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51 Of The Greatest Sentences Ever Written In Literature
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Kirsten Corley
September 22, 2016
“I look at you and a sense of wonder takes me.”
— Homer, The Odyssey
Tagged: Love, Wonder, beauty, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me.”
— Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
Tagged: Anxiety, Depression, Mental Health, Sad, Finding Yourself, Relationships
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Tagged: Philosophy
“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets
Tagged: Philosophy, Wisdom, Finding Yourself, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
— Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
Tagged: Perfect Words, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
— George Orwell, 1984 (Signet Classics)
Tagged: Perfect Words, Word Porn, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Famous Last Lines, One Sentence C, Past, History, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
— Yann Martel, Life of Pi
Tagged: Doubt, How To Think, How To Live, Choose Hope, Why Optimism Matters, Life Philosophy, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“For you, a thousand times over’”
— Khaled Hosseini, By Hosseini, Khaled The Kite Runner Paperback
Tagged: It Was All For You, Love, All For You, Ways To Say I Love You, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
— William Shakespeare, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Knickerbocker Classics)
Tagged: Hell, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“When you love something it loves you back in whatever way it has to love.”
— John Knowles, A Separate Peace
Tagged: one perfect sentence, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: one perfect sentence, Love, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever.”
— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
Tagged: Noah And Allie, Awakens The Soul, Plants A Fire, Hope, Forever, Best Of Sparks, Love, Wedding Vows
“You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.”
— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
Tagged: Song, Dream, Whisper, Prayers Answered, Best Of Sparks
“Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can't believe that ours didn't go on forever.”
— Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
Tagged: Relationships Ending, Life, Relationships, Closure, Endings, Loss And Love, Best Of Sparks
“I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.”
— Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
Tagged: Falling In Love, First Love, Lost Love, Dear John, Best Of Sparks
“Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons. But when all is said and done, they have one thing in common: They are shooting stars-a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity. And in a flash, they're gone.”
— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
Tagged: First Love, Summer Love, Forgotten Love, Summer Romance, Best Of Sparks
“Wilber: Why did you do all this for me? I've never done anything for you.
Charlotte: You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
— E.B White, Charlotte's Web
Tagged: Best Of Children's Quotes, Charlotte's Web Quotes, Friendship, Love
“I'll love you forever. I'll like you for always. As long as I'm living, my mommy you'll be.”
— Robert Munsch, I'll Love You Forever
Tagged: Best Of Children's Quotes, Love, Parent's Love, Children's Love, Family
“Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything. Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed about coming here, but then I did it.”
— Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach
Tagged: Best Of Children's Quotes, Best Of Children's Books, Dreaming, Doing, life advice
“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Tagged: Don't Give Up, Life And Death, Suicide Awareness, Try Again
“I needed to hate someone and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell on you.”
— Gayle Forman, Where She Went
Tagged: Utterly Heartbreaking, Loss, Breakups, Loss And Love
“He left feeling that if he had searched harder, he might have found her- that he was leaving her behind.”
— F Scott Fitgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Utterly Heartbreaking, Loss, Love And Loss, Breakups, It's Over
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms
Tagged: Utterly Heartbreaking, Heartbreak, Lost Love, Forgotten Love
“I drove her to the airport. She kissed me good-bye. She told me that she loved me more than life itself. Then she stepped through security.
She never came back.”
— Gayle Forman, Where She Went
Tagged: goodbye, Endings, Relationships Ending, Loss, Heartbreak
“To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”
— Elie Wiesel, Night (Night)
Tagged: Death Quotes, Mourning, dead, Killing
“It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.”
— Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
Tagged: Courage, glory, Love, Appreciation, Oscar Wilde Quotes
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet ( Folger Library Shakespeare)
Tagged: Hamlet, William Shakespeare, William Shakes, Shakes Quotes
“What we once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply become a part of us.”
— Helen Keller, The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Tagged: Lose, Letting Go, Never Forgotten
“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Best Love Quotes, Souls Connected, I Myself