Literary Poster Showcase
100 refined poster lines from modern literature, ready for one-click download.
1984
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell
The Great Gatsby
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
Harper Lee
The Catcher in the Rye
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
J. D. Salinger
The Road
You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
Cormac McCarthy
Beloved
Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
Toni Morrison
Invisible Man
Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
Ralph Ellison
The Little Prince
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
On the Road
Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
Jack Kerouac
The Handmaid's Tale
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery.
Sylvia Plath
Catch-22
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
Joseph Heller
Mrs. Dalloway
She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
Virginia Woolf
The Stranger
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
The Plague
The only way to fight the plague is with decency.
Albert Camus
The Sun Also Rises
Isn't it pretty to think so?
Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea
A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway
Frankenstein
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
Mary Shelley
Jane Eyre
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me.
Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Emily Bronte
Brave New World
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly—they’ll go through anything.
Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451
It was a pleasure to burn.
Ray Bradbury
The Grapes of Wrath
How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own stomach but in his children's?
John Steinbeck
East of Eden
And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
John Steinbeck
Lolita
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.
Vladimir Nabokov
The Sound and the Fury
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels.
William Faulkner
Heart of Darkness
The horror! The horror!
Joseph Conrad
The Trial
Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.
Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis
I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me.
Franz Kafka
One Hundred Years of Solitude
It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera
The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Kite Runner
For you, a thousand times over.
Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns
One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs.
Khaled Hosseini
The Book Thief
I have hated the words and I have loved them.
Markus Zusak
Never Let Me Go
Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly.
Kazuo Ishiguro
Remains of the Day
Perhaps, then, one should not be too hasty in building up one's expectations.
Kazuo Ishiguro
Norwegian Wood
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore
Memories warm you up from the inside, but they also tear you apart.
Haruki Murakami
1Q84
If you don't like your fate, don't accept it.
Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
We are all in a kind of dream, but we forget it when we wake.
Haruki Murakami
The Road Less Traveled
Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths.
M. Scott Peck
Siddhartha
I can think. I can wait. I can fast.
Hermann Hesse
Steppenwolf
Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.
Hermann Hesse
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth.
Milan Kundera
The Name of the Rose
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
Umberto Eco
The Shadow of the Wind
Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Master and Margarita
Manuscripts don't burn.
Mikhail Bulgakov
Doctor Zhivago
The great, majority, the people, are able to live without faith.
Boris Pasternak
Slaughterhouse-Five
So it goes.
Kurt Vonnegut
The Color Purple
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.
Alice Walker
1984
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell
The Great Gatsby
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
Harper Lee
The Catcher in the Rye
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
J. D. Salinger
The Road
You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
Cormac McCarthy
Beloved
Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
Toni Morrison
Invisible Man
Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
Ralph Ellison
The Little Prince
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
On the Road
Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
Jack Kerouac
The Handmaid's Tale
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery.
Sylvia Plath
Catch-22
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
Joseph Heller
Mrs. Dalloway
She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
Virginia Woolf
The Stranger
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
The Plague
The only way to fight the plague is with decency.
Albert Camus
The Sun Also Rises
Isn't it pretty to think so?
Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea
A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway
Frankenstein
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
Mary Shelley
Jane Eyre
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me.
Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Emily Bronte
Brave New World
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly—they’ll go through anything.
Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451
It was a pleasure to burn.
Ray Bradbury
The Grapes of Wrath
How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own stomach but in his children's?
John Steinbeck
East of Eden
And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
John Steinbeck
Lolita
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.
Vladimir Nabokov
The Sound and the Fury
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels.
William Faulkner
Heart of Darkness
The horror! The horror!
Joseph Conrad
The Trial
Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.
Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis
I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me.
Franz Kafka
One Hundred Years of Solitude
It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera
The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Kite Runner
For you, a thousand times over.
Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns
One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs.
Khaled Hosseini
The Book Thief
I have hated the words and I have loved them.
Markus Zusak
Never Let Me Go
Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly.
Kazuo Ishiguro
Remains of the Day
Perhaps, then, one should not be too hasty in building up one's expectations.
Kazuo Ishiguro
Norwegian Wood
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore
Memories warm you up from the inside, but they also tear you apart.
Haruki Murakami
1Q84
If you don't like your fate, don't accept it.
Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
We are all in a kind of dream, but we forget it when we wake.
Haruki Murakami
The Road Less Traveled
Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths.
M. Scott Peck
Siddhartha
I can think. I can wait. I can fast.
Hermann Hesse
Steppenwolf
Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.
Hermann Hesse
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth.
Milan Kundera
The Name of the Rose
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
Umberto Eco
The Shadow of the Wind
Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Master and Margarita
Manuscripts don't burn.
Mikhail Bulgakov
Doctor Zhivago
The great, majority, the people, are able to live without faith.
Boris Pasternak
Slaughterhouse-Five
So it goes.
Kurt Vonnegut
The Color Purple
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.
Alice Walker