Skip to content

Literature Quotes by Anonymous

104 Literature quotes by Anonymous

All Literature quotes Anonymous’s page

Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside, and the joy comes from the hunt for each surprise. The quotes say that good literature connects distant lands and cultures, and that classic works stay modern by being read again and again. They also warn that literature should not vanish into its own ego.

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

“You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry.”

Image

I write-down to speak-up.

Image

“Sleep is death enjoyed.”

Image

As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.

Image

“Books don't steal time—they make it disappear.”

Image

Literature has the power to change lives, minds, and hearts.

Image

Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.

Image

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

Image

“Of all people in the world the English have the least sense of the beauty of literature.”

Image

All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.

Image

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

Image

Literature doesn’t exactly have a strong mental-health track record.

Image

There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.

Image

Our lives are greatly enriched when we immerse ourselves in literature and spiritual writing, not because we are going to be tested…

Image

The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always…

Image

Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above…

Image

Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience.

Image

Literature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation.

Image

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world

Image

Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside--and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that…

Image

...with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden…

Image

The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant…

Image

It is central to Christian living that we should celebrate the goodness of creation, ponder its present brokenness, and, insofar as we…

Image

But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem,…

Image

There are a lot of problems involved in comparative history. You never know if you're getting the comparisons weighted rightly, you're bound…

Image

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this…

Image

The love of literature, of language, of the mystery of the mind and heart showing themselves in the minute, strange, and unexpected…

Image

People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of…

Image

Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings…

Image

The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon,…

Image

“In all ages woman has been the source of all that is pure, unselfish, and heroic in the spirit and life of…

Image

“Like literature, music can overwhelm you with sudden emotion, can move you to absolute sorrow or ecstasy; like literature, painting has the…

Image

“My dis-interest in what people speak of as "women's problems," "women's literature." Have women a special sensibility? No. There are individuals uniquely…

Image

This book is intended for use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature.…

Image

While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent…

Image

“There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. There are images tucked away in books that live…

Image

“It is the modern literature of the educated, not of the uneducated, which is avowedly and aggressively criminal..The vast mass of humanity,…

Image

Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.

Image

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.

Image

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.

Image

Other authors on Literature

More by Anonymous

And a tear rolled down her cheek, as she said goodbye; because she's walking away, and she's never looking back

Life is full of change. That's how we learn and grow.

You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.…

Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t…

Everyone needs someone to love, and I choose you.

“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care…

Put on my J's and dance the whole night away Im naughty by nature like Im hip-hop hooray With my hands in the sky,…

Me.. I have been through a lot, but I still manage to have a smile on my face. Im not worried about the past…

Distance is a test of love. many will fail for those who can't withstand it, but for those who can, theres only one answer…

Im sorry I ever tried...

Being betrayed by the one you love is the worst feeling in the world...

Let children support their parents or be imprisoned.

The only person I've ever purposely caused pain here is myself...By simply sharing, caring too much.

“Start a business, not a startup”

The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,…