Top 100 Famous Book Quotes On Life

Famous Book Quotes

When you read a great book, there is a tendency that you’ll forget the names of the minor characters, however not your favorite book quotes. The best book quotes will likely remain with you even if you have finished reading the book.

From a stunning first sentence to a perfect string of dialogue, there are certain parts of books that feel particularly memorable. And whether they make us laugh, cry, or simply reflect, these quotable lines have a habit of sticking with us long after we turn the final page. Read on for some of the best book quotes we won’t ever forget.

From time to time, we all need a motivational boost. Sometimes we need to enthuse those around us. There is nothing more effective in these situations than a well-chosen inspirational quote from literature. Here are some Famous Book Quotes On Life

Many of us have special memories of the books that have inspired us, and have learned the profound effect that reading the right book can have at the right moment. If you’re short on time, reading some Famous Book Quotes On Life is the next best thing.

1. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Oscar Wilde

2. ′Classic′ – a book which people praise and don’t read.

Mark Twain

3. Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.

George R.R. Martin

4. Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.

Albert Einstein

5. So many books, so little time

Frank Zappa

6. A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

7. There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.

J.R.R. Tolkien

8. The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

John Green

9. I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.

Sylvia Plath

10. Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.

Toni Morrison

11. And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

12. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Emily Brontë

13. All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy

14. It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live.

Victor Hugo

15. Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

Daphne du Maurier,

16. Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it

Toni Morrison

17. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Yann Martel

18. One person alone is not a full person: we exist in relation to others.

Margaret Atwood

19. If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

J.K. Rowling

20. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

J.R.R. Tolkein

21. It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

J.K. Rowling

22. Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Harper Lee

23. We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

24. A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.

A.A. Milne

25. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Oscar Wilde

26. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

27. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

28. We accept the love we think we deserve

Stephen Chbosky

29. I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.

Oscar Wilde

30. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

31. Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

Narcotics Anonymous

32. It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.

Donna Tartt,

33. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

Kurt Vonnegut

34. I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Groucho Marx

35. Books were my pass to personal freedom.

Oprah Winfrey

36. The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

George Orwell, 1984

37. Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

Diane Duane

38. Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Mary Shelley

39. Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

Ursula K. Le Guin

40. There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Willa Cather

41. Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.

Toni Morrison

42. It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

J.K. Rowling

43. Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.

Bryan Stevenson

44. Beware for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Mary Shelley

45. Words are life.

The Book Thief

46. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Emily Brontë

47. A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.

A.A. Milne

48. All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.

Charles M. Schulz

49. I guess there are never enough books.

John Steinbeck

50. It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything

Chuck Palahniuk

51.  “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”

John Green

52. “This above all: To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

William Shakespeare

53. “Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.”

E.B. White

54. “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.”

Sylvia Plath

55. “Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.”

Toni Morrison

56. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

Albert Einstein

57. “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”

Mark Twain

58. “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone … just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

59. “Forgiveness condones nothing, but it does cast off the chains of anger, judgment, resentment, denial, and pain that choke growth. In this way, it allows for life, for freedom. So that’s what’s at stake when it comes to forgiveness: freedom. With this freedom, we can feel better, be better, and choose better next time.”

Michele Harper

60. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

Margaret Fuller

61. “A word after a word after a word is power.”

Margaret Atwood

62. “One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”

Carl Sagan

63. “Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”

Napoleon Bonaparte

64. “A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.”

Charles Baudelaire

65.  “Beware for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”

Mary Shelley

66. “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”  

Lewis Carroll

67. “Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”  

Ralph Ellison

68. “I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.”  

Herman Melville

69. “It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present”

Charles Dickens

70. “It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.”

Leo Tolstoy

71. “If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory.”

Mark Twain

72. “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.”

George R.R. Martin

73. “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”

Harper Lee

74. “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”

Lemony Snicket

75. “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”

C.S. Lewis

76. “Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary.”

Jim Rohn

77. “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”

Groucho Marx

78. “Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people – people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.”

E.B. White

79. “Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.”

David Levithan

80. “Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.”

Groucho Marx

81. “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”

Neil Gaiman

82. “And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”

Stephen Chbosky

83. “What day is it?’, asked Winnie the Pooh. ‘It’s today,’ squeaked Piglet. ‘My favorite day,’ said Pooh.”

A. A. Milne

84. “Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.”

Brave New World

85. “By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has pounded on it all day long.”

Memoirs of a Geisha

86. “Neighbours bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbour. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good luck pennies, and our lives.”

Kill a Mockingbird

87. “The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”

The Gunslinger

88. “Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit em, but remember that it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

Kill a Mockingbird

89. “Promise me you’ll remember, you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think.”

A.A. Milne

90. “So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible.”

Norton Juster

91. “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”

A.A. Milne

92. “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer”

Douglas Adams

93. “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

Paulo Coelho

94. “We love the things we love for what they are.”

Robert Frost

95. “How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.”

Rupi Kaur

96. “I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.”

Laurie Halse Anderson

97. “Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.”

Mortimer J. Adler

98. “A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.”

C.S. Lewis

99.  “I guess you can’t fight nature. We are what we are.”

Dev Petty

100. “Normal is whatever you are.”

Stephen Cosgrove

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