131 Inspiring Literature Quotes

Literature has always been a boundless source of inspiration, offering profound insights into the human condition and the intricate tapestry of life. From timeless classics to modern masterpieces, the written word has the power to evoke emotions, provoke thought, and inspire action. In this carefully curated collection, we present 131 of the most inspiring quotes from literature, each chosen for its ability to resonate, uplift, and illuminate. Whether you're seeking motivation, comfort, or a moment of reflection, these quotes promise to offer wisdom and inspiration for every reader. Join us on this journey through the literary world, where each quote serves as a beacon of insight and a testament to the enduring power of storytelling.

1. “Experience, then, was something that enabled you to do nothing with a clear conscience. Experience was an overrated quality.” - Nick Hornby

2. “. . . you don’t need a happy ending to move onto a happy beginning.” - Krystal McLean

3. “Absolute equals nothingness.” - Dejan Stojanovic

4. “God is a cloud from which rain fell.” - Dejan Stojanovic

5. “Life is only a flicker of melted ice.” - Dejan Stojanovic

6. “Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end.” - Dejan Stojanovic

7. “Eternity is a glorious word, but eternity is ice.” - Dejan Stojanovic

8. “Infinity is the end. End without infinity is but a new beginning.” - Dejan Stojanovic

9. “Universe is the Sun watching its own self.” - Dejan Stojanovic

10. “Two forces create eternity – a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale.” - Dejan Stojanovic

11. “God is busy and has no time for you.” - Dejan Stojanovic

12. “Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.” - Dejan Stojanovic

13. “Through words to the meaning of thoughts with no words.” - Dejan Stojanovic

14. “Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.” - Dejan Stojanovic

15. “In the lie of truth lies the truth.” - Dejan Stojanovic

16. “Teaching others, he corrected himself.” - Dejan Stojanovic

17. “We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.” - Dejan Stojanovic

18. “Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.” - Dejan Stojanovic

19. “He did not profess to anybody how to reach others without professing.” - Dejan Stojanovic

20. “Do not look too far for you will see nothing.” - Dejan Stojanovic

21. “Either you will be you or you will not be at all.” - Dejan Stojanovic

22. “We need knew knights, but without swords.” - Dejan Stojanovic

23. “Wherever there is somebody else, a war is not far away.” - Dejan Stojanovic

24. “A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.” - Dejan Stojanovic

25. “Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions.” - Dejan Stojanovic

26. “Now that we are all so smart, we don’t easily find resolutions.” - Dejan Stojanovic

27. “He thought others were small; that was his greatness.” - Dejan Stojanovic

28. “There are no winners in real games.” - Dejan Stojanovic

29. “For a game, you don’t need a teacher.” - Dejan Stojanovic

30. “Your head is a lit chamber.” - Dejan Stojanovic

31. “What we call life is only talk of nature.” - Dejan Stojanovic

32. “Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation.” - Dejan Stojanovic

33. “We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards.” - Dejan Stojanovic

34. “Don’t pay attention to those who offer too much.” - Dejan Stojanovic

35. “He confided his deepest secret to you; be always wary of his secret.” - Dejan Stojanovic

36. “You don’t know anything, but I know even less.” - Dejan Stojanovic

37. “They grew; they did not talk about growing.” - Dejan Stojanovic

38. “Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers.” - Dejan Stojanovic

39. “From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.” - Dejan Stojanovic

40. “There are many secrets; don’t try to resolve them all.” - Dejan Stojanovic

41. “If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single word, but that would be tragic.” - Dejan Stojanovic

42. “There are countless circles of hell; believers never penetrate the ninth circle.” - Dejan Stojanovic

43. “I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.” - Dejan Stojnaovic

44. “Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.” - Dejan Stojanovic

45. “Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.” - Dejan Stojanovic

46. “To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside an enslaved personality, to become impersonal by transforming into sand, into water, into light.” - Dejan Stojanovic

47. “There can be no forced inspiration.” - Dejan Stojanovic

48. “Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer.” - Dejan Stojanovic

49. “There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky.” - Dejan Stojanovic

50. “Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.” - Dejan Stojanovic

51. “There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.” - Dejan Stojanovic

52. “Art is apotheosis; often, the complaint of beauty.” - Dejan Stojanovic

53. “Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness.” - Dejan Stojanovic

54. “Every thought about death takes a moment of life away.” - Dejan Stojanovic

55. “History will be erased in the universal purgatory.” - Dejan Stojanovic

56. “Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility.” - Dejan Stojanovic

57. “He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.” - Dejan Stojanovic

58. “A word into the silence thrown always finds its echo somewhere where silence opens hidden lexicons.” - Dejan Stojanovic

59. “Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift.” - Dejan Stojanovic

60. “My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.” - Dejan Stojanovic

61. “I fly through memory to find a newborn love.” - Dejan Stojanovic

62. “To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps.” - Dejan Stojanovic

63. “Without pleasure there is no sight or measure.” - Dejan Stojanovic

64. “Great poets are great copy editors.” - Dejan Stojanovic

65. “To dream on occasion is not dreaming, To love on occasion is not love.” - Dejan Stojanovic

66. “There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection through nurtured imperfection.” - Dejan Stojanovic

67. “Oblivion cures the old wounds.” - Dejan Stojanovic

68. “Use the wings of the flying Universe, Dream with open eyes; See in darkness.” - Dejan Stojanovic

69. “In trying to be perfect, He perfected the art of anonymity, Became imperceptible And arrived nowhere from nowhere.” - Dejan Stojanovic

70. “Some people complain there are too many people on earth, Some people complain about secret societies, Some people accuse others of not being able to wake up early. Almost all people complain about something.” - Dejan Stojanovic

71. “All people are enslaved by something.” - Dejan Stojanovic

72. “Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer.” - Dejan Stojanovic

73. “Everything seems impossible And everything seems possible.” - Dejan Stojanovic

74. “Possible is more a matter of attitude, A matter of decision, to choose Among the impossible possibilities, When one sound opportunity Becomes a possible solution.” - Dejan Stojanovic

75. “Nothing reminds us of an awakening more than rain.” - Dejan Stojanovic

76. “Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.” - Dejan Stojanovic

77. “Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success We forget the easiness of free beautyLying sad right around the corner, Only an instant removed, Unnoticed and squandered.” - Dejan Stojanovic

78. “Unjustified ambition kills value,Kills someone else's desire to fly, Cuts their wings, sucks their air.If there is nothing else, it eats its own life.” - Dejan Stojanovic

79. “To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy.” - Dejan Stojanovic

80. “To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.” - Dejan Stojanovic

81. “To write good poems is the secret of brevity.” - Dejan Stojanovic

82. “To go where no one else has ever gone before is the secret of heroism.” - Dejan Stojanovic

83. “We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented.” - Dejan Stojanovic

84. “A star needs a star.” - Dejan Stojanovic

85. “When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV.” - Dejan Stojanovic

86. “I visited many places, Some of them quite Exotic and far away, But I always returned to myself.” - Dejan Stojanovic

87. “To understand possible means to understand impossible.” - Dejan Stojanovic

88. “Beauty is a cheap word, but beauty remains priceless.” - Dejan Stojanovic

89. “When within yourself you find the road, the right road will open.” - Dejan Stojanovic

90. “In every sound, the hidden silence sleeps.” - Dejan Stojanovic

91. “It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day.” - Dejan Stojanovic

92. “It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.” - Dejan Stojanovic

93. “Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.” - Dejan Stojanovic

94. “Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black.” - Dejan Stojanovic

95. “The eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man.” - Dejan Stojanovic

96. “If emptiness is endless, then everything rests in emptiness.” - Dejan Stojanovic

97. “Nothing is part of everything.” - Dejan Stojanovic

98. “Without nothing, everything would be nothing.” - Dejan Stojanovic

99. “When everything hurries everywhere, nothing goes anywhere.” - Dejan Stojanovic

100. “When he is most powerful, nothing does he become.” - Dejan Stojanovic

101. “Digressions are part of harmony, deviations too.” - Dejan Stojanovic

102. “Although personal calling I sense,Who am I? even if I am, I don't know.” - Dejan Stojanovic

103. “The farther away, the closer the home becomes.” - Dejan Stojanovic

104. “There is nobody to wake up eternal seekers.” - Dejan Stojanovic

105. “There is a pledge of the big and of the small in the infinite.” - Dejan Stojanovic

106. “There are no clear borders, Only merging invisible to the sight.” - Dejan Stojanovic

107. “Life into death— Life’s other shape, No rupture, Only crossing.” - Dejan Stojanovic

108. “You are hurrying to the sweet place, To the nonsense chasing your spirit And in the nonsense you look for answers.” - Dejan Stojanovic

109. “When the star dies, Its eye closes; tired of watching, It flies back to its first bright dream.” - Dejan Stojanovic

110. “He awaits himself while walking, out of the icy circle to escape.” - Dejan Stojanovic

111. “He knows he will be born again, And start fresh anew.” - Dejan Stojanovic

112. “Vandals listen only when others are stronger.If vandals are equal or strongerTheir word is the last word.” - Dejan Stojanovic

113. “Death swallows death.” - Dejan Stojanovic

114. “I recreate myself; that is my only power.” - Dejan Stojanovic

115. “I enjoy it when the world smiles; the more smiles, the warmer I am.” - Dejan Stojanovic

116. “You ask how it is possible to be your own father and son. You should seek answers, although it is better to anticipate some, to be the light and dream.” - Dejan Stojanovic

117. “Instead of imitating me, you simply loiter.” - Dejan Stojanovic

118. “I travel, always arriving in the same place.” - Dejan Stojanovic

119. “My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one.” - Dejan Stojanovic

120. “With me: one minus one = one; with you: it’s zero. Here lies the only difference.” - Dejan Stojanovic

121. “Mathematics doesn’t care about those beyond the numbers.” - Dejan Stojanovic

122. “In the biggest and the smallest I sleep but at the same place I stay.” - Dejan Stojanovic

123. “In a myriad of ways you tell one truth.” - Dejan Stojanovic

124. “What you gain here, you lose on the other side.” - Dejan Stojanovic

125. “He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love.” - Dejan Stojanovic

126. “We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and ideologues, teachers and beautifiers there are on the other side.” - Dejan Stojanovic

127. “Nothing is made, nothing disappears. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping.” - Dejan Stojanovic

128. “They are both spectacular, Life and death.” - Dejan Stojanovic

129. “Benar bahwa kamu punya hak untuk mencoba menemukan pengganti perempuan itu. Tapi bukan begitu caranya. Ibarat seorang atlet yang cedera, seharusnya disembuhkan dulu luka itu, baru berlatih lagi dan bertanding lagi. Sebab jika ia terluka dan tetap berlatih serta bertanding, kamu akan semakin terluka, bahkan jika kasus itu sepertimu, bisa melukai orang lain.” - Puthut EA

130. “It is not possible to express the most precious insights, To see all that craves to be seen, To visit even the closest neighbors in the universe, To learn all that needs to be learned, To live without dying, And I am sad about it.But I livedAnd I am happy about that.” - Dejan Stojanovic

131. “We create words, words create wonders.” - Chandan Sharma