Life-changing quotes from literature

2020 and 2021 have been years all about change, and not good change, but these life-changing quotes from famous lit can certainly help you manage. Check this list out curated by the Genretop review team.

"Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward all the life there is with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand. All the rest is darkness."

—Stephen King, IT

“'Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.'"

—E.B. White, Charlotte's Web

"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

"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget."

—Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

"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

"We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing."

—Charles Bukowski, The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

"Nothing is random, nor will anything ever be... In the end, or rather, as things really are, any event, no matter how small, is intimately and sensibly tied to all others... And, when all is perceived in such a way as to obviate time, justice becomes apparent not as something that will be, but something that is."

—Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale

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