Deep Literature Quotes That Stir the Soul

1. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

2. “So it goes.” – Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

3. “There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

4. “We are all fools in love.” – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

5. “It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live.” – Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

6. “The only truth is music.” – Jack Kerouac, On the Road

7. “You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.” – Cormac McCarthy, The Road

8. “The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

9. “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” – Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

10. “Man is not made for defeat.” – Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

11. “Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.” – J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

12. “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.” – Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

13. “Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.” – Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

14. “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.” – George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

15. “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.” – Agatha Christie, An Autobiography

16. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” – George Orwell, Animal Farm

17. “The past is not dead. It’s not even past.” – William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

18. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” – Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

19. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

20. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

21. “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me.” – Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

22. “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” – Stephen King

23. “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” – Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

24. “We accept the love we think we deserve.” – Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

25. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

26. “For you, a thousand times over.” – Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

27. “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

28. “Time, which sees all things, has found you out.” – Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

29. “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.” – George Orwell, 1984

30. “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” – Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird