11 Of The Most Beautiful Sentences In Literature (Read by LeVar Burton)
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- Yes! That's the guy from Reading Rainbow!
Thanks to the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 program. www.nationalboo....
As well as LeVar Burton and the Reading Rainbow app www.readingrai...
The Last Bookstore
lastbookstorela...
Check out more awesome videos at BuzzFeedVideo!
bit.ly/YTbuzzfe...
MUSIC
Luxe For Life
Licensed via Warner Chappell Production Music Inc.
Made by BFMP www.buzzfeed.com/videoteam
GET MORE BUZZFEED:
www.buzzfeed.com/videoteam
buzzfeedvideo
buzzfeedvideo
www.buzzfeed.com/video
/ buzzfeedvideo
/ buzzfeedyellow
/ buzzfeedblue
/ buzzfeedviolet
BUZZFEED VIDEO
BuzzFeed Motion Picture’s flagship channel. Sometimes funny, sometimes serious, always shareable. New videos posted daily! Subscribe to BuzzFeedVideo today! bit.ly/YTbuzzfe...
"Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive." -Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
InkHeart17 this one is one of my favourites too
so beautiful
Oh that's my book!!!!
InkHeart17 That is such a good one :)
omg that's SO GOOD!!
"Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something."
Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
I WAS GONNA DO THAT ONE TOO OMG ❤
+raven giselle hernandez This one is my all-time favorite!
i love this book so much!
+raven giselle hernandez wow
wasn't Eleanore like obese or was that a different book?
"Everything will be fine in the end, if it's not fine then it's not the end." -Oscar Wilde
"You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I will always love you. That's where I'll be waiting."
-Peter Pan
This quote honestly makes me cry.
+Kenna Rose So sweet - we love this story!
Kenna Rose Is this from the book?
😭💕
💓💓💓💓💖
*“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer."* - Albert Camus
This is so beautiful.
+Sava :D I was thinking that they wasn't any French author !
+Sava Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.
would be the correct quote i suppose since he's french, but i gotta admit i prefer the english version of the sentence. (liking the use of midst)
kenshila The original French version is actually "Au milieu de l’hiver, j’apprenais enfin qu’il y avait en moi un été invincible."
I too prefer the English version by FAR. And this is coming from a native French speaker. To me, the English version is so much more expressive, powerful and beautiful.
Usually written French wins, but this time English triumphed!
+Sava Albert Camus is one of my favourite philosophers and authors. Although his personal views confuse me
"Always remember that you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think." - Winnie-the-Pooh
Diana Falcon i love that quote so much 😩😩😩
Wow, I've seen this one not long ago, great to see again.
Diana Falcon that was my yearbook quote in senior year😊
A quote you can hear ❤️
And more loved than you will ever believe!
"Laugh as much as you choose but you will not laugh me out of my opinion"- Jane Austen. My absolute favorite and it never gets old ;)
+Diana Mendez your taste in literature is on point
+Diana Mendez we love Jane Austen also! Nice choice!
What that does mean?
Love that quote😍❤️
Love this!!!
He is my butterfly in the sky.
Which quote did you like the most?
Joshua hi omg
JOSH!
I understood that reference 👏🏻
When you and Josh have something I common-- watching buzz feed.
"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one the but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." - Harper Lee
Lacy Doe I love that book and I love that quote
Almost finish the book
I love this book so much! Since reading the novel, there's a new little world created in my mind which consist of Jem, Scout Boo and Atticus. I love it. This book is everything. Even if you think about the history view of it. Harper Lee is a legend
i love that book
Lacy Doe I love that book so much
Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?
Oscar Wilde
One of my favorite too.
+atgod6 that is mine too
That is actually really beautiful :)
+atgod6 Best quote that i have read.
Stephen fry loves this quote
"We accept the love we think we deserve" my fave.
Perks thoughhhhh
Wow that is so beautiful :)))
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceassely into the past" -The Great Gatsby
"We're all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars" -Oscar Wilde
Julitokid De Hostos I love The Great Gatsby ❤️
The exact two I clicked on this video for. You have great taste in books.
Julitokid De Hostos wrote an essay on this quote for English
WHAT!!! These are the EXACT two quotes I wanted to comment as well!!! 😳 This is amazing! 💕
You guys are Awesome!!! 😁
These🥺🥺🥺🥺
"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am." -Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
+Mercedes Conway I was looking for this! My favourite book quote of all time!
ooh we just started reading Sylvia Plath in IB literature at school!
I commented this quote then scrolled down and saw this, I love this quote and have read the bell jar too many times.
Ayyy I'm reading that rn!!
"In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move" - Douglas Adams.
bradleypariah Which book is this from?
Don't Panic. :-D He was a genius.
Salam Almahi the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, I believe
Good one!
Thank you for the best comments section of all time
Yeah.... It feels like such a different world out here. The best I've ever seen.
The world of book lovers is always magical.
When it's about books, and writings, it's all ways good.
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye"
Is there anyone who is a fan of The Little Prince just like me here?
Shipa Kori.
Me!!!
Shipa Kori me!!!
Hello there.
I collect the book in different languages
"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light." - J.K. Rowling
Yes, I was hoping to find this one :)
+Rebecca Comunale yes, yes, and yes.
+Rebecca Comunale What do you do if you forgot to pay for electricity?
Actually technically that quote is from Albus Dumbledore even though Queen made it it was said by him
+Ghostley :D That's a good point, I gotta admit
"Not all who wander are lost." - J. R. R. Tolkien
"Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt." That just made me cry so much. Such a powerful phrase.
"He told me he can feel the stars on my skin and taste the milky way on my lips, I was the galaxy he was lost in."
-Saniyah X
I was eating a milky way when I read this and started laughing so hard I choked on it 😂- myself
+J Irion LMAO
You were talking about about sexual advances right- Just a random stranger who thinks the mouth part is weird
That's cheap lol
Nailah ew
"There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort."
-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“i am mine.
before i am ever anyone else's.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, Nejma
Since I am One with Source, I need not even declare I am mine; I simply AM.
Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.
~Eleanor and Park
The ending was so sad
"I truly believe that if others knew just a bit more about what other people are going through, the world would be a better place"
-Caspar Lee
"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that t is not real?"
+Shani Sj Don't pity the dead, Harry, pity the living :D
I remember those lines from the movie, I can't remember if they are in the books or not :(
yes they are
They are
“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”
Yyyaaaasss!
“Just... isn't giving up allowed sometimes? Isn't it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m going to stop trying’?”
“It sets a dangerous precedent.”
“For avoiding pain?”
“For avoiding life.” - Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
+Jessica Yang
I love FanGirl!!
Daphne Tran me too
FANGIRL AND CARRY ON♥️
Jessica Yang Reading that now. I'm so excited for it
YES! RAINBOW ROWELL
"We accept the love we think we deserve" Perks of Being a Wallflower
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back carelessly into the past." - The Great Gatsby
"I can't explain what I mean. And even if I could, I'm not sure I'd feel like it." - Catcher in the Rye
"He who fights the monster should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. For when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche (not literature, but still a fav quote of mine)
"In ancient times cats were worshipped as Gods; they have not forgotten this." - Terry Pratchett RIP
Joe Clark yesss!! A thousand times yess! Should be top comment!
Joe Clark This is brilliant haha
this is beyond mental
Which of his books is this?
Good one!
“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
From Jane Eyre:
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the hearer who's soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones
My favorite ♡
“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.” -Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
So relevant these days.
You're welcome.
She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Stay Gold Ponyboy. Stay Gold...
I cried during that part. I'm such a wuss
+Native_American_ Panda Ikr love that book
Omg
OMG the outsiders 😭
+Haha I'm weird Blue_Geek_With_Mustache_On_Fleek stay pony, goldboy
“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” -C.S. Lewis
U were made to create the world
'One must be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.'
- Cassandra Clare, the Infernal Devices
Eileen Chang love her!
Eileen Chang YAAAASSS GAGA SLAYYYYY
That's why i don't read. LMAO
YES
lol this is like the most shallow quote out of all the ones commented here
One fish, two fish.
Red fish, blue fish.
*clap clap clap* best quote in the world *wipes away tears* beautiful
I DO NOT LIKE GREEN EGGS AND HAM
Is this a John Green quote?
+Cassie Ainsworth it's Dr.Seuss...
+RwededyetThe first time I ever read that book.....I knew that would be my quote for life
'' He asked me, why do you write.
i answered; this way later on someone will listen,
because currently you don't''
from where is this?
"We need never be ashamed of our tears." - Great Expectations
"Not all those who wander are lost" -- The Fellowship of the Ring; J. R. R. Tolkien
Omg yessssss
+LizChanFish “I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.” The Return of the King; J. R. R. Tolkein
omg yessssss this is my favourite quote ever
+Jack Rodgers that is also very very awesome
Fangirl moment
"For she had eyes and chose me" Shakespeare
😍
And, I was lucky.
👍🤔
Hell is empty and all of the demons are here. -William Shakespeare
Alexandra Broesky shatter me ref? Pfft
I find that beautiful.
Alexandra Broesky legend
IT'S READING RAINBOW GUY.
“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart." -The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
@Thang Ly I don't think so
This one always makes me cry😭 She was hiding for her life amidst the holocaust and still said this. Also, this is one of the last lines of her diary makes me extra emotional
nah, she knew what was happening. she just didn't think that was everyone. and she also had a point if you think of the banality of evil psychology, how you cab condition most normal people to turn psycho
Absolutely powerful quote.
"She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a cork board like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl
"We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken." - John Green, looking for alaska
Looking For Alaska?... IN YOUR PANTS!!!
Nicole Shen HOOO HA! NERDFIGHTERS!
Nicole Shen Yes.
What part did it say that? I read the book but dont rememver this quote. Did pudge say this?
Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armour and it can never be used to hurt you.
-George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
Ah..tyrion pharase, Jon Snow Chp I?
"For you, a thousand times over." Khaled Hosseini-THE KITE RUNNER
Kalsoom Khattak 😭
favourite book of all time 😪😪
😭😭😭😭
Silly question, what it means?
This one gives me all the feels
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly against the past." - Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby. One of the greatest and most profound quotes in literary history, in my opinion.
"You are you're own best thing, Sethe. You are."
-Toni Morrison, Beloved
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars." - Jack Kerouac, On The Road.
"Should one put mustard or ketchup in his Burger? Or should he put both?"
-My Stomach, All the time
Dude, I am tearing up. Why are you doing this to me?
+megakid 101 What question is more important than this in ilfe? None.
Alister Yes that is true my friend because when hunger stares at you in the face you stare at it back with your stomach.
TO BE OR NOT TO BE. THAT IS THE QUESTION
The entire speech is really great, and a powerful scene.
+Jane Doe
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds
Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune!!
+Jane Doe Ok. But what's the answer?
Lol jk
+Ajay Arjoon I LOVE THAT QUOTE Merchant of Venice
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
"And in that moment, I swear we were infinite."
everyone: writing nice lovely quotes
Me, meanwhile: "It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed." -Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
I think people forgot the purpose of the video
that's funny 😂
"Some infinities are bigger then other infinities... I cannot tell you how grateful I am for our little infinity. You gave me forever within the numbered days, and I am grateful." - the fault in our stars
"We are in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
my personal favourite: "Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. When you look at their pieces, they go away" - "Bridges of Madison County", Robert James Waller
“You make me lovely, and it’s so lovely to be lovely to the one I love.…” - Jennifer Niven
MisssBluewy ugh that book😭
Oh God, Hobi’s face and these words, the perfect match 😭
"I never fucked Wayne, I never fucked Drake" - Albert Einstein
😂😂
Mihai Halmi-Nistor . That was beautiful. *applause*
Mihai Halmi-Nistor lmao
"you were the center of my universe, everything else spun around you" Carry On-Rainbow Rowell
"First the colors, then the humans. That's how I see things, or at least how I try. Here is a small fact, you are going to die." -The Book Thief. Not exactly a sentence but it flows so beautifully.
My favorite is:
And wow! Hey! What’s this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like … ow … ound … round … ground! That’s it! That’s a good name - ground!
I wonder if it will be friends with me?
And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence.
HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY YES! 👾
+Sophia M-H on of my favorites thanks for giving me some random art inspiration
"Bob says hello." he told the stars. -Percy Jackson, House of Hades.
DONT MAKE ME CRY
This part fucked me up soooo bad and I'm pretty sure that is where I cried the most throw the entire book
BookHunter73 I'M SCREAMING
I cried.
omg :'(
You don't have to live forever. you just have to live.
-Tuck Everlasting
-Natalie Babbitt
Favorite quote from a book. That book made me cry so much ;_;
"The problem is not the problem, the problem is your attitude towards the problem." - Captain Jack Sparrow
Srijan... Dude yeeeeeeeeees!
If you can find the scene where he says that I'll be very grateful. I'm 99% sure that line isn't ever said by Jack Sparrow and that the internet just attributed it to him.
I looked and I can't find it anywhere.
Srijan... Yesss attitude makes the difference..
“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany but rather with pain gathering its things, packing up, and sneaking away unannounced in the middle of the night”- The Kite Runner
"Always" ---"He went with death gladly, departing this life, as equals"-J.K.R
"So come with me where dreams are born and time is never planned, just think of happy things and your heart will fly on wings" ---"There are many different kinds of brave"--- "to live, would be an awfully big adventure"-J.M.B
"When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew"--- "did my hear love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night"- W.S
I probably have more quotes from movies and actors though xD
Did my heart*
These are some of my absolute favorites!
+Stitchthekitten - yeeeessss! We love Harry Potter too! Good choice!
"everything was beautiful and nothing hurt"
i wish this was my life. but everything hurts, and nothing is beautiful.
cheer up! everyday above ground is a good one, read a book, and don't worry be happy :)
That's not true and I can prove it because you're beautiful. It's okay to be both, you know; hurt and beautiful. Isn't everybody?
You are beautiful, and one day you will find a place that makes you feel like nothing hurts.
+Angela Low ne serki
stay strong, you are beautiful
*"No measure of time with you will be long enough, but let's start with forever".* - Edward Cullen (Twilight) * My all time favourite quote *
She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
-J. D. Salinger, “A Girl I Knew”
that's so cool!
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
-George Orwell
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
-Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.” - Emily Dickinson
OMG I LOOOOOOOOOVE IT
"Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss..."He turned to me. "But every once in a while you find someone who is iridescent, and once you do, nothing will ever compare."
Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped
"And it occurred to me, standing there, just breathing with her, quiet settling around us, that those might be the three most beautiful words in the English language: We have time." --Random Riggs.
"The true hero is flawed. The test of a champion is not whether he can triumph, but whether he can overcome obstacles-preferably of his own making-in order to triumph."
-Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
"You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear." -Sherlock Holmes
Growing up he encouraged me to read. Watching his show and the profound way he described each book made me want to read. Thank you Mr. Burton.
"You could rattle the stars. You could do anything. If only you dared." - Sarah J. Maas
"You don't have to live forever, you just have to live." was my favorite of this bunch.
“Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.”
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal. - Big Fish
(although, to be honest every quote in that book is beautiful)
“All was well." -Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
brb dying of feels
Literally gave me the chills
+єℓє Yes! I was waiting for this comment!
+Brock Molloy me too!
Bible -
"The purpose of human life, not matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved." -Kurt Vonnegut
'What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on no matter how bad our losses: that it can be good again
And only Peeta can give me that'
Mockingjay
"A census taker once tried to test me, I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti." - Hannibal Lecter.
"Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
- Dylan Thomas
(Because it can be applied to almost every hurdle)
Our choices show who we truly are, Harry, far more than our abilities ~Albus Dumbledore : Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
"I think there is just one kind of folks. Folks." - To Kill A Mockingbird
im not comfortable with his feet on those books. anyone else?
I felt bad for the books.
Same
Florianne Marie Limon me too
Florianne Marie Limon Yup.
me too, because if the ancients were here, who worshipped muses, would be furious.
im watching this just to get tattoo ideas tbh
your profile pic fits perfectly with what you said
To the shadows on the wall-
To the faces in the dark-
To the things that go bump in the night...
I bump back
haaaa
omg me too, I'm trying to find a beautiful sentence which actually means something and will reflect and inspire me^^
haven't found it yet though
+kathie O'Regan dont you worry you'll be fine. :)
"after all this time?"
"always."
+aimerarmin levi Yess:X Favourite Harry Potter quote.
+aimerarmin levi why does this only have 2 thumbs up???
+diego kjaria IKR 😍
+Nora Meester because ppl here don't know how beautiful these few words are
not a fan of creeps and abusers ✌
"To the people who look up at the stars and wish, Rhys."
"To the stars who listen- and the dreams that are answered." -Sarah J. Mass
I know it's not literature but still one of my all time faves
As of now, 291 people have down voted. Either English is not their first language, or they possess no emotion whatsoever.
Or they all need a hug. We all need hugs.
Or they are pissed that he is stepping on books?
"Shrek is love, Shrek is life" -Poot Lovato 2015
OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
IM DONE
+Amanda Daisy ASUNA
this is the most 2015 thing I've ever read
oh my
Nothing is as cruel as man, so artistically cruel. - Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lolita." - Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita)
I've always loved, "I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago, I was in the middle before I knew I had begun." Pride And Prejudice, cos it reminds me of how I fell in love with my bf.