Top 200 Fiction Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

102. “Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.”

— Paulo Coelho

103. “A lion doesn’t concern itself with the opinion of sheep.”

— George R.R. Martin

104. “Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.”

— Roald Dahl

105. “When in doubt, choose to live.”

— Terry Pratchett

106. “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

— Oscar Wilde

107. “So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.”

— Roald Dahl

108. “Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.”

— Winston Groom

109. “Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination.”

— Brandon Sanderson

110. “You see, but you do not observe.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

111. “Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.”

— Paulo Coelho

112. “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

113. “A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.”

— Stephen King

114. “For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.”

— Rudyard Kipling

115. “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”

— Terry Pratchett

116. “What is dead may never die, but rises again, stronger and harder.”

— George R.R. Martin

117. “Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.”

— Jeanette Winterson

118. “Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.”

— Paulo Coelho

119. “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”

— Anaïs Nin

120. “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”

— Terry Pratchett

121. “Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born.”

— George R.R. Martin

122. “And what would humans be without love? RARE, said Death.”

— Terry Pratchett

123. “When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”

— Haruki Murakami

124. “42 is a nice number that you can take home and introduce to your family.”

— Douglas Adams

125. “We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.”

— J.K. Rowling

126. “Go then, there are other worlds than these.”

— Stephen King

127. “The world is not a wish-granting factory.”

— John Green

128. “Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”

— Paulo Coelho

129. “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

— J.K. Rowling

130. “Ideas are bulletproof.”

— Alan Moore

131. “Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.”

— S. E. Hinton

132. “If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.”

— J.K. Rowling

133. “The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”

— Terry Pratchett

134. “We loved with a love that was more than love.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

135. “Beauty will save the world.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

136. “When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.”

— Ernest Hemingway

137. “Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”

— J.K. Rowling

138. “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

— John Green

139. “May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

140. “Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.”

— Paulo Coelho

141. “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

142. “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

143. “I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.”

— J.D. Salinger

144. “Don’t ever, for any reason, do anything to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what.”

— Michael Scott

145. “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”

— Haruki Murakami

146. “In order to write about life first you must live it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

147. “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.”

— Lloyd Alexander

148. “No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.”

— Terry Pratchett

149. “And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”

— John Steinbeck

150. “You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.”

— Neil Gaiman