The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

• And the Little Prince said to the Man, "Grownups never understand anything for themselves and it is tiresome for children to be always explaining things to them."

Sweet Thursday, John Steinbeck

• Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

The Scarlett Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne

• No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

East Of Eden, John Steinbeck

• It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

Camino Real, Tennessee Williams

• When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand

• Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare

• There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.

The Labyrinth Of Solitude, Octavio Paz

• Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Reason And Passion, Kahlil Gibran

• Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion; that it may sing; And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.

Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck

• As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment. And then the moment was gone.

Adam Bede, George Eliot

• There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and to have recovered hope.

The Green Mile, Stephen King

• Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.

The Queen Of Air And Darkness, T. H. White

• Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically — to those who hardly think about us in return.

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams

• He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.