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I leave you the best phrases of famous writers, some of the most important in history, such as Mark Twain, Miguel de Cervantes, Franz Kafka, Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens and many more.
You may also be interested in these phrases from famous books or these about reading.
-He who reads a lot and walks a lot, sees a lot and knows a lot.-Miguel de Cervantes.
-More worth it on the face than the stain on the heart.-Miguel de Cervantes.
-Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross the wrong words.-Mark Twain.
42-It is true that in the world of men there is nothing necessary, except love.-Goethe.
-The first step of ignorance is to boast of knowing.-Baltasar Gracián.
-The future has many names. For the weak is the unreachable. For the fearful, the unknown. For the brave it is the opportunity.-Victor Hugo.
-Atreveos: progress is only achieved this way.-Victor Hugo.
-Life is a series of collisions with the future; It is not a sum of what we have been, but of what we yearn to be.-José Ortega y Gasset.
-The monkeys are too good for man to descend from them.-Friedrich Nietzsche.
-He who has a reason to live can face all the «hows».- Friedrich Nietzsche.
-He who wants from this life all things to his liking, will have many dislikes.-Francisco de Quevedo.
-The brave is afraid of the opposite; the coward, of his own fear.-Francisco de Quevedo.
-It is better to be a king of your silence than a slave of your words.-William Shakespeare.
-The wise man does not sit down to lament, but happily sets about his task of repairing the damage done.-William Shakespeare
-We look for happiness, but without knowing where, like drunks look for their home, knowing that they have one.-Voltaire.
-The human race is in the best situation when it has the highest degree of freedom.-Dante Alighieri.
-Who knows about pain, knows everything.-Dante Alighieri.
-The soul that can speak with the eyes, can also kiss with the gaze.-Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer.
-You have to die a few times before you can truly live.-Charles Bukowski.
-If we do good out of interest, we will be cunning, but never good.-Cicero.
-The one who has imagination, with what ease takes a world out of nothing.-Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer.
-Our most deeply-rooted, most indubitable convictions, are the most suspect. They constitute our limit, our confines, our prison.-José Ortega y Gasset.
-All that really belongs to us is time; Even the one who has nothing else, possesses it.-Baltasar Gracián.
- It is not enough to know, it must also be applied. It is not enough to want, it must also be done.-Goethe.
-Here there are three classes of people: those who kill themselves working, those who should work and those who should kill themselves.-Mario Benedetti.
-When we thought we had all the answers, suddenly, all the questions changed.-Mario Benedetti.
32-True love is nothing other than the inevitable desire to help the other to be who he is.-Jorge Bucay.
-The true seeker grows and learns, and discovers that he is always the main responsible for what happens.-Jorge Bucay.
-The bond that unites your authentic family is not of blood, but of mutual respect and joy.-Richard Bach.
-If your happiness depends on what others do, I suppose you will be in trouble.-Richard Bach.
42-Lucky is the man who has time to wait.-Pedro Calderón de la Barca.
-Beating yourself is such a great feat that only those who are great can dare to execute it.-Pedro Calderón de la Barca.
35-What we do may not always bring happiness, but if we do nothing, there will be no happiness.-Albert Camus.
-Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow you. Don't walk behind me, I may not guide you. Walk with me and be my friend.-Albert Camus.
-Discipline is the most important part of success.-Truman Capote.
-All failure is the seasoning that gives flavor to success.-Truman Capote.
-Accept risks, all life is nothing but an opportunity. The man who goes the furthest is, generally, the one who wants and dares to be.-Dale Carnegie.
-Find yourself and be yourself; Remember that there is no one like you.-Dale Carnegie.
-One of the deep secrets of life is that the only thing that is worth doing is what we do for others.-Lewis Carroll.
-You can get anywhere, as long as you walk enough.-Lewis Carroll.
-The bad thing about those who believe they are in possession of the truth is that when they have to prove it, they don't get one right.-Camilo José Cela.
-The noblest function of a writer is to give testimony, as a notarial act and as a faithful chronicler, of the time that he has had to live.-Camilo José Cela.
-Trust in time, which usually gives sweet solutions to many bitter difficulties.-Miguel de Cervantes.
-The path of virtue is very narrow and the path of vice, wide and spacious.-Miguel de Cervantes.
-The real problem of the world is how to prevent it from jumping up.-Noam Chomsky.
-Men are like wines: age sour the bad and improves the good.-Cicero.
-I would give everything I know, for half of what I ignore.-René Descartes.
-The human heart is an instrument with many strings; The perfect connoisseur of men knows how to make them all vibrate, like a good musician.-Charles Dickens.
-The secret of existence does not consist only in living, but in knowing what one lives for.-Fyodor Dostoevsky.
-If you totally believe in yourself, there will be nothing that is out of your possibilities.-Wayne W. Dyer.
-Nothing is more harmful to creativity than the fury of inspiration.-Umberto Eco.
-Success consists in getting what you want. Happiness, in enjoying what you get.-Emerson.
-A heart is a wealth that is neither sold nor bought, but that is given away.-Gustave Flaubert.
-If we exaggerate our joys, as we do with our sorrows, our problems would lose importance.-Anatole France.
-Death as the end of the time that we live can only cause fear to those who do not know how to fill the time that is given to them to live.-Viktor Frankl.
-Modern science has not yet produced a calming drug as effective as a few kind words are.-Sigmund Freud.
-At the end of the day, we are what we do to change who we are.-Eduardo Galeano.
-Human beings are not born forever the day their mothers give birth to them, but life forces them to give birth to themselves again and again.-Gabriel García Márquez.
-Being independent of public opinion is the first formal condition to achieve something great.-Friedrich Hegel.
-Knowing is relatively easy. Wanting and acting according to what one would like is always harder.-Aldous Huxley.
-Where a television works, surely there is someone who is not reading.-John Irving.
-Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who retains the ability to see beauty never grows old.-Franz Kafka.
-If it is good to live, it is still better to dream, and best of all, to wake up.-Antonio Machado.
-Of the things you have, choose the best and then meditate how eagerly you would have looked for them if you didn't have them.-Marco Aurelio.
-The devaluation of the human world grows in direct reason of the valorization of the world of things.-Karl Marx.
17-If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.-George Orwell.
-Things don't change; we change.-Henry David Thoreau.
-He who is not able to part with a treasure in a moment of need is like a chained slave.-JRR Tolkien.
-The secret of happiness is not always doing what you want but always wanting what you do.-Leon Tolstoi.
-You travel not to seek your destination but to flee from where you start.-Miguel de Unamuno.
28-Uncertainty is a daisy whose petals never finish removing their leaves.-Mario Vargas Llosa.
-There is nothing easier than giving advice or more difficult than knowing how to take it.-Lope de Vega.
-Sometimes we can spend years without living at all, and suddenly our whole life is concentrated in a single instant.-Oscar Wilde.
-Only in solitude does one feel the thirst for truth.-María Zambrano.
-Life is very treacherous, and each one manages as best he can to keep horror, sadness and loneliness at bay. I do it with my books.-Arturo Pérez Reverte.
-Poverty does not come from the decrease in wealth, but from the multiplication of desires.-Plato.
-Whoever is unable to speak clearly must keep quiet until he can do so.-Karl Popper.
-He who tells a lie does not know what task he has assumed, because he will be obliged to invent twenty more to maintain the certainty of this first.-Alexander Pope.
35-Time ravages gratitude, even more than beauty.-Mario Puzo.
-Healthy is the happy face of the patient who visits him.-Fernando de Rojas.
-All passions are good as long as one owns them, and all are bad when they enslave us.-Jean Jacques Rousseau.
-Anything is good when it is excessive.-Marquis de Sade.
35-The whole world turns away when it sees a man pass by who knows where he is going.-Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
-We should live as many times as trees, which after a bad year shed new leaves and start over.-José Luis Sampedro.
-If in the midst of adversity the heart perseveres with serenity, joy and peace, this is love.-Saint Teresa of Jesus.
-It is better to know after having thought and discussed than to accept the knowledge that nobody discusses so as not to have to think.-Fernando Savater.
35-Like all dreamers, I confused disenchantment with the truth.-Jean Paul Sartre.
-Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.-Goethe.
-As I have not worried about being born, I don't worry about dying.-Federico García Lorca.
-The moment you stop to think if you love someone, you have already stopped loving him forever.-Carlos Ruiz Zafón.
-Not being loved is a simple misfortune. The real misfortune is not knowing how to love.-Albert Camus.
-Life is so uncertain, that happiness should be taken advantage of the moment it is presented.-Alexander Dumas.
-A problem stops being a problem if it has no solution.-Eduardo Mendoza.
-Free people will never be able to conceive what books mean for those of us who live locked up.-Anne Frank.
-Violence is the last resort of the incompetent.-Isaac Asimov.
-It is better to live and die at once, than not languish every day in our room under the pretext of preserving ourselves.-Robert L. Stevenson.
-The future tortures us and the past chains us. This is why the present eludes us.-Gustave Flaubert.
-Sensitivity raises a barrier that intelligence cannot save.-Azorín.
-There is no revenge more beautiful than that which others inflict on your enemy. It even has the virtue of leaving you the part of the generous.-Cesare Pavese.
-Memory is a mirror that lies scandalously. – Julio Cortázar
-Any deep distraction opens a door. You must allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.-Julio Cortázar
35-To err on your own path is better than to hit someone else's path.-Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
-What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.-Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
32-Man only likes to list his problems, he does not usually calculate his happiness.-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
-I have often lost myself, only to find the fire that keeps everything alive.-Federico García Lorca.
-Only the mystery allows us to live. Only the mystery.-Federico García Lorca.
-In the heart of all great art there is an essential melancholy.-Federico García Lorca.
-One cannot fight with oneself, because this battle would have only one loser.-Mario Vargas Llosa.
-The prose is architecture, not an internal decoration.-Ernest Hemingway.
-It is not their problem that you have learned to write. Let them think that you were born that way.-Ernest Hemingway.
-If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, no matter how the hell you write.-Somerset Maugham.
-To produce a great book, you must choose a great subject.-Herman Melville.
-It's perfectly fine if you write trash, as long as you edit it brilliantly.-CJ Cherryh.
-It is not that the story needs to be long, but the long time it will take to make it short.-Henry David Thoreau.
-First, find out what your heroes want, and then just follow them.-Ray Bradbury.
-Most of the basic material with which a writer works is acquired before turning fifteen.-Willa Cather.
-The words are lenses that focus our mind.-Ayn Rand.
35-A writer without interest or sympathy for the weaknesses of his colleagues cannot be considered a writer.-Joseph Conrad.
-Science fiction writers, I'm sorry to say, but they really don't know anything.-Philip K. Dick.
-Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the lights allow, but you can make a whole trip on that road.-EL Doctorow.
-Take a chance, take advantage of opportunities. It may be bad, but it is the only way to do something really good.-William Faulkner.
-There is no money in poetry, so there is no poetry in money.-Robert Graves.
-It is the writer who captures the imagination of young people, and plants the seed that will flourish and become a harvest.-Isaac Asimov.
-The work is never linked to the dream of perfection with which the artist has to begin.-William Faulkner.
-Writing is our reward.-Henry Miller.
-An unread story is not a story; they are small black marks on the wood pulp. The reader, reading, makes it alive: a thing alive, a story.-Ursula K. Le Guin.
35-Fiction is about things that are lost.-Nancy Kress.
19-Beginning is a wonderful art, but ending is a greater art.-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
-All the information you need can be given in a dialogue.-Elmore Leonard.
-You have to write a book that you want to be written. And if the book is difficult for adults, then write it for children.-Madeleine L'Engle.
-We write to savor life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.-Anais Nin.
-If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. As simple as that.-Stephen King.
-If there is a book that you want to read, but it has not been written yet, then you must write it.-Toni Morrison.
-You should not change anything you wrote when you get up in the middle of the night.-Saul Bellow.
-You must stay drunk when you write so that reality does not destroy you.-Ray Bradbury.
-I always carry two books in my pocket, one to read, and another to write.-Robert L. Stevenson.
-You can create anything by writing.-CS Lewis.
-One word after another word after another is power.-Margaret Atwood.
-Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.-Virginia Woolf.
-I always be a poet, even in prose.-Charles Baudelaire.
-The purpose of a writer is to prevent civilization from destroying itself.-Albert Camus.
-Ideas are like rabbits. You have a couple and you learn how to handle them, and very soon you have a dozen.-John Steinbeck.
-As a writer, you should not judge, you must understand.-Ernest Hemingway.
35-A good writer does not only have his own spirit, but also the spirit of his friends.-Friedrich Nietzsche.
-Writers live twice.-Natalie Goldberg.
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
-A goal is a dream with a deadline.-Napoleon Hill.
-The success is that you like yourself, that you like what you do, and how you do it.-Maya Angelou.
-Without any goal and effort to achieve it, no man can live.-Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
-I don't know anything in this world as powerful as a word. Sometimes I write one, and only look at it when it starts to shine.- Emily Dickinson.
-A writer is a world trapped in a person.-Victor Hugo.
-Fill your paper with the breath of your heart.-William Wordsworth.
-An idea, like a ghost, must be exposed a little before being explained.-Charles Dickens.
-When writing a novel, the writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a cartoon.-Ernest Hemingway.
-A reader lives thousands of lives before dying. The man who never reads only lives once.-George RR Martin.
-I am a writer, and I will write whatever I want to write.-JK Rowling.
-You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after her.-Jack London.
-Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a great truth.-Khaled Hosseini.
-A book is not successful because of what is inside it, but because of what it leaves out.-Mark Twain.
-I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me up.-Ray Bradbury.
-The description begins with the imagination of the writer, but must be finished by the readers.-Stephen King.
-An idea that is not dangerous is not worth calling it an idea.-Oscar Wilde.
-A writer is someone who finds writing more difficult than it is for other people.-Thomas Mann.
-It is not usual for someone to be a true friend and a good writer.-EB White.
-Let the others be proud of themselves for all the pages they have written; I prefer to boast for the ones I have read.-Jorge Luis Borges.
-Good writers often touch lives. The mediocre pass a quick hand over them. And the bad guys only rape them and leave them for the flies.-Ray Bradbury.
-Who of us has not felt that the character we are reading on the printed page is more real than the person next to us? -Cornelia Funke.
-The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.-Muriel Rukeyser.
-Read a million books, and all your words will flow like a river.-Lisa See.
-Writing is a lonely job. And having someone who believes in you makes a lot of difference. Just believing is more than enough.-Stephen King.
-A great writer reveals the truth, even when he or she does not want to.-Tom Bissell.
-The silent people are those with the loudest minds.-Stephen King.
-A novelist can not be without a kimono and a feather.-Natsuki Takaya.
-I don't know what makes you a writer, but it is probably not happiness.-William Saroyan.
-If you want to be a writer, write.-Epictetus.
-You do not do art only with good intentions.-Gustave Flaubert.
-Without music, life would be a mistake.-Friedrich Nietzsche.
-We accept the love we think we deserve.-Stephen Chbosky.
-The past is history, tomorrow a mystery, today is a gift from God, and that is why we call it present.-Bil Keane.