In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal. — Nisami
Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. — Walter Pater
A multitude of books distracts the mind. — Socrates
This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead — Annie Lennox
Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. — Virginia Woolf
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. — Indian Proverbs
Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again. — Marsilio Ficino
A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism. — Herman Melville
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know. — John Keats
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it. — Edward P. Morgan
Bookshops are infested with ideas. Books are quivering, murmuring creatures. — Rodrigo Rey Rosa
The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things. — Hannah More
Despite my solitary life, I have found infinite joy in books and writing, and am by far too much interested in the affairs of the world to quit the scene before Nature shall claim me. — H. P. Lovecraft
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If you are open-minded and ready to learn, there are many things which you can learn not only from books and instructors but from the very life experience itself. — Haile Selassie
There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realize there is so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.
The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians! “You are the light of the world.” — Charles Spurgeon
Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything. — David Bowie
The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature. — Antonio Gaudi
Each time you read a book, a tree smiles knowing there's life after death.
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. — Edmond de Goncourt
I like writing books. I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a glass of tea, give my wife a kiss, and go back in and write some more. It's not so bad. I am really lucky. — Gene Wilder
Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple — Gene Wilder
A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides. — Immanuel Kant
My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could go to a building and take a book on any subject. They couldn't believe this access to knowledge we have here in America. They couldn't believe that it was free. — Kirk Douglas
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life is a book, and every day that we live is a new page, so paint every page of your life with amazing colors of good deeds and amazing adventures. — Prince Ali Salman Aga Khan Aly Khan
Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book. — J. Michael Straczynski
The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.
People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of. — Paulo Coelho
Everyone needs some time to unwind. There are even coloring book clubs popping up in every state now, so it's not such an isolating experience. People are getting together specifically to color. It's amazing. — Alan Robert
Everyone praises Sachin Tendulkar. He may be a genius in his own right but in my book, Rahul Dravid is the artist. Dravid's defence tactics, his strokes, his cuts, his grace are truly amazing. I'd like to meet the chap sometime and take my hat off to him. — Peter O'Toole
They say there is no 'free lunch' in life. But there are free books! I still can't believe I can go to my local library and get just abut any book in the world - and I don't have to pay a dime!! It's amazing! The library is truly the greatest invention of our civilization. — Dan Gutman
Banned Books Quotes
The Koran is a fascist book which incites violence. That is why this book, just like [Adolf Hitler's] Mein Kampf, must be banned. — Geert Wilders
God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. — Rebecca West
You dont have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. — Mark Twain
You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings. — Cornelia Funke
I don't want to be shut out from the truth. If they ban books, they might as well lock us away from the world. — Rory Edwards
I went away in my head, into a book.
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. — George Bernard Shaw
I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good. — Kathryn Stockett
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. — Potter Stewart
There is more than one way to burn a book. — Ray Bradbury
Big Book Quotes
Short-term thinkers are a dime a dozen. Long-term thinkers are extremely rare. History books favor the long-term thinkers. Don't let short-term attention distract you from your long-term vision becoming a reality. Chase the big. — Patrick Bet-David
I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books. — Matthew Vaughn
I'm not a big guy and hopefully kids could look at me and see that I'm not muscular and not physically imposing, that I'm just a regular guy. So if somebody with a regular body can get into the record books, kids can look at that. That would make me happy. — Ichiro Suzuki
WIth freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy.
Invest in startups. Start a company. Create a book, podcast, video. Create a software product. go on many first dates. go to a cocktail party. read a lindy book. move to a big city. buy bitcoin. tweet. — Naval Ravikant
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo. — A. A. Milne
I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book. — Robert Redford
A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.
Because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs. So people pretend there is drama where there is none. — Kurt Vonnegut
I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess. — Magnus Carlsen
God has the Big Book, the beautiful proofs of mathematical theorems are listed here. — Paul Erdos
The Big L was cold crazy, A top-notch crook snatchin pocket books from old ladies — Big L
The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people! — Fernando Pessoa
Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are. — Fernando Pessoa
My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony. — Fernando Pessoa
We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love. — Fernando Pessoa
Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. — Fernando Pessoa
I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world. — Fernando Pessoa
I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided. — Fernando Pessoa
I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything. — Fernando Pessoa
I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me. — Fernando Pessoa
I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect — Fernando Pessoa
We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect. — Fernando Pessoa
Being tired of all illusions and of everything about illusions – the loss of illusions, the uselessness of having them, the prefatigue of having to have them in order to lose them, the sadness of having had them, the intellectual shame of having had them knowing that they would have to end this way. — Fernando Pessoa
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful. — Fernando Pessoa
Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. — Fernando Pessoa
Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it's all evaporating. I continuously feel that I was someone else, that I felt something else, that I thought something else. What I'm attending here is a show with another set. And the show I'm attending is myself. — Fernando Pessoa
I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist. — Fernando Pessoa
We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky. — Fernando Pessoa
I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up. — Fernando Pessoa
I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else. — Fernando Pessoa
I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am. — Fernando Pessoa
If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant. — Fernando Pessoa
My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while. — Fernando Pessoa
To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet. — Fernando Pessoa
The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart. — Fernando Pessoa
I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything. — Fernando Pessoa
I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life. — Fernando Pessoa
...the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones; the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad. — Fernando Pessoa
And, like the great damned souls, I shall always feel that thinking is worth more than living. — Fernando Pessoa
Friends: not one. Just a few acquaintances who imagine they feel something for me and who might be sorry if a train ran over me and the funeral was on a rainy day. — Fernando Pessoa
There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. — Fernando Pessoa
Art consists in making others feel what we feel. — Fernando Pessoa
I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night: it's a disquieting experience for a child. And what I would do was quickly unpack my books and go back to a book I knew well and make sure the same text and the same illustrations were there. — Alberto Manguel
And I have the others in me. Even when I’m far away from them, I am forced to live with them. Even when I’m all alone, crowds surround me. I have no place to flee to, unless I were to flee from myself. — Fernando Pessoa
Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one. — Fernando Pessoa
To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think. — Fernando Pessoa
Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me! — Fernando Pessoa
Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial. — Fernando Pessoa
I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost. — Fernando Pessoa
But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living? — Fernando Pessoa
The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life. — Fernando Pessoa
Should I be what I think? But I think about being so many things! — Fernando Pessoa
If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine. — Fernando Pessoa
Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness and the scientific method, on the other hand, create a culture of testing and inquiry that can't help but push you forward. — Seth Godin
Tomorrow I too – this feeling and thinking soul, the universe I am to myself – yes, tomorrow I too will be someone who no longer walks these streets, someone others will evoke with a vague: 'I wonder what's become of him?” And everything I do, everything I feel, everything I experience, will be just one less passer-by on the daily streets of some city or other. — Fernando Pessoa
What has happened to us has happened to everyone or only to us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood. — Fernando Pessoa
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