Beautiful Quotes by Writers & Poets

Astrid Lindgren

After all, you still need time to just sit there and take a look around.

Colleen Hoover

It's real, Six. You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

Colleen Hoover in Hopeless

Paulo Coelho

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What other people think of you is none of your business.

Paulo Coelho

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

J.R.R. Tolkien

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The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light.

J.R.R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion

Joanne K. Rowling

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Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Joanne K. Rowling

Nicholas Sparks

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The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Sebastian Fitzek

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Hope is like a shard of glass. Tread on it, and you'll end up wincing with every step. The best policy is to tweezer it out. Sure, it will hurt like billy-o and the wound will take a while to heal, but after that you can walk again.

Sebastian Fitzek in Therapy

Otfried Preußler

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The dead are dead, and talking won't bring them back to life.

Otfried Preußler in Krabat

Cornelia Funke

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There are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

Cornelia Funke

John Green

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That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.

John Green in The Fault in Our Stars

A.A. Milne

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"How do you spell 'love'?" - "You don't spell it... you feel it."

A.A. Milne in Winnie the Pooh

Jane Austen

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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

Jane Austen in Northanger Abbey

Stephen King

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I fled out of the deep night - the deep night of the protected child-life , and tugged into the bright Day - the bright day of being-grownup

Stephen King in It

Victor Hugo

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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Victor Hugo

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Angel's Game

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, you're the one wo is smiling and everyone else is crying.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sylvia Plath

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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

Sylvia Plath

Jules Verne

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I dream with my eyes open.

Jules Verne in Journey to the Center of the Earth

Cassandra Clare

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These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.

Cassandra Clare in The Dark Artifices - Lady Midnight

Pascal Mercier

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Human beings can't bear silence. It would mean that they would bear themselves.

Pascal Mercier in Night Train to Lisbon

Franz Kafka

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A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Franz Kafka - Betrachtungen über Sünde, Leid, Hoffnung und den wahren Weg

Charles Bukowski

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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

Charles Bukowski

Erich Maria Remarque

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He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front.

Erich Maria Remarque in All Quiet on the Western Front

Karl May

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One cannot know it in advance. The heart decides this. If my heart talked to me, I would not care what nation that girl belongs to. The Great Spirit created all men equal. Those who match would find each other sooner or later.

Karl May in Winnetou - Part 1: Through the Desert

Neil Gaiman

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Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable.

Neil Gaiman in The Sandman

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince

Oscar Wilde

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To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

Oscar Wilde

Jodi Picoult

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Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

Jodi Picoult in My Sister's Keeper

Charles Dickens

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For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol

Cecelia Ahern

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Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we're gone.

Cecelia Ahern in P.S. I Love You

Tove Jansson

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One summer morning at sunrise a long time ago I met a little girl with a book under her arm. I asked her why she was out so early and she answered that there were too many books and far too little time. And there she was absolutely right.

Tove Jansson

Roald Dahl

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Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.

Roald Dahl in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Heinrich Heine

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Of all the worlds that man has created, the one in books is the most impressive.

Heinrich Heine

T. C. Boyle

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I am mad for nature writing. I want to get inside the head of every creature in the world, even ants.

T. C. Boyle

Mark Twain

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A kiss is something you need both hands for.

Mark Twain

Rick Riordan

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I can see the stars again, my lady.- Zoe Nightshade

Rick Riordan in Percy Jackson - 3: The Titan’s Curse

Margaret Atwood

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Live in the present, make the most of it, it's all you've got.

Margaret Atwood in The Handmaid's Tale

Friedrich Schiller

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Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Friedrich Schiller in Don Carlos

Christopher Paolini

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A true warrior does not fight because he wishes to but because he has to.

Christopher Paolini in The Inheritance Cycle - Brisingr

Enid Blyton

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Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.

Enid Blyton in The Famous Five - Five on a Hike Together

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Paulo Coelho

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Elves made many rings; but secretly Sauron made One Ring to rule all the others, and their power was bound up with it.

J.R.R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion

I go now to my long rest in the timeless halls beyond the seas and the Mountains of Aman. It will be long ere I am seen among the Noldor again; and it may be that we shall not meet a second time in death or life, for the fates of our kindreds are apart. Farewell!

Finrod Felagund in The Silmarillion

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

Joanne K. Rowling