Memorable words from books around the world.
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”
“The soul is healed by being with children.”
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”
“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
“Call me Ishmael.”
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.”
“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
“Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.”
“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.”
“When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.”
“There was a country.”
“Siddhartha had one single goal — to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow.”
“Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.”
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.”
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.”
“Happiness is always the same, but unhappiness invents new forms for itself.”
“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
“People are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them; life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
“Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure.”
“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
“We dream of voyages through the universe — but is not the universe within ourselves?”
“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
“Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.”
“The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments.”
“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river.”
“Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”