Quotes from Literature

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"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird."

“I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair. Hover through the fog and filthy air."

"Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else."

“They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were bright with the dawn of a new future, of a full resurrection into a new life. They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.”

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”

“It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.”

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach."

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

"I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.”

“I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.”

“The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”

“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”

“If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.”

“Logic may indeed be unshakable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.”

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”

“I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.”

"He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching one’s feet."

"The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education and the fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war. The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order. And the Ministry of Plenty, which was responsible for economic affairs. Their names, in Newspeak: Minitrue, Minipax, Miniluv and Miniplenty."

"But I remembered one thing: it wasn’t me that started acting deaf; it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all.”

"When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.”

“We can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.”