Book Quotes

Your life is a book. Everyone could read it.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a sacred book.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Can you imagine a world without books to read?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In the pages of a book, we are in paradise.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Great books make a great life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

My life is build around books.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

All the great treasures of life are hidden in a book.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In the pages of a book, we find greatest solitude.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I don’t want to finish reading the book.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We travel to new places, with every book, we read.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated.

~ Charlaine Harris

...Love can give you the most exhilarating wonderful highs at times... ...Then there will be dives that will take all you have just to hold on... Quote on the Title Page of Love TORN Asunder

~ Elizabeth Funderbirk

As I walked inside, she turned around and headed for the end of the bed. Then she paused and turned to face me. She was wearing her Orchard Hill basketball T-shirt and sweatpants and she looked tired, but beautiful.

~ Kieran Scott

You are the illness I will never cure. You are the poem I will never write. You are the thought I will never finish. You are the text I will never read.

~ Maria Elena

[When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy...Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes.

~ Mark Helprin

You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

Now you be careful in the real world said Armpit Not everyone is as nice as us.

~ Louis Sachar

I’m the sexiest of them all! - Carol

~ Matthew Leeth

I'm out of the room in the next instant, like a man wanting breath, after suffocating through the horror of a burrito eating obese man's fart. - Emily Dolt

~ Nix Banner

A procession of the damned: By the damned I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that science has excluded. Battalions of the accursed, captained by pallid data that I have exhumed will march. You'll read them, or they'll march. Some of them livid and some of them fiery and some of them rotten. Some of them are corpses, skeletons, mummies, twitching, tottering, animated by companions that have been damned alive. There are giants that will walk by, though sound asleep. There are things that are theorems and things that are rags. They'll go by, like you could, arm-in-arm with the spirit of anarchy. Here and there will foot little harlots. Many are clowns, but many are of the highest respectability. Some are assassins. There are pale stenches and gaunt superstitions and mere shadows and lively malices, whims and amiabilities, the naive and the pedantic and the bizarre and the grotesque and the sincere and the insincere, the profound, and the puerile. A stab and a laugh and the patiently folded hands of hopeless propriety. The ultra-respectable! But the condemned, anyway.

~ Charles Fort

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

~ Hilary Mantel

Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.

~ Pseudonymous Bosch

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.

~ Daniel Keyes

[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

~ Simon Van Booy

When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the Narnia books have for the material world is one of almost undisguised contempt. At one point, the old professor says, ‘It’s all in Plato’ — meaning that the physical world we see around us is the crude, shabby, imperfect, second-rate copy of something much better. I want to emphasize the simple physical truth of things, the absolute primacy of the material life, rather than the spiritual or the afte

~ Philip Pullman

If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it.

~ Mark Glamack

I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely valuable and this world is an extraordinarily beautiful place. We should do what we can to increase the amount of wisdom in the

~ Philip Pullman

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

~ Adolf Hitler

Experience is the best teacher.

~ Penelope Douglas

I wanted to live among books.

~ Alberto Manguel

I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.

~ Dorothy Parker

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

~ Anne Fadiman

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.

~ Anne Fadiman

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

~ Alberto Manguel

Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own. No matter what had happened that day, that year, there was always a story in which someone overcame their darkest hour. I wasn't alone.

~ Kiera Cass

My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices.

~ Alberto Manguel

I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old bindings, and stars in margins next to beautiful passages. I love exuberant underlinings that recall to me a swoon of language-love from a long-ago reading, something I hoped to remember. I love book plates, and inscriptions in gifts from loved ones, I love author signatures, and I love books sitting around reminding me of them, being present in my life, being. I love books. Not just for what they contain. I love them as objects too, as ever-present reminders of what they contain, and because they are beautiful. They are one of my favorite things in life, really at the tiptop of the list, easily my favorite inanimate things in existence, and ... I am just not cottoning on to this idea of making them ... not exist anymore. Making them cease to take up space in the world, in my life? No, please do not take away the physical reality of my books.

~ Laini Taylor

As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.

~ Ludwig Feuerbach

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

~ Alberto Manguel

Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does not contribute to the common good.

~ Alberto Manguel