters-in-works-of-literature-the-fictional-ones-are-their- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/cynthia-ozick/quote/get-thee-to-the-novel-the-novel-that-word-woven-submarine-piloted-by-intimation-and-intuition-that-will-dive-you-to-the-deeps-of-the-hearts-maelstrom 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/johnny-rich/quote/who-can-say-they-saw-a-whole-play-or-read-a-whole-book-each-has-their-own-experience-their-own-play-their-own-book 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/donald-miller/quote/you-cant-memorize-poetry-and-stay-a-fake-sooner-or-later-you-start-to-understand-what-these-poets-are-saying-and-it-makes-you-feel-life-has-something-quite-special-with-certain-layers-of-mean 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/anne-rice/quote/first-time-my-masters-in-english-literature-ever-proved-useful 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/ben-lerner/quote/there-were-the-usual-exhortations-to-purity-think-of-the-novel-not-as-your-opportunity-to-get-rich-or-famous-but-to-wrestle-in-your-own-way-with-the-titans-of-the-form-exhortations-poets-dont 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/andrew-hurley/quote/as-borges-himself-showed-us-in-so-many-stories-the-aleph-the-garden-of-forking-paths-the-gift-blue-tigers-shakespeares-memory-a-blessing-is-always-a-mixed-blessingas-borges-noted-sadly-he-inh 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/david-nicholls/quote/there-seemed-no-reason-why-she-shouldnt-try-writing-something-in-between-but-she-was-discovering-once-again-that-reading-and-writing-were-not-the-same-you-couldnt-just-soak-it-up-and-then-squ 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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https://atomicquote.com/author/william-shakespeare/quote/that-such-a-slave-as-this-should-wear-a-swordwho-wears-no-honesty-such-smiling-rogues-as-theselike-rats-oft-bite-the-holy-cords-atwainwhich-are-too-intrinse-t-unloose-smooth-every-passionthat 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/gabriel-garcia-marquez/quote/it-had-never-occurred-to-him-until-then-to-think-that-literature-was-the-best-plaything-that-had-ever-been-invented-to-make-fun-of-people 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/zaeema-j-hussain/quote/i-am-no-longer-a-writer-just-an-emotion-an-emotion-that-is-unable-to-stay-within-its-own-body-and-is-therefore-trying-to-make-its-way-into-yours 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/george-gissing/quote/but-just-understand-the-difference-between-a-man-like-reardon-and-a-man-like-me-he-is-the-old-type-of-unpractical-artist-i-am-the-literary-man-of-1882-he-wont-make-concessions-or-rather-he-ca 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/wan-mohd-nor-wan-daud/quote/literature-is-called-adabiyat-in-islam-precisely-because-it-is-seen-as-the-keeper-of-a-civilization-and-the-collector-of-teachings-and-statements-that-educate-the-self-and-society-with-adab-s 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/hal-duncan/quote/so-fuck-em-we-say-fuck-the-mundane-of-mainstream-the-elitists-of-literature-were-genre-fiction-and-proud-of-it-proud-to-wear-that-brand-painted-on-the-backs-of-our-bikers-jackets 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/gilbert-highet/quote/shakespeares-bitter-play-troilus-and-cressida-is-therefore-a-dramatization-of-a-part-of-a-translation-into-english-of-the-french-translation-of-a-latin-imitation-of-an-old-french-expansion-of 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/william-hurrell-mallock/quote/and-with-distance-in-time-it-is-the-same-as-with-distance-in-place-the-imagination-has-its-atmosphere-and-its-sunlight-as-well-as-the-earth-has-only-its-mists-are-even-more-gorgeous-and-delic 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/samuel-taylor-coleridge/quote/the-reader-should-be-carried-forward-not-merely-or-chiefly-by-the-mechanical-impulse-of-curiosity-or-by-a-restless-desire-to-arrive-at-the-final-solution-but-by-the-pleasurable-activity-of-mi 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/james-w-sire/quote/well-wrought-poems-and-works-of-imaginative-literature-can-do-for-us-what-stone-cold-prose-can-never-do-they-can-help-us-grasp-the-full-dimension-of-ways-of-life-other-than-our-own 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/steven-william-lawrie/quote/it-is-hieroglyphic-that-will-last-not-stone-heads-the-future-belongs-to-the-word-not-the-imagethe-mason-mutsose-in-achet-aten 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/angelica-calheiros/quote/i-am-very-careful-about-who-i-choose-to-build-memories-with-some-of-them-might-last-a-lifetime 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/mark-cantrell/quote/if-arts-and-music-precious-gifts-in-themselves-were-akin-to-memory-literature-was-the-self-knowing-of-the-species-the-human-mind-accumulated-a-manifest-of-wisdom-and-knowledge-self-doubt-and- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/william-hurrell-mallock/quote/literature-i-have-always-thought-is-in-most-places-and-companies-a-singularly-dull-and-uninteresting-thing-to-talk-about-but-one-may-as-a-rule-hate-literary-conversation-and-yet-at-the-right- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/eowyn-ivey/quote/a-boy-trying-out-a-mans-language 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/scott-farris/quote/reagans-failure-to-become-a-truly-great-movie-star-has-been-ascribed-to-project-menace-sexuality-or-even-moral-ambiguity 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/john-kessel/quote/is-shimmer-a-floor-wax-or-a-dessert-topping-is-an-electron-a-wave-or-a-particle-slipstream-tells-us-that-the-answer-is-yes 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/yu-hua/quote/if-literature-truly-possesses-a-mysterious-power-i-think-perhaps-it-is-precisely-this-that-one-can-read-a-book-by-a-writer-of-a-different-time-a-different-country-a-different-race-a-different 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/david-nicholls/quote/but-the-thing-about-literature-is-well-basically-it-encapsulates-all-the-disciplines-its-history-philosophy-politics-sexual-politics-sociology-psychology-linguistics-science-literature-is-man 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/john-green/quote/everyone-in-this-tale-has-a-rock-solid-hamartia-hers-that-she-is-so-sick-yours-that-you-are-so-well-were-she-better-or-you-sicker-then-the-stars-would-not-be-so-terribly-crossed-but-it-is-the 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/northrop-frye/quote/a-person-who-knows-nothing-about-literature-may-be-an-ignoramus-but-many-people-dont-mind-being-that 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/joe-putignano/quote/the-darkest-of-men-carry-the-brightest-of-lights 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jorge-luis-borges/quote/i-reread-these-negative-remarks-and-realize-that-i-do-not-know-whether-music-can-despair-of-music-or-marble-of-marble-i-do-know-that-literature-is-an-art-that-can-foresee-the-time-when-it-wil 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/thomas-love-peacock/quote/modern-literature-is-a-north-east-wind-a-blight-of-the-human-soul-i-take-credit-to-myself-for-having-helped-to-make-it-so-the-way-to-produce-fine-fruit-is-to-blight-the-flower-you-call-this-a 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/thomas-love-peacock/quote/if-we-go-on-in-this-way-we-shall-have-a-new-art-of-poetry-of-which-one-of-the-first-rules-will-be-to-remember-to-forget-that-there-are-any-such-things-as-sunshine-and-music-in-the-world 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/carson-mccullers/quote/he-did-not-wholly-understand-the-intricate-play-of-ideas-and-the-complex-phrases-but-as-he-read-he-sensed-a-strong-who-purpose-behind-the-words-and-he-felt-that-he-almost-understood 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/joanna-russ/quote/the-re-evaluation-and-rediscovery-of-minority-art-including-the-cultural-minority-of-women-is-often-conceived-as-a-matter-of-remedying-injustice-and-exclusiveness-through-doing-justice-to-ind 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/girdhar-joshi/quote/the-literature-hardly-helps-you-remember-it-only-when-you-are-well-healthy-and-in-a-positive-state-of-mind-and-you-tend-to-blame-your-circumstances-and-people-around-you-for-the-outcome-of-th 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/bonnie-grove/quote/perhaps-forgiveness-wasnt-a-singular-event-but-a-progression-or-better-a-dance-that-took-some-figuring-before-you-could-perform-the-steps 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/john-dryden/quote/thus-like-a-captive-in-an-isle-confindman-walks-at-large-a-prisner-of-the-mind 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/mf-moonzajer/quote/the-americans-literature-is-all-about-being-hot-and-sexy-inspiring-a-girl-and-going-to-bed-with-her-it-focuses-on-being-a-hero-saving-lives-and-surviving-last-but-it-has-nothing-to-do-with-di 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lance-conrad/quote/great-language-and-great-literature-do-not-survive-long-without-each-other 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/italo-calvino/quote/this-is-the-paradox-of-the-power-of-literature-it-seems-that-only-when-it-is-persecuted-does-it-show-its-true-powers-challenging-authority-whereas-in-our-permissive-society-it-feels-that-it-i 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/mordecai-richler/quote/when-a-child-is-born-i-once-explained-to-the-kids-some-dads-lay-down-bottles-of-wine-for-them-that-will-mature-when-they-grow-up-into-ungrateful-adults-instead-what-youre-going-to-get-from-me 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/charles-dickens/quote/he-gave-it-its-present-name-and-lived-here-shut-up-day-and-night-poring-over-the-wicked-heaps-of-papers-in-the-suit-and-hoping-against-hope-to-disentangle-it-from-its-mystification-and-bring- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/wendy-lesser/quote/reading-literature-is-a-way-of-reaching-back-to-something-bigger-and-older-and-different-it-can-give-you-the-feeling-that-you-belong-to-the-past-as-well-as-the-present-and-it-can-help-you-rea 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/thomas-love-peacock/quote/he-had-some-taste-for-romance-reading-before-he-went-to-the-university-where-we-must-confess-in-justice-to-his-college-he-was-cured-of-the-love-of-reading-in-all-its-shapes-and-the-cure-would 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/julien-torma/quote/the-literature-of-impotence-is-about-to-develop-beyond-measure 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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https://atomicquote.com/author/walter-pater/quote/analysis-goes-a-step-farther-still-and-assures-us-that-those-impressions-of-the-individual-mind-to-which-for-each-one-of-us-experience-dwindles-down-are-in-perpetual-flight-that-each-of-them- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/margot-mccuaig/quote/anything-could-happen-in-the-company-of-a-woman-whose-usual-status-is-apparition 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/matthew-mcbride/quote/banks-watched-the-sun-creep-over-the-forest-of-oak-trees-and-a-crack-of-light-broke-through-the-night-and-grew-longer-and-wider-and-ate-the-black-like-a-fungus-until-the-darkness-was-gone-and 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/pramoedya-ananta-toer/quote/my-words-my-writing-my-actions-these-have-never-been-for-myself-alone-either-directly-or-indirectly-there-is-no-such-thing-as-an-artist-who-creates-art-only-for-himself-that-is-masturbation 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/elise-turcotte/quote/i-dont-know-what-to-saythats-okay-sometimes-talking-is-like-singing-in-a-stormlike-when-youre-scaredexactlyor-when-youre-sadthat-too-a-voice-can-be-reassuring 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/robert-lane-greene/quote/though-its-true-that-dictionary-maker-samuel-johnson-sometimes-seem-to-feel-that-the-language-was-in-decline-he-didnt-rail-against-it-with-jonathan-swifts-anger-instead-he-hoped-the-example-o 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kamila-shamsie/quote/where-are-they-the-american-fiction-writers-whose-works-are-interested-in-the-question-what-do-these-people-have-to-do-with-us-and-what-are-we-doing-out-there-in-the-world 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/rm-engelhardt-talon/quote/what-is-hell-to-a-writer-hell-is-being-too-busy-to-find-the-time-to-write-or-being-unable-to-find-the-inspiration-hell-is-suddenly-finding-the-words-but-being-away-from-your-notebook-or-typew 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/anthony-m-esolen/quote/many-of-the-greatest-books-are-like-a-forest-the-best-way-to-get-to-know-them-is-to-wander-right-into-the-middle-and-get-lost 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/rabih-alameddine/quote/literature-is-my-sandbox-in-it-i-play-build-my-forts-and-castles-spend-glorious-time-it-is-the-world-outside-that-box-that-gives-me-trouble-i-have-adapted-tamely-though-not-conventionally-to- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/junot-diaz/quote/a-month-later-the-law-student-leaves-you-for-one-of-her-classmates-tells-you-that-it-was-great-but-she-has-to-start-being-realistic-later-you-see-her-with-said-classmate-on-the-yard-hes-even- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/john-williams/quote/the-past-gathered-out-of-the-darkness-where-it-stayed-and-the-dead-raised-themselves-to-live-before-him-and-the-past-and-the-dead-flowed-into-the-present-among-the-alive-so-that-he-had-for-an 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/dl-koontz/quote/i-find-it-sad-that-more-christian-literature-does-not-address-miracles-and-the-possibility-of-demons-in-our-midst-jesus-performed-countless-miracles-in-his-life-that-were-clearly-discussed-in 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/john-williams/quote/but-the-required-survey-of-english-literature-troubled-and-disquieted-him-in-a-way-nothing-had-ever-done-before 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jrr-tolkien/quote/literature-shrivels-in-a-universal-language-and-an-uprooted-language-rots-before-it-dies-and-it-should-be-possible-to-lift-the-eyes-above-the-cant-of-the-language-of-shakespeare-sufficiently- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/galaj/quote/we-are-all-one-everything-is-meaningless-and-yet-at-the-same-time-meaningful-everything-matters-and-doesnt-matter-just-as-much-wisdom-said-and-looked-beyond-timenakoma-by-galaj 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jamaica-kincaid/quote/out-of-the-corner-of-one-eye-i-could-see-my-mother-out-of-the-corner-of-the-other-eye-i-could-see-her-shadow-on-the-wall-cast-there-by-the-lamplight-it-was-a-big-and-solid-shadow-and-it-looke 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/martin-amis/quote/this-remains-the-great-deficiency-of-literature-its-imitation-of-nature-cannot-prepare-you-for-the-main-events-for-the-main-events-only-experience-will-answer 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/roy-blount-jr/quote/perhaps-the-truth-is-that-heavy-literature-blooms-in-extremes-of-temperature 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sergio-troncoso/quote/a-group-of-ten-prisoners-from-dachau-i-was-with-them-we-hid-in-the-forest-to-wait-for-the-americans-the-germans-had-already-left-everything-behind-we-had-food-but-no-weapons-for-days-we-could 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/aporva-kala/quote/annant-is-pickwick-paperless-the-hunter-of-wisdom-and-due-to-lovelace-heart-a-budding-poet-ass 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/mark-cantrell/quote/and-where-did-the-books-go-when-the-world-turned-against-them-when-the-flames-of-wrath-blackened-their-pages-and-erased-the-words-they-fled-to-find-solace-and-redemption-in-the-dark-places-of 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/joris-karl-huysmans/quote/really-when-i-think-it-over-literature-has-only-one-excuse-for-existing-it-saves-the-person-who-makes-it-from-the-disgustingness-of-life 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/elizabeth-wein/quote/it-was-wonderful-flirting-with-him-all-the-razor-edged-literary-banter-like-beatrice-and-benedick-in-much-ado-about-nothing-a-battle-of-wit-and-a-test-too 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/dacia-maraini/quote/her-gaze-dims-as-her-nostalgia-for-palermo-overcomes-her-those-smells-of-seaweed-dried-by-the-sun-of-capers-of-ripe-figs-she-will-never-find-them-anywhere-else-those-burnt-and-scented-shores- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/john-steinbeck/quote/the-writer-is-delegated-to-declare-and-to-celebrate-mans-proven-capacity-for-greatness-of-heart-and-spirit-for-gallantry-in-defeat-for-courage-compassion-and-love-in-the-endless-war-against-w 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/hamidreza-bagheri/quote/thee-my-serenity-one-can-not-bear-seeing-thee-befuddled-bereaveddimmed-like-the-midnight-secluded-darkenedthee-my-serenitya-window-to-my-eyes-a-window-to-laughter-and-peace-of-mindthee-my-ser 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sune-bergstrom/quote/the-literature-nobel-laureate-of-this-year-has-said-that-an-author-can-do-anything-as-long-as-his-readers-believe-hima-scientist-cannot-do-anything-that-is-not-checked-and-rechecked-by-scient 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/tove-jansson/quote/when-mats-came-in-the-evenings-they-would-drink-tea-in-the-kitchen-while-reading-their-books-and-talking-about-them-if-katri-came-in-they-were-quiet-and-waited-for-her-to-leave-the-back-door- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/amy-mowafi/quote/i-have-always-lusted-after-a-sepia-toned-library-with-floor-to-ceiling-bookshelves-and-a-sliding-ladder-i-fantasie-about-tennessee-williams-types-of-evenings-involving-rum-on-the-porch-i-long 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/rachel-lewis/quote/as-night-falls-silently-all-aroundshe-carefully-turns-the-last-page 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/the-editors-n1/quote/writers-more-interested-in-literature-than-the-truth-ensure-that-they-never-come-out-with-either-thing-one-reason-that-the-word-literature-today-sounds-so-fake-as-if-you-were-to-insist-on-say 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/subhajit-ganguly/quote/yet-the-man-never-goes-slow-feted-against-all-the-oddshow-nobody-knowsundeterred-unabated-yet-uncharted-he-goes 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/roman-payne/quote/although-i-love-elegant-parties-dancing-and-dining-and-spending-the-night-with-a-sweet-woman-in-my-arms-my-life-belongs-to-literature 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/aberjhani/quote/journey-through-the-power-of-the-rainbow-represents-a-condensed-compendium-of-literary-efforts-from-a-life-dedicated-to-transforming-the-themes-of-injustice-grief-and-despair-that-we-all-enco 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/emily-bronte/quote/take-my-books-away-and-i-should-be-desperate 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/marcia-lynn-mcclure/quote/yet-katie-held-fast-to-the-dream-that-perhaps-there-were-men-in-the-world-who-appreciated-good-women-men-capable-of-loving-a-woman-enough-to-die-for-hersomething-had-to-inspire-the-heroes-in- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/ellen-hopkins/quote/i-had-never-kissed-a-boy-had-never-even-considered-that-i-might-enjoy-such-an-unclean-thing-until-literature-opened-my-eyes 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/osamu-dazai/quote/any-connoisseur-knows-youve-got-to-be-drunk-to-really-enjoy-a-good-romance 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/dag-solstad/quote/he-couldnt-imagine-using-the-word-rewarding-about-a-work-of-art-for-instance-that-such-and-such-a-book-has-given-me-so-much-taught-me-so-much-etc-etc-but-thought-solely-that-it-enlightened-hi 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/mary-ann-shaffer/quote/i-wish-id-known-those-words-on-the-day-i-watched-those-german-troops-land-plane-load-after-plane-load-of-them-and-come-off-ships-down-in-the-harbor-all-i-could-think-of-was-damn-them-damn-the 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/mark-cantrell/quote/we-nurture-the-candle-flames-that-show-the-way-ahead-we-are-guerrillas-of-the-word-unsung-heroes-breathing-softly-on-the-embers-of-the-human-mind-so-that-they-might-re-ignite-the-hearths-arou 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/subhajit-ganguly/quote/my-beloved-isnt-dazzling-light-darkness-is-my-beloved-the-reason-im-so-fond-of-her 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/ander-monson/quote/i-am-drawn-mostly-insistently-to-the-human-voice-how-powerful-and-necessary-the-solo-voice-the-experience-of-being-someone-something-else-for-a-little-while-this-is-and-will-remain-literature 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/oscar-wilde/quote/yet-one-had-ancestors-in-literature-as-well-as-in-ones-own-race-nearer-perhaps-in-type-and-temperament-many-of-them-and-certainly-with-an-influence-of-which-one-was-more-absolutely-conscious- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kurt-vonnegut-jr/quote/it-was-literature-in-its-finest-sense-since-it-made-unk-courageous-watchful-and-secretly-free 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/david-shields/quote/a-great-book-allows-me-to-leap-over-that-wall-in-a-deep-significant-conversation-with-another-consciousness-i-feel-human-and-unalone 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/montesquieu/quote/the-desire-for-glory-is-no-different-from-that-instinct-for-preservation-that-is-common-to-all-creatures-it-is-as-if-we-enhance-our-being-if-we-can-gain-a-place-in-the-memory-of-others-it-is- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/denys-turner/quote/the-main-danger-is-that-of-supposing-that-the-thing-to-do-is-get-a-mind-on-the-scale-of-thomas-aquinass-into-your-head-a-task-of-compression-that-will-be-achieved-only-at-your-heads-peril-the 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/aberjhani/quote/some-have-speculated-that-the-way-albert-camus-died-made-his-theories-on-absurdity-a-self-fulfilling-prophecy-others-would-say-it-was-the-triumphant-meaningful-way-he-lived-that-allowed-him-t 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lynn-messina/quote/dead-parents-are-gruesome-yes-but-anyone-whos-anyone-in-childrens-literature-has-either-been-orphaned-or-abandoned-well-adjusted-kids-from-stable-two-parent-homes-dont-go-on-hero-quests 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/david-shields/quote/to-write-only-according-to-the-rules-laid-down-by-masterpieces-signifies-that-one-is-not-a-master-but-a-pupil 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/panio-gianopoulos/quote/for-this-decision-too-he-had-submitted-to-the-overwhelming-force-of-sharons-personality-whose-longings-and-needs-seemed-inalienable-rights-whereas-marcuss-were-merely-whims 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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https://atomicquote.com/author/krista-mcgee/quote/do-not-speak-unflatteringly-of-jane-flora-said-walking-beside-chad-she-is-the-greatest-writer-to-have-ever-lived-i-thought-that-was-shakespeare-william-was-or-course-quite-good-flora-said-but 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/tom-spanbauer/quote/books-are-in-the-mind-grandfather-alessandro-said-too-many-books-and-you-forget-your-body-is-in-the-world 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jonah-lehrer/quote/science-has-discovered-that-like-any-work-of-literature-the-human-genome-is-a-text-in-need-of-commentary-for-what-eliot-said-of-poetry-is-also-true-of-dna-all-meanings-depend-on-the-key-of-in 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/virginia-woolf/quote/she-had-thought-of-literature-all-these-years-her-seclusion-her-rank-her-sex-must-be-her-excuse-as-something-wild-as-the-wind-hot-as-fire-swift-as-lightning-something-errant-incalculable-abru 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/hume-nisbet/quote/they-were-both-young-men-under-thirty-art-is-not-so-precocious-as-literature-and-does-not-send-quite-so-many-early-potatoes-into-the-market-so-that-the-age-of-thirty-is-considered-young-enoug 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/roberto-bolano/quote/you-can-woo-a-girl-with-a-poem-but-you-cant-hold-onto-her-with-a-poem-not-even-with-a-poetry-movement 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/roberto-bolano/quote/a-person-could-be-immensely-happy-reading-only-him-or-the-writers-he-loved-but-that-would-be-too-easy 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/roberto-bolano/quote/i-didnt-hit-her-man-what-happened-was-that-maria-was-obsessed-with-the-marquis-de-sade-and-wanted-to-try-the-spanking-thing-said-luscious-skin-thats-very-maria-said-pancho-she-takes-her-readi 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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https://atomicquote.com/author/daniel-willey/quote/a-person-who-doesnt-understand-both-sides-of-an-issue-cant-relate-to-the-side-he-is-trying-to-sway-so-his-words-will-bounce-off-of-them-without-leaving-any-impression 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/richard-kadrey/quote/it-doesnt-matter-if-you-and-everyone-else-in-the-room-are-thinking-it-you-dont-say-the-words-words-are-weapons-they-blast-big-bloody-holes-in-the-world-and-words-are-bricks-say-something-out- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/alexander-pope/quote/words-are-like-leaves-and-where-they-most-aboundmuch-fruit-of-sense-beneath-is-rarely-found 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/patrick-rothfuss/quote/i-am-no-poet-i-do-not-love-words-for-the-sake-of-words-i-love-words-for-what-they-can-accomplish-similarly-i-am-no-arithmetician-numbers-that-speak-only-of-numbers-are-of-little-interest-to-m 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/david-foenkinos/quote/dictionaries-stop-where-the-heart-starts 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/anne-rice/quote/and-he-would-listen-making-only-a-few-comments-always-sympathetic-so-that-when-i-left-him-i-had-the-distinct-impression-he-had-solved-everything-for-me 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/melina-marchetta/quote/how-unladylike-of-you-to-mention-such-a-thing 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/john-dewey/quote/every-one-has-experienced-how-learning-an-appropriate-name-for-what-was-dim-and-vague-cleared-up-and-crystallized-the-whole-matter-some-meaning-seems-distinct-almost-within-reach-but-is-elusi 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/zoe-trope/quote/sometimes-every-word-i-write-is-love-but-the-letters-are-rearranged-the-sounds-are-different-all-the-words-are-red 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/carlos-ruiz-zafon/quote/jacinta-never-told-penelope-that-she-loved-her-the-nurse-knew-that-those-who-really-love-love-in-silence-with-deeds-and-not-with-words 2026-10-23T15:07:16+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/samuel-johnson/quote/this-is-one-of-the-disadvantages-of-wine-it-makes-a-man-mistake-words-for-thoughts 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/patrick-rothfuss/quote/elodin-pointed-down-the-street-what-color-is-that-boys-shirtbluewhat-do-you-mean-by-blue-describe-iti-struggled-for-a-moment-failed-so-blue-is-a-nameit-is-a-word-words-are-pale-shadows-of-for 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/carolee-dean/quote/i-got-words-in-me-jess-fighting-to-find-a-way-out-sometimes-theres-so-many-words-and-they-get-so-crowded-in-my-skull-i-think-my-head-is-gonna-explode-i-want-to-write-them-down-ive-tried-but-m 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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https://atomicquote.com/author/jose-saramago/quote/life-is-like-that-full-of-words-that-are-not-worth-saying-or-that-were-worth-saying-once-but-not-any-more-each-word-that-we-utter-will-take-up-the-space-of-another-more-deserving-word-not-des 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/siri-hustvedt/quote/i-dont-want-the-words-to-be-naked-the-way-they-are-in-faxes-or-in-the-computer-i-want-them-to-be-covered-by-an-envelope-that-you-have-to-rip-open-in-order-to-get-at-i-want-there-to-be-a-waiti 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/daniel-h-wilson/quote/memories-fade-but-words-hang-around-forever 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/nora-raleigh-baskin/quote/all-we-are-all-we-can-be-are-the-stories-we-tell-he-says-and-he-is-talking-as-if-he-is-talking-only-to-me-long-after-we-are-gone-our-words-will-be-all-that-is-left-and-who-is-to-say-what-real 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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https://atomicquote.com/author/tony-burgess/quote/the-thing-he-said-aloud-did-not-succeed 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/david-levithan/quote/i-wish-i-could-remember-the-moment-when-i-was-a-kid-and-i-discovered-that-the-letters-linked-into-words-and-that-the-words-linked-to-real-things-what-a-revelation-that-must-have-been-we-dont- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/toba-beta/quote/strong-words-resonate 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lesley-mm-blume/quote/are-you-watching-the-boats-cornelia-guessed-she-craned-her-neck-to-see-if-there-was-any-excitement-on-the-riverheavens-no-im-spying-on-people-virginia-responded-unrepentantly-cornelia-e-and-v 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/victor-pelevin/quote/theres-a-scientific-hypothesis-that-every-persons-name-is-a-primary-suggestive-command-that-contains-the-entire-script-of-their-life-in-highly-concentrated-form-according-to-this-point-of-vie 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/frances-oroark-dowell/quote/he-was-a-big-talker-someone-who-liked-words-for-words-sake-the-sound-of-them-the-way-you-can-pile-them-up-in-your-mouth-and-make-a-poem-if-you-speill-them-out-the-right-wayp92 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/amie-kaufman/quote/sometimes-you-take-all-my-words-away-from-me 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/paul-fleischman/quote/a-picture-tells-a-thousand-words-but-you-get-a-thousand-pictures-from-someones-voice 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/algernon-blackwood/quote/mrs-bittarcy-rustled-ominously-holding-her-peace-meanwhile-she-feared-long-words-she-did-not-understand-beelzebub-lay-hid-among-too-many-syllablesthe-man-whom-the-trees-loved 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/derek-landy/quote/talking-about-ones-feelings-defeats-the-purpose-of-having-those-feelings-once-you-try-to-put-the-human-experience-into-words-it-becomes-little-more-than-a-spectator-sport-everything-must-have 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/yunus-emre/quote/a-single-word-can-brighten-the-faceof-one-who-knows-the-value-of-wordsripened-in-silence-a-single-wordacquires-a-great-energy-for-workwar-is-cut-short-by-a-wordand-a-word-heals-the-woundsand- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/david-rains-wallace/quote/land-and-water-are-not-really-separate-things-but-they-are-separate-words-and-we-perceive-through-words 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/samuel-johnson/quote/dont-sir-accustom-yourself-to-use-big-words-for-little-matters 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/quote/i-was-on-the-point-of-breaking-off-the-conversation-for-nothing-puts-me-so-completely-out-of-patience-as-the-utterance-of-a-wretched-commonplace-when-i-am-talking-from-my-inmost-heart 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/rainer-maria-rilke/quote/here-is-the-time-for-the-sayable-here-is-its-homespeak-and-attest-more-than-everthe-things-we-can-live-with-are-falling-awayand-ousting-them-filling-their-place-a-will-with-no-imagewill-benea 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/evan-mandery/quote/i-have-no-special-desire-to-go-crawl-around-in-caves-but-i-really-like-the-word-spelunking-and-want-to-use-it-in-conversation-i-do-a-lot-of-things-just-to-use-words-i-like 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/richard-mitchell/quote/words-never-fail-we-hear-them-we-read-them-they-enter-into-the-mind-and-become-part-of-us-for-as-long-as-we-shall-live-who-speaks-reason-to-his-fellowmen-bestows-it-upon-them-who-mouths-inani 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/toba-beta/quote/there-are-things-which-couldnt-be-expressed-by-the-wordswhen-youve-mastered-certain-lesson-for-more-than-30-years 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/elizabeth-eulberg/quote/so-jack-clears-his-throat-we-is-jack-coombs-at-a-loss-for-words-i-guess-we-dont-have-to-worry-about-the-performance-since-the-world-is-clearly-going-to-end 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/toba-beta/quote/the-wise-man-reveals-more-than-words-spoken 2026-10-23T15:01:36+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/david-rains-wallace/quote/all-things-human-begin-with-words 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sue-miller/quote/the-words-make-our-silences-easier-theyre-the-current-that-runs-under-them 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/hans-keilson/quote/i-always-knew-that-words-are-suitcases-with-false-bottoms 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/edmond-manning/quote/toppling-sounds-like-it-jumped-from-a-tall-building-and-landed-gracefully-on-is-g 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sally-gardner/quote/i-collect-words-they-are-sweets-in-the-mouth-of-sound 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/carlos-ruiz-zafon/quote/he-lost-himself-in-the-words-and-images-conjured-in-his-mind-and-for-a-while-forgot-he-found-himself-flying-among-stars-and-planets 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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https://atomicquote.com/author/augusto-roa-bastos/quote/forms-disappear-words-remain-to-signify-the-impossible 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/enid-bagnold/quote/if-i-had-my-life-over-again-id-have-thought-more-about-words-and-thought-about-them-earlier 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jude-morgan/quote/words-are-only-words 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/augusto-roa-bastos/quote/the-dictionary-is-an-ossuary-of-empty-words 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/confucius/quote/naming-enables-the-noble-minded-to-speak-and-speech-enables-the-noble-minded-to-act-therefore-the-noble-minded-are-anything-but-careless-in-speech 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/teresa-jordan/quote/i-once-ran-across-a-list-of-nearly-400-winds-from-around-the-world-and-wondered-why-wyoming-so-dominated-by-wind-has-so-few-names-for-its-variations-theres-the-wind-the-damned-wind-and-the-go 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/maurice-merleau-ponty/quote/our-view-of-man-will-remain-superficial-so-long-as-we-fail-to-go-back-to-that-origin-of-silence-so-long-as-we-fail-to-find-beneath-the-chatter-of-words-the-primordial-silence-and-as-long-as-w 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/ingrid-betancourt/quote/if-you-believe-what-you-say-words-become-reality 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/roberto-bolano/quote/his-words-saddened-them-greatly-though-they-couldnt-say-why 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/silas-house/quote/i-appricated-that-nell-was-talking-to-me-like-a-grown-up-but-i-had-no-idea-what-she-meant-still-i-could-see-that-the-words-flowed-together-like-water-over-a-riverbed 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/mark-a-rayner/quote/but-the-more-i-think-about-it-the-more-i-think-pc-words-are-a-crock-of-shit-if-i-want-to-describe-something-using-a-stupid-word-i-should 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/susane-colasanti/quote/she-goes-on-to-explain-about-how-need-to-not-only-listen-to-what-the-other-person-is-saying-but-try-to-hear-the-meaning-behind-their-words-but-my-thing-is-that-if-you-want-someone-to-understa 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/louise-marley/quote/six-stars-he-exclaimed-finding-the-right-words-is-hard 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/alysha-speer/quote/so-many-thoughts-ran-through-my-head-most-of-them-contained-the-same-simply-three-words-so-often-strung-together-that-it-was-too-much-a-classic-cheese-or-cliche-to-say-it-but-they-still-had-m 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/siri-hustvedt/quote/our-memory-fragments-dont-have-any-coherence-until-theyre-imagined-in-words-time-is-a-property-of-language-of-syntax-and-tense 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/toba-beta/quote/in-soul-of-every-newborn-baby-words-are-waiting-to-be-written 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/peter-hoeg/quote/around-a-child-people-come-and-go-objects-appear-and-are-taken-away-surroundings-take-shape-and-disintegrate-and-no-explanation-is-given-because-how-can-you-explain-the-world-to-a-childso-she 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sorin-cerin/quote/nobody-will-ever-be-able-to-understand-the-meaning-of-the-measure-of-his-own-words 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/pablo-tusset/quote/if-every-word-introduces-a-new-concept-the-simple-phrase-all-that-which-does-not-exist-is-sufficient-to-make-everything-that-does-not-exist-exist 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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https://atomicquote.com/author/mohammed-zaki-ansari/quote/that-one-who-promised-to-care-my-life-and-to-be-with-in-all-the-way-same-one-killed-me-brutally-and-brutally-murder-my-heart-and-feelings-and-my-trustwhom-i-must-blame-god-or-that-person-or-t 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/alfred-korzybski/quote/definitions-create-conditions 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/michael-finkel/quote/soon-he-essentially-stopped-talking-i-am-retreating-into-silence-as-a-defensive-mode-he-mentioned-eventually-he-was-down-to-uttering-just-five-words-and-only-to-guards-yes-no-please-thank-you 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/robert-penn-warren/quote/for-example-but-i-cannot-give-you-an-example-it-was-not-so-much-any-one-example-any-one-event-which-i-recollected-which-was-important-but-the-flow-the-texture-of-the-events-for-meaning-is-nev 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/erich-maria-remarque/quote/close-behind-us-were-our-friends-tjaden-a-skinny-locksmith-of-our-own-age-the-biggest-eater-of-the-company-he-sits-down-to-eat-as-thin-as-a-grasshopper-and-gets-up-as-big-as-a-bug-in-the-fami 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/erich-maria-remarque/quote/and-so-everything-is-new-and-brave-red-poppies-and-good-food-cigarettes-and-summer-breeze 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/erich-maria-remarque/quote/below-there-are-cyclists-lorries-men-it-is-a-grey-street-and-a-grey-subway-it-affects-me-as-though-it-were-my-mother 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/derrick-jensen/quote/theres-a-larger-point-to-be-made-here-than-my-own-obtuseness-which-is-the-fragility-beauty-and-at-the-same-time-resilience-of-any-communication-an-inchoate-impulse-forms-into-a-feeling-that-r 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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https://atomicquote.com/author/ernest-agyemang-yeboah/quote/maturity-control-your-emotions-maturity-get-understanding-maturity-learn-from-daily-experiences-maturity-practice-what-you-learn-distinctively-maturity-know-when-to-do-what-maturity-understan 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/ml-rio/quote/for-someone-who-loved-words-as-much-as-i-did-it-was-amazing-how-often-they-failed-me 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lauren-eden/quote/we-livein-the-smallspaces-between-our-wordshidingbetweenthe-saidand-allwe-cannot-say 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/olivia-sudjic/quote/she-was-convinced-a-word-existed-a-noun-that-meant-the-loss-of-feelings-for-someone-who-was-formerly-loved-a-word-for-the-act-of-falling-out-of-love-i-said-i-couldnt-think-of-it-it-wasnt-in-t 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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https://atomicquote.com/author/ml-rio/quote/one-thing-im-sure-colborne-will-never-understand-is-that-i-need-language-to-live-like-food-lexemes-and-morphemes-and-morsels-of-meaning-nourish-me-with-the-knowledge-that-yes-there-is-a-word- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/benjamin-alire-saenz/quote/wed-been-so-sure-of-ourselves-but-now-we-were-lost 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/andre-alexis/quote/princes-words-had-not-been-meant-as-a-warning-rather-he-had-been-playing-he-had-been-pretending-he-had-been-speaking-for-speakings-sake-could-there-be-a-more-despicable-use-for-words 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/israelmore-ayivor/quote/let-your-words-be-petty-and-actions-plenty 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/e-lockhart/quote/when-theres-a-negative-word-or-expression-immaculate-for-example-but-the-positive-is-almost-never-used-and-you-choose-to-use-it-you-become-rather-amusing-or-pretentious-or-pretentiously-amusi 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kenneth-eade/quote/what-they-actually-did-matters-more-than-what-they-said 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/daphne-kalotay/quote/when-i-asked-if-she-read-poetry-anymore-she-said-no-she-had-lost-her-taste-for-it-that-was-how-she-said-it-lost-her-taste-i-asked-how-that-could-happen-and-she-said-she-agreed-with-plato-or-a 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/michael-finkel/quote/knight-seemed-to-weigh-the-precision-of-every-word-he-used-careful-as-a-poet-even-his-handwritten-letters-had-gone-through-at-least-one-draft-he-said-mostly-to-remove-unnecessary-insults-only 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/doris-lessing/quote/every-evening-i-sat-on-the-music-stool-and-wrote-down-my-day-and-it-was-as-if-i-anna-were-nailing-anna-to-the-page-every-day-i-shaped-anna-said-today-i-got-up-at-seven-cooked-breakfast-for-ja 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/meia-geddes/quote/is-it-not-so-presumptuous-to-write-a-word-to-write-a-word-is-to-give-the-word-a-space-all-of-its-own-you-build-a-home-for-it-and-hope-it-can-find-itself-at-home-among-all-the-other-words-nest 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jennifer-frick-ruppert/quote/attending-to-your-own-words-and-ideas-as-well-as-those-of-others-is-an-admirable-trait-in-any-person-but-a-necessity-in-a-leader 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/eve-ensler/quote/i-have-always-been-obsessed-with-naming-things-if-i-could-name-them-i-could-tame-them-they-could-be-my-friends 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jay-kristoff/quote/the-books-we-love-they-love-us-back-and-just-as-we-mark-out-places-in-the-pages-those-pages-leave-their-marks-on-us-i-can-see-it-in-you-sure-as-i-see-it-in-me-youre-a-daughter-of-words-a-girl 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/dexter-palmer/quote/the-palimpsests-of-molecules-need-not-be-overwritten-for-machines-make-once-ephemeral-words-persist-they-collect-in-gutters-they-pile-up-and-require-sweeping-they-hang-in-air-like-morning-fog 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/alexandra-kleeman/quote/say-something-to-it-he-saidas-i-looked-at-the-baby-i-felt-nothing-taking-shape-in-mind-or-mouth-i-had-no-idea-what-the-sort-of-things-were-that-somebody-would-say-to-a-baby-i-had-no-idea-why- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/alexandra-kleeman/quote/now-we-were-standing-around-holding-hands-and-not-much-was-going-on-i-began-to-think-of-words-i-had-known-just-for-fun-to-fill-up-the-blank-space-in-my-head-couch-i-thought-cuisinart-i-though 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/dexter-palmer/quote/it-is-time-to-put-down-the-pen-time-to-clear-the-throat-speaking-is-a-different-thing-altogether-from-writing-the-spoken-word-has-different-properties-and-different-powers-if-i-have-learned-a 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/emma-richler/quote/i-love-your-loins-thats-all-rachel-says-quietly-and-now-i-love-the-word-itself-and-how-words-change-i-love-that-too-and-all-the-parts-of-you-i-love-them-thats-all-and-im-not-sad-she-whispers- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/gaurav-grv-sharma/quote/sometimes-we-do-not-have-words-to-explain-our-emotions-just-a-smile-is-enough 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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https://atomicquote.com/author/ernest-agyemang-yeboah/quote/do-not-give-much-of-your-fears-to-the-knife-that-cuts-to-bring-out-blood-instead-fear-the-unseen-knife-that-cuts-deeper-than-the-knife-you-see-the-unseen-knife-that-inflicts-pain-in-the-heart 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/1-minuto-na-palma-da-mao/quote/christmas-is-conceptualized-with-solidarity-thats-nice-but-let-us-at-least-be-aware-that-it-does-not-solve-the-problem-however-doing-your-part-its-a-start-it-does-not-have-to-be-material-help 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jennifer-e-smith/quote/i-might-not-say-it-but-i-obviously-show-you-how-i-feel-she-says-why-do-the-words-have-to-be-so-importantthey-just-are-he-says-standing-up-and-brushing-off-the-back-of-his-jeans-not-because-yo 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/idra-novey/quote/to-have-made-a-coat-of-words-and-cloaked-yourself-in-it 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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https://atomicquote.com/author/ali-smith/quote/words-were-stories-in-themselves 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/james-c-dobson/quote/29-most-loneliness-results-from-insulation-rather-than-isolation-in-other-words-we-are-lonely-because-we-insulate-ourselves-not-because-others-isolate-us 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/james-c-dobson/quote/38-a-wet-bird-never-flies-at-night-my-grandfather-said-that-to-me-when-i-was-a-child-and-warned-me-not-to-forget-it-i-remember-his-words-but-never-did-figure-out-what-he-meant 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/angie-karan/quote/an-addition-that-takes-time-to-depart-and-sometimes-never-leaves-at-all-a-smell-a-touch-thoughts-moments-feelings-movements-words-left-unsaid-words-barely-spoken-they-all-have-a-distinct-sens 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/christina-engela/quote/theres-no-point-in-arguing-with-an-idiot-save-for-exposing-their-stupidity-in-their-own-words 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/china-mieville/quote/in-the-right-context-you-can-make-words-do-all-kinds-of-things 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/maurice-maeterlinck/quote/it-is-only-too-evident-that-the-invisible-agitations-of-the-kingdoms-within-us-are-arbitrarily-set-on-foot-by-the-thoughts-we-shelter-our-myriad-intuitions-are-the-veiled-queens-who-steer-our 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kj-kilton/quote/words-have-powertheir-power-doesnt-merely-emanate-from-the-meaning-they-carrybut-also-hidden-truth-they-leave-behindin-what-is-left-unsaid 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/ethan-canin/quote/as-soon-as-we-conform-anything-to-language-weve-changed-it-use-a-word-and-youve-altered-the-world-the-poets-know-this-its-what-they-try-so-hard-to-avoid 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00