Books Quote by Henry of Huntingdon

“The ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it is luckily…

— John Dewey

“Literature has been our salvation, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.”

— John Cheever

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

— Thomas Mann

Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.

— Pliny the Younger

Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love,…

— Caroline Leavitt

“I must add, too, that the only purpose of the book is to solve the intellectual problem raised by suffering; for the far higher…

— Business and Leadership Publishing

“It also seems that the unhappy writers are the enduring writer. Hampered or limited by their suffering, literature becomes their focus and salvation, forcing…

— Cirilo F. Bautista

“Literature is a wound from which flows the indispensable divorce between words and things. All our blood can flow out of that hole.”

— Carlos Fuentes

Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow.

— Thomas Hood

“Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.”

— Lisa C. Taylor

“Sometimes what a person expresses in their eyes is more than all the books you could read on suffering.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“Literature enables us to see our world and ourselves more clearly, to understand our lives more fully.”

— Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst