Quotes reflect the timeless wisdom and emotional depth of these writers, offering insights into life, love, suffering, and the human condition.
Here are some profound quotes from famous writers that delve into the depths of human experience, emotions, and existence:
1. Fyodor Dostoevsky:
"Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others."
(From "The Brothers Karamazov")
2. Virginia Woolf:
"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
(From "The Hours")
3. Rumi:
"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."
4. Franz Kafka:
"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us."
5. Maya Angelou:
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
(From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings")
6. Albert Camus:
"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer."
(From "Return to Tipasa")
7. Toni Morrison:
"If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else."
8. James Baldwin:
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
9. Kahlil Gibran:
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
(From "The Prophet")
10. Leo Tolstoy:
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
11. Emily Dickinson:
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul—and sings the tunes without the words—and never stops at all."
12. Oscar Wilde:
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
(From "Lady Windermere's Fan"
13. Haruki Murakami:
"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."
(From "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running")
14. Pablo Neruda:
"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming."
15. Sylvia Plath:
"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am."
(From "The Bell Jar")
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