Quotes on “books”

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

It's a strange grief… to die of nostalgia for something you you will never live.

I could recognise his soul in mine as much as he could find me in his. Our sole existences seemed to have been for this very moment when nothing else mattered.

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,Are a substantial world, both pure and good:Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

A good book should leave you....slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.

Me, poor man, my libraryWas dukedom large enough.

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. I would not change it.

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!

We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.[Inside Out (VH1)]