Books Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

How very dull our lives would be without literature! How very much dark and poor, how so sad and empty the world would be!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Literature exists because the world isn't enough.

— Fernando Pessoa

Without literature my life would be miserable.

— Naguib Mahfouz

We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.

— Edwidge Danticat

Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts.

— Ian Mcewan

What would we not give for some great poem to read now, which would be in harmony with the scenery,--for if men read aright,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed.…

— Guillaume Apollinaire

It perhaps might be said--if any one dared--that the most worthless literature of the world has been that which has been written by the…

— Stephen Crane

Literature is for the sake of humanity.

— Cynthia Ozick

Literature is humanity talking to itself.

— Norman Rush

No human society is too primitive to have some kind of literature. The only thing is that primitive literature hasn't yet become distinguished from…

— Northrop Frye

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

— George Henry Lewes