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75 Iconic Quotes From Classic Books You Read In High School

I wish I'd done everything on the earth with you. 
Kirsten Corley
October 20, 2016
“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, The Little Prince
Tagged: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Childrens Books, Meaning, purpose
“Impossible; for how many people did you know that refracted your own light to you?”
— Guy Montag, Fahrenheit 451
Tagged: Bridge, Communication, Communications, Light, Mirror Writing, Thought Catalog Producers
“I look at you and a sense of wonder takes me.”
— Homer, The Odyssey
Tagged: Love, Wonder, beauty, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“And I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
— Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Honesty, Most Honest Person, Virute, Cardinal Virtues
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Time, Past, Famous Last Lines
“He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Recover Something, Lost In Time
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Tagged: Philosophy
“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, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Tagged: Self-improvement, Self-awareness, Self-Worth, Be Positive, Be Kind
“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Tagged: Wake Up, Alive But Dead, Sleep Walking, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Dating
“I wish I'd done everything on earth with you.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Love, Regret, Relationships, Breakups, Change
“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.”
— Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Tagged: Anne Frank, Alone, Lonely, Love, God
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Independence, Women, Freedom
“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Happiness, dignified
“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.”
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Broken Heart, Pain, Heartbreak
“Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.”
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Lies, Truth
“Our scars make us know that our past was for real.”
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Scars, Past, Pain
“Remember now and then that there is a man who would die to keep someone you love beside you”
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Giving, romance, Heartbreak
“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, Great Expectations
Tagged: Charles Dickens, Summer
“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, Gone with the Wind
Tagged: Missing, Memory, Past, Falling Apart
“Don’t suppress your individuality for the sake of conformity.”
— Lois Lowry, The Giver (Giver Quartet)
Tagged: The Giver, Life
“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
— John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
Tagged: Life, Scared, Relationships
“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”
— Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
Tagged: Gratefulness, Perspective, Adversity
“The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.”
— William Golding, Lord of the Flies
Tagged: Fear, Pain, Dreams
“I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men. They are far superior and always have been.”
— William Golding, Lord of the Flies
Tagged: gender, Equality, superior
“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“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, Flowers for Algernon
Tagged: Perfect Words, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
— George Orwell, 1984 (Signet Classics)
Tagged: Perfect Words, Word Porn, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.”
— John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
Tagged: Moments, Time