Friday 23 April 2021

The most powerful lines in literature

Book quotes can be pretty incredible, and this collection curated by the Ennymedia review team demonstrate that perfectly.

A Room With A View

Author: E.M. Forster

Year: 1908

“We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm - yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.”

Kafka On The Shore

Author: Haruki Murakami

Year: 2002

"Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart."

Ulysses

Author: James Joyce

Year: 1922

"History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."

The Mysterious Island

Author: Jules Verne

Year: 1874

"It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason."

London Fields

Author: Martin Amis

Year: 1989

"And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit."

The Scarlet Letter

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Year: 1850

“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”

The Picture Of Dorian Gray

Author: Oscar Wilde

Year: 1890

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

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