Lit Instagram Captions

The best way to show your interesting and well-versed side is by using captions based on literary work. Whether the literary sources are classic books or modern e-books, you can always pick a line or two to use for your Instagram photos. If you’re running out of creativity, you don’t have to read through several books just to find a literary inspiration; we have done the hard work for you. We have compiled 30 lit Instagram captions for your inspired moments. Whether you are looking for something inspirational and moving, or just plain sassy and catchy, we have prepared them for you.

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“We cross our bridges as we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and the presumption that once our eyes watered.” —Tom Stoppard, Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead

There is a sense in which we are all each other’s consequences. – Wallace Stegner, All the Little Five Things

“The curves of your lips rewrite history.” —Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Do I dare / Disturb the universe?” —T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

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“In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.” —Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. – Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.” —Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

Isn’t it pretty to think so? – Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these: a) Anything can happen to anyone. and b) It is best to be prepared.” —Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.” —Toni Morrison, Beloved

“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

“If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me.” —W. H. Auden, “The More Loving One”

“She was lost in her longing to understand.” —Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.” —Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

And it that moment, I swear we were infinite. – Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.” —Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” —William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself.” —Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“What are men to rocks and mountains?” —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.” —W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet.” —L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking. – Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“America, I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing.”—Allen Ginsburg, “America”

“A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.” —Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

‘Dear God,’ she prayed, ‘let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.’ —Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“At the still point, there the dance is.” —T. S. Eliot, “Four Quartets”

“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”

“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” —John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart.” —Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank

At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. – Willa Cather, My Antonia

Nothing beats a fabulous Instagram photo captioned with a phrase from a literary work. If you are the type who likes to read a lot, then you would surely like to use our collection of literary captions for IG.