Books contain a lot of valuable information, and some memorable phrases. The following topic contains favorite, classic, iconic book quotes and famous lines from books. Take a look at it, get some inspiration, you might find your favorite quote.

Favorite Books Quotes

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it EPaulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Time moves slowly, but passes quickly Alice Walker, The Color Purple

So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

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

Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey

And now,’ cried Max, ‘let the wild rumpus start! Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you Roald Dahl, The Witches

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

And may the odds be ever in your favor Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

Iconic Books Quotes

Time is the longest distance between two places Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

We accept the love we think we deserve Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude Kate Chopin, The Awakening

But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Ever’body’s askin’ that. ‘What we comin’ to?’ Seems to me we don’t never come to nothin’. Always on the way John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget Cormac McCarthy, The Road

The past is not dead. In fact, it’s not even past William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

Classic Books Quotes

Brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared. It means you go on even though you’re scared Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive John Green, Looking for Alaska

There are years that ask questions and years that answer Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet Stephen King, The Stand

Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for Joseph Heller, Catch-22

I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

What does the brain matter compared with the heart? Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

Famous Lines From Books

If you have the guts to be yourself, other people’ll pay your price John Updike, Rabbit, Run

There is always something left to love Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

All human wisdom is summed up in these two words – ‘Wait and hope Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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

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

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

When you play the game of thrones you win or you die George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See