15 Great Quotes From Books

Being a reader is not only to read and to rate books, but it is also to collect many great quotes. Books have a special and sometimes a poetic language and you always find at least a sentence that catches your mind and never leaves your side. Today I am going to share with you 15 quotes that did this to me. I apologize in advance if you recognize many of these quotes, but if you know about them they must truly be great. 

To shorten the list I have kept to only one quote per book. Otherwise, it would probably be filled with quotes from J.K Rowling and J.R.R. Tolkien. There are also many more great quotes out there, these are just 15 of them. If you want more you should check out Goodreads, because that's kind of the home for books, bookish quotes, and bookish people. Lastly, remember to mark that line with words in the book you are reading that you stopped to read a second time. That quote could change your view of life.

1. "Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

– Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist

2. "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

3. "All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost."

— J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

4. "Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."

- Oscar Wilde, The Picture Of Dorian Gray

5. "Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for."

– Joseph Heller, Catch-22

6. "I don't want to die without any scars."

- Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

7. “Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.” 

- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

8. “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”

- Jack Kerouac, On The Road

9. “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

— John Green, The Fault In Our Stars 

10. “Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.” 

- William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

11. “Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.” 

- Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons

12. "We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories." 

- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

13. “He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

14. "The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."

- Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

15. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

- Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl