141 Of The Most Important Sentences In All Of Literature

“He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

“When you love something it loves you back in whatever way it has to love.”

— John Knowles, amazon.com

“Remember now and then that there is a man who would die to keep someone you love beside you”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

“But I tried, didn’t I? Goddamnit, at least I did that.”

— Ken Kesey, amazon.com

“All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.”

— Ken Kesey, goodreads.com

“A dead whale or a stove boat.”

— Herman Melville, amazon.com

“Don't waste your love on somebody who doesn't value it.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

“Don’t suppress your individuality for the sake of conformity.”

— Lois Lowry, amazon.com

“You're beautiful, but you're empty. No one could die for you.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com

“A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.”

— Tim O'Brien, 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

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”

— S.E. Hinton, amazon.com

“Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.”

— Margaret Mitchell, amazon.com

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”

— John Steinbeck, amazon.com

“Stay Gold, PonyBoy”

— S.E Hinton, amazon.com

“Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com

“Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.”

— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com

“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”

— John Steinbeck, amazon.com

“How wild it was, to let it be.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.”

— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com

“Deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.”

— Albert Camus, amazon.com

“Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.”

— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com

“It was strange the way he loved her; a side long and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a matter of course, too natural to mention.”

— Chad Harbach, amazon.com

“But to pay attention is to love everything.”

— Sarah Manguso, amazon.com

“Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is a short parenthesis in a long period, and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.”

— John Donne, amazon.com

“Beauty is terror.”

— Donna Tartt, amazon.com

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.’”

— Edgar Allan Poe, amazon.com

“Everything was terrifyingly complex; everything was terrifyingly simple.”

— Scott Spencer, amazon.com