Books can be a source of knowledge for some, or a form of escapism for others. Nonetheless, they are packed with wisdom and quotable moments that stick with you long after you have turned the final page. Here are some of the best book quotes for your brain to feed on.
30 Ultimate Iconic Quotes for Book Lovers…
Get more motivational quotes here: https://souljourneyy.com/
- “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
- “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
- “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
- “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
- “Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.” — Toni Morrison, Beloved
Thin love ain’t love at all… - “We accept the love we think we deserve.” ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” — Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
- “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.” — Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
- “Tomorrow I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.” — Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind.
- “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” — Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
I’m learning how to sail my ship… - “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
- “There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.” — Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark
- “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.” — Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
- “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
- “You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.” — Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Forget what you want to remember… See more quotes at: https://souljourneyy.com/category/quotes/
- “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
- “Time is the longest distance between two places.” ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
- “Brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared. It means you go on even though you’re scared.” — Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
- “Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.” — Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
- “Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.” — Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Worth living for… - “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” — Dr. Seuss
- “Friendship … is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”— C.S. Lewis (The Four Loves)
- “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”— André Gide (Autumn Leaves)
- “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”— Friedrich Nietzsche
- “You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.”— Jodi Picoult (My Sister’s Keeper)
Love someone in spite of the fact that they’re not… - “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”— Pablo Neruda (100 Love Sonnets)
- “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”— Neil Gaiman (The Kindly Ones (The Sandman, #9))
- “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”— Anaïs Nin
- “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love. — Robert Fulghum (True Love)
- “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.”— Alfred Tennyson
