- Famous and historical book phrases
- Youth book phrases
- Love book phrases
- Phrases from self-improvement and self-help books
- Other
Books take us to a different world. If you usually read, you will know how interesting, fun, curious and enriching it can be to read a good book. You are transported to the actor's imagination and you live his story, no matter where you are and the moment in the story where you live.
Here is a list of famous phrases from famous love, youth, adventure, fantasy, horror, historical, romantic and all kinds of books. They are beautiful thoughts from classic and internationally known authors such as William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Stephen King, Tolkien, Paulo Coelho, Leo Tolstoy, Lewis Carroll, and many more.
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Famous and historical book phrases
-The true journey of discovery does not consist in looking for new landscapes, but in having new eyes.-Marcel Proust, In search of lost time.
- It is never too late to be wise.-Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe.
-Our lives are defined by opportunities, even those we lose.- The curious case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
-I call people "rich" when they are able to satisfy the needs of their imagination.- The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James.
-The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to experience.- Dune by Frank Herbert.
-How wonderful it is that no one needs a single moment before beginning to improve the world.- The Diary of Anne Frank.
-If you seek perfection you will never be happy.- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.
-Be a man or be more than a man. Be firm with your purpose and firm as a stone.- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
-It's better to look at the sky than to live there.- Truman Capote Diamond Breakfast.
-Stop worrying about getting old and think about growing up.- Philip Roth's dying animal.
-You never know what bad luck has saved you from worse luck.- Cormac McCarthy's no country for old men.
"The worst thing about religion was religious people." Jeffrey Eugenides' nuptial plot.
- Take care of life or take care of dying.- Life sentence of Stephen King.
- Don't panic.- Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
-The reasonable man adapts to the world: the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.- Man and Superman by George Bernad Shaw.
-There are people who, the more you do for them, the less they do for themselves.- Emma by Jane Austen.
-Friendship is undoubtedly the best balm for the pains of love disappointment.- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen.
-There is no happiness or unhappiness in this world; there is only comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt the utmost despair is capable of the utmost happiness. It is necessary to have wanted to die to know how good it is to live.- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.
- Death destroys man: the idea of death saved him.-Howards End by EM Forster.
-When we love, we always strive to be better than we are. When we strive to be better than we are, everything around us becomes better.- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
-They wanted to talk, but couldn't; There were tears in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those pale faces were illuminated with the dawn of a new future.- Crime and punishment of Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
-I have no idea what awaits me, or what will happen when all this is over. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and I need to heal them.- The plague of Albert Camus.
-The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, because only then can he feel the madness of despair.- Arthur Conan Doyle's white company.
-While the heart beats, while the body and soul are still together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with will has the need to lose hope in life.- Journey to the center of the land of Jules Verne.
-It's on December nights, when the thermometer is at zero, when we think the most about the sun.- Victor Hugo's wretches.
-I can't die yet doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. After all, I will have a whole life in which to die.- The Angel Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón.
-Each book, each volume that you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it, lived and dreamed of it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone lowers their eyes to the pages, their spirit grows and strengthens.- La Sombra del Viento by Carlos Ruiz Zafón.
-You think you know all your possibilities. Then other people come into your life and suddenly there are many more.- David Levithan's Realm of Possibility.
-The sun is weak when it rises first, and gains strength and courage as the day progresses.- Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens.
-Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around.- Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates.
-Getting what you want is as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it, instead of figuring out what to do without it.- David Levithan's Realm of Possibility.
-If you don't expect anything from anyone, you will never be disappointed.- Sylvia Plath's bell jar.
-What a treacherous thing to think that a person is more than a person.- Paper Towns by John Green.
-Few castaways can say they have survived as much at sea as Mr. Patel, and no one in the company of an adult Bengal tiger.- Life of Pi by Yann Martel.
-The creatures outside looked from pig to man and from man to pig again; but it was impossible to say which was which. - George Orwell's Farm Rebellion.
"I don't know what can come of it, but whatever it is, I'll go towards it laughing." Herman Melville's Moby Dick.
-Yes, as everyone knows, meditation and water are married forever.- Herman Melville's Moby Dick.
-I can't go back in time because I was a different person then.- Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
-Alicia: How long is forever? White Rabbit: Sometimes Just a Second - Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.
"I know who I was this morning when I got up, but I think I've had to change several times since then." Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
-The greatest adventure is the one that awaits us. Today and tomorrow have not yet been said. The possibilities, the changes are all yours to do. The mold of his life in his hands is to break.- The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien.
-I feel like I'm moving forward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.- American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis.
-Life changes fast. Life changes in an instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.- The Year of Magical Thought by Joan Didion.
-I am not a bird and no net catches me. I am a free human being with an independent will.- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.
-The mind makes its own place, and in itself it can make a heaven from hell, and a hell from heaven.- Paradise Lost by John Milton.
-Do you know what happens when you hurt people? Ammu said. When you hurt people, they start loving you less. That's what sloppy words do. They make people love you a little less.- Arundhati Roy's God of Little Things.
"Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and that it was amazing what kind of things they could get used to." Arundhati Roy's god of little things.
-We tell ourselves stories to live.- Joan Didion's White Album.
-Speaking nonsense is the only privilege that humanity has over other organisms. It is by speaking nonsense that one comes to the truth. I speak nonsense, therefore I am human.- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
-When you're scared but do it anyway, that's bravery.- Coraline by Neil Gaiman.
-You have to be careful with books and what is inside them, since words have the power to change us.- Cassandra Clare's mechanical Angel.
-I don't like working - no man likes it - but I like what's in work - the opportunity to find yourself. Your own reality - for you, not for others - what no other man will know.- The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.
-All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know at the time.- The Five People You'll Meet in Mitch Albom's Heaven.
-If people simply love others just a little, they can be very happy.- Germinal by Émile Zola.
-If you seek perfection, you will never be happy.-Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina.
-In the afternoon he went to see the cinema "The Lord of the Rings", which he had not had time to see before. She thought that orcs, unlike humans, were simple and uncomplicated creatures. - Stieg Larsson's Tattooed Dragon Girl.
-Have you ever fallen in love? It's not horrible? It makes you so vulnerable. Open your chest and open your heart and it means that someone can enter you and undo you.- The benevolent of Neil Gaiman.
-The world was so recent, that many things lacked a name, and to mention them you had to point your finger at them.- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Marquez.
-When you feel like criticizing someone, remember that not everyone has had the same opportunities that you had.- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
-The memories warm you from within. But they also destroy you.- Kafka on the shore of Haruki Murakami.
- When someone leaves, it is because someone else is about to arrive.- El Zahir by Paulo Coelho.
- All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know at the time.- The Five People You Meet in Mitch Albom's Heaven.
- It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.- Autumn Leaves by André Gide.
- Who, being loved, is poor? - An unimportant woman by Oscar Wilde.
- None of us really change over time. We only become more fully what we are.- Prince Lestat by Anne Rice.
- Travel enough, you will find yourself.- Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.
- The worst enemy of creativity is self-doubt.-Sylvia Plath, The complete magazines of Sylvia Plath.
- Yes, I am a dreamer. A dreamer is one who can only find his way in the light of the moon, and his punishment is that he sees the sunrise before the rest of the world.-Oscar Wilde, The Critic as an Artist.
- Dream. Sometimes I think it's the only right thing. -Haruki Murakami, Sputnik, my love.
- If I get rid of my demons, I would lose my angels.-Tennessee Williams, Conversations with Tennessee Williams.
- Sometimes it is an appropriate response to reality to go crazy.-Philip K. Dick, Valis.
- Power resides where men think it resides, no more, no less. –George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings (Book 2).
- What's good in this I ask you? He who runs through life only runs to his grave. –George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings (Book 2).
- The biggest fool is sometimes smarter than the men who laugh at him. –George RR Martin, Storm of Swords (Book 3).
- Even a stopped clock is correct twice a day.-Paulo Coelho, Brida.
- If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.-Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief.
- To define is to limit.-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray.
- Art allows us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.-Thomas Merton, Men are not islands.
- It was times like these when I thought that my father, who hated guns and had never been to any war, was the bravest man who ever lived. - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird.
- Someday I will find the right words, and they will be simple.-Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums.
- It seems weak when you are strong and strong when you are weak.-Sun Tzu, The Art of War.
- Only after we have lost everything, we are free to do anything.-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club.
- Nothing worthwhile is easy.-Nicholas Sparks, Message in a bottle.
- Some infinities are larger than other infinities.-John Green, Under the Same Star.
- Above all, do not lie to yourself.-Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Karamazov brothers.
- There is darkness in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all the lights. -Bram Stroker, Dracula.
- We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.-Oscar Wilde, The Fan of Lady Windermere.
- Darkness cannot take you out of darkness, only light can do that. Hate Can't Extinguish Hate, Only Love Can Do That - A Testament of Peace from Martin Luther King Jr.
- I am so clever that sometimes I do not understand a single word of what I say.- The Happy Prince and other stories of Oscar Wilde.
- Without music, life would be a mistake.- The decline of the idols by Friedrich Nietzsche.
- The person, be it a gentleman or a lady, who feels no pleasure in reading a good novel must be intolerably stupid.- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen.
- Fairy tales are more than the truth. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they teach us that dragons can be defeated.- Coraline by Neil Gaiman.
- I solemnly swear that my intentions are not good.- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling.
- It takes a lot of bravery to face our enemies, but it takes a lot more to face friends.- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling.
"Sure it's happening in your head, Harry, but why would that mean it's not real?" "Harry Potter and the JK Rowling Deathly Hallows.
- For an organized mind, death is but another great adventure.- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling.
- What I really like is a book that makes, when you finish reading it, you wish that the author was your friend and that you could call him whenever you wanted. However, that doesn't happen often.- Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger.
- I confess that there is no greater pleasure than reading. How quickly one gets tired of anything except books. When I have a home of my own, I'll be miserable if I don't have an exquisite library.- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
- You cannot understand a person until you have considered things from their point of view… until you have put yourself in their shoes and walked in them.- Killing a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
- Carrying a gun is inviting the other to shoot you - To kill a Harper Lee nightingale.
- The books that the world calls immoral are those that show the world its own shame.- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
- An interesting fact to reflect on is that human beings have been created to be a secret and a mystery to others. - The Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.
"According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts left deeper scars than anything else." Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling.
- I don't know what is worse: not knowing what you are and being happy or becoming what you always wanted to be and feeling alone.- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes.
- After all, how do we know that two plus two equals four, that gravity works or that the past cannot be changed if the past and the outside world exist only in our minds and the mind can be controlled? - 1984 by George Orwell.
- Too much sincerity makes you look fake.- Chronicles of the killer of kings by Patrick Rothfuss.
Youth book phrases
-Older people can never understand something on their own and it is very boring for children to have to explain them again and again.- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
- It is our choices that show who we really are, much more than our abilities.- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling.
- Never trust something he can think of for himself if you can't see where his brain keeps. - JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
-There are books whose backs and covers are by far the best part.- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickes.
-Others will write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart always understands him.- The legend of Sleepy Hollow and other stories by Washington Irving.
-Not all who wander are lost.- The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien.
-If you want to know how a man is, look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling.
-The wands are as powerful as the witches who use them. Some witches like to boast that they are bigger and better than other people.- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling.
-People find it much easier to forgive others for being wrong than for being right. -JK Rowling's Half-Blood Prince.
-Happiness can be found, even in the darkest times, only if you remember to turn on the light.- The Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling.
-District 12: where you can starve safely.- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.
-There are so many ways to be brave in this world.- Veronica Roth loyalist.
-And at that time, I swear we were infinite.- Stephen Chbosky's Advantages of Being Invisible, -You could shake the stars. You could do anything, if only you dare. And deep down, you know it too, and that's what scares you the most.- Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas.
-The books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.- Eragon by Christopher Paolini.
-I'm done with them; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.- A unique story by Ned Vizzini.
-Becoming brave is not the goal. That's impossible. It is about learning how to control your fear and how to free yourself from it..- Divergent by Verónica Roth.
-Some roads you have to walk alone.- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins.
-That's the problem of pain. It demands to be felt.-Under the same star as John Green.
-The universe is bigger than anything that can fit in your mind.- Ava Dellaira's love letters to the dead.
-It is not necessary to stop in dreams and forget to live.- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling.
Love book phrases
-Love is the longing of the half of ourselves that we have lost.- The unbearable lightness of Milan Kundera's being.
-Love those you love while you have them. That is all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you will never escape.- My name is memory of Ann Brashares.
- Love is poison, a sweet poison yes; but it will kill you anyway. –George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings (Book 2).
-I am what you have made of me. Take my praise, take my blame, take all the success, take the failure, in short, take me.- Great Hopes by Charles Dickens.
-I look at you and a feeling of wonder invades me.-Homer, The Odyssey.
-I was too young to know how to love her.-The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
-There is nothing as mortifying as falling in love with someone who does not share your feelings.-Venetia, by Georgette Heyer.
-The one you love and the one who loves you are never the same person.-Invisible monsters, by Chuck Palahniuk.
-I will never leave you, although you are always leaving me.-The woman of the traveler in time, by Audrey Niffenegger.
-Love. The reason I dislike that word is because it means a lot to me. Much more than you could understand.-Ana Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy.
"The reason it hurts so much to part is because our souls are connected." Noah's Notebook, by Nicholas Sparks.
-I wish I knew how to leave you.- BrokeBack mountain, by Annie Proulx.
-You should be kissed often, and by someone who knows how to do it. - Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell.
-You can love someone a lot… But you can never love as much as you miss. -The Katherine Theorem, by John Green.
-The deceptions and lies are not problems. They're Reasons To Go Separately-Between The Tides, by Patti Callahan Henry.
-It's that, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can't be you? -Forbidden, by Tabitha Suzuma.
-Why shouldn't I admit it? - At that moment, my heart was breaking.- The remainder of the day, by Kazuo Ishiguro.
-The heart dies slowly, casting every hope like leaves, until one day there is none. Without hope. Nothing remains.-Memoirs of a geisha, by Chiyo Sakamoto.
-The heart suffers a painful death, casting off all hope until there is nothing left. No hope. Nothing remains. –Chiyo Sakamoto, Memoirs of a Geisha, by Chiyo Sakamoto.
-Friendship is born at the moment in which a man says to another “What !? You too? I thought that no one else besides me… - The Four Loves of CS Lewis.
-When we accept love, we think we deserve it.- The Perks of Being Invisible by Stephen Chbosky.
-I'm in love with you and I'm not going to deny myself the simple pleasure of saying things that are true. I am in love with you and I know that love is nothing but a cry in the void, and I know that we are doomed, and I know that the day will come when everything turns to dust, and I know that the sun will swallow the the only land we'll have, and I'm in love with you. - Under the same star as John Green,.
-There's nothing I wouldn't do for people who are my true friends. I don't love half, it's not in my nature. ”- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen.
-We are fools in love.- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
-Because I would go to sea from now on, if not for the elf maiden
that calls me, calls me.
And tie my heart with a lily ribbon, that will never break if it weren't for the sea, always torn between the trees and the waves ”.- Eragon by Chistopher Paolini.
Stunned, Eragon sat on a rotting log and buried his face in his hands, crying at the condemnation that his love for Arya was unrequited, and crying for having pushed her further away from himself. "Eldest by Christopher Paolini."
They both struck with closed fists, but Bill realized that they were not actually striking with their fists but with the force of both, combined and increased by the force of the "Other." It was the force of memory and desire, but above all, it was the force of love and childhood not forgotten. - That of Stephen King.
Tristan looked at me and said something I will always remember: "Let me tell you something, Cupcake," he said. There are two most important things in the world: being in danger and being saved.
So I asked him, “But if those are the two most important things, what about being in love?
Why do you think that is the deepest thing for a person? It is both at the same time. When we are in love, we are completely in danger and completely saved.- Ava Dellaira's love letters to the dead.
Phrases from self-improvement and self-help books
-Fight until the last breath.- Henry VI by William Shakespeare.
- Everything is possible. The impossible just takes more time.-Dan Brown, The Digital Fortress.
- Happiness is only real when it is shared.-Jon Krakauer, Towards Wild Routes.
- Many things are possible as long as you do not know that they are impossible.-Norton Juster, The magic house.
-I have hope or I might not live.- The Island of Dr. Moreau by HG Wells.
-My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.- David Copperfield by Charles Dickes.
Busy Living Or Busy Dying.- Shawshank's Redemption by Stephen King.
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." This is my Eleanor Roosevelt life.
-It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
-There is no greater agony than carrying an untold story within you.- I know why the caged bird of Maya Angelou sings.
- The only limits for tomorrow are the doubts we have today.- The Power of Six of Pittacus Lore.
- If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.- Lemony Snicket's contrived elevator.
- It is possible to make a dream come true that makes life more interesting. –Paulo Cohelo, The Alchemist.
- Fear does not stop you; wakes you up.-Veronica Roth, Divergent.
- If you make mistakes, it means that you are doing something.-Neil Gaiman, Make good art.
- There is no shame in being afraid, my father taught me; what matters is how we deal with it. –George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings (Book 2).
"Tomorrow is a new day, after all." Gone with the Wind from Margaret Mitchell.
-I do not want to die without scars.-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club.
Other
Writers phrases.
Phrases about reading.
Education phrases.
Phrases of the little prince.