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As much as books are an escape from reality, one cannot deny the fact that books are a source of motivation, a source of love, solitude, and personality. People start thinking like the way of the book that they are reading and they can often be seen quoting lines and quotes from various books.
Hence, we have brought forward 58 amazing quotes from the best books that will definitely amaze you and will tempt you to use them in your real life.
1. “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known.” - A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
2. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” - The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkein
3. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…” - Oh, the Places You’ll Go! Dr Seuss
4. “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.” - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
5.
“But I,
being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under
your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” - He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, W.B. Yeats
6. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” - Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
7.
“But soft!
What light through yonder window breaks?
It
is the east, and Juliet is the sun.” - Romeo and Juliet, William
Shakespeare
8.
“Made weak
by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” - Ulysses, Alfred Lord Tennyson
9. “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone … just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” - The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
10. “Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” - To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
11.“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with asleep.” - The Tempest, William Shakespeare
12.“A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.” - When We Were Very Young, A.A. Milne
13.“Not all those who wander are lost.” - The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkein
14. “The Answer to the ultimate question of Life, The Universe and Everything is…42!” - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
15. “There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.” — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
16. “It
is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible
to the eye.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
17. “I
am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent
will, which I now exert to leave you.” — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
18. “It
was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it
was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of
incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was
the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.” — Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
19. “Beware;
for I am fearless and therefore powerful.” — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
20.“I
wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that
courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked
before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
You rarely win, but sometimes you do.” — Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
21. “A
man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left
only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well —
or ill?” — John Steinbeck, East of Eden
22.“The only way out of
the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
23. “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, Hamlet
24."'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, Charlotte’s Web
25. “I
took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
26.“Love
is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.” — Toni Morrison, Beloved
27. “We
accept the love we think we deserve.” ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
28.“And
so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the
past.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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29.“Ever’body’s
askin’ that. ‘What we comin’ to?’ Seems to me we don’t never come to nothin’.
Always on the way.” — John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
30. “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” — Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
31.“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” — Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
32. “All
happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
33. “Memories
warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.” — Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
34.“It
is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live.” — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
35.“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
36.“Tomorrow I’ll think
of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.” — Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
37.“Why,
sometimes, I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
— Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
38. “Don’t
ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.” — J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
39.
“It
does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
40. “You
pierce my soul. I am half agony. Half hope. Tell me not that I am too late,
that such precious feelings are gone for ever.” — Jane Austen, Persuasion
41. “There
are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.” — Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark
42. “When
you play the game of thrones you win or you die.” — George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
43.“Very
few castaways can claim to have survived so long at sea as Mr. Patel, and none
in the company of an adult Bengal tiger.” — Yann Martel, Life of Pi
44.“Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.” — Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
45. “Isn’t
it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
— L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
46.“You
forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
— Cormac McCarthy, The Road
47. “It
was a pleasure to burn.” — Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
48. “The
past is not dead. In fact, it’s not even past.” — William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun
49.“He
has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.”
— Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
50.“Nowadays
people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
51.“We
dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
52.“So
many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible.”
— Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
53.“I
can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
54. “And,
when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve
it.” — Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
55. “There
is always something left to love.” ― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
56.“Stay
gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.” ― S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders
57.“Do
I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe
of beaches.” — William Goldman, The Princess Bride
58. “As
he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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