30 literary quotes

“To be or not to be, that is the question.” – William Shakespeare, “Hamlet”
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” – Charles Dickens, “A Tale of Two Cities”
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway, “A Farewell to Arms”
“Do not go gentle into that good night.” – Dylan Thomas
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.” – Jack Kerouac, “On the Road”
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” – Edgar Allan Poe
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” – Charlotte Brontë, “Jane Eyre”
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby”
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it, there are many dark places; but still, there is much that is fair.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Fellowship of the Ring”
“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.” – Charles Dickens, “A Tale of Two Cities”
“For you, a thousand times over.” – Khaled Hosseini, “The Kite Runner”
“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” – E.E. Cummings
“There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Two Towers”
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Fellowship of the Ring”
“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, “A Girl I Knew”
“So it goes.” – Kurt Vonnegut, “Slaughterhouse-Five”
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” – J.K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”
“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” – J.K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”
“To love another person is to see the face of God.” – Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables”
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” – Louisa May Alcott, “Little Women”
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” – Rumi
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde, “The Soul of Man under Socialism”
“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.” – John Green, “The Fault in Our Stars”
“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.” – Bram Stoker, “Dracula”