Browse 4343 quotes about Books.
“Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read.”
“Anything worth having is worth working for and waiting for.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“One day I realized just how much I despised being with me. I didn’t want to feel like that anymore. I thought, “shit, I'm going to be this me forever. I have to learn to like myself”.”
Source: How To Wear A Crown: A Practical Guide To Knowing Your Worth
“Books and workshops and gurus are great, but the very best teacher for your mind is, and will always be, your heart.”
“Every now and then, he pulled the books out and touched the bookmarks but hadn't yet found the strength to pick up where they left off, to read the rest of the story.”
Source: How the Light Gets In
“Les livres sont des fantômes. Les lettres ne valent guère mieux, qui se construisent à même l'absence de ceux qu'on aime. Même les plus belles, les plus tendres, les plus émouvantes ne cessent de chuchoter : je ne suis pas là.”
Source: Les ombres blanches
“These are the books that brought me closer to myself, that shaped me and my world -- I hope they'll bring you light and joy and, if you ever miss me, you'll find me within their pages.”
Source: The Reading List
“As much fun as you can have online, always value a real friendship over something virtual. Do yourself a favor and phone, text, or message someone you haven’t seen in six months and ask if they are available for coffee or something. Challenge yourself to do this every month. Turn it into a habit and do it for the rest
of your life.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“Be content with your choices. The human heart has no room for regret. But also, don’t be afraid to not give up on love. Society tells us that it is okay to throw love away too easily. I think this makes for too many unhealthy old people.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“Nobody should live life without knowing someone they would give theirs for.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“Don’t be one of those people who say they don’t need someone to love. Seek love out! It should be the most important goal in your life aside from your relationship with a higher power, if you believe in one.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“Love is not easy, but it is worth it.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“Depression is significantly more serious, and everyone should be taught to recognize warning signs in school so that we are better prepared as a society, to help those who need us in the future.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“May we find a way to give fresh starts to those who need them before we lose our opportunity, and our chance to be the best of what makes us human.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“Live your life without thinking you have to change who you are to please someone else… and find someone who
will put up with your faults because you make it worth the effort for them.
Don’t forget to make it worth the effort.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“There is no such thing as quality time without quantity time. The idea that you could spend one hour a night with your children and have the same effect on them as a stay at home parent spending 12‐16 hours a day with them is pure nonsense.
The same logic works for your marriage.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“Suicide is a dark and horrible thought that has hit very close to my life, but if we don’t talk about it, we learn nothing; and if we learn nothing, then the greatest loss in suicide is to the living.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“As hard as it is to say, the only lesson I have is to avoid long distance romance if possible. Find a better job at home or move your family. Long distance love can work but the effort is immense, as is the risk.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“Use empathy and compassion accordingly. People dealing with loss of a loved one may need your support. Probably not me, but most other people. I say probably because I cannot imagine losing my wife or any of my kids. I might need your support after all.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“How we overcome our fears helps us to learn and grow so we can better handle future fears. These lessons reinforce the idea that fear can be a positive quality.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“Know your flaws and respect the people who put up with them… especially when thinking of their flaws. Invest time thinking of how your strengths can help you overcome the flaws in others before they bring out flaws in your personality.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“If you keep finding yourself in a deeper hole, no matter what you try to do to improve your life, you need to do two things. First, stop digging. Clearly the same level of thinking that put you in the hole cannot help you escape. Secondly, seek out help from a friend who has what you want, a mentor with a vested interest in your future, or a professional who understands what you are going through.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“You don’t need me or some actor, musician, or anyone else to convince you. It starts with you choosing to believe that you can do anything you want… even write a haiku.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“He brought up her old scars again, and now he couldn’t leave them on the shelf like books to gather dust.”
Source: The Name of Red
“Porque hay trenes que solo pasan una vez.
Que ya no vuelven.
Y te subes sin dudar, aunque sepas que van a estrellarse.
Porque es más fácil seguir viviendo con la certeza de lo que no fue que con la incertidumbre de lo que podría haber sido.
Es así.”
Source: Cuando no queden más estrellas que contar
“A quote is just ink until the moment makes it matter. It’s not the words that change—it’s where you are when they find you.”
“Books can break a man open,
even ones about a panda, maybe especially so.”
Source: Ab morgen ein Leben lang
“I am clumsy, drop glasses and get drunk on Monday afternoons. I read Seneca and can recite Shakespeare by heart, but I mess up the laundry, don’t answer my phone and blame the world when something goes wrong. I think I have a dream, but most of the days I’m still sleeping. The grass is cut. It smells like strawberries. Today I finished four books and cleaned my drawers.
Do you believe in a God? Can I tell you about Icarus? How he flew too close to the sun?
I want to make coming home your favourite part of the day. I want to leave tiny little words lingering in your mind, on nights when you’re far away and can’t sleep. I want to make everything around us beautiful; make small things mean a little more. Make you feel a little more. A little better, a little lighter. The coffee is warm, this cup is yours. I want to be someone you can’t live without.
I want to be someone you can’t live without.”
Source: He loved me some days. I'm sure he did: 99 essays on growth through loss
“I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old bindings, and stars in margins next to beautiful passages. I love exuberant underlinings that recall to me a swoon of language-love from a long-ago reading, something I hoped to remember. I love book plates, and inscriptions in gifts from loved ones, I love author signatures, and I love books sitting around reminding me of them, being present in my life, being. I love books. Not just for what they contain. I love them as objects too, as ever-present reminders of what they contain, and because they are beautiful. They are one of my favorite things in life, really at the tiptop of the list, easily my favorite inanimate things in existence, and ... I am just not cottoning on to this idea of making them ... not exist anymore. Making them cease to take up space in the world, in my life? No, please do not take away the physical reality of my books.”
“What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at once.”
Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE
“Oh yes! I have couple-goals too. I love to couple myself with- Books, Coffee and Mountains.”
“…more than a half million books, all of them smelling like dust and ink, two terrible smells that blend mystically to make something beautiful. Powells is another church to me, a paperback sort of heaven.”
Source: Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
“Just as some books are so beautiful and intriguing that you never want to put them down, forever eager of what lies beyond the scope of a single page, so you never cease to intrigue me, leaving me in constant yearning of all that resides within you.”
“Some books are so beautiful and intriguing that you never want to put them down, forever leaving you in anticipation to read the next page.
Some people are the same way.”
“Love is beautiful even if they are in movies and books.”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.”
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
“I'm sorry,' she said to each of the dead as she unzipped and unfastened their things, 'I'm sorry Courtney. I'm sorry Marcus. I'm sorry Rachel. I'm sorry Jon. I'm sorry I'm alive and you're dead. I'm sorry I was asleep. I'm sorry I didn't save you and now I'm taking your things. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.”
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
“Behind Tana there was the sounds of splintering wood, as though something very large had hot the door. "No," she said softly, "Oh no. No."
"Leave me," said Gavriel.
....."Shut up or I might," she told him.”
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
“Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.”
“In the dream, Tana's mother loved her more than anyone or anything. More than death.”
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
“please,Tana,please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
“Anyone who can see will see you beautiful.”
“I'm going to take off your gag. And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?”
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
“Be careful," Aidan called from the bed. "You don't know what he might do."
"We all know what you'd do, though, don't we?”
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
“Are you sure?" Aidan asked, "Gavriel's still a vampire."
"He warned me about you and about them. He didn't have to. I'm not going to repay that by-" she hesitated, then frowned. "What did you call him?"
"That's his name," Aidan sighed, "Gavriel. The other vampires, while they were tying me to the bed, they said his name."
"Oh." With a final tug she pulled the blanked free and tossed it over to 'Gavriel”
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
“Tana would sit near the door to the basement with fingers in her ears, tears and snot running down her face as she cried and cried and cried. And little Pearl would toddle up, crying, too. They cried while they ate their cereal, cried while they watched cartoons, and cried themselves to sleep at night, huddled together in Tana's little bed. 'Make her stop' Pearl said, but Tana couldn't.”
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
“His voice had a faint trace of an accent she couldn't place - one that made her pretty sure he was no local kid infected the night before.”
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
“In the beginning - not now, thank God - Patty was always sharing the important books of her life with him, like Black Elk Speaks, The Golden Bough, and Hero with a Thousand Faces.”
Source: Clockers
“I kiss her. I kiss her and kiss her. I try not to bite her lip. She tastes like vodkahoney.”
Source: Dora: A Headcase
“It was just a quick touch of his lips and it left her breathless, as always. In that moment his kiss infuriated her. This was only supposed to happen in the movies! It was a feeling designed by books! She wasn’t supposed to feel her lungs seize and butterflies were not supposed to run rampant in her stomach, just because a man pressed his lips to her lips”
Source: The Cherry On Top