Books Quotes

“There's a difference between preferring ...

“There's a difference between preferring books to parties and preferring sixteen cats to seeing the light of day.” - Lauren Morrill
📅︎ Mar 03
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The graveyard is the richest place on earth because here is where you will find all the hopes/dre...

The graveyard is the richest place on earth because here is where you will find all the hopes/dreams that were never fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were never sung, inventions that were never shared, cures that were never discovered, all because someone was afraid to.
📅︎ Mar 07
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“I cannot remember the books I’ve read a...

“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
📅︎ Jan 12
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"It is a good thing for an u...

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations" -- Winston Churchill
📅︎ Mar 12
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“I get... incredibly lonely. Shows, games, books, they help, ...

“I get... incredibly lonely. Shows, games, books, they help, yes, but it’s not really the same. They help comfort me in the abyss, but they do not reach out their hands to pull me out.” C.A.
📅︎ Jan 05
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“The books that the world calls...

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” ― Oscar Wilde
📅︎ Jan 21
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“So many book...

“So many books, so little time.” ― Frank Zappa
📅︎ Feb 20
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"Even bad books are boo...

"Even bad books are books and therefore sacred." - Günter Grass, the Tin Drum
📅︎ Feb 14
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"A mind needs books l...

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." - Tyrion Lannister
📅︎ Feb 03
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"What we become depends on what we read after all of ...

"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." — Thomas Carlyle
📅︎ Feb 02
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“A room without books i...

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
📅︎ Jan 02
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"The buying of more books than one ca...

"The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity." --A. Edward Newton
📅︎ Jan 20
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“Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right book...

“Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.” ― Joseph Campbell
📅︎ Jan 15
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"History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser...

"History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books - books which glorify their own causes and disparage the conquered foe." - Dan Brown, The da Vinci code
📅︎ Oct 06
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“Books serve to show a man that th...

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new, after all.” -- Abraham Lincoln
📅︎ Dec 25
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"When I get a little money I...

"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes" - Erasmus
📅︎ Dec 16
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"Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of...

"Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes." - Jorge Luis Borges
📅︎ Dec 30
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If you go home with somebo...

If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em! - John Waters
📅︎ Oct 26
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“If you haven’t read hundreds of books, you are functionally illite...

“If you haven’t read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren’t broad enough to sustain you.” - Jim Mattis, “Call Sign Chaos”
📅︎ Sep 19
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