Quotes on “reading”

When you are old and grey and full of sleep And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.

He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!

In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.(Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)

You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.