Books Quotes

I see the beatitudes of books displayed on a bookshelf.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I see the beauty of books and sacred-souls of every author displaced in a bookshop.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We encounter great souls by reading great books.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The sacred-souls of authors are displayed in the beauty of their books.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

Everyone creates realities based on their own personal beliefs. These beliefs are so powerful that they can create [expansive or entrapping] realities over and over.~Kuan Yin

~ Hope Bradford

A while back, when Dick & Barry & I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you *are* like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionnaire for potential partners, a 2 or 3 page multiple-choice document that covered all the music/film/TV/book bases. It was intended: a) to dispense with awkward conversation, and b) to prevent a chap from leaping into bed with someone who might, at a later date, turn out to have every Julio Iglesias record ever made. It amused us at the time... But there was an important & essential truth contained in the idea, and the truth was that these things matter, and it's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently, or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.

~ Nick Hornby

Lift up your eyes from your books, from your past, from your hurts and look upon all people with love, because when you look into another’s eyes and see innocence, you find it in yourself.

~ Dragos Bratasanu

I learned a long time ago that the two things that most impact our lives are the people we spend our time with and the things we read. Yep. Relationships and reading.

~ Todd Gongwer

Tallis is a beautiful and terrible thing. Fearsome and alluring. Just like the forest in many ways... but it's written all over that handsome, pale face of yours; you like her.

~ C.e. Clayton

I'll live to be one year younger, because I can't stand the idea of a world without you in it, and die buried beneath an avalanche of my own books.

~ Lance Olsen

My Aunt Helen was my favorite person in the whole world. She was my mom’s sister. She got straight A’s when she was a teenager and she used to give me books to read. My father said that the books were a little too old for me, but I liked them so he just shrugged and let me read.

~ Stephen Chbosky

Feed your soul; books, places, people, anything. That helps it grow.

~ M.l. Shanahan

At the end of the story of my life, I want to say it was the best book I had ever read.

~ Avina Celeste

I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful.

~ Núria Añó

All I'm saying is that there is more to life than the main story. Check out the notes in the margins because maybe they're even more important.

~ Isabelle Rowan

Judge not lest ye be judged yourself.

~ Metallica

One may never get to know how fast the time travels till the one gets in that position to race against the time.

~ Neel Preet

Go for it because for all those moments that you would make up your mind the other might have already rushed for it.

~ Neel Preet

Time is the real emperor and there is no space for any pride since time flies and blows away anything.

~ Neel Preet

Till the time you realize your conquest you already reach that stage when you start losing the grip.

~ Neel Preet

An escape can become escapism before we even know it. Books are wonderful things, but you can't live in someone else's story. You have to live your own story.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

~ Dave Eggers

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.

~ Moses Hadas

For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

~ Alan Bennett

Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time.

~ Julian Barnes

Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Without space, there is no time.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like scenes you can return to again and again and will always remember, no matter how much time goes by.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Are they not criminals, books that have wasted our time and sympathy; are they not the most insidious enemies of society, corrupters, defilers, the writers of false books, faked books, books that fill the air with decay and disease?

~ Virginia Woolf

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

The products your life must have could be in the form of books you’ve read or teachings you listen to via audio or video.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The products your life must have could be in the form books you have written from the values you have added to yourself.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?

~ Jerry Seinfeld

Your mail could've waited. Daemon followed me into the kitchen. What is it? Just books?Grabbing the OJ from the fridge, I sighed. People who didn't heart books didn't understand.

~ Jennifer L. Armentrout

You've read half the books in this house? This whole house? Well, approximately half. Sticky said. To be more accurate, I suppose I've read more like - his eyes went up as he calculated - three sevenths? Yes, three sevenths. Only three sevenths? said Kate, pretending to look disappointed. And here I was prepared to be impressed.

~ Trenton Lee Stewart

If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away.

~ Seanan Mcguire

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

~ E.a. Bucchianeri