Quotes About Books

Et surtout, les livres. Ils étaient, en eux même, une raison de rester en vie.

Librarians have knowledge. They guide you to the right books. The right worlds. They find the best places. Like soul enhanced search engines.

But where there were books, there was always the temptation to open them. And she realised it was the same with lives.

Librarians have knowledge. They guide you to the right books. The right worlds. They find the best places. Like soul-enhanced search engines. ... But you also have to know what you like. What to type into the metaphorical search box. And sometimes you have to try a few things before that comes clear.

Bücher sind Bäume, die träumen.

She imagined that when she eventually arrived at her deathbed, she would feel more regret about her unborn children than her unwritten books.

The books were all green. Greens of multifarious shades. Some of these volumes were a murky swamp green, some a bright and light chartreuse, some a bold emerald and others the verdant shade of summer lawns.

Between life and death there is a library,' she said. 'And within that library, the shelves go on for ever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived.

Yes, there are lots of questions. And even more books. So, so many. Humans in their typical human way have written far too many to get through. Reading is added to that great pile of things – work, love, sexual prowess, the words they didn't say when they really needed to say them – that they are bound to feel a bit dissatisfied about.

I read and read and read with an intensity I'd never really known before. I mean, I'd always considered myself to be a person who liked books. But there is a difference between liking books and needing them. I needed books. They weren't a luxury good during that time in my life. They were a Class A addictive substance.

Even in his books, where he's allegedly trying to string multiple thoughts together, Trump wanders randomly from impulse to impulse, seemingly without rhyme or reason. He doesn't think anything through. (He's brilliantly cast this driving-blind trait as "not being politically correct.") It

Some books find us at just the right time in our lives and those books change our lives forever. I hope this is that kind of book for you.

Books and people are alike in one respect: they're both full of thoughts.

Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long.

A man's library opens up his character to the world.

Before long, I had lost my youth and my patience for indulging others. Books were everything in life; books were better than wine.

Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long. Had I never learned to like books, I would have become the dullest sort of hermit.

They always blamed my reading, you know, for my having fewer friends than my brother and for my weak eyes, never thinking that because I had weak eyes and because I was shy, having a book at the ready rescued me.

Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?

Books of quotation are not only of importance to the reader for what they contain of matured thought, but also for what they suggest. Our brains receive the spark and become luminous, like inflammable material by the contact of flint and steel.

She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat.

It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others – even my nearest and dearest – there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.

It's not that I don't like people. It's just that there always comes a moment when I'm in the company of others -- even my nearest and dearest -- when I'd rather be reading a book.

Where her books were, she was. Get the books right and the rest will follow. Now she could address the rest of the room.