15 BEAUTIFUL QUOTES FROM CLASSIC BOOKS
“Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.”
Bookshelves everywhere are overflowing with new authors, but we keep coming back to classic books for a reason.
Written by the greatest literary minds of their time, their wisdom and universal truths have spoken to generations, and continue to fascinate readers to this day.
From Jane Austen to F. Scott Fitzgerald, here are 15 beautiful quotes from classic books. Read on.
UNFORGETTABLE QUOTES FROM CLASSIC LITERATURE
1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
“If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.”
2. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”
3. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
5. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
“Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.”
6. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams – this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness – and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”
7. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
8. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”
9. Beloved by Toni Morrison
“You are your best thing.”
10. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
“Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around.”
11. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
12. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
“Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.”
13. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
14. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
15. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
0 Comments