17 Of The Most Breathtaking Sentences In Literature

“Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.”

— W.S Merwin, amazon.com

“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”

— Daniel Keyes, amazon.com

“We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”

— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com

“How wild it was, to let it be.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

“Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”

— J.R.R Tolkein, amazon.com

“The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.”

— Arthur Golden, amazon.com

“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.”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

“I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.”

— John Green, amazon.com

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.”

— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com

“The curves of your lips rewrite history.”

— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com

“Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart; I am, I am, I am.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

“She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”

— J. D. Salinger, amazon.com

“But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”

— Aldous Huxley, amazon.com

“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”

— George Orwell, amazon.com

“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”

— Neil Gaiman, goodreads.com