A book contains thousands of words and sentences. But only a few of them stick with us. Some of these words or sentences can remain with us forever. They can still inspire us long after we have read the book. Here are some of my favourite quotes from my favourite writers to inspire and amaze you in life:
Miguel de Cervantes, Don quixote
- “For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.”
- “Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do in this life is to let himself die.”
- “There is no book so bad…that it does not have something good in it.”
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
4. “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
5. “How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!”
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
6. “Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed.”
7. “Why are we here, that is the question? And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in this immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come…We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment.”
Khaled Housseini, The Kite Runner
8. “There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every sin is a variation of theft.”
9. “It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime…”
10. “And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
11. “It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
12. “Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.”
13. “We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”
Edgar Allan Poe
14. “There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
D.H. Lawrence
15. “Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.”
16. “We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
17. “It’s bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.”
Shakespeare, Hamlet
18. “To thine own self be true.”
Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
19. “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
20. “Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.”
21. “It is always the way of events in this life…no sooner have you got settled in a pleasant resting place, than a voice calls out to you to rise and move on, for the hour of repose is expired.”
George Orwell
22. “The imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.”
23. “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.”
Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
24. “I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.”
25. “I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.”
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