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100. “‘But man is not made for defeat,’ he said. ‘A man can be destroyed but not defeated.’”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
99. “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
98. "There is always something left to love"
- Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
97. “We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
96. “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
95. “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
94. “Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.”
— Toni Morrison, Beloved
93. “And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
92. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
91. “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
90. “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.” — Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
89. “It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live.”
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
88. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
87. “Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
— L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
86. “The past is not dead. In fact, it’s not even past.”
— William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun
85. “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
84. “Brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared. It means you go on even though you’re scared.”
— Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
83. “How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
82. “Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself.”
— Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
81. “Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
80. “We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.”
— Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
79. “We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
— William Shakespeare, The Tempest
78. “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
— Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
77. "You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
76. “That's what makes a view so sad, and so beautiful. It'll be there when we're not.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts
75. “I felt purged and holy and ready for a new life.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
74. “There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
73. “I wish I could care what you do or where you go but I can’t… My dear, I don’t give a damn..”
– Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind
72. “Maybe ever’ body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
– John Steinbeck, Of Mice And Men
71. “Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
Frank Herbert, Dune
70. “We need never be ashamed of our tears.”
–Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
69. “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 b
68. “It was his first experience with this kind of love and it nearly killed him.”
- John Steinbeck, East of Eden
67. “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden
66. “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”
– Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
65. “Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker”
–Bram Stoker, Dracula
64. “The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.”
– William Golding, Lord of the Flies
63. “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
62. “Resist much, obey little.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
61. "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by...”
‒ Robert Frost, ‘The Road Not Taken’.
60. “Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
‒ Dylan Thomas, ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night’.
59. “Not a red rose or a satin heart.
I give you an onion.
It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.”
‒ Carol Ann Duffy, ‘Valentine’
58. "This is the way the world ends
not with a bang but a whimper"
‒ TS Eliot, The Hollow Men
57. "I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don’t."
‒D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love
56. "They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate."
‒ William Golding, Lord of the Flies
55. "The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames."
‒ Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
54. "Ask no questions and you’ll be told no lies."
‒Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
53. "In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage aware of its own worth."
‒ Virgil, The Aeneid
52. "Both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday and eternal reality was love."
‒Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
51. "I gave my whole heart up, for him to hold."
‒Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
50. “I have been bent and broken, but— I hope— into a better shape.”
—Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
49. “Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.”
—Truman Capote, Breakfast At Tiffany’s
48. “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
—Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
47. “You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
—Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
46. “To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further.” —Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
45. "All we can know is that we know nothing. And that’s the height of human wisdom."
—Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
44. "Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
43. "The thing I realize is, that it’s not what you take, it’s what you leave."
—Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
42. "The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live."
—Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
41. “She burned too bright for this world.” — Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
40. “But I tried, didn’t I? Goddamnit, at least I did that.”
— Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
39. "The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves."
V.S. Naipaul, In A Free State
38. “It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.”
H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
37. "It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."
Philip K. Dick, Valis
36. "History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."
James Joyce, Ulysses
35. “We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm - yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.”
E.M. Forster, A Room With A View
34. "Terror made me cruel"
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
33. “She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.” Neil Gaiman, Stardust
32. "I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine."
Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong
31. "‘Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H.
30. "I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."
WB Yeats
29. "I look
at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world"
Frank O'Hara, "Having A Coke With You"
28. "He climbs up the steps and realizes that while he was in the subway, the whole world changed."
Colson Whitehead, "The Colossus of New York"
27. "And I shall be dumped where the weed decays,
And the rest is rust and stardust."
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
26. "When you return to something you love,
it’s already beyond repair.
You wear it broken."
James L. White, Lying in Sadness
25. "You wrap your name tight around my ribs
And keep me warm. I was born for you."
Benjamin Alire Sánez, To the Desert
24. "I want you to remember who you are, despite the bad things that are happening to you. Because those bad things aren't you. They are just things that happen to you."
Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
23. “Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.”
Pierce Brown, Golden Son
22. "If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives."
Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz Elevator
21. "All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time."
Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet In Heaven
20. “I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists
19. “Isn’t life exciting! Everything can change all of a sudden, and for no reason at all!” Tove Jansson, Moominpappa At Sea
18. “Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too. They start over. They find a way.” Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere
17. “You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.” Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
16. “You’re always you, and that don’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.” Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
15. “Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human.”
Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
14. “When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example.”
Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist
13. “We all require devotion to something more than ourselves for our lives to be endurable.”
Atul Gawande, Being Mortal
12. “So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible.”
Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
11. "The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."
Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
10. “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays
9.
“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
— George Orwell, 1984
8. “Our scars make us know that our past was for real.”
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
7. “I wish I'd done everything on earth with you.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
6. “I look at you and a sense of wonder takes me.”
— Homer, The Odyssey
5. “What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
Ralph Ellison, The Invisible Man
4. "I wish I knew how to quit you." Annie Prouix, Brokeback Mountain
3. “The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
2. "And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good."
John Steinbeck, East of Eden
1. It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
André Gide, Autumn Leaves
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