Book Quotes Quotes

And I know just’s well as anybody that if you control a man’s space and time then you control his whole goddamn life: he’s a goner, cause hell, there ain’t nothin’ for him to do in space and time but make the few choices he can make with what he got.

~ Nicholas Hochstedler

Well old man, I guess freedom's a continuum.

~ Nicholas Hochstedler

Be the reason someone smiles today. Or the reason they drown in a book. Whatever works.

~ Roney Ngala

The day I died was just like any other idle Thursday.

~ Kelly Moran

You are no greater than the friends you keep, the books you read, the heroes you admire, and the obstacles you overcome.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Books are a stairway to knowledge, experience is a highway to understanding, together they are an elevator to enlightenment.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A book is the only vehicle that can take you around the world in one hour.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

I never said it was easy to find your place in this world, but I’m coming to the conclusion that if you seek to please others, you will forever be changing because you will never be yourself, only fragments of someone you could be. You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and detached from things and your surroundings. You need to build your home in your own simple existence, not in friends, lovers, your career or material belongings, because these are things you will lose one day. That’s the natural order of this world. This is called the practice of detachment.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Reading books is like wearing winter clothes, it covers and warms up the body of your naked soul.

~ Munia Khan

Ha! spring arrived on her sweet scented palanquin,carried by the spirited Zephyrus and his coir with their murmuring music undulated in its own softness and fondled the leaves to astir.

~ Nithin Purple

When someone recommends a book to you, you know two things; that it is a good book and you have a good friend.

~ Min Kim

I used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not afraid anymore, because when I write, I am not trying to prove anything to anyone, I am just expressing myself and my opinions. It’s ok if my opinions are different from those of the reader, each of us can have his own opinions. So writing is like talking, if you are afraid of writing, you may end up being afraid of talking

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Few people will understand that to love is like being able to select and read a good book. They don’t just stop at the title or the cover. They stop because...they wanted to read the content. The wanted to read each word, each sentence, each line, but most of all, what was in between the lines...

~ Lauren Klarfeld

Books are carnival rides for your imagination.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Every book is its own black hole. Don’t fight the pull, find out where it takes you.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

who gets the rare opportunity of spotting a treasure of memories lying among masses, stepping back to stroke it with a secret smile as your mind wanders back to those sleepless yet ecstatic nights you had spent together?only............a book lover.

~ Nadun Lokuliyanage

Cats and books are my universe. Both are infinitely fascinating and full of mystery.

~ Rai Aren

It is the Master who comes to the door of his student when the student is ready and the Master knows all the truth of his student

~ Kapil Kumar Bhaskar

One author said I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history.” It's hard to live a footprint in the sands of history when giants are passing through the same sands unless you are one of the giants

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

And Nephilim—we tend to love very overwhelmingly. To fall in love only once, to die of grief over love—my old tutor used to say that the hearts of the Nephilim were like hearts of angels: They felt every human pain, and never healed.

~ Cassandra Clare

Not afraid to die , but not the fear of death

~ Rotik The Marathi Rapper

Tickle my heart with your pen. Write me for all to read. Bind our love inside a book. Make me, your poetry.

~ N'zuri Za Austin

I am not a broken heart,and I am not your fault.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

The world of books is my fantasy.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

No, Ben. What I’m asking is: Are you the vehicle, and Georgie rides around in you? That is why Ben’s the driver, right?

~ Jonathan Harnisch

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

In order to protect their good names for posterity, many writers never wrote what they thought or the truth as it stood. That's why truth still lies hidden in matters of power, sex and religion. No wonder they chose to do so, many who dared paid with their heads

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

A good reader has the power to move the world.

~ Aman Jassal

I can’t!” Maggie was now standing on the wall. “Past the boundary wall is a bad place. I’m not allowed in the bad place.

~ Sian B. Claven

Please don’t be upset. The last thing in the world I want is to see you upset and that too with me. It’s terrifying to see your beautiful eyes turn red with anger.

~ Vivek Pereira

Take a look and pick up a book, you never know what you might just find.

~ Carmela Dutra

You can't condemn an entire species of people because of the actions of one man.

~ Elizabeth Richards

I don't know what you have thought of. Everyone thinks to the extent of his depravity... #HenriettaLedyanova. #ItalianPassion

~ Olgagoa

Old is old at any age. Old is when you quit asking questions about this, that, and everything. Old is when you forget how to love-or worse, don't care. Old is when you don't want to dance anymore. Old is when you don't want to learn anything new except how to be old. Old is when people tell you that you are old-and you believe them.

~ Carew Papritz

A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past.

~ Carew Papritz

Sometimes we make being happy so difficult. And being thankful such a chore.

~ Carew Papritz

Time. Either you are for it or against it. So be here now. Not later.

~ Carew Papritz

No, you become a man when you first decide to put away the things of childhood, the talk of childhood, and the thoughts of childhood. You decide because you cannot be treated as both a man and a boy. Because you are either one or the other, but you are not both . . .

~ Carew Papritz