Quotes from Books

You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.

The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind commands itself and it is resisted.

A person is a citizen of two cities: the earthly city and the heavenly city.

The one quality that all successful writers have is a strong sense of belief in themselves.

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.

From hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.

Call me Ishmael.

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

It is not down on any map; true places never are.

The man who has not traveled thinks his mother is the best cook.

A man who uses force is afraid of reasoning.

Every man has his own way of showing his love.

Et tu, Brute?

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

The good life is not a life of luxury, but a life of virtue and tranquility.

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

It is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

The great problem is to know what is true.

The more one knows, the more one realizes how much one does not know.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.

I am a woman who has loved, who has suffered, and who has sought to understand.

The more one loves, the more one suffers.

To be happy, one must be in love.

It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

I am what you have made me.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

There is nothing so finely perceived and finelyfelt, as the injustice of others.

I am not sure that I am going to be able to do it, but I will do my best.

The heart of man is very much like the heart of a child.

There is an unspoken bond between the poor and the rich, though it is often ignored.

It is not what we think or feel that makes us who we are, but what we do.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

The game is afoot!

To those who are used to the fog of London, the atmosphere is not uninviting.

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Poetry is a life-cherishing force.

The writer's job is to keep the reader's attention.

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

We are not the ones who have to prove the existence of the truth.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

In the end, you will be able to tell the truth only if you have a good memory.

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.

We have a right to be who we are, to be free, and to be ourselves.

The only way to know a thing is to experience it.

There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

Blindness is a great metaphor for human ignorance.

The most important thing is to have the courage to face the unknown.

In a world without sight, we must learn to see with our hearts.

Isn't it wonderful that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they can only be felt with the heart.

I was in the dungeon of the Inquisition, and it was the first time I had ever felt the pangs of fear.

There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.

Experience has shown, that even a single ray of hope may be enough to save a man.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

In this world, you will encounter a lot of pain, but the key is to embrace love.

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

I will tell you something about stories. They aren’t just entertainment. They are the fabric of our lives.

The stories we tell about ourselves shape who we are and how we see the world.

To be whole is to be one with the land and the stories that come from it.

We are all stories in the end.

It’s okay to feel lost. It’s okay to need help.

You don’t have to be brave all the time.

I’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook... But I’m here.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

Nobody is going to give you anything. If you want something, you have to make it happen.