Literary Quotes Flashcards
Memory - Cormac McCarthy - The Road
You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
Value - Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Living - P.D. James - The Children of Men
We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.
Crying - Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
We need never be ashamed of our tears.
Pride - George Eliot - Middlemarch
Pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts - not to hurt others.
Fate - Herman Meliville - Moby Dick
I know not all that may be coming, be be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
Being Wise - William Shakespeare - As You Like It
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Grit - Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
Lives not lived - Jonathan Safran Foer
Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all of the lives I’m not living.
Feeble existence - Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
What are men to rocks and mountains?
Soulmates - Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Affection - W.H. Auden - The More Loving One
If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me.
Being Good - John Steinbeck - East of Eden
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
Life’s essence - T.S. Elliot - Four Quartets
At the still point, there the dance is.
Love - Toni Morrison - Beloved
The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
