Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cited by

• S.E. Grove (1)
  • IN: The Glass Sentence (2014) Fiction, Mystery, Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "There can be no scholar without the heroic mind. The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived. Instantly we know whose words are laded with life, and whose not. The world, -- this shadow of the soul, or other me -- lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my thoughts and make me acquainted with myself. I run eagerly into this resounding tumult."
    FROM: "The American Scholar", (1837), Essay, US
• John Updike (1)
  • IN: Self-Consciousness (1989) Memoir, American
    EPIGRAPH: We are persuaded that a thread runs through all things: All worlds are strung on it, as beads: and men,and events, and life,come to us, only because of that thread
    FROM: Montaigne; or, The Skeptic, (1841), Novel, US
• Julia Durango (1)
  • IN: The Leveller (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Reality is a sliding door.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• A. S. King (1)
  • IN: I Crawl Through It (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered.
    FROM: Fortune of the Republic, (1878), Lecture, US
• Myra McEntire (3)
  • IN: Infinityglass (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
  • IN: Hourglass (2011) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
  • IN: Timepiece (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime sea, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
    FROM: NULL, (1838), Journal, US
• Jacquelyn Mitchard (1)
  • IN: What We Lost in the Dark (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Be not the slave of your own past. Dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power... that shall explain and overlook the old.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Shannon Delany (1)
  • IN: Weather Witch (2013) Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All sorts of things and weather / Must be taken in together . . .
    FROM: Fable, (1847), Poem, US
• Sonya Sones (1)
  • IN: To Be Perfectly Honest (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• L.A. Weatherly (1)
  • IN: Broken Sky (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Liza Wiemer (1)
  • IN: Hello? (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is not length of life, but depth of life.
    FROM: "Immortality", (1875), Essay, US
• Kate Atkinson (1)
  • IN: A God in Ruins (2015) Historical Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams
    FROM: Nature, (1836), Book, US
• Melissa Kantor (1)
  • IN: The Darlings are Forever (2011) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is one of the blesings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
    FROM: Emerson in his journals, (1982), Journal, US
• Amber Kizer (1)
  • IN: Wildcat Fireflies (2011) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out of the window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise...
    FROM: Nominalist and Realist, (1844), Book, US
• Alyson Noel (1)
  • IN: Whisper (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Sarah Wylie (1)
  • IN: All These Lives (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Malcolm Bowie (1)
  • IN: Proust Among the Stars (1998) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: It would indeed give me a certain household joy to quit this lofty speaking, this spiritual astronomy, or search of stars, and come down to warm sympathies with you; but then I know well I shall mourn always the vanishing of my mighty gods.
    FROM: Friendship, (1841), Essay, US
• C.J Box (1)
  • IN: Endangered (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Men are what their mothers made them
    FROM: The Conduct of Life, (1860), Book, US
• William Bernhardt (1)
  • IN: Capitol Conspiracy (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Constitutions are merely the lengthened shadows of men. They are invented by men to protect themselves from one another. When they fail to do that, when the fate of human society is at stake, more drastic measures must be taken for society’s own sake.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Clark Clare (1)
  • IN: Beautiful Lies (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Robert and Asimov, Isaac Silverberg (1)
  • IN: Nightfall (1990) Fiction, Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God!
    FROM: Nature, (1836), Essay, US
• Averil Dean (1)
  • IN: Alice Close Your Eyes (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Every spirit builds itself a house.
    FROM: Nature, (1836), Essay, US
• Tobias Hill (1)
  • IN: What Was Promised (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Cities give us collision.
    FROM: The Conduct of Life, (1860), Book, US
• Rosalie Ham (1)
  • IN: The Dressmaker (2000) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: The sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
    FROM: Forbes, Miss C. F. (quoted by author in Social Aims), (1875), Essay, US
• Joshilyn Jackson (1)
  • IN: The Opposite of Everyone (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.
    FROM: Give All to Love, (1847), Poem, US
• John Lutz (1)
  • IN: Dancer's Debt (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt, as if God wrote the bill.
    FROM: Solution, (1867), NULL, US
• Jonathan Maberry (1)
  • IN: Patient Zero (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Rob Thurman (1)
  • IN: Blackout (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
    FROM: NULL, (1835), NULL, US
• Jessica Treadway (1)
  • IN: Lacy Eye (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Allison Brennan (1)
  • IN: Love Me to Death (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], US
• Chris Pavone (1)
  • IN: The Expats (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], US
• David Morrell (1)
  • IN: Ruler of the Night (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Opium-Eater is [the] ruler of the night.
    FROM: to Thomas De Quincey, (1848), Conversation, US
• Leann Sweeney (1)
  • IN: The Cat, the Quilt and the Corpse (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Brad Listi (2)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Lois Leveen (1)
  • IN: The Secrets of Mary Bowser (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience... Each new fact in his private experience flashes a light on what great bodies of men have done, and the crises of his life refer to national crises.
    FROM: History, (1841), Essay, US
• Jon Land (1)
  • IN: The Tenth Circle (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Nicole Krauss (1)
  • IN: Man Walks into a Room (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You shall not discern the footprints of any other; you shall not see the face of man; you shall not hear any name --
    FROM: Self-Reliance, (1841), Essay, US
• Jonathan Buckley (1)
  • IN: Telescope (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: No man ever came to an experience which was satiating.
    FROM: Experience, (1844), Essay, US
• Brian Freeman (1)
  • IN: Marathon (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Times of heroism are generally times of terror.
    FROM: Heroism, (1841), Essay, US
• Joshua Ferris (1)
  • IN: Then We Came to The End (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be a unit; -- not to be reckoned one character; -- not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong...
    FROM: The American Scholar, (1837), Speech, US
• Currie Jr., Ron (1)
  • IN: The One Eyed Man (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The influence of the senses has in most men overpowered the mind to the degree that the walls of time and space have come to look solid, real and insurmountable; and to speak with levity of these limits is, in the world, the sign of insanity.
    FROM: The Over-Soul, (1841), Essay, US
• Kate Christensen (1)
  • IN: The Astral (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Though her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive; Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.
    FROM: "Give All to Love", (1846), Poem, US
• Andrea Barrett (2)
  • IN: Archangel (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We cannot part with our friends. We cannot let our angels go. We do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in. We are idolators of the old.
    FROM: Compensation' (Essays: First Series), (1841), NULL, US
• Gilbert Adair (1)
  • IN: The Death of the Author (1992) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole. You cannot recall the spoken word, you cannot wipe out the foot-track, you cannot draw up the ladder, so as to leave no inlet or clew.
    FROM: Compensation, (1841), Essay, US
• Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1)
  • IN: Contending Forces (1900) Novel, American
    EPIGRAPH: The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.
    FROM: NULL, (1844), Speech, US
• Alice Caldwell Hegan (1)
  • IN: Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1901) Novel, American
    EPIGRAPH: In the mud and scum of things Something always always sings!
    FROM: Music, (1904), Poem, US
• Ottesa Moshfegh (1)
  • IN: McGlue (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The young men were born with knives in their brains.
    FROM: Life and Letters in New England, (1867), Book, US
• Hannah Tinti (1)
  • IN: The Good Thief (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], US
• Richard Powers (1)
  • IN: The Overstory (2018) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me, and I to them. The waving of the boughs in the storm, is new to me and old. It takes me by surprise, and yet is not unknown. Its effect is like that of a higher thought or a better emotion coming over me, when I deemed I was thinking justly or doing right.
    FROM: Nature, (1836), Essay, US
• T. C. Boyle (1)
  • IN: A Friend of the Earth (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Every spirit builds itself a house, and beyond its house a world, and beyond its world, a heaven. Know then that the world exists for you.
    FROM: "Nature", (1836), Essay, US
• Alex Flinn (1)
  • IN: Cloaked (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, en eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence, and nothing too much.
    FROM: Country Life, (1858), Lecture, US
• Leon Uris (1)
  • IN: A God in Ruins (1999) Fiction, Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Man is a god in ruins... Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.
    FROM: Nature, (1836), Book, US
• Mary Cholmondeley (1)
  • IN: Diana Tempest (1893) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The lawyer's deed Ran sure, In tail, To them, and to their heirs Who shall succeed, Without fail, For evermore. "Here is the land, Shaggy with wood, With its old valley, Mound and flood. But the heritors?
    FROM: Earth-song, (None), Poem, US
• Alice Ilgenfritz and Marchant, Ella Jones (1)
  • IN: Unveiling a Parallel (1893) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: A new person is to me always a great event, and hinders me from sleep.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Henry Miller (1)
  • IN: Tropic of Cancer (1934) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: These novels will give way, by and by, to diaries or autobiographies - captivating books, if only a man knew how to choose among what he calls his experiences and how to record truth truly.
    FROM: An 1841 entry, Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1841), Journal, US