Books Quote by T. E. Lawrence

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

— Thomas Mann

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.

— James Branch Cabell

literature is the record of our discontent.

— Virginia Woolf

Literature is air, and Im suffocating in mediocrity.

— Armand Assante

Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.

— Susan Sontag

What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?

— William Butler Yeats

“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

Literature is the question minus the answer.

— Roland Barthes

Without literature my life would be miserable.

— Naguib Mahfouz