8 Profound Quotes From The Book ‘Midnight Library’ About Life

Khushi Arora
Jan 08, 2025

1.

"Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices."

2.

"Maybe it’s not the future we should dream of, but the past we should be proud of."

3.

"And even if you found your perfect life, you wouldn’t be able to stay in it. The time would still pass. You’d still have life to contend with."

4.

"We only need to be one person. We only need to feel one existence. We don't have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility."

5.

"You don't have to have big dreams. You just have to want to improve on what you are today."

6.

"You can’t be everything to everyone. Sometimes you have to let people down in order to keep yourself up."

7.

"Regret was just a useless, flickering torch that we use to illuminate the past, but if we are not careful, it can also be used to burn our present."

8.

"You don’t have to understand life. You just have to live it."

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