Top Books Quotes

In fact, when I finally shuffle off this mortalcoil, you will have to pry a book out of my cold, dead hands.

In books I find the dead as if they were alive; in books I foresee things to come; in books warlike affairs are set forth; from books come forth the laws of peace.All things are corrupted and decay in...

Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as signs of triumph, just as Irish heroes had once tied to their waists their e...

Sorrow's children were raised on books.

I just want to read and ignore all my adult problems.

The point is, every book we had could save us in a different way -- only, we had to open it. We had to drop our eyes to the page and drink in the words that were there.

Books are my greatest treasures.

I cannot live without books because books are my life.

I love digging myself into books because the moment I'm drifted from reality, I'm in a different world and I'm a different person.

Stories serve multiple purposes. At a basic level they are great entertainment, which is essential for living a happy and healthy life, but on a deeper level stories help us explore issues that are ot...

Crammed among the stacks of books in his room, the author treated literature as if each book were a window in a city of unstable skyscrapers, and he was the window-washer tasked with the impossible jo...

Human existence is temporary and all the knowledge of the universe we acquire will in time be forgotten because there will be no humans left to benefit from any of the stuff we learned.And yet, this d...

He longed for the little cabin and the sun-kissed sea - for the cool interior of the well-built house, and for the never-ending wonders of the many books.

A book is a magical thing that lets you travel to far-away places without ever leaving your chair.

Your friends are a reflection of you.

None of us can be proof against the influences that proceed from the persons he associates with. Wherefore, in books and men, let us look out for the best society, that which yields a bracing and whol...

There was going to be a spot for me in this joint, the earth, after all. It was never going to be a great match for someone as bright and strange as me, but books were going to make it survivable.

Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.

It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.

I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.