Quotes About Books

He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.

Books have no life; they lack feeling maybe, and perhaps cannot feel pain, as animals and even plants feel pain. But what proof have we that inorganic objects can feel no pain? Who knows if a book may not yearn for other books, its companions of many years, in some way strange to us and therefore never yet perceived?

Definitely there are times when I'm tired and don't want to give up my seat on the bus to an old person. But I get depressed, not angry—like about how I'll be an old woman someday, and even more tired than I am now. I never think I deserve the seat more because I am reading a book." Worried this might sound self-righteous, I added, "Maybe it's just because I dont' read on the bus, it makes me carsick.

Back in Cambridge, the bank clock read 8:40. We went to Ivan's dining hall. The dining halls were open late for exam period. At a table near the door, two students were slumped over their books, either asleep or murdered.

The computer on the desk of the student in school knows no history. It is not like a book, worn at the edges by human hands. No little child has written a note in it, long ago. It will not be passed down to the children of the children who use it. Its "meaning" is that there is no enduring meaning.

I get a warm feeling among my books.

I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already.

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

Bøkene er alltid tilgjengelige følgesvenner. Alderdom, ensomhet, lediggang, kjedsomhet, smerte og uro: Det finnes ikke den hverdagslige plage som bøkene ikke kan lindre, såfremt plagene ikke er for sterke. Bøkene mildner bekymringene og tilbyr trøst og støtte.

It is a fact that, being a quick reader, apart from enabling a person to study good books such as Macaulay and Gibbon, enables a person to read a lot of bad books as well.

And the snow that fell onto the roof in winter... it fell softly... softly... and it covered the house, the armchair, the books, the children's voices. It covered Anna and Abel, covered their parallel world, and everything was finally, very, very quiet.

A book is a blossoming of hope.

BOABDIL.- Como el jazmín y el mirto, cultivamos el arte y la belleza. Al pie de los granados leímos sabios libros o besamos la boca de la amada: tu boca, Moraima, como la flor de los granados...No caímos en que, fuera del jardín, prevenía el destino la daga y el momento. Por sensibilidad perdimos nuestra vida.

You can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never have met otherwise, either because they have been dead for centuries or because they spoke languages you cannot understand. And, nonetheless, they have become your closest friends, your wisest advisors, the wizards that hypnotize you, the lovers you have always dreamed of.

A good quote is far better than the best-selling books.

Better to write just a few good quotes that have the world of wisdom to be admired or sought by the best brain than a lot of books or thoughts, which are actually worth a naught and yet liked by many ordinary people.

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.

He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot.

Go to hell, I'm reading!

He passed his hands over some of the fine embossed bindings as he thought, I am a book also, words and thoughts and stories held together by flesh. We open and close ourselves to the world. We are read by others or put away by them. We wait to be seen, sitting quietly on shelves for someone to bother having a look inside us.

I am a book also, words and thoughts and stories held together by flesh. We open and close ourselves to the world. We are read by others or put away by them. We wait to be seen, sitting quietly on shelves for someone to bother having a look inside us.

For the last twenty years I feel as if I have been waiting for my life to happen between the pages of a book, the book I am reading while I wait to arrive at the destination I am destined for.

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Bücher sind ja, irgndwie, MenschnReste -