Top 20 bright quotes from great writers of the 20th century


A sick soul does not exist in a healthy body

  1. While you are waiting for gifts, you can simply try to change your life. L. Tolstoy
  2. The most terrible passion is love. It affects the head, the soul, and everything in the world. Voltaire
  3. To die peacefully, you just need to live a righteous life. L. da Vinci
  4. Beauty is not beauty if it does not manifest itself in actions. Osho
  5. Rarely does anything happen to a person by chance. Even so: he is the author of his own accidents. L. Tolstoy
  6. Trust a person, and then you can understand exactly what he is like. E. Hemingway
  7. It is impossible to imagine civilization without swearing. Z. Freud
  8. You need to achieve what you want not as an adult, but as a child. M. Twain
  9. If your loved one does not understand what you are talking about, then he will also not understand what you are silent about. E. Hubbart
  10. It would have been right to plant a tree 20 years ago, but planting it today is also not bad. J.Goethe
  11. It’s a pity that wisdom comes into our lives so late... B. Franklin
  12. There should be such successes in life that failures are not offensive to endure. R. Aldington
  13. A recipe and a pie are not the same thing. Reason and reason are also, however, different things.
  14. What if the abyss is peering at us while we are peering into the abyss? Nietzsche
  15. No idiot is worth losing your temper over. M. Clark

Everything that is inside really exists and is waiting to come out.

Much can be written down in a draft, and then rewritten into a clean copy. And if you lack valuable advice, look for it in quotes about the lives of famous writers.

  1. Accept yourself and you will see that life is beautiful. A. de Saint-Exupéry
  2. Find out the principles of a person, and in the process you will realize that you know everything about him. Apuleius
  3. An empty life is the worst thing that can happen. Bertolt Brecht
  4. Daily life is the best indicator of a person's morals. Blaise Pascal
  5. If you turn life into suffering, then it is your own fault. V. Veresaev
  6. To become yourself means to find your own personal path in life. V. Belinsky
  7. On this earth it is still better to climb than to roll. V. Soloukhin
  8. In life, as in a mountain, one goes down very quickly, but it takes a very long time to go up. G. de Maupassant
  9. In life you need to have one thing, but one around which all the others revolve. Delacroix
  10. There is light in the soul of every person if that person agrees with his life. D. Gibran
  11. It is unlikely that you will remain sad when you illuminate the lives of others. D. Barry
  12. If there are no sorrows and worries in your life, then maybe you are not living at all? Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
  13. Your life is not in the hands of another person. It's in your own hands. Jean Jacques Rousseau
  14. There are two meanings in life - internal and external. External is everyday life. So the internal one is different for everyone. I. Guberman

Quotes from various authors

Learn to appreciate someone who can’t live without you, and don’t chase someone who is happy without you! — Gabriel García Márquez, 75 Happiness Quotes RELATED QUOTES

It’s not like there’s no way without you, without you there’s no point. You were promised to me (Elchin Safarli) (100+)

I love you not for who you are, but for who I am when I am with you. Gabriel Garcia Marquez (50+)

You need to appreciate not the one who comes to you when he has nowhere to go, but the one who comes to you when there are many places where he is expected. Ersin Tezcan (40+)

Don't chase money - go towards it. Aristotle Onassis (10+)

Only those who look at you with tenderness have beautiful eyes. Coco Chanel (100+)

Live correctly, be satisfied with what you have, Live freely, preserve freedom and honor. Don’t grieve, don’t envy... Who is richer, who is poorer than you - you can’t count them in the world! Omar Khayyam (500+)

Don't shut the mouth of those who open your eyes. And standing firmly on your feet, do not forget those who lifted you in their arms. Unknown author (1000+)

The choice becomes obvious when you realize that there is a huge difference between someone who wants to warm up with you and someone who wants to warm you up. Unknown author (1000+)

Do not rush to help those who did not ask you to do so. Don't give advice to those who haven't asked for it. Value yourself, your word, your thoughts. George Bernard Shaw (100+)

Happy is the one who can see beauty in ordinary things, where others see nothing! Camille Pissarro (20+)

There are some tears that you absolutely have to cry, at any time of the day or night, cry so that everything inside burns out Stephen King (100+)

He realized that she was not only close to him, but that he now did not know where she ended and he began. Anna Karenina (Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy) (100+)

Be like a lotus that is always pure and blooms even in muddy water. Ancient India (6)

We are stewing in a strange compote, Where they lie behind our backs and to our faces, Where everyone individually is against, But together we are strongly for. Igor Guberman (500+)

The mind has always been, is and will be in fashion! So, a note to all fashionistas and fashionistas. Konstantin Pi (50+)

Where your thoughts are, there you are. Try to always be in a good place! Unknown author (1000+)

Winter is the only time of year when everyone can enter a fairy tale and believe in miracles, like little children. The most magical time of the year! Unknown author (1000+)

When the right time comes, kindred spirits will always find each other - even if they are in different worlds... Unknown author (1000+)

Everyone remembers where and in whom he drowned. Unknown author (1000+)

We grow great by dreaming. All great people are dreamers. They see objects in the soft magical glow of a spring day or in the crimson glow of long winter evenings. Some of us let our great dreams die, but others nurture and protect them, cherishing them through their darkest days until they are carried into the warm sunshine that is always with those who believe that their dreams will come true. Thomas Woodrow Wilson (9)

The more a person experiences everything unpleasant, the more difficult it is for him to experience it in the future.

Quotes from great poets about life will especially appeal to people who value big ideas. Of course, many of them are about love.

  1. Planting a tree is always wonderful, even if you don’t get the seeds.
  2. Don't believe it. A book is nothing if a person does not know how to use it. A. Blok
  3. There is only one revolution needed. And this is spring. F. Tyutchev
  4. Willpower and work are what transform a person beyond recognition. N. Nekrasov
  5. Sometimes you need to give yourself free rein. If only because life is short... O. Khayyam
  6. No matter what anyone says, very soon everything will be completely new. A. Blok
  7. No appearance, even the best, can compare with a beautiful soul. O. Khayam
  8. You can grow old in doubt and inaction. M. Lermontov
  9. We can dream as much as we want, but we are created only from flesh. M. Tsvetaeva
  10. We live in a world where a woman can thank simply for tenderness. E. Yevtushenko
  11. The warmer the house, the more useless the blizzard. A. Blok
  12. When the paths to the heart become beaten, love slowly disappears. I. Bunin
  13. And if you knock on my door, it seems to me that I won’t even hear. A. Akhmatova
  14. Sometimes there is no return to what you loved for so long. K. Belmont
  15. Sadness disappears when I die at your feet.
  16. I drink you, captivating life, with my eyes, heart, sighs and skin. M. Tsvetaeva
  17. Two lunges don't mean a fight, two kisses don't even mean romance. A. Akhmatova

And the cluster of yellow-red rowan trees fades, I compose funny poems

Sometimes there are many more words in silence than in the most sublime words. Nevertheless, the meaning of quotes from poets about life is much more interesting.

  1. The modern woman is wrapped up in vanity. But as before, divine! Let a little tired. R. Rozhdestvenny
  2. I will go through everything without reproaching anyone, I will overcome any anxiety, just to know that everything is not in vain, that you will not betray me on the road. E. Asadov
  3. But even in excess there is no stronger rapture. One smile of tenderness for your tormented soul. F. Tyutchev
  4. The soul is killed, joy is over the soul. Although she sheds tears from her fiery eyes, she remembers everything about her beauty. M. Lermontov
  5. It's nice to think by the bed. A. Pushkin
  6. I have no evil. I don't lie to my heart. I live as best I can. I live as best I can. R. Rozhdestvensky
  7. People, be gentler towards your neighbors, treat them with tenderness and kindness. E. Asadov.
  8. I believe that you will come again with the fragrance of wondrous lilies to captivate and embrace me. A. Blok
  9. I have so many whimsical comparisons for you - but is it possible to catch your beauty, even instantly? V. Hoffman
  10. And that beautiful land, and that city where a bright look doomed me to captivity, I bless the sweetness of the first pain. F. Petrarch
  11. This is the passion with which I burn! I wither, I perish in the prime of my life, but I don’t want to be healed... A. Pushkin
  12. The waves rush, thundering and sparkling, sensitive stars look from above. F. Tyutchev
  13. Like a white stone in the depths of a well, one memory lies within me. A. Akhmatova
  14. A beautiful woman is a profession, and if she is still not settled, she is condemned. R. Rozhdestvensky

Best quotes from famous writers (300 quotes)

The talent for writing is not only given from birth, but also developed. With diligent training, you can learn to express thoughts accurately, concisely, simply and easily. Those who became great writers and were called classics of world literature had both non-trivial innate abilities and great hard work. Their work covered many important topics and this collection presents the best quotes from famous writers.

Happy hours are not observed.

Willy-nilly, a person must admit that his life is not limited to his personality from birth to death and that the goal conscious of him is an achievable goal and that in striving for it - in the consciousness of greater and greater sinfulness and in greater and greater realization of all truth in his life and in the life of the world is and was and will always be the work of his life, inseparable from the life of the whole world.

I would be glad to serve, but being served is sickening.

Ranks are given by people, but people can be deceived.

You won't learn to skate if you're afraid to be funny. The ice of life is slippery.

who are the judges?

Does my life have meaning that will not be destroyed by the inevitable death that awaits me?

There is no need for another example, When the example of the father is in the eyes.

Even cruel hearts are overcome by a kind request.

It's good where we are not.

Better pie in the sky than a lump in your throat.

I adhere to the point of view that people themselves do not know what to strive for. They set out in an empty struggle for a handful of material wealth and die without recognizing their own spiritual wealth.

Something evil lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and table conversation. Such people are either seriously ill or secretly hate those around them. True, exceptions are possible.

A very small degree of hope is enough to bring love to life. After two or three days, hope may disappear; nevertheless, love has already been born.

Happiness does not happen when you have everything, but when you don’t have something and you want it and achieve it - that’s happiness. Having achieved it, you are often unhappy, because there is one less desire in your life. The less we love a woman, the easier it is for her to like us.

Life is ten percent what you do in it, and ninety percent how you receive it.

Willy-nilly, a person must admit that his life is not limited to his personality from birth to death and that the goal conscious of him is an achievable goal and that in striving for it - in the consciousness of greater and greater sinfulness and in greater and greater fulfillment of all the truth in his life and in the life of the world and is and was and will always be the work of his life, inseparable from the life of the whole world.

Every fault is to blame

Describing a flower with love for nature embodies civic feelings much more than denouncing bribe-takers...

Love is the only deception that, no matter what, I would like to survive. Because the fire of life and the wings of youth that it bestows are more valuable than anything that can be. More valuable than a broken heart, unjustified hopes... Or maybe it won’t turn out to be a deception at all - there are miracles in life...

If you decide to mow everything down, kick yourself too!

A person cannot truly improve unless he helps others improve.

- I love you. - But you practically don’t know me? - What does this have to do with Love?

If you decide to mow everything down, kick yourself too!

Either you move up one step today, or gather your strength to rise to that step tomorrow...

He has no time, everyone interferes with him, but he lies there and does nothing.

Live and learn

Freedom is the ability to say that two and two are four.

Home is not a place, it’s a feeling... Once you cross the threshold of the house, your soul always becomes lighter.

They got along. Wave and stone.

It's hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember joy. Happiness leaves no memorable scars.

Those who can, do; those who cannot criticize those who can.

Learning is nonsense

Life is always accompanied by effort, hardship and hard work, because it is not a garden with beautiful flowers.

There was something about the smell of books, the scent of ink and paper and leather, the way the dust in the library seemed to behave differently from the dust in any other room, it was golden in the candlelight, settling like pollen onto the polished surfaces of long tables.

No matter what happens, we need to remember - this is just life, and we will break through!

Love for all ages.

A message to writers: there is no need to invent intrigues and plots. Take advantage of the stories that life itself provides.

A little common sense, a little tolerance, a little sense of humor, and you can settle down very comfortably on this planet...

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man is a worker in it.

A person who sees life in its true light and interprets it romantically is doomed to despair.

Nothing happens forever.

Insult is a common reward for good work.

Nothing encourages a coward more than the cowardice of another person.

- I love you. And I'm not going to say that I can't live without you. I can live without you, but I don't want to.

We all learned a little something, somehow.

What is easy to read was written with great difficulty.

Everyone once says to themselves: “I want to give up everything and leave.” Many people say this just to relieve stress, some actually give up and leave. The most idiotic situation is when there is nothing to give up, and, in general, nowhere to go.

We saw the views.

Anyone who does not expect to have a million readers should not write a single line.

Life doesn't have to give us what we expect. We must take what it gives and be grateful for the fact that it is so, and not worse.

Never ask for anything! Never and nothing, and especially among those who are stronger than you. They will offer and give everything themselves!

The first and most important quality of a woman is meekness.

She had not given up yet, but she was no longer fighting.

There are no evil people in the world, there are only unhappy people.

The beautiful is life.

Do you know when we finally lose people dear to us? When we no longer feel the pain of losing them.

He's having a blast from behind the board, but I'm welcome in the pushes.

Everything that happens once may never happen again. But whatever happens twice will undoubtedly happen a third time.

– Don’t you like people? - Of people? I love people. I don't like their presence. They are somehow unnatural or something.

The dog barks, the wind blows.

A man who has never been wounded by loving a woman is half a man.

- First of all, where did you get the idea that she has someone? Secondly, even if this is true, why do you think she is happy with him? You can cling to someone to escape loneliness, spend time with someone else to get over a breakup, but constantly remember your loved one. You can, when talking to another, hear your voice, look into the other’s eyes and see yours.

The ends are in the water.

Anyone who has the ability to see beauty never ages.

The hardest thing to lose is the unfulfilled.

From his fists and for the book of hours.

You can lie on the bridge and watch the water flow. Or run, or wander through the swamp in red boots, or curl up in a ball and listen to the rain pattering on the roof. It's very easy to be happy.

Music is life. As long as it sounds, nothing dies forever. A musician, performing music, lives with memories as if they were real events.

If you keep going straight and straight, you won't get far.

If you don't like what you get, change what you give.

A person dies when the last memory of him dies.

Nowhere does time fly as fast as in Russia; in prison, they say, it runs even faster.

Let the world live as it sees fit, and it will allow you to live as you choose.

I decided never to be either selfish or romantic again. I'm sure I'll become a great alcoholic.

I don’t share anyone’s opinions; I have mine.

With great enlightenment one can be petty stingy.

Decisions made in the dead of night usually fade in the light of day.

Perhaps they are right in putting love in books. Perhaps that’s the only place for her.

A fault confessed is half redressed.

The paradox of reading: it takes us away from reality in order to fill reality with meaning.

If you know that a person will never be yours, then you can love him indefinitely.

God gave me a student, a boyar's son.

The soul is born old and gradually becomes younger. This is the comedic side of life. The body is born young and gradually ages. And this is the tragic side.

Now I understand what it means to “burn out.” This is exactly what happened to me. I'm burned out. Something went out in me, and everything became indifferent. I did not do anything. I didn't think about anything. I didn't want anything. Nothing.

Without noble deeds, a noble fortune is nothing.

A biography is just a person's clothes and buttons. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

- Was I able to settle in your heart? - Yes, you broke into it without taking off your shoes...

Happy feast, and for the wedding.

A person cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

... Even if time doesn’t heal, you come to terms with the pain.

Where there is anger, there is mercy

A person who does not read has no advantage over one who cannot read.

If it is not possible to come closer, people disperse further.

With guilt you will fly to distant lands, to a kingdom of thirty.

A round person will not be able to fit into a square hole right away. It will take time for him to change his form.

At some point you realize that everything has an end.

In the great world there are small souls.

Age is a matter of attitude. If you don't pay attention to it, it's not a problem.

...an empty heart beats evenly.

For a thinking person there is no backwater.

It's okay, I'll go to hell.

To find out the price of a year, ask a student who failed an exam. To find out the price of a month, ask a mother who gave birth prematurely. To find out the price of the week, ask the editor of the weekly magazine. To find out the price of an hour, ask a lover waiting for his beloved. To find out the price of a minute, ask someone who is late for the train. To find out the value of a second, ask someone who has lost a loved one in a car accident. To find out the value of one thousandth of a second, ask an Olympic silver medalist. The clock hands will not stop running. Therefore, cherish every moment of your life. And appreciate today as the greatest gift that has been given to you.

A man must be fierce

Apparently there is nothing that couldn't happen today.

Memories are like a faded painting. Some we treasure. Others hurt us. There's no reason to throw them all away. Put in a secluded place only those that you would like to keep, so that you can take them out and admire them from time to time. The past should not intrude into the present.

You will forget me, the dead are no comrade to the living.

Be careful when reading books about health. You could die from a typo.

“Do you remember?..” This question flashes more and more often over the years, becoming more and more touching and sadder.

Spring, spring! it's time for love!

It is better to remain silent and be considered a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt.

We always miss something, imagining that we will still have time to return to it...

He who lived and thought cannot help but despise people in his soul.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

- Do you have any shortcomings? - Eat. You. - I? - I miss you all the time.

But our northern summer is a caricature of southern winters.

If you feel like you are losing your soul and you know it, then you still have something left to lose.

I am sentimental in my way and would rather make a ten-block detour rather than pass under the balconies of the house where I was happy.

It is unlawful to oppress your own kind through slavery.

An intellectual speaks in a complex way about a simple thing; an artist describes a complex thing in simple words.

I still don’t regret anything, if only because it’s pointless.

The son is not his father's judge

Bad taste is used a million times more than good taste.

But, you must admit, there are days when you want absolute loneliness.

From a penny candle, you know, Moscow burned down.

A genius will describe the complex in simple words.

And I can’t imagine love without jealousy. Whoever is not jealous, in my opinion, does not love.

There is no need to hesitate; Only fools and smart people procrastinate.

Humanity has evolved without you from the very beginning.

A smart woman next to a strong man is such a terrible pair that you couldn’t hit her with dynamite.

He burned himself on his own milk, he blows on someone else’s water.

The memory of the heart eliminates the bad and increases the good.

After all, it is so mysterious and unknown, this country of tears.

A brick will never fall on anyone’s head for no reason at all.

Interpreting our reality through someone else's templates only serves to make us more ignorant, less free and more alone.

If you love a person too much, then everything is in his power.

If you love a person too much, then everything is in his power.

The problem is that the marriage ends every night after lovemaking and needs to be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

-Are you still thinking about her? - It happens. - Often? - A little in the morning, a little during the day, a little in the evening, a little at night.

Annushka has already spilled the oil

After all, literature is nothing more than carpentry. In both cases you are working with reality, the material is as heavy as wood.

The love for the sea does not fade over the years. I will always think about it, and it will always make me happy, this is love without disappointment.

He who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.

The main thing in life is not what happens to you, but what and how you remember.

A woman is always completely captured by love. A woman is driven to give everything she has for love and leave the change on the counter.

There is no perfection in the world

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can replace experience.

You should not look too deeply into your soul, otherwise you will soon stumble upon a grate that leads to underground channels where sewage flows.

Humanity loves money, no matter what it is made of.

Beauty is a man's greatest seducer.

Enjoy. At least now, while you still can, have fun. All! Take joy from every moment, it will not return, it will not be repeated, this is a moment! Let at least the memory of a modest, small joy remain. It's better than nothing. Catch the joy now, immediately, without delay! Tomorrow may not come...

Man is mortal, and that would not be so bad. The bad thing is that he is sometimes suddenly mortal, that's the trick!

Everything that happens once may never happen again. But whatever happens twice will undoubtedly happen a third time.

It is not the quantity of knowledge that is important, but its quality. You can know a lot without knowing what you really need.

Guilty without guilt

If you say that you will never have what you want, then you will lose all desire to work in the right direction.

This has always happened. As soon as I, with great difficulty, brought order to my universe and began to live in it, it exploded, crumbling into pieces again.

He ate too much henbane.

Life is always waiting for the right moment to act.

Yes, this is the inexplicable law of fate: an intelligent person is either a drunkard, or he will make such a face that he can even endure the saints.

Good, healthy

Love may take us to hell or heaven, but it always takes us somewhere.

We choose in a person only what we ourselves need, what we lack or what we are weaker in. “I love you not for who you are, but for who I am when I am with you.”

Sleep in hand

Love is a trap. When she appears, we can only see her light, but not her shadow.

-Will I ever meet her? - Remember that only the dead cannot be met here on earth.

The old thing is death, but something new for everyone.

No one can lie, no one can hide everything when he looks straight into someone's eyes.

Decisions made in the dead of night usually fade in the light of day.

Talent is faith in yourself, in your strength...

They love because they love. There are no reasons for love.

If you lie on the ocean shore and close your eyes, you can die of happiness. But everyone prefers to live.

For mercy's sake... would I allow myself to pour vodka for the lady? This is pure alcohol!

Tell your hearts that the fear of suffering is worse than suffering itself. And there is no heart that has never suffered when it went in search of its dreams.

She had an amazingly sweet smile. Very sweet. People don’t smile at all or smile somehow disgustingly.

It’s a sin to blame for your own happiness.

— There is one important advantage of keeping a diary: you become aware of the changes that happen to you. — The benefit of keeping a diary is that you become reassuringly aware of the constant changes you are experiencing.

Hope, that false emotion that ties people's souls in knots.

Remember what their name was.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the desire to die.

How strange young people today are. You hate the past, you despise the present, and you are indifferent to the future.

We are responsible for those we have tamed.

— Religions are leaving like people. — Religions are lost like people.

“I had no idea that you are such a wonderful woman!” - If you asked me, I would tell you.

Words only interfere with understanding each other.

“As long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all problems for now.” “As long as you have food, all your problems are solved for now.”

She was the only one I remember who looked me straight in the eyes - as if I meant something.

The Russian man will eat God.

Love is a form, and my own form is already decaying.

“It’s better to start with what’s right, not with what’s acceptable.” - Start with what is right, not with what is acceptable.

- I love you more and more. - But for what? - They love you just like that. And not for any reason.

And who is his own boss... who is independent and does not eat other people’s things - why does he need lies?

Always remember that the most important thing in a marriage is happiness and stability.

Reality is what continues to exist when we stop believing in it.

Fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.

A man knows exactly when he begins to age, because he becomes like his father.

We cannot choose the time in which we live. We can only choose what we do with the time we are given.

Do you judge by the suit? Never do this. You can make a mistake, and a very big one at that.

A person dies not when he should, but when he can.

Love is when nothing is ashamed, nothing is scary, you know? When they don’t let you down, they won’t betray you. When they believe.

Anecdotes of days gone by.

A precocious man is a good spouse, but a bad husband.

Why think about those who don't think about me?

Only the heart is vigilant. You can't see the most important thing with your eyes.

Everything that goes into my mouth makes me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.

In a relationship between a man and a woman, one always turns out to be stronger than the other. But this does not mean that the weak do not love the strong.

Children should be very lenient towards adults.

Fiction was invented the day Jonas came home and explained his three-day absence by saying that he had been swallowed by a whale.

- Then where do you get the answers to all the questions? - I listen more than I talk.

Love is when nothing is ashamed, nothing is scary, you know? When they don’t let you down, they won’t betray you. When they believe.

He who expects a lot can expect only a little.

Nowadays, people learn what they think from television.

What cannot be helped is a shame to talk about.

I don't believe in God, but I fear him.

Queens do not enter into transactions. Lewis Carroll "Alice Through the Looking Glass"

We need to arrange our life in such a way that every moment in it is significant.

If God did not rest on Sunday, he would have time to end this world.

In spring, a little person wakes up in each of us - very gentle and vulnerable, longing for sun rays, smiles and hugs.

People are like trees in the forest; not a single botanist will study each individual birch tree.

Injections are the best invention for feeding doctors.

For example, everyone, like ten years ago, is terribly pleased when she is compared to a cat. Tell a woman this, and she will immediately imagine herself as an independent, graceful and free predator. And not at all a primitive, hairy, hysterical pissing in the corners. Although no one specified what parameters it was similar to.

What could be more terrible than loving and not being loved!

My most holy oath is an oath that I will never live for another person, but I will not ask or force others to live for me.

No one is allowed to know the soul of another person.

Manuscripts don't burn.

If you really want to fulfill what you promised, you don’t have to assure me that you are going to do it, just keep your word and that’s it.

It doesn't matter what others think - because they will think something anyway. So relax.

A person without a surprise inside, in his box, is uninteresting.

A person who seeks to gain the trust of another person clearly does not have honest intentions, whether he understands it or not.

Everyone goes their own way. But all roads still go nowhere. This means that the whole point is in the road itself, how you walk along it... If you walk with pleasure, then this is your road. If you feel bad, you can leave it at any time, no matter how far you go. And it will be right...

You need to be able to seize good moments and take advantage of them.

If you want to destroy a person, put him in a position where his goal is not to strive for success, but to get worse every day.

One of the advantages of adulthood is that every year you care more and more about the opinions of others.

I love you (why lie?), But I was given to someone else. I will be faithful to him forever.

You know, when a person is engaged in a thought process, a light burns in his brain, and you can check this thanks to the tip of a lit cigarette. Isn't this proof?

- What would you like from life? — A house by the sea with a view of a real man.

He has been freed from his mind.

God gave us nuts, but he didn't crack them.

Living together means solving problems together that would not have arisen if you had not started living together.

I was overcome with sadness before the long journey. Isn’t it true, sir, it is quite natural, even when a person knows that happiness awaits him at the end of this road?

A book should be an ax to the frozen sea within us.

“People say: “It’s good where we are not.” And it is true. Where you are not, I always feel good.

It's stupid to lie when you can be caught so easily.

A person forced to be in a state of thought will be unhappy until he can get out of it.

“On your planet,” said the Little Prince, “people grow five thousand roses in one garden... and don’t find what they are looking for...” “They don’t,” I agreed. - But what they are looking for can be found in one single rose...

When you let yourself be tamed, then it happens that you cry.

A staircase that isn't worn out by footsteps is, in my opinion, just something boring made of wood.

Trust is the most valuable and most fragile thing in the world. Nothing will work without him.

It's also lonely among people.

There is always a new breath after attacks of vanity and complacency.

- I envy you. - And I - to you. You have the most important thing, youth. All your gains are ahead.

After all, it is so mysterious and unknown, this country of tears.

“Anyone who has the ability to see beauty never ages.” “He who knows how to see beauty never grows old.”

And why do we always attach such great importance to first love? After all, in fact, the last one is most important.

Correct society, and there will be no moral diseases.

Believing in progress does not mean believing in any progress that has been made so far.

How many sophisticated tortures love prepares for us...

Only freaks think freely between women.

By passionately believing in something that does not yet exist, we create it. What does not exist is that which we have not desired enough.

… Now is not the time to think about what you don’t have. Think about how to make do with what you have.

I can’t live without you or with you.

By placing too much responsibility, or rather all responsibility, on yourself, you destroy yourself.

Everyone has the right to their own weirdness.

You can't put either honor or conscience on your feet instead of boots.

Don Quixote's failure is not in his imagination, but in Sancho Panza.

Don’t look for symbolic meaning in everything, otherwise you will find it. On your own head.

Everyone decorates themselves as best they can.

Yesterday's people cannot know what is happening now, but today's people know what happened yesterday. ...but tomorrow, today's will become yesterday's.

If your happiness depends on what others do, then you might actually have a problem.

Everyone in the world has enemies, but God save us from friends!

It’s not for nothing that people say: if you want to hide your shame, you need to shame someone else.

Are you saying that her face is expressionless? What should he express when her heart is not touched by anything?

Let us forgive the fever of youth and youthful fever and youthful delirium.

It seems to me that people do not understand how much misery and unhappiness in their lives arises from laziness.

The first thing loneliness prompts you to do is to deal with yourself and your past.

It is more honorable to be passed over without guilt than to be rewarded without merit.

Somewhere in the distance there was a battle and blood was shed, and our battle at that moment was work... We were on the collective farm from early morning until evening. All the talk was only about the war, and the most welcome guest in every house was the postman.

“It’s a pity that you have to get drunk to be happy,” said Peter. — I think this is a consequence of higher education.

Blessed is he who was young from his youth.

At the moment when the moon, so huge and clear, rose above the crest of that dark mountain, the stars that were in the sky immediately opened their eyes. I couldn't shake the feeling that they could see us.

When a person is possessed by one thought, he finds it in everything.

You can't go anywhere in the carriage of the past.

When you make a discovery for yourself, everything in you is consistent and harmonious, then the enlightenment of the soul comes.

I am ready for the fact that I can get dirty with life like paint, but there is no other way: in order to study fire, you need to get burned. There is no other person's experience of life.

All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

The situation with all dreams is the same: they are born in the depths of the imagination, then they fail because, out of stupidity, they began to grow without roots, like some flowers and trees...

Living without reading is dangerous: a person is forced to plunge into reality, and this is risky.

Marriages are made in heaven.

However, life works like this: if there is happiness, it means that misfortune is hiding next to it, which watches over you and is immortal and relentless.

There is happiness, it’s as simple as that: it’s someone’s face.

Taking a fortress is not difficult, but winning a campaign is difficult.

I will always remember that spring when victory came. I will always remember how people greeted people from the front. But I still can’t figure it out: what was more at that moment - grief or joy?!

Books are friends, dispassionate but faithful.

A decent chemist is twenty times more useful than any poet.

A woman is a woman. They cry so often, these women. They cry because they feel sorry for everyone.

“The most offensive thing is that I feel good with her.” - What about her with you? - And when she feels good, she’s not with me...

The saddest and deadest is similar to the most cheerful and alive.

There are no bad thoughts, only their absence can be bad.

She contained my whole world, she was the beginning and end of every road, she was present in my every day, in every dream, in every breath, in every thought, in every smile, in every drop of rain.

Every person must educate himself.

I love and yearn for you, I forgive and love, I live with you alone in my passionate torments

Quotes about life from the classics - about unexpected turns of fate. These phrases are especially for those who are not used to explaining any events as stupidity.

  1. I'm not interested in the forecast, I make the weather. L. Leonidov
  2. You can discuss it as much as you like, you just have to decide once. P. Cyr
  3. If you are a traitor, then those you served will also hate you. T. Cornelius
  4. No matter how bad the harvest turns out to be, you will still have to sow again next year. Seneca
  5. Betrayal is a bad event, but you can think about it. But traitors are definitely disgusting people. Cervantes
  6. It would be good if people learned something from the lessons of history. O. Huxley
  7. To avoid being left behind, you need to look forward. At least sometimes. J. Herbert
  8. The main advantage of truth is that it acts openly. W. Shakespeare
  9. Don't get into morals when it comes to historical facts. D. Diderot
  10. If you find out that someone has dug a hole for you, use it against another enemy. A. Furstenberg
  11. What has the greatest value is what you consider to be true. Galileo
  12. In every great mind there is madness. And, believe me, there is enough of it there. Seneca
  13. Don't bother your friends and they won't avoid you. Confucius

Status quotes from classics are certainly the choice of exalted personalities. Naturally, you need to share your thoughts with others.

Top 20 bright quotes from great writers of the 20th century

With their creativity, these writers changed the history of literature of the 20th century, making their significant, invaluable contribution to it. They are quoted, referred to, talked about and argued about. It is undeniable, but it is a fact that these names are always heard. There is no person who has not at least once heard about these writers or held their books in their hands. So let’s give them the floor today, remembering the most striking and controversial quotes from the 20 best writers of the past century.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

His works, shrouded in mystery and myth, are loved and read all over the world. Being the creator of the “magical realism” movement, he wanted to tell people so much, and he did! Many of his quotes are about love and this is not surprising! After all, the heroes of his works knew how to live and love truly.


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“You may be just a person in this world, but for someone you are the whole world.”

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The government feared him like fire, his relatives loved him with all their souls, and the intellectuals respected and idolized him. Solzhenitsyn never stopped loving his homeland and thinking about it for a second, even when he was far beyond its borders. He lived a long life full of trials and hardships, leaving behind a huge literary heritage.


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“Education does not improve intelligence.”

“Life is given for happiness.”

“There are many smart things in the world, but few good things.”

Carlos Castaneda

The books of the writer and thinker Carlos Castaneda have become a real discovery for some, and for others a new point of view about the world around them. His worldview is unusual for a common man. And to the series of books devoted to shamanism, the author himself used the term “magic,” although he clarified that it was not enough to fully reveal the essence of the teachings of our ancestors.


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“If you don't like what you get, change what you give”.

Paulo Coelho

Like no other writer in the world, Paulo Coelho helps readers look at things from a different angle, find greatness even in small things and look at life with constant optimism. He is loved and read all over the world, and the circulation of his 18 books has long surpassed 350 million copies.


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“If you dare to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.”

Jorge Luis Borges

An inimitable poet, writer and thinker, Borges was the recipient of numerous awards. Despite being blind in the second half of his life, he still clearly saw and depicted human souls in his works.


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“Some people are proud of every book they write, I’m proud of every book I read.”

Strugatsky brothers

Boris and Arkady Strugatsky are perhaps the most famous brother writers. Idols of millions of people, they write about the future, about man and the world. Their works have long become classics of the genre and part of the lives of admirers of the Strugatskys’ talent. How to make the right choice, not get lost and find yourself - these are the questions that their creativity answers.


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“A person needs money so that he never thinks about it.”

Ray Bradbury

It is believed that it was thanks to this visionary writer that readers showed incredible interest in the fantasy and science fiction genres. What was Bradbury thinking and what did he want to say? Read in quotes:


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When a person is 17, he knows everything. If he’s 27 and still knows everything, then he’s still 17.”

Umberto Eco

This modern writer is considered one of the most erudite people. He worked on television and in the press, and has a lot to talk about in lectures, which he still gives around the world. In 2010, Eco said that he was unlikely to write another novel, so hurry up to enjoy the works already written and replenish your stock with another author’s quote:


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“Nothing encourages a coward more than the cowardice of another person.”

Erich Maria Remarque

This amazingly delicate and vulnerable man doubted his talent all his life. He went through the war, where he was seriously wounded, and experienced deep, but, unfortunately, unrequited feelings. Remarque's books are full of feelings and images that lived in his heart. As a writer of the “lost generation,” he always raised the theme of war and love. His famous quotes about them:


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“The first person you think about in the morning and the last person you think about at night is either the reason for your happiness or the reason for your pain.

Ernest Hemingway

The life of this writer, full of surprises and adventures, aroused no less interest among people than his numerous stories and novels. Brief on the one hand, but so comprehensive on the other, the style in which Hemingway wrote was forever imprinted on the history of 20th century literature. From his quotes, people often learn something from their own lives:


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“All people in the world are divided into two categories. It’s easy with the first ones, just as easy without them. It’s very difficult with the latter, but it’s completely impossible to live without them.”

George Orwell

The writer of an ironic, sharp mind is known primarily for his imperishable works “Animal Farm” and “1984”. His works are often replete with the horrors of a totalitarian regime. And although many of Orwell’s quotes, fortunately, did not come true, reading them, each time you wince at how prophetic they sound:


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“Freedom is the ability to say that two and two are four.

Vladimir Nabokov

A master of words, an expert on human souls and the author of works about love, he was a true citizen of the world and an amazingly versatile person. Nabokov could study female and male psychology, combining this activity with his fascination with butterflies. By the way, the new species he discovered are now named after him.


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“Memory resurrects everything except smells. But nothing brings back the past so completely as the smell that was once associated with it.”

Jerome David Salinger

It seems that living against the system was incredibly important to Salinger. He left literature, having written one single, but world-famous novel, “The Catcher in the Rye.” Left the city for a remote village. Being a rebel by nature, the author of the cult work served as an example for many generations of the same rebels. And throughout his life, Salinger lived as he saw fit, and not as society expected of him.


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“I always say “it’s very nice to meet you” when I’m not at all pleased. But if you want to live with people, you have to say things.”

Eugene Ionesco

Despite the fact that the writer is considered one of the founders of the “theater of the absurd,” Ionesco himself has repeatedly said that his plays are as realistic as the entire real world and surrounding reality are absurd. And his quotes are the best confirmation of this:


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“Better pie in the sky than a lump in the throat.”

John R.R. Tolkien

The novel “The Lord of the Rings” brought John Tolkien worldwide fame, and his book became one of the most read in the 20th century. The writer’s work had a huge impact on the fantasy genre in particular, and on world culture in general. Today, John Tolkien is listed as one of the “50 Greatest British Writers since 1945” and is rightfully considered one of the most successful writers of the past century.


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“We don't choose the times. We can only decide how to live in the times that have chosen us.”

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Despite the fact that this American writer was the brightest representative of the “lost generation,” he himself attributed his works to the “jazz era,” which he himself invented. Today there is hardly a person who has not yet read or heard about his novel “The Great Gatsby”.


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“It often happens that an important period in a person’s life begins with some trifling episode.”

Kurt Vonnegut

One of the most famous science fiction writers and satirists, Kurt Vonnegut went through considerable trials in his life. He saw war, suffered setbacks in his career, but still did not give up on this world. In his books, the writer was not afraid to make fun of even the most tragic moments. This is all he is.


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“And although people are stupid and cruel, look what a beautiful day it is today.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The books of this famous French writer harmoniously intertwined themes of love, nostalgia for childhood and other purely personal experiences. Despite the fact that the writer was given such a short life, he managed to leave behind many stories imbued with love for all living things.


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“Loving does not mean looking at each other, loving means looking in the same direction.”

Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka was a kind of unique person in the literary environment of the 20th century. His works, imbued with fear of the world and the absurd, evoke a whole range of disturbing feelings in readers. No other book by any other writer will evoke such a reaction. By the way, most of the German publicist’s works were published after his death. Kafka quotes often contain teachings and criticisms:


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Happiness excludes old age. He who retains the ability to see beauty does not grow old ”.

  1. Michael Bulgakov

He is called the most mystical writer of his time and a fighter against Soviet power. Refusing to write about five-year plans and socialist realism, Bulgakov had to face censorship and refusal to publish. For a long time, his works lay on the table, and when they saw the light of day, they were immediately sorted into quotes.


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“There are no evil people in the world, there are only unhappy people.”

“He who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.”

Omar Khayyam

Great Persian sage, philosopher, astronomer, mathematician and poet. His famous rubais are known in every corner of the world. His works are imbued with kindness and high moral values.

“Truth and lies are separated by a distance as wide as a hair.”

“If a scoundrel gives you medicine, pour it out! If a sage pours poison, accept it!”

Richard Bach

An amazing American writer of our time, his philosophical works are full of deep meaning, although they are written very easily and vividly. He is a descendant of the talented classical composer Johann Bach.

“No desire is given to a person without the strength to fulfill it; perhaps we will just have to work hard for it.”

“To become free and happy, we must sacrifice only boredom. However, this is not always an easy sacrifice.


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Oscar Wilde

This talented writer was once called “the man-paradox.” He was incredibly elegant, but at the same time bright, and all his works instantly became popular!

“I have heard so much slander against you that I have no doubt: you are a wonderful person!”

“Be yourself, the other roles are already taken.”

Marina Tsvetaeva

This talented poetess lived a very bright, eventful life. Her work was the same. Her love lyrics are very subtle and poignant at the same time. Although she did not achieve recognition during her lifetime, it is now difficult to find a person who has not heard her name.

“Wings give freedom only in flight; folded behind the back they only carry weight.”

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