Famous quote by Armand Assante

Mobile Desktop
Literature is air, and Im suffocating in mediocrity
Like

"Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity"

- Armand Assante

About this Quote

This quote by Armand Assante talks to the power of literature and its ability to transfer us to brand-new worlds and viewpoints. It suggests that literature is vital to our lives, like air, and that without it, we are delegated suffer in a state of mediocrity. Assante is recommending that without literature, we are unable to experience the beauty and intricacy of life, and instead are left to exist in an ordinary and unfulfilling state. He is highlighting the value of literature in our lives, and how it can assist us to escape the ordinary and experience something higher. By checking out literature, we can acquire insight into various cultures, beliefs, and lifestyles, and can be inspired to believe more deeply about our own lives. Assante's quote is a suggestion of the value of literature in our lives, and how it can help us to get away the mediocrity of everyday life.

About the Author

USA Flag This quote is written / told by Armand Assante somewhere between October 4, 1949 and today. He was a famous Actor from USA. The author also have 17 other quotes.

Go to author profile

Similar Quotes

Small: A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason if he possesses some knowledge of t
"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"
Walter Scott, Novelist
Small: I dont know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens - E. B. White
E. B. White
"I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens"
E. B. White, Writer
Small: The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
Small: What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of t
E. M. Forster
"What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote"
E. M. Forster, Novelist
Small: Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature - Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer
"Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature"
Martin H. Fischer, Author
Small: Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts - Peter Bichsel
"Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts"
Peter Bichsel, Writer
Small: Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity - Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
Small: Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply
C. S. Lewis
"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it"
C. S. Lewis, Author
Small: All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn - Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn"
Ernest Hemingway, Novelist
Small: The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature - Alfred North
"The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature"
Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician