Quotes From Literature That Will Actually Change Your Life

Fans of classical literature will love these dramatic quotes which will make you stop and think, curated by the Craveread review team.

1. “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” —Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

2. "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it." —Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

3. "The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." —J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye

4. "I assign myself no rank or any limit, and such an attitude is very much against the trend of the times. But my world has become one of infinite possibilities." —Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

5. "You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do." —David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

6. "We accept the love we think we deserve." —Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

7. "Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.'" —Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

8. "Adversity is like a strong wind. It...tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be." —Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

9. "Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open." —J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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