Life and love are the two big things that shape our existence, right? And who better than the world’s most famous authors to get into the nitty-gritty of what makes them so complex? In this awesome collection of 105 quotes, we dive deep into the minds of literary legends who have truly captured the essence of these universal experiences.
Whether you’re looking for wisdom, inspiration, or just a moment to reflect, these quotes give timeless insights into the beauty and challenges of love and life.
So, come on, let’s explore the profound words of these famous authors and see how their unique perspectives resonate with us across generations.
Famous author’s life quotes
1. “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” – William Shakespeare
2. “Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.” – C.S. Lewis
3. “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
4. “If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” – Stephen King
5. “Life is tough my darling, but so are you.” – Stephanie Bennett Henry
6. “Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.” – Herman Hesse
7. “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” – Robert Frost
8. “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” – Stephen King
9. “Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.” – Henry David Thoreau
10. “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
11. “Our past is what molds us into the person we are today. It does not define us.”
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12. “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
13. “Start before you’re ready.”
14. “I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.” – Alice Walker
15. “To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.” – Mark Twain
16. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
17. “Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.” – Henry David Thoreau
18. “Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.” – Natalie Goldberg
19. “Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” – John Steinbeck
20. “You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.” – Ernest Hemingway
21. “I kept always two books in my pocket: one to read, one to write in.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
22. “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” – Maya Angelou
23. “Life is a journey, not a destination.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
24. “To survive, you must tell stories.”
25. “It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”
26. “Today is a good day to have a great day.” – Germany Kent
27. “You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.” – Jodi Picoult
28. “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” – Charles Dickens
29. “I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
30. “We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.” – Orson Welles
31. “Well done is better than well said.” – Benjamin Franklin
32. “If you have no critics, you’ll likely have no success.” – Malcolm X
33. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle
34. “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” – James A. Baldwin
35. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain
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Famous authors quotes
36. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
37. “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
38. “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau
39. “A word after a word after a word is power.” – Margaret Atwood
40. “Even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.” – Stephen Chbosky
41. “Always be the first in line to show up for yourself.”
42. “A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it to be God.” – Sidney Sheldon
43. “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” – George Orwell
44. “Every Great Journey Starts with a Conversation”
45. “It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.” – J.K. Rowling
46. “Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” – Oscar Wilde
47. “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” – James Cameron
48. “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” – Aristotle
49. “The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It’s followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.” – Nora Ephron
50. “You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.” – John Lennon
51. “Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs.” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
52. “Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.” – James Baldwin
53. “Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.” – C.S. Lewis
54. “Resilience is not the absence of adversity, but the strength to rise, adapt, and flourish in its presence.”
55. “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
56. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
57. “A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it to be God.” – Sidney Sheldon
58. “First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him!” – Ray Bradbury
59. “Which is the true nightmare, the horrific dream that you have in your sleep or the dissatisfied reality that awaits you when you awake.”
60. “Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.”
61. “And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” – John Steinbeck
62. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
63. “Books are for nothing but to inspire.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
64. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”
65. “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” – Stephen King
66. “Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences.”
67. “The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.”
68. “We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in.” – Ernest Hemingway
69. “Monsters are real, ghosts are real, too. They live inside us, and sometimes they win.”
70. “Half my life is an act of revision.” – John Irving
Famous authors love quotes
71. “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” – Zora Neale Hurston
72. “It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.” – Roald Dahl
73. “I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.” – Alice Walker
74. “We are most alive when we’re in love.” – John Updike
75. “You pierce my soul. I am half agony. Half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.” – Jane Austen, Persuasion
76. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
77. “Why, darling, I don’t live at all when I’m not with you.” – Ernest Hemingway
78. “You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.”
79. “There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
80. “Lovers find Secret places in this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.” – Rumi
81. “We loved with a love that was more than love.”
82. “I do love nothing in the world so well as you – Is not that strange?”
83. “Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.”
84. “Love does not claim possession but gives freedom” – Rabindranath Tagore
85. “He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest.” – W.H. Auden
86. “I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.”
87. “For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.” – Stephanie Perkins
88. “I love you, not because of who you are but because of who I am when I am with you.”
89. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
90. “There are darknesses in life and there are lights; you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.” – Bram Stoker
91. “It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” – Vladimir Nabokov
92. “One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.” – Paulo Coelho
93. “I look at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world…”
94. “You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me.”
95. “The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.”
96. “You are sunlight through a window, which I stand in, warmed.”
97. “I never loved you any more than I do, right this second. And I’ll never love you any less than I do, right this second”
98. “It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long .”
99. “I know from experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
100. “You make me want to be a better man.”
101. “When someone loves you it’s like having a blanket all round your heart.”
102. “We love the things we love for what they are.”
103. “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
104. “There I was, way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute”
105. “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.”
Summary
These 105 quotes by famous authors remind us that love and life are beautiful and complex. Their words inspire, comfort, and challenge us to reflect on our experiences. May these timeless insights serve as a guide, offering wisdom and inspiration for your journey through love and life.
