INSPIRATIONAL ENGLISH LITERATURE QUOTES

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” – John Green, Looking for Alaska

“We are all fools in love.” – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.” – Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.” – Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.” – Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” – Dylan Thomas, Do not go gentle into that good night

“The only way to deal with ravenous wolves is to back them so far into a corner that they have only one way out: forward, and at you.” – Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“How wild it was, to let it be.” – Cheryl Strayed, Wild

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison

“She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.” – J.D. Salinger, A Girl I Knew

“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations GOD IS DEAD QUOTE NIETZSCHE

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.” – J.K. Rowling

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” – Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“Don’t wait for the right moment to start, start and make each moment right.” – Roy T. Bennett

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.” – Emily Dickinson

“We are all born mad. Some remain so.” – Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.” – Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” – Sigmund Freud

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” – André Gide, Autumn Leaves

“The past is always tense, the future perfect.” – Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“For you, a thousand times over.” – Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.” – David Whyte

“Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You’re in with the former, but my God I don’t envy the blood on your conscience.” – Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale