50+ Book Quotes: Dive into the World of Literature & Reading Joy

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”

“What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”

“A childhood without books that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”

“The world was hers for the reading.”

“It doesn’t matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”

“Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gateAnd though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when IShall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.”

“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!”

“A wellcomposed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”

“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”

“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”

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

“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”

“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn’t ask ourselves what it says but what it means…”

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

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”

“Have you really read all those books in your room?”Alaska laughing “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read.”

“If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.”

“My library is an archive of longings.”

“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.”

“A good book is an event in my life.”

“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”

“A house without books is like a room without windows.”

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”

“Books are not more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”

“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”

“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.”

“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates’ loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.”

“Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you’ll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.”

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

“Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.”

“It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”

“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”

“A halfread book is a halffinished love affair.”

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

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”

“He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world.She was the book thief without the words.Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.”

“Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.”

“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”

“The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.”

“Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”

“Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.”

“Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.”

“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”

“Be awesome! Be a book nut!”

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.”

“If you have enough book space, I don’t want to talk to you.”

“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”

“The VoiceThere is a voice inside of youThat whispers all day long,I feel this is right for me,I know that this is wrong.”No teacher, preacher, parent, friendOr wise man can decideWhat’s right for youjust listen toThe voice that speaks inside.””

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