23 Of The Most Beautiful Lines From Literature

I asked friends and people across the internet what they thought the most beautiful lines in literature were. Some chose lines from classic books while others picked more recent releases. Here are some of their answers.

23 Of The Most Beautiful Lines From Literature:

1.

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.”

– Stephen Chbosky, Perks Of Being A Wallflower

2.

“I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.”

– John Green, Looking For Alaska

3.

“Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart.”

– E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

4.

“Rudy, please, wake up, Goddamn it, wake up, I love you. Come on, Rudy, come on, Jesse Owens, don’t you know I love you, wake up, wake up, wake up…”

– Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

5.

“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

6.

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”

– Jack Kerouac, On The Road

7.

“She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.”

– Toni Morrison, Beloved

8.

“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.”

– Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

9.

“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”

– Cormac McCarthy, The Road

10.

“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, a very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you’ll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.”

– Janet Fitch, White Oleander

11.

“You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.”

– Margaret Mitchell, Gone With The Wind

12.

“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. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.”

– Jane Austen, Persuasion

13.

“I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.”

– Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love In The Time Of Cholera

14.

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.”

– A.A. Milne, Winnie The Pooh

15.

The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.”