Top 500 Book Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.”

— Stephen King

102. “I know why the caged bird sings.”

— Maya Angelou

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

— Louisa May Alcott

104. “Literature is my Utopia.”

— Helen Keller

105. “I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.”

— Robert Frost

106. “You and I are not Muslim, because we are born in a Muslim family. You and I are not Muslim, because you read a book about Islam, or saw a Youtube video and decided to become Muslim. We are Muslim, because Allah chose us. Allah chose us.”

— Nouman Ali Khan

107. “Re examine all you have been told in school and in church Or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul and your very flesh shall be a great poem.”

— Walt Whitman

108. “A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.”

— Immanuel Kant

109. “It sounds so geeky, but I really do like studying and reading, and if I’m not working on ‘Harry Potter,’ then my greatest relaxation is to sit with a book.”

— Emma Watson

110. “This is the first teaching of the Knights: You will erase everything you had written in the book of your life up until now: restlessness, uncertainty, lies. And in the place of all this you will write the word courage.”

— Paulo Coelho

111. “You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.”

— J.D. Salinger

112. “Books are the best type of the influence of the past.”

— William Wordsworth

113. “He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.”

— Abraham Lincoln

114. “You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.”

— Dr. Seuss

115. “People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.”

— Stephen King

116. “I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.”

— Harper Lee

117. “Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.”

— Oscar Wilde

118. “Books are sepulchres of thought.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

119. “You write a book and it’s like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don’t know if it will ever reach any shores. And there, you see, sometimes it falls in the hands of the right person.”

— Isabel Allende

120. “I’m not an atheist. I don’t think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books.”

— Albert Einstein

121. “To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

122. “There’s more to life than books, you know. But not much more.”

— Steven Morrissey

123. “Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don’t know how to read.”

— Brandon Sanderson

124. “When the record book on you is finished, let it show your wins and losses. But don’t let it show you didn’t try.”

— Jim Rohn

125. “What an astonishing thing a book is.”

— Carl Sagan

126. “There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.”

— Marcel Proust

127. “A book is a loaded gun.”

— Ray Bradbury

128. “You could be writing the book that changes your life.”

— Brandon Sanderson

129. “Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.”

— William Faulkner

130. “I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was magic.”

— Charles Bukowski

131. “Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.”

— Neil Gaiman

132. “I don’t want people to think that they can attain realization simply by listening to others or by reading books. They must practice what they read and hear.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

133. “Every reader finds himself. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.”

— Marcel Proust

134. “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.”

— J.D. Salinger

135. “The proper study of mankind is books.”

— Aldous Huxley

136. “The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of Job because all life is a riddle.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

137. “The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

138. “Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.”

— Lewis Carroll

139. “We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.”

— Oswald Chambers

140. “When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that’s all there was.”

— Oprah Winfrey

141. “I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

142. “I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”

— Orhan Pamuk

143. “I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

144. “Books showed me there were possibilities in life, that there were actually people like me living in a world I could not only aspire to but attain. Reading gave me hope. For me, it was the open door.”

— Oprah Winfrey

145. “Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children’s hands early and often.”

— Barack Obama

146. “We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

147. “So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.”

— Roald Dahl

148. “Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do.”

— Marilyn Manson

149. “We never tire of the friendships we form with books.”

— Charles Dickens

150. “I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.”

— Hermann Hesse