Top Literature Quotes

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

Anyone who's read all of Proust plus The Man withour Qualities is bound t be missing out on a few other titles.

Literature Definition

(n.) Learning; acquaintance with letters or books.

(n.) The collective body of literary productions, embracing the entire results of knowledge and fancy preserved in writing; also, the whole body of literary productions or writings upon a given subject, or in reference to a particular science or branch of knowledge, or of a given country or period; as, the literature of Biblical criticism; the literature of chemistry.

(n.) The class of writings distinguished for beauty of style or expression, as poetry, essays, or history, in distinction from scientific treatises and works which contain positive knowledge; belles-lettres.

(n.) The occupation, profession, or business of doing literary work.

Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.

Childhood only comes around once. Make your child's memories special. Take them on a new adventure each day. It is as simple as opening a book.

Literature will save me it's the only certainty i am sure of.

I visited many places, Some of them quite Exotic and far away, But I always returned to myself.

Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a little conduit opens, a passageway between a reader's heart and a writer'...

In the Dictionary 'lumpy jaw' comes just before 'lunacy,' but in life there are no such clues. Suddenly, for no reason, you might start to dribble from the mouth, to howl peevishly at the moon. You mi...

Be careful, Aidan called from the bed. You don't know what he might do. We all know what you'd do, though, don't we?

Certain places seem to exist mainly because someone has written about them.

Music , literature with poetry makes a perfect paradise.

If you ask a twenty-one-year-old poet whose poetry he likes, he might say, unblushing, Nobody's, In his youth, he has not yet understood that poets like poetry, and novelists like novels; he himself l...

Yet when books have been read and reread, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them.

Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.

Gazing from the moon, we see one earth, without borders, Mother Earth, her embrace encircling one people, humankind.

To expect to be kissed having bad breath is the secret of a fool.

In your opinion, where do private and political life, personal history and History meet? You know the answer, Maya. You say it unhesitatingly - in art and literature.

[On Female Attraction to Men in Uniform] That male military persona feeds a subconscious, passive-aggressive female desire to dominate the warrior as he is perceived an iconic example of masculinity (...

Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.

Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.