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Top 100 Iconic Book Quotes

"The most powerful lines ever written"

This list celebrates the most iconic quotes from literature, the lines that have not only defined their respective books but have also echoed through time, influencing readers and writers alike. These quotes have shaped the way we think, feel, and view the world, making them unforgettable parts of our cultural fabric.

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  • Title: "Top 100 Iconic Book Quotes"
  • Subtitle: "Quotes That Have Defined Literature"
  • Tagline: "The most powerful lines ever written"
  • Description: "A compilation of the most memorable and impactful quotes from books that have left an indelible mark on readers and literature as a whole."
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# Top 100 Iconic Book Quotes
- Subtitle: "Quotes That Have Defined Literature"
- Tagline: "The most powerful lines ever written"
- Description: "A compilation of the most memorable and impactful quotes from books that have left an indelible mark on readers and literature as a whole."
- 5 Topics:

## Topics
- Classics: Timeless words from the literary greats
- Modern Fiction: Defining lines of contemporary literature
- Philosophical: Thought-provoking quotes that challenge the mind
- Romantic: Heartfelt quotes that capture love and longing
- Inspirational: Uplifting quotes that inspire and motivate

Topic 1: "Classics"

"Timeless words from the literary greats"

Classic literature has given us some of the most enduring quotes. These lines have transcended their pages, becoming cultural touchstones that continue to resonate.

  1. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." - Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
  2. "Call me Ishmael." - Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
  3. "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - George Orwell, Animal Farm
  4. "To be, or not to be, that is the question." - William Shakespeare, Hamlet
  5. "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
  6. "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will." - Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
  7. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address
  8. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
  9. "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view." - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
  10. "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done." - Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
  11. "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - William Shakespeare, Hamlet
  12. "The truth is rarely pure and never simple." - Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
  13. "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
  14. "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
  15. "All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players." - William Shakespeare, As You Like It
  16. "The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates, as recorded by Plato in Apology
  17. "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." - Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
  18. "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not." - André Gide, Autumn Leaves
  19. "Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful." - Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
  20. "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Topic 2: "Modern Fiction"

"Defining lines of contemporary literature"

Modern fiction has introduced us to new perspectives, and these quotes are the ones that have defined an era of storytelling, capturing the complexities of modern life.

  1. "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." - Stephen King, The Dark Tower
  2. "You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live." - Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
  3. "The things you own end up owning you." - Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
  4. "It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything." - Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
  5. "We accept the love we think we deserve." - Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
  6. "I am haunted by humans." - Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
  7. "Not all those who wander are lost." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
  8. "The universe is made of stories, not of atoms." - Muriel Rukeyser, The Speed of Darkness
  9. "I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul." - Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
  10. "I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then." - Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
  11. "The only limits for tomorrow are the doubts we have today." - Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four
  12. "The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places." - Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
  13. "We all float down here." - Stephen King, It
  14. "It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  15. "Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win." - Stephen King, The Shining
  16. "Pain demands to be felt." - John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
  17. "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." - J. Robert Oppenheimer, Bhagavad Gita
  18. "Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans." - Allen Saunders, Reader’s Digest
  19. "We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print." - Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
  20. "It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be." - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Topic 3: "Philosophical"

"Thought-provoking quotes that challenge the mind"

Philosophical quotes are the ones that make us pause and think deeply about life, existence, and our place in the world. They challenge our perceptions and encourage introspection.

  1. "I think, therefore I am." - René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
  2. "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates, Apology
  3. "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." - Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
  4. "Man is condemned to be free." - Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness
  5. "The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." - John Milton, Paradise Lost
  6. "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." - Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
  7. "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." - Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism
  8. "Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination." - Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
  9. "Hell is other people." - Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
  10. "The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates, Apology
  11. "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him." - Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
  12. "The life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." - Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
  13. "Without music, life would be a mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
  14. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
  15. "I rebel; therefore I exist." - Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
  16. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
  17. "One cannot step

twice in the same river." - Heraclitus, Fragments 18. "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go." - Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! 19. "The measure of intelligence is the ability to change." - Albert Einstein 20. "Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein

Topic 4: "Romantic"

"Heartfelt quotes that capture love and longing"

Romantic quotes speak to the depths of human emotion, capturing the essence of love, longing, and connection in words that resonate with the heart.

  1. "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." - Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
  2. "I am yours, don’t give myself back to me." - Rumi
  3. "You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought." - Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company
  4. "I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be." - Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
  5. "You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope." - Jane Austen, Persuasion
  6. "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." - Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
  7. "You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you." - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
  8. "The heart was made to be broken." - Oscar Wilde
  9. "We loved with a love that was more than love." - Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
  10. "I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul." - Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
  11. "He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." - Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
  12. "The very essence of romance is uncertainty." - Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
  13. "I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun." - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
  14. "You have been the last dream of my soul." - Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
  15. "I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
  16. "In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
  17. "I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough." - Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
  18. "He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking." - Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
  19. "It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you." - Roald Dahl, The Witches
  20. "I’ve never had a moment’s doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life." - Ian McEwan, Atonement

Topic 5: "Inspirational"

"Uplifting quotes that inspire and motivate"

Inspirational quotes are those that lift us up, providing motivation and encouragement to face life's challenges with courage and determination.

  1. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address
  2. "It always seems impossible until it’s done." - Nelson Mandela
  3. "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt
  4. "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi
  5. "The best way to predict the future is to create it." - Peter Drucker
  6. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
  7. "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius
  8. "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
  9. "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James
  10. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt
  11. "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  12. "Believe you can and you’re halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt
  13. "Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny." - C.S. Lewis
  14. "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Confucius
  15. "Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." - Sam Levenson
  16. "Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it." - Charles R. Swindoll
  17. "The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs
  18. "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now." - Chinese Proverb
  19. "Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough." - Og Mandino
  20. "Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world." - Roy T. Bennett

Top 100 List

  1. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." - Charles Dickens (Classics)
  2. "Call me Ishmael." - Herman Melville (Classics)
  3. "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - George Orwell (Classics)
  4. "To be, or not to be, that is the question." - William Shakespeare (Classics)
  5. "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." - Jane Austen (Classics)
  6. "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." - Stephen King (Modern Fiction)
  7. "You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live." - Natalie Babbitt (Modern Fiction)
  8. "The things you own end up owning you." - Chuck Palahniuk (Modern Fiction)
  9. "I think, therefore I am." - René Descartes (Philosophical)
  10. "I am yours, don’t give myself back to me." - Rumi (Romantic)
  11. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - Franklin D. Roosevelt (Inspirational)
  12. "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi (Inspirational)
  13. "It always seems impossible until it’s done." - Nelson Mandela (Inspirational)
  14. "Not all those who wander are lost." - J.R.R. Tolkien (Modern Fiction)
  15. "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." - Emily Brontë (Romantic)
  16. "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates (Philosophical)
  17. "I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be." - Charles Dickens (Romantic)
  18. "We accept the love we think we deserve." - Stephen Chbosky (Modern Fiction)
  19. "The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates (Philosophical)
  20. "You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope." - Jane Austen (Romantic)
  21. "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." - Emily Brontë (Romantic)
  22. "It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be." - J.K. Rowling (Modern Fiction)
  23. "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt (Inspirational)
  24. "Pain demands to be felt." - John Green (Modern Fiction)
  25. "The best way to predict the future is to create it." - Peter Drucker (Inspirational)
  26. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill (Inspirational)
  27. "The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." - John Milton (Philosophical)
  28. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle (Philosophical)
  29. "Man is condemned to be free." -

Jean-Paul Sartre (Philosophical) 30. "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." - J. Robert Oppenheimer (Modern Fiction) 31. "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." - Friedrich Nietzsche (Philosophical) 32. "The very essence of romance is uncertainty." - Oscar Wilde (Romantic) 33. "I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then." - Lewis Carroll (Modern Fiction) 34. "Hell is other people." - Jean-Paul Sartre (Philosophical) 35. "Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world." - Roy T. Bennett (Inspirational) 36. "Without music, life would be a mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche (Philosophical) 37. "He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking." - Leo Tolstoy (Romantic) 38. "The truth is rarely pure and never simple." - Oscar Wilde (Classics) 39. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt (Inspirational) 40. "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr. (Classics) 41. "The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places." - Ernest Hemingway (Modern Fiction) 42. "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." - J.K. Rowling (Classics) 43. "The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates (Philosophical) 44. "You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you." - Jane Austen (Romantic) 45. "It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." - J.K. Rowling (Modern Fiction) 46. "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James (Inspirational) 47. "Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny." - C.S. Lewis (Inspirational) 48. "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." - Oscar Wilde (Classics) 49. "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go." - Dr. Seuss (Philosophical) 50. "The life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." - Thomas Hobbes (Philosophical) 51. "I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul." - Charles Dickens (Modern Fiction) 52. "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now." - Chinese Proverb (Inspirational) 53. "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not." - André Gide (Classics) 54. "We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print." - Margaret Atwood (Modern Fiction) 55. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Martin Luther King Jr. (Philosophical) 56. "It always seems impossible until it’s done." - Nelson Mandela (Inspirational) 57. "The only limits for tomorrow are the doubts we have today." - Pittacus Lore (Modern Fiction) 58. "You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought." - Arthur Conan Doyle (Romantic) 59. "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates (Philosophical) 60. "Believe you can and you’re halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt (Inspirational) 61. "I rebel; therefore I exist." - Albert Camus (Philosophical) 62. "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt (Inspirational) 63. "All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players." - William Shakespeare (Classics) 64. "Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world." - Roy T. Bennett (Inspirational) 65. "I am haunted by humans." - Markus Zusak (Modern Fiction) 66. "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done." - Charles Dickens (Classics) 67. "The heart was made to be broken." - Oscar Wilde (Romantic) 68. "Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win." - Stephen King (Modern Fiction) 69. "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." - Emily Brontë (Romantic) 70. "Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it." - Charles R. Swindoll (Inspirational) 71. "The measure of intelligence is the ability to change." - Albert Einstein (Philosophical) 72. "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view." - Harper Lee (Classics) 73. "The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates (Philosophical) 74. "Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein (Philosophical) 75. "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius (Inspirational) 76. "I’ve never had a moment’s doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life." - Ian McEwan (Romantic) 77. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt (Inspirational) 78. "I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough." - Nicholas Sparks (Romantic) 79. "I think, therefore I am." - René Descartes (Philosophical) 80. "In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." - Jane Austen (Romantic) 81. "It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be." - J.K. Rowling (Modern Fiction) 82. "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." - Emily Brontë (Romantic) 83. "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - George Orwell (Classics) 84. "He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." - Emily Brontë (Romantic) 85. "I think, therefore I am." - René Descartes (Philosophical) 86. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill (Inspirational) 87. "You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you." - Jane Austen (Romantic) 88. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt (Inspirational) 89. "The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates (Philosophical) 90. "Call me Ishmael." - Herman Melville (Classics) 91. "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi (Inspirational) 92. "It always seems impossible until it’s done." - Nelson Mandela (Inspirational) 93. "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." - Oscar Wilde (Classics) 94. "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt (Inspirational) 95. "Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win." - Stephen King (Modern Fiction) 96. "Without music, life would be a mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche (Philosophical) 97. "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." - Stephen King (Modern Fiction) 98. "The very essence of romance is uncertainty." - Oscar Wilde (Romantic) 99. "It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be." - J.K. Rowling (Modern Fiction) 100. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt (Inspirational)

Top 100 Table

Rank Name Topic Tagline
1 "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." - Charles Dickens Classics Timeless words from the literary greats
2 "Call me Ishmael." - Herman Melville Classics Timeless words from the literary greats
3 "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - George Orwell Classics Timeless words from the literary greats
4 "To be, or not to be, that is the question." - William Shakespeare Classics Timeless words from the literary greats
5 "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." - Jane Austen Classics Timeless words from the literary greats
6 "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." - Stephen King Modern Fiction Defining lines of contemporary literature
7 "You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live." - Natalie Babbitt Modern Fiction Defining lines of contemporary literature
8 "The things you own end up owning you." - Chuck Palahniuk Modern Fiction Defining lines of contemporary literature
9 "I think, therefore I am." - René Descartes Philosophical Thought-provoking quotes that challenge the mind
10 "I am yours, don’t give myself back to me." - Rumi Romantic Heartfelt quotes that capture love and longing
11 "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - Franklin D. Roosevelt Inspirational Uplifting quotes that inspire and motivate
12 "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi Inspirational Uplifting quotes that inspire and motivate
13 "It always seems impossible until it’s done." - Nelson Mandela Inspirational Uplifting quotes that inspire and motivate
14 "Not all those who wander are lost." - J.R.R. Tolkien Modern Fiction Defining lines of contemporary literature
15 "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." - Emily Brontë Romantic Heartfelt quotes that capture love and longing
16 "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates Philosophical Thought-provoking quotes that challenge the mind
17 "I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be." - Charles Dickens Romantic Heartfelt quotes that capture love and longing
18 "We accept the love we think we deserve." - Stephen Chbosky Modern Fiction Defining lines of contemporary literature
19 "The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates Philosophical Thought-provoking quotes that challenge the mind
20 "You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope." - Jane Austen Romantic Heartfelt quotes that capture love and longing
21 "It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be." - J.K. Rowling Modern Fiction Defining lines of contemporary literature
22 "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt Inspirational Uplifting quotes that inspire and motivate
23 "Pain demands to be felt." - John Green Modern Fiction Defining lines of contemporary literature
24 "The best way to predict the future is to create it." - Peter Drucker Inspirational Uplifting quotes that inspire and motivate
25 "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill Inspirational Uplifting quotes that inspire and motivate
26 "The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." - John Milton Philosophical Thought-provoking quotes that challenge the mind
27 "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle Philosophical Thought-provoking quotes that challenge the mind
28 "Man is condemned to be free." - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosophical Thought-provoking quotes that challenge the mind
29 "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." - J. Robert Oppenheimer Modern Fiction Defining lines of contemporary literature
30 "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." - Friedrich Nietzsche Philosophical Thought-provoking quotes that challenge the mind
31 "The very essence of romance is uncertainty." - Oscar Wilde Romantic Heartfelt quotes that capture love and longing
32 "I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then." - Lewis Carroll Modern Fiction Defining lines of contemporary literature
33 "Hell is other people." - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosophical Thought-provoking quotes that challenge the mind
34 "Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world." - Roy T. Bennett Inspirational Uplifting quotes that inspire and motivate
35 "Without music, life would be a mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche Philosophical Thought-provoking quotes that challenge the mind
36 "He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking." - Leo Tolstoy Romantic Heartfelt quotes that capture love and longing
37 "The truth is rarely pure and never simple." - Oscar Wilde Classics Timeless words from the literary greats
38 "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt Inspirational Uplifting quotes that inspire and motivate
39 "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr. Classics Timeless words from the literary greats
40 "The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places." - Ernest Hemingway Modern Fiction Defining lines of contemporary literature
41 "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." - J.K. Rowling Classics Timeless words from the literary greats
42 "The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates Philosophical Thought-provoking quotes that challenge the mind
43 "You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you." - Jane Austen Romantic Heartfelt quotes that capture love and longing
44 "It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." - J.K. Rowling Modern Fiction Defining lines of contemporary literature
45 "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James Inspirational Uplifting quotes that inspire and motivate
46 "Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny." - C.S. Lewis Inspirational Uplifting quotes that inspire and motivate
47 "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." - Oscar Wilde Classics Timeless words from the literary greats
48 "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go." - Dr. Seuss Philosophical Thought-provoking quotes that challenge the mind
49 "The life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." - Thomas Hobbes Philosophical Thought-provoking quotes that challenge the mind
50 "I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul." - Charles Dickens Modern Fiction Defining lines of contemporary literature
51 "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now." - Chinese Proverb Inspirational Uplifting quotes that inspire and motivate
52 "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not." - André Gide Classics Timeless words from the literary greats
53 "We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print." - Margaret Atwood Modern Fiction Defining lines of contemporary literature
54 "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Martin Luther King Jr. Philosophical Thought-provoking quotes that challenge the mind
55 "It always seems impossible until it’s done." - Nelson Mandela Inspirational Uplifting quotes that inspire and motivate
56 "The only limits for tomorrow are the doubts we have today." - Pittacus Lore Modern Fiction Defining lines of contemporary literature
57 "You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought." - Arthur Conan Doyle Romantic Heartfelt quotes that capture love and longing
58 "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates Philosophical Thought-provoking quotes that challenge the mind
59 "Believe you can and you’re halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt Inspirational Uplifting quotes that inspire and motivate
60 "I rebel; therefore I exist." - Albert Camus Philosophical Thought-provoking quotes that challenge the mind
61 "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt Inspirational Uplifting quotes that inspire and motivate
62 "All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players." - William Shakespeare Classics Timeless words from the literary greats
63 "Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world." - Roy T. Bennett Inspirational Uplifting quotes that inspire and motivate
64 "I am haunted by humans." - Markus Zusak Modern Fiction Defining lines of contemporary literature
65 "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done." - Charles Dickens Classics Timeless words from the literary greats
66 "The heart was made to be broken." - Oscar Wilde Romantic Heartfelt quotes that capture love and longing
67 "Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win." - Stephen King Modern Fiction Defining lines of contemporary literature
68 "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." - Emily Brontë Romantic Heartfelt quotes that capture love and longing
69 "Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it." - Charles R. Swindoll Inspirational Uplifting quotes that inspire and motivate
70 "The measure of intelligence is the ability to change." - Albert Einstein Philosophical Thought-provoking quotes that challenge the mind
71 "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view." - Harper Lee Classics Timeless words from the literary greats
72 "Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein Philosophical Thought-provoking quotes that challenge the mind
73 "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius Inspirational Uplifting quotes that inspire and motivate
74 "I’ve never had a moment’s doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life." - Ian McEwan Romantic Heartfelt quotes that capture love and longing
75 "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt Inspirational Uplifting quotes that inspire and motivate
76 "I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough." - Nicholas Sparks Romantic Heartfelt quotes that capture love and longing
77 "The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates Philosophical Thought-provoking quotes that challenge the mind
78 "In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." - Jane Austen Romantic Heartfelt quotes that capture love and longing
79 "Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win." - Stephen King Modern Fiction Defining lines of contemporary literature
80 "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." - Emily Brontë Romantic Heartfelt quotes that capture love and longing
81 "The truth is rarely pure and never simple." - Oscar Wilde Classics Timeless words from the literary greats
82 "I think, therefore I am." - René Descartes Philosophical Thought-provoking quotes that challenge the mind
83 "Without music, life would be a mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche Philosophical Thought-provoking quotes that challenge the mind
84 "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt Inspirational Uplifting quotes that inspire and motivate
85 "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill Inspirational Uplifting quotes that inspire and motivate
86 "I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough." - Nicholas Sparks Romantic Heartfelt quotes that capture love and longing
87 "Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world." - Roy T. Bennett Inspirational Uplifting quotes that inspire and motivate
88 "I rebel; therefore I exist." - Albert Camus Philosophical Thought-provoking quotes that challenge the mind
89 "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill Inspirational Uplifting quotes that inspire and motivate
90 "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now." - Chinese Proverb Inspirational Uplifting quotes that inspire and motivate
91 "I think, therefore I am." - René Descartes Philosophical Thought-provoking quotes that challenge the mind
92 "Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win." - Stephen King Modern Fiction Defining lines of contemporary literature
93 "The truth is rarely pure and never simple." - Oscar Wilde Classics Timeless words from the literary greats
94 "I’ve never had a moment’s doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life." - Ian McEwan Romantic Heartfelt quotes that capture love and longing
95 "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not." - André Gide Classics Timeless words from the literary greats
96 "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt Inspirational Uplifting quotes that inspire and motivate
97 "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view." - Harper Lee Classics Timeless words from the literary greats
98 "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." - Emily Brontë Romantic Heartfelt quotes that capture love and longing
99 "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now." - Chinese Proverb Inspirational Uplifting quotes that inspire and motivate
100 "I think, therefore I am." - René Descartes Philosophical Thought-provoking quotes that challenge the mind

Conclusion

The power of words has the ability to inspire, challenge, and evoke deep emotions within us. The iconic book quotes on this list are not just memorable phrases; they represent some of the most profound and thought-provoking insights from literature. From timeless classics to modern fiction, these quotes have transcended their pages to become part of our everyday language and culture. They remind us of the beauty of human expression, the complexity of thought, and the universal nature of storytelling. In celebrating these lines, we celebrate the enduring influence of literature on the human experience.