Life Books Quotes

Life Books Quote of the day

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Books are a staircase to unknown worlds.

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.

the depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility.

Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do.

the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.

Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.

I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after.

Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.

Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without a consciousness to tickle them into life, those books were dead.

People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.

I realise people exist who don't read. But it's like I knew there were people who didn't breathe or eat: I can't imagine a life like that.

We are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding.

Oh let me live my own! and die so too! ("To live and die is all I have to do:") Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please.

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.

All good things are powerful stimulants to life, even a good book written against life.

Books are the way to stretch out people's souls, and I won't have children with small souls.

I'd always had a guilty preference for fiction. Since I seemed now to be living fiction, this proved to have been an entirely reasonable choice.

And what new life can emerge from a book. Any book, maybe.

This book is a story, and like all stories, it should be taken with a grain of salt.

Hate will cause you to "catch a case". Release yourself from your own personal jail before you are put in the real one for life! It ain't worth it!!

And books, she knew by then, were one of the necessities, the rocks of her life.

I get into beatific cornucopia when I delve into books, coffee, and wanderings!

Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page any more than they begin on the first page

Don't judge a book by its movie.

Once he heard that books are always better than movies, but he now knew that movies are better than the real life.

..no matter how much one reads, the whole story can never be told.

ah, life—the thingthat happensto uswhile we’re offsomewhere elseblowing ondandelions& wishingourselves intothe pages ofour favoritefairy tales.

How my life has been brought to undiscovered lands, and how much richer it gets - all from words printed on a page.... How a book can have 560 pages, but in only three pages change the reader's life.

I do not read for I have renounced life, I read because one life is just not enough for me.

Were all mad here

Everything shall pass way, only books will remain.

Books fashion nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.

I can't sleep, I can't but when all else fails I just breath...

A good reader should always have two books with him: one to read, the other one to lend.

Everything is in you, Sad, Joy, Mercy... Those you think of, you feel... when you feel, you act... So be wise in thinking....