Quotes and sayings about tag  books

444 Quotes

With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.

Haruki Murakami

There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.

Haruki Murakami

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.

Heinrich Heine

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Helen Keller

I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.

Helene Hanff

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Henry David Thoreau

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Henry David Thoreau

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

Henry James

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

Henry Miller

I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul.

Henry Miller

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Hilary Mantel

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

Holbrook Jackson

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