Top 1200 Love Literature Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Literature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind.

I prefer to talk about the gift of literature rather than its role or task.

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people.

There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.

I strongly believe that literature can do something that nothing else can do, and that is embody the human spirit.

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

I believe that literature always goes precisely there where the damage to a person has been done.

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.

It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

I love traveling. I hate jet lag, but I love, love, love, love traveling, to meet new people, to try different foods because I'm a big foodie.

Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy.

Film is not an amazing medium to relay interiority. I think literature is much better for that.

Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?

Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.

My mother's last word to me clanks inside me like an iron bell that someone beats at dinnertime: love, love, love, love, love.

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.

There is such a love, a love that creates value in what is loved. There is a love that turns rag dolls into priceless treasures. There is a love that fastens itself onto ragged little creatures, for reasons that no one could ever quite figure out, and makes them precious and valued beyond calculation. This is love beyond reason. This is the love of God.

In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.

Literature is the daughter of heaven, who descended upon earth to soften and charm all human ills.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature.

If literature survives at all, it is as retreat for those who refuse to assimilate to American mass culture.

You don't love people for what they can give you. You don't love them because of what they do for you or how good you make them look. Love is blind, love does not boast, love is not vain.

The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this.

I think it is an important question of our lives - what is the meaning of literature to us as humans.

Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet.

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.

I like fashion, but I love, love, love music and film; they are my two passions. I would love to pursue my acting and my love of music more than anything.

I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.

There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.

Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

To love very much is to love inadequately; we love-that is all. Love cannot be modified without being nullified. Love is a short word but it contains everything. Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe the air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us. Love is not a word; it is a wordless state indicated by four letters.

I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love the world. I love creating. Everything in our life should be based on love.

To love is to be afraid. You are frightened, deathly terrified, that something will happen to those you love. Think of the possibilities. Does your heart clench with each thought? That, my friend, is love. And love enslaves us all, for you cannot have love without fear.

I did not discover literature of any kind until I was about eleven, or ten.

I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

What I realized is that my interest in literature has more deeply structured my practice than I thought.

You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style.

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.

To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.

Asian literature is evolving with the people. It's always a reflection on what's happening to the culture at large.

Hate cannot destroy hate, but love can and does. Not the soft and negative thing that has carried the name and misrepresented the emotion, but love that suffers all things and is kind, love that accepts responsibility, love that marches, love that suffers, love that bleeds and dies for a great cause - but to rise again

I thoroughly believe that reading and literature can help a society to better understand itself.

I'm not totally comfortable with the ways in which our culture monetises art and literature.

make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.

Love is like magic and it always will be. For love still remains life's sweet mystery! Love works in ways that are wondrous and strange and there's nothing in life that love cannot change! Love can transform the most commonplace into beauty and splendor and sweetness and grace. Love is unselfish, understanding and kind, for it sees with its heart and not with its mind! Love is the answer that everyone seeks... Love is the language, that every heart speaks. Love can't be bought, it is priceless and free, love, like pure magic, is life's sweet mystery!

I was far away from Marathi literature, theatre, arts, everything. I was a late entrant to it.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

It is love itself that is important -- the ability to love, no matter whom you love. For when you can no longer love anyone, you are no longer a living person. The heart dies if it loses the capacity to love.

Literature plays a huge role in examining difficult real-life issues.

I got my degree in philosophy and English literature; those were my main interests.