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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
“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?”
— John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Tagged: Past, Memories, Time
“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, East of Eden (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
Tagged: Women, Men, Love, strength
“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
Tagged: beauty, Truth, Lies
“It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.”
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
Tagged: Angels, devil, Good, Evil
“When you love something it loves you back in whatever way it has to love.”
— John Knowles, A Separate Peace
Tagged: one perfect sentence, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“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, A Tale of Two Cities (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: first lines of books
“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, The Old Man and the Sea
Tagged: first lines of books
“I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute. Not you.”
— J. D. Salinger, The Catcher In The Rye
Tagged: Life, Theory Of Living, Losing, Passion, Philosophy, strength, Pursuit of Happiness, Psychology, Writers, How To Think
“Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.”
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Tagged: what anxiety feels like, Care, anxiety in literature, Love, restlessness, worry
“Don't waste your love on somebody who doesn't value it.”
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Tagged: shakespeare, Love, Standards, Breaking Up, Being Too Good For Someone
“Listen to many, speak to a few.”
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Tagged: shakespeare, Communication, Listening
“There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game.”
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Tagged: shakespeare, participation, losers, winners
“Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Tagged: Hero, Books, rescued
“I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Tagged: Life, enjoy life
“What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?”
— Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Amazon Classics Edition)
Tagged: mark twain quotes, best mark twain quotes, Wrong, Right, morals, Ethics, Wisdom, Learning, Education, Growing Up
“Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.”
— Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Amazon Classics Edition)
Tagged: human beings, humanity, Cruelty, Hate, discrimination, bigotry, racism, Thoughts, Philosophy
“If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!”
— Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Amazon Classics Edition)
Tagged: Truth, Honesty, tell the truth, Goodness, Morality, Ethics, Wisdom, Funny, Irony, humor
“You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.”
— Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
Tagged: Pick Up Lines, Pick Up Lines For Girls To Use On Guys, kiss, Love Quotes For Her
“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Tagged: The Little Prince
“You're beautiful, but you're empty. No one could die for you.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Tagged: The Little Prince
“It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Tagged: The Little Prince
“I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have no power to feel for him.”
— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Tagged: Utterly Heartbreaking, Heartbreak, Love And Loss, Heartbroken
“There is nothing so good and lovely as when man and wife in their house dwell together in unity and disposition.”
— Homer, The Odyssey (Wordsworth Classics)
Tagged: Life
“A dead whale or a stove boat.”
— Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Tagged: Life
“There's a long road of suffering ahead of you. But don't lose courage. You've already escaped the gravest danger: selection. So now, muster your strength, and don't lose heart. We shall all see the day of liberation. Have faith in life. Above all else, have faith. Drive out despair, and you will keep death away from yourselves. Hell is not for eternity. And now, a prayer - or rather, a piece of advice: let there be comradeship among you. We are all brothers, and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive.”
— Elie Wiesel, Night (Night)
Tagged: Suffering, Courage, Despair, Foregiveness, survive, Faith, God, Trust, Good
“Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.”
— Elie Wiesel, Night(Night)
Tagged: Silence, Speak Up, humanity, Night
“Help one another. It is the only way to survive.”
— Elie Wiesel, Night (Night)
Tagged: help, survive, humanity, Life, Brotherhood
“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
— S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
Tagged: Lies, pretending, Survival
“Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.”
— S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
Tagged: differences, Society, Sunset
“She burned too bright for this world.”
— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Tagged: Burnt, bright, Light