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“Knowledge gives you the world, intelligence gives you the sky, understanding gives you the stars, but wisdom gives you the universe.”

“What's the worth of sadness in front of happiness? Like a leaf that's blown away by the wind. What's the worth of despair in front of hope? Like a dirty stone that's thrown in a clean pond. What's the worth of chaos in front of peace? Like a flying kite that's string has been cut down. What's the worth of disunion in front of the union? Like a fish that's breathing but not in water.”

“Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!”

“My sickness is a lot worse than you think: it has far deeper roots. And that's why I want you to go on ahead of me if you can. Don't wait for me. Sleep with other girls if you want to. Don't let thoughts of me hold you back. Just do what you want to do. Otherwise, I might end up taking you with me, and that is the one thing I don't want to do. I don't want to interfere with your life. I don't want to interfere with anybody's life. Like I said before, I want you to come to see me every once in a while, and always remember me. That's all I want.”

“I sat at my table, had my brown toast with olive oil, and opened Camus’s The First Man. I had read it some time ago but was so completely immersed that I retained nothing. This has been an intermittent, lifelong enigma. Through early adolescence I sat and read for hours in a small grove of weed trees near the railroad track in Germantown. Like Gumby I would enter a book wholeheartedly and sometimes venture so deeply it was as if I were living within it. I finished many books in such a manner there, closing the covers ecstatically yet having no memory of the content by the time I returned home. This disturbed me but I kept this strange affliction to myself. I look at the covers of such books and their contents remain a mystery that I cannot bring myself to solve. Certain books I loved and lived within yet cannot remember.”

“Que necessidade tem o corpo em começar a apodrecer, em todos os instantes ensaia sua falência. Ainda que nos sirva, é tão facilmente contra nós. Um inimigo que domesticamos pela metade. O corpo é um suicida. Por mais motivada a alma, por mais encantemos, ele progride para desistir. Matar-se. Certamente por inveja, escorraça a alma tão depressa. Tão resoluto, Que custa crer tanto tempo nos tivemos. Tanto tempo nos pertencemos.”

“Amamos mais o que vemos em perigo. Somos feitos para aumentar de coração perante a família que sofre. Por vezes, nem tripas levamos dentro, nem estômago ou rins. Somos tão ocupados por amar alguém que nenhuma função desempenhamos senão a de amar, e todo nosso interior é o coração dilatado, esforçado como um touro jovem que se disfarça em nosso aspecto mais frágil.”

“Someday, you will leave this town and venture into unfamiliar territories. If your heart yearns for exploration, your soul carries a message for you. Perhaps there’s something awaiting you in the place you desire to go, even if you’re uncertain of its exact location at present. The crucial thing is to trust your heart’s calling and embark on the journey when it signals that the time is right. Embrace the undeniable power of destiny without hesitation.”

“The answer to why the equation of 1 + 1 + 1 = 0 was that Raylan didn’t want the real me. He only thought he did, and therefore the solution to the problem ended up being a simple subtraction equation. And now Raylan wants me to marry him? Holy Saints, what was he thinking? After all, I knew I certainly wasn’t marriage- able material. And deep down he had to know that too if he decided to sleep with someone else.”

“Taking the wrong fork, I veered onto a curious road where the ground grew increasingly higher, and although my heart warned me to turn back, I didn't, for the curiosities of the mind are much stronger than imagined. During the course of my journey, I noticed trees becoming unwieldy, taking shapes my eyes had not seen. What was this peculiarity that battered my mind with such wonderment? There were no signs, nor directories, not even a guide, but my curiosities did not wind, for too eager was I to turn. So, like a child lost to the night, I walked this lonesome patch of gray until coming across a curve where the forest belt spread like wildfire, and the wild weeds and grasses produced a certain beauty not found in other parts.”