100+ Best Books Quotes

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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

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Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine.

Patrick Rothfuss

Entrei numa livraria. Pus-me a contar os livros que há para ler e os anos que terei de vida. Não chegam! Não duro nem para metade da livraria! Deve haver certamente outras maneiras de uma pessoa se salvar, senão… estou perdido.

José de Almada Negreiros

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Simon Van Booy

I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that.

Victoria Schwab

Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.

Markus Zusak

...writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill. If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels.

Robert Galbraith

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

Simone de Beauvoir

Stephenie Meyer: Her vampires are sparkly, which I think we can all agree is wrong.

Christopher Moore

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.

Patti Smith

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

Guy de Maupassant

Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.

John Green

Reading is probably another way of being in a place.

José Saramago

I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

Oliver Goldsmith

Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.

Paul Auster

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

Marcel Proust

Books to the ceiling,Books to the sky,My pile of books is a mile high.How I love them! How I need them!I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

Arnold Lobel

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

Franz Kafka

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Joseph Brodsky

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

Franz Kafka

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Michel de Montaigne

She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she was a librarian, after all.

Sarah Beth Durst

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

Franz Kafka

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.

Marcel Proust

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.

Christopher Morley

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Hermann Hesse

That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.

Jhumpa Lahiri

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

Emma Thompson

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

Jane Austen

There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.

Martin Luther

What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.

Neil Gaiman

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

John Green

Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?

Christopher Paolini

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.

E.M. Forster

We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

Franz Kafka

Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.

Neil Gaiman

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