100 classic quotations of world famous books, worth collecting

Yu Hua "Alive"

01. As long as people live happily, they are not afraid of being poor.

02. Initially we came into this world because we had to come; in the end we left this world because we had to go.

03. Man lives for the sake of being alive itself, not for anything other than being alive.

04. Life is what belongs to each person's own feelings, not to anyone else's opinion.

Yang Dai, "The Two of Us"

05. There will be no simple happiness in the world, happiness is always mixed with troubles and worries, and there is no eternity in the world.

06. He made a vow: "From now on, we will only die and never be separated." ”

07. Our family is very simple; the three of us are very simple. We have no needs from the world, no quarrels with others, but only to get together, to stay together, and to do what we can.

08. If the parting is extended longer, does it increase or decrease the pain? I couldn't tell, but the farther I walked with him, the more afraid I would never see him again.

09. Now the three of us are lost. The past cannot be left behind, the deceased cannot be traced; the rest of me, I can no longer find them.

Qian Zhongshu "Siege of the City"

10. Marriage is a besieged city, and people outside the city want to go in, and people in the city want to come out.

11. Rumors are faster than the flu, greater than the energy contained in meteors, more malicious than hooligans, and more heart-wrenching than abortions.

12. We imagine not only that the grapes that cannot be picked are sour, but also that they are extremely sweet.

13. Love is mostly unsuccessful, either suffering from the boredom of eventually becoming a dependent, or suffering from the sadness of not being able to finally become a dependent.

14. The viciousness of a loyal and honest person, like the sand in a meal or the unbridled thorn in a bone fish fillet, will give people an unanticipated pain.

Lu Yao,"Ordinary World"

15. Life cannot wait for others to arrange it, to fight and struggle for it yourself; and whether the result is joy or sorrow, it is comforting that you have never lived in this world in vain.

16. Life is so unpredictable, there is no eternal pain, there is no eternal happiness, life is like flowing water, sometimes so flat, sometimes so tortuous.

17. Only when you have chosen a goal and feel that your efforts are not wasted in the struggle, such a life is fulfilling and the spirit will always be young.

Margaret Mitchell in "Gone with the Wind"

18. The past has passed, the dead have died, and the living must continue to live.

19. All that passes away with the wind belongs to yesterday, and all that has survived the wind and rain is the future-oriented.

20. I've never been that kind of person, and I can't patiently pick up a piece of debris, put it together, and say to myself, this patched thing is exactly the same as the new one. Something that breaks is broken, and I'd rather remember what it looked like when it was at its best than fix it and look at those broken places for the rest of my life.

21. Life has no obligation to meet our expectations, we should accept reality and be thankful that the situation is not worse.

Harper Lee, "To Kill a Mockingbird"

22. Bravery is not about being alone with a gun in your hand, but you know you're going to lose before you do it, but you still do it, and you're going to stick to it anyway.

23. You can never really get to know a person unless you think about it from his point of view.

24. There is one thing that cannot follow the principle of conformity, and that is the conscience of man.

25. Do you know what compromise is? It's both sides that take a step back and agree.

Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

26. Only a few people in the world can finally reach their ideals.

27. Chasing a dream is chasing his own doom, and in a street full of sixpence, he looks up and sees the moonlight.

28 It is not true that misfortune can make human nature noble; sometimes it is happy and proud to make people do noble deeds, and disaster misfortune in most cases can only make people small-minded and more vindictive.

29. Remember that above the ordinary material life, there is a more fascinating spiritual world, which is like the moon in the night sky overhead, which is not dazzling, and emits a quiet and peaceful light.

Khaled Husseini, "The Kite Chaser"

30. It is better to be hurt by the truth than to be deceived by lies, and it is always more hurtful to get and lose than to never get.

31. When you lie, you steal someone else's right to know the truth; when you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.

32. There is no need for us to know where the broken kite will fly, not even its shadow worth following. As long as you can give your heart for it, it must be in the direction you are pursuing!

33. For you, thousands of times.

Milan Kundera, "The Unbearable Lightness of Life"

34. If every second of our lives repeats infinitely, we will be crucified to eternity as Jesus was crucified.

35. When the mind is speaking, it is inappropriate for the intellect to come out and speak out against it.

36. Once a person is intoxicated by his own weakness, he will become weak, and he will fall into the street under the eyes of all, fall to the ground, and fall lower than the ground.

37 Man can never know what he wants, for he can only live once, and he can neither compare it with his previous life nor correct it in his next life.

38 The heavier the burden, the closer our life is to the earth, the more real it is.

Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea

39 A man is not born to be defeated, you can destroy him, but you cannot defeat him.

40. Life always makes us bruised, but later, those wounded places will surely become our strongest places.

41. Every day is a new day, and luck is certainly good, but I would rather do it without fail. That way, when luck comes, you're ready.

42. Now is not the time to think about what is missing, but to think about what you can do with what you have.

43. Fight until you die.

Claire McFaul, The Ferryman

44. If fate were a lonely river, who would be your soul ferryman?

45. The reason you believe what a person says is because he says what you want to hear.

46. Sometimes it's much better to forget than to remember.

47. Your body is a projection of your mental image, and the more gloomy your mind is, the darker the night.

48. Don't overlook every unexpected moment in your life, it's your soul ferryman telling you.

Mario Puzo, The Godfather

49. Let your friends underestimate your strengths and let your enemies overestimate your weaknesses.

50 But the little "meaning" between a man and a woman often begins with "I'm sorry" and ends with "really uninteresting."

51. Don't hate your enemies, that will affect your judgment.

52 Forgive, forget, life is inherently full of misfortune.

53. Don't say your ideals lightly and don't give others a chance to laugh at you.

Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby"

54. All the glamour is timeless and never goes back.

55. The world doesn't care about your self-esteem, people see only your achievements. Don't overemphasize self-esteem until you're not accomplished.

56. All great novels ultimately point in one direction, nothingness. All life has a common result, dreams are broken, people die.

57. When you are in an artificial predicament, don't complain, you can only learn the lesson silently.

J· D. Salinger, "The Catcher in the Rye"

58. Remember what should be remembered, forget what should be forgotten. What can be changed can be changed, what is acceptable cannot be changed.

59. The mark of an immature person is that he is willing to die vigorously for a certain principle, and the mark of a mature person is that he is willing to live humbly for a certain principle.

60. Growing up is a festering that people must go through.

61. I don't care if it's a sad parting or a happy parting, as long as it's a place, I always want to leave with a good idea.

Victor Hugo, Notre Dame de Paris

62 The human heart can only tolerate a certain degree of despair, and the sponge has sucked enough water, and even if the sea flows over it, it can no longer add a drop of water to it.

63. Not everything in all things is human beauty, ugliness is next to beauty, deformity is close to beauty, ugliness is hidden behind the sublime, beauty and evil coexist, light and darkness coexist.

64 This is the twilight sun, but we regard it as the dawn of the dawn.

65. This is often the case with the unfortunate. He cherished life, but saw hell behind him.

66. A one-eyed man and a complete blind man are more disadvantaged than they are, because he knows what is missing.

Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice

67. Many things in the world are always more exciting when they are pursued than when they are enjoyed.

68. Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the stupid things they do.

69. Appearance is often completely inconsistent with the thing itself, and the world is easily deceived by the decoration of the surface.

70 I see the world as nothing more than a theater in which everyone must play a role, and I play a sad role.

71 The weakest fruit falls first on the ground.

Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

72. Everyone has flaws, like an apple that has been bitten by God, and some people have greater defects precisely because God especially likes His fragrance.

73 Let the dead bury the dead, for since we have life, we should live, and we should live happily.

74. Evil comes out of my mouth, and my mouth is my enemy.

75. How humble is everything in the world compared to the height of the heart.

76 There are only two real misfortunes in life that are condemned by conscience and sickness, and as long as there are no such two bad things, they are happiness.

Dumas the Count of Monte Cristo

77 If you desire something, you have to let it be free, if it comes back to you, it belongs to you, and if it doesn't come back, you never have it.

78 God gave people limited power but gave them unlimited desires.

79. Wise people, who should not know, do not ask too much, and do not believe what they do not believe.

80 All the wisdom of mankind is contained in these four words: "wait" and "hope"!

81. The ruthless teaching teaches people what kind of eyes can be used to observe danger, and what kind of patience is used to endure pain.

Brontë "Jane Eyre"

82 The more lonely I am, the more I have no friends, the more unsupportive I am, the more respect I have to respect myself.

83 If you can't avoid it, you have to endure it. The inability to endure what is destined to endure in life is a manifestation of weakness and stupidity.

84. Even if the whole world hates you and believes you are bad, as long as you have a clear conscience and know that you are innocent, you will not be without friends.

85. Life is too short to hate someone for so long.

Gorky", "My University"

86 The less a man needs, the greater his happiness, and the more he desires, the less freedom he has.

87. Time is the fairest and most reasonable, and it is never given more to anyone.

88 Without a conscience, man cannot live even if he is wise.

89 The physical pain is bearable, but the mental pain is even more torturous.

90. Life does not believe in tears, and even if you turn tears into pearls, the gray life will not shine because of it.

Stendhal "The Red and the Black"

91. Politeness is not to let bad tempers come out.

92. My dream is worth fighting for myself, and my life today is by no means a cold plagiarism of my life yesterday.

93. The more you defend yourself, the more you expose your faults.

94. In solitude, you can gain everything except character.

95. In the selfish desert of life, each man is for himself, and everyone is planning for himself.

Tagore's Birds

96. When you cry about missing the sun, you have to miss the stars again.

97. We misread the world and say that it deceives us.

98 The world kisses me with pain and asks me to repay it with a song.

99. Thank you for giving you light from the flame, but don't forget the man who holds the lamp, who stands stoically in the darkness.

100 Faith is the bird, which, while the dawn is still dark, feels the light and sings.