Sang Ly, we are literature-our lives, our hopes, our…

We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.

— F. Sionil José

“Literature might be called the art of story, and story might in turn be called a universal language, for every culture we know of…

— Andrea A. Lunsford

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

— Philippa Gregory

The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what…

— George Eliot

The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both wrestle with…

— Steven Pressfield

Heartbreak is our indication of sincerity: in a love relationship, in a work, in trying to learn a musical instrument, in the attempt to…

— David Whyte

Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes…

— Terry Eagleton

It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of…

— Claire Messud

“I honour the clarity of the present moment, and the stillness at the centre of being (mine & others), even in the midst of…

— Jay Woodman

“There are countless reasons to be jealous. But that doesn’t mean you have to succumb to them.”

— Beth Revis

We’re built to deal with death, disease, failure, struggle, heartbreak, problems. It’s what separates us from the animals and why we envy and love…

— Marc Maron

Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we…

— Spencer W. Kimball

“There are no greater or truer lords, gods, fathers, sons or holy spirits, than the humans. Humans are the highest beings on earth.”

— Abhijit Naskar

We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten…

— Rumi

The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of…

— Carl Schmitt