“Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.” SaidBookDiesReadingBornForeverInfluenceReading BooksDominionBooks And ReadingBorn To Die Author:William Styron
“When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: "I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I didn't like." I am so proud of that I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved. And when you come to my grave you will find me sitting there, proudly reading it.” MenI CanDiesReadingWaitingProudMetsSittingGravesMy TimeFind MeProminentEpitaphGravestone Author:Will Rogers
“I remember reading about the astounding number of people in this country who die within three years of retiring, which proves to me that if you lose the sense that you are producing or contributing in some way, you literally lose the will to live, and that if you do have a reason to hang on, you will.” PeopleIfsWayYearsCountryReasonMotivationalRememberDiesThreeReadingLosesNumbersProveRetiringThree YearsContributingWill To LiveProve To Me Book:Awaken The Giant Within Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“The plain fact is religion must die for mankind to live. The hour is getting very late to be able to indulge in having key deciscions made by religious people. By irrationalists. By those who would steer the ship of state, not by a compass, but by the equivalent of reading the entrails of a chicken.” PeopleMadeStatesFactsAbleDiesReadingHoursReligiousMankindKeysLateShipsChickensCompassIndulgeSteersIndulge In Author:Bill Maher
“Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what's being written in my genre, let's not lie. But that's not the reason I read. I read for my own emotional and mental health. If I stopped reading, I'd probably just die.” IfsImportantReasonLyingDiesReadingMy OwnWrittenEmotionalMental HealthGenre Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“Laws die, books never.” BookLawDiesReadingBooks And Reading Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known something of what has been passing in their times.” LooksHas BeensBodyDiesReadingBeliefKnownCitizensFellowsNewspapersPassingPassingsMedia ManipulationReading Newspapers Book:The portable Thomas Jefferson Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson
“The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.” MenYoungDiesReadingLiteratureCenturyWillingIndependenceYoung ManTensionRelaxedNineteenth CenturyManchesterPolandPuritanVoluptuousWilling To Die Book:The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews Source: The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews