Books are more than just stories- they capture the essence of emotion, wisdom, and beauty. Some books even take a lifetime to write, and a single book can live in our hearts forever. In this blog, we’ve curated 70 book quotes that will stay with you.
Let’s explore it!
Timeless Classics
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“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
“So it goes.” – Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“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
“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” – Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
“I am haunted by humans.” – Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” – William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” – Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“You have been the last dream of my soul.” – Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
“Stay gold, Ponyboy.” – S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Modern Favorites
“You gave me a forever within the numbered days.” – John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.” – Pierce Brown, Golden Son
“We accept the love we think we deserve.” – Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.” – Gayle Forman, If I Stay
“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” – Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company
“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.” – Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“The things we love destroy us every time.” – George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” – Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.” – Kiera Cass, The One
“You have me. Until every last star in the galaxy dies, you have me.” – Amie Kaufman, Illuminae
“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
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” – Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all.” – J.K. Rowling
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” – George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
“The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.” – Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.” – Emily Dickinson
Poetic & Philosophical Lines
“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.” – Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“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
“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts… but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul.” – Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” – Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
“You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live.” – Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
“So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible.” – Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
“He’s more myself than I am.” – Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.” – E.E. Cummings
“You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.” – Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
“Some stories stay with us forever.” – Unknown
“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.” – J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” – Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” – Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.” – Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
“All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.” – Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Heartwarming & Uplifting Lines
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.” – Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” – John Green, Looking for Alaska
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” – Audrey Hepburn
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” – Plutarch
“Even miracles take a little time.” – Disney’s Cinderella
“Courage is found in unlikely places.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
“You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
“The world is not in your books and maps, it’s out there.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
“Happiness is only real when shared.” – Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
“Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” – Neil Gaiman
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” – Frederick Douglass
“Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
“We read to know we are not alone.” – William Nicholson, Shadowlands
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Extra Quotes
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” – William Shakespeare, The Tempest
“After all, tomorrow is another day.” – Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.” – John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and above all, those who live without love.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up.” – Veronica Roth, Divergent
“We were all heading for each other on a collision course, no matter what.” – Stephanie Garber, Caraval
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through.” – Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Final Words!
That’s the wrap-up of our collection of 70 Book Quotes That Will Stay With You. I hope you find some favorite quotes from the collection that can help you to think more and love more.
