Inspirational Book Quotes

I have a little notebook to write down every sentence that I come across while reading a book and that I find truthfully inspiring. I love collecting quotes and reading through them when I am bored. What I also like to do is to write them on the wooden panel over my bed with a pencil – this way my favourite quotes are always present in my room.

So here it is, my collection of inspirational book quotes (as some of them are originally German, I tried to translate them as well as I can):

“My enemy’s enemy is my friend”
– Der unheimliche Geisterrufer by Kai Meyer

“If the whole world is inhabited with monsters and you are the only human – then who is the monster?”
– Dschinnland by Kai Meyer

“Young people want to be faithful but they aren’t; old people want to be unfaithful but they can’t”
– The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

“Art has no influence on our actions. It erases the desire to act”
– The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

“’You are my best friend’
‘I know’
You can kill a man with those words.
No gun.
No bullet.
Just five words and a girl”
– The Messenger by Markus Zusak

“Today knowledge has no longer anything to do with education. Just with pressing the right letters on a keyboard”
– Arcadia burns by Kai Meyer

“The definition of an asshole is a person who does not believe what he sees.”
– The Curse by Stephen King

­“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in how they look like.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
– The Messenger by Markus Zusak

“You don’t survive anything. But everything except the last.”
– Paper Towns by John Green

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
– The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

“Thinking you won’t die is yet another side effect of dying.”
– The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

“Believe me, Merle. Humans are better devils than the devil himself is.”
– Das steinerne Licht by Kai Meyer

“If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
– Looking for Alaska by John Green

“You just use the future to escape the present.”
– Looking for Alaska by John Green

“The whole time I had been standing there, waiting for someone to do something, until I realized that the person I am waiting for is me.”
– Underdog by Markus Zusak

"And in that moment, I swear we were infinite" 
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Saying
"here rules freedom"
is always a misconception
or a lie:
Freedom
doesn't rule
(roughly translated)