Quotes About Books

Una biblioteca no es algo por leer, sino una compañía —dijo, tras dar unos pasos más—. Un remedio y un consuelo.

One is never alone with a book nearby, don't you agree?...Every page reminds us of a day that has passed and makes us relive the emotions that filled it. Happy hours underlined in red pencil, dark ones in black...Where was I, then? What prince called me his friend, what beggar called me his brother?

Quien sólo se interesa por los libros no necesita a nadie, y eso me da miedo —

Una biblioteca es un lugar donde hallar lo conveniente en el momento oportuno.

aprender es vivir en el roce con la calle, con los libros, con la Historia. Que quien mucho anda y mucho lee y mucho pelea, mucho sabe.

Reconozco que la aviación resulta útil para hacer la guerra; aunque en la vida civil, a la que el mundo retornará algún día, rebaja el placer de los viajes. Ir de un lado a otro con prisas tiene su lado práctico, pero no es comparable a un vagón de tren de primera clase, un libro en las manos, levantando la vista para contemplar el paisaje. Dormir en un cómodo coche cama, mecido por el dulce traqueteo de los bogies.

Nos enamoramos, en realidad, de la imagen del amor que tenemos en la cabeza, proyectando ahí los libros leídos, el cine que hemos visto. Incluyendo nuestros sueños, deseos, tristezas y alegrías…

El sufrimiento era atroz con sólo imaginar dispersa mi biblioteca.

One is never alone with a book nearby, don't you agree? Every page reminds us of a day that has passed and makes us relive the emotions that filled it. Happy hours underlined in red pencil, dark ones in black...

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. And when I want to know something, I look it up in books--their memory never fails

Films are for everyone, collective, generous, with children cheering when the cavalry arrives. And they're even better on TV: two can watch and comment. But your books are selfish. Solitary. Some of them can't even be read, they fall to bits if you open them. A person who's interested only in books doesn't need other people, and that frightens me

Los libros son puertas que te llevan a la calle, decía Patricia. Con ellos aprendes, te educas, viajas, sueñas, imaginas, vives otras vidas y multiplicas la tuya por mil.

Whenever I got any money, I invested it in books. When my savings dwindled, I got rid of everything else—pictures, furniture, china. I think you understand what it is to be a passionate collector of books…

he looked around at the books on the walls, at their dark, worn spines, and he seemed to hear a strange, distant murmur coming from them. each of the closed books was a door, and behind it stirred shadows, voices, sounds, heading toward him from a deep, dark place.

He was laughing under his breath, like a cruel wolf, as he leaned over to light his last cigarette. Books play that kind of trick, he thought. And everyone gets the devil he deserves.

The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.

It's hopeless! Tomorrow there'll be even more books I should have read than there are today.

Well, it would be helpful to not have to go through all of these in Braille," the man said. "I'm looking for the local wildlife guide and one other book." He held a paper out in front of him, and she took it. "The head librarian wrote the authors' names down for me," the man said, grinning. "I don't think she realized I couldn't read it." "That would be my boss," Julia sighed. "She's...she's the kind of person who yells at deaf people.

An ordinary man can... surround himself with two thousand books... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

An ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which is is possible to be happy.

En el Paraíso hay amigos, música, algunos libros; lo único malo de irse al Cielo es que allí el cielo no se ve.