Top 500 Book Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “You are a volume in the divine book A mirror to the power that created the universe Whatever you want, ask it of yourself Whatever you’re looking for can only be found Inside of you.”

— Rumi

152. “I hate this world, this dream, this horrible nightmare, with its churches and chicaneries, its books and blackguardisms, its fair faces and false hearts, its howling righteousness on the surface and utter hollowness beneath and, above all, its sanctified shopkeeping!”

— Swami Vivekananda

153. “I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.”

— Virginia Woolf

154. “For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.”

— Benjamin Franklin

155. “I am a machine condemned to devour books.”

— Karl Marx

156. “I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.”

— Virginia Woolf

157. “True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.”

— Helen Keller

158. “Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.”

— Christopher Hitchens

159. “Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.”

— Neil Gaiman

160. “So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.”

— Victor Hugo

161. “Sit in a room and read – and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.”

— Joseph Campbell

162. “The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.”

— René Descartes

163. “I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It’s as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book.”

— Christopher Hitchens

164. “Today I will be a successful sales professional, and I will learn something today that will make me even more professional tomorrow.”

— Zig Ziglar

165. “Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.”

— Jane Austen

166. “The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.”

— Hermann Hesse

167. “The good of a book lies in its being read.”

— Umberto Eco

168. “Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67?”

— Haruki Murakami

169. “A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.”

— Jerry Seinfeld

170. “Once I’m done with a book, I’m done! I’m just not a sequel kind of girl. By the time I’ve finished a book I’ve read it so many times that it’s time to move on.”

— Sarah Dessen

171. “Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

172. “I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.”

— Angelina Jolie

173. “It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.”

— Vincent van Gogh

174. “One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

175. “No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.”

— Roald Dahl

176. “A woman drove me to drink and I didn’t even have the decency to thank her.”

— W. C. Fields

177. “I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and – if you’re not careful – those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book.”

— Brandon Sanderson

178. “I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful.”

— Neil Gaiman

179. “I hate knowing about illness. Whenever I read a medical book, I immediately start to get all the symptoms.”

— Paulo Coelho

180. “I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.”

— Roald Dahl

181. “Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There’s more of wisdom in it.”

— William Wordsworth

182. “The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or of earth’s gods.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

183. “The Bible is the book of my life. It’s the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.”

— N. T. Wright

184. “Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.”

— Stephen King

185. “The Bible is no ordinary book. The words are like medicine to your soul, and it has the power to change your life!”

— Joyce Meyer

186. “Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

187. “That’s a waste of time. If you really understand Zen. You can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could use Alice in Wonderland. You could use the dictionary, because... the sound of the rain needs no translation.”

— Alan Watts

188. “Rings try to find their way back to their owner. Someone ought to write a book about it.”

— Terry Pratchett

189. “In Deism our reason and our belief become happily united. The wonderful structure of the universe, and everything we behold in the system of the creation, prove to us, far better than books can do, the existence of a God, and at the same time proclaim His attributes.”

— Thomas Paine

190. “Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

191. “I’m scared. I’m excited. I’m ready for whatever happens but I think that fame is what comes along with the territory when you open yourself up and become this story, this book for anyone to read.”

— Katy Perry

192. “There weren’t any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn’t fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.”

— Haruki Murakami

193. “She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.”

— Zora Neale Hurston

194. “If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?”

— Franz Kafka

195. “The sages are often ignorant of physical science, because they read the wrong book-the book within; and the scientists are too often ignorant of religion, because they too read the wrong book-the book outside.”

— Swami Vivekananda

196. “The Compound Effect is a must-read book for success seekers. You want to know what it takes? You want to know what to do? It’s all in these pages. The Compound Effect is a clear and concise success operation manual!”

— John C. Maxwell

197. “It looked like the sort of book described in library catalogues as “slightly foxed”, although it would be more honest to admit that it looked as though it had beed badgered, wolved and possibly beared as well. – Ah, but has it been hedgehogged?”

— Terry Pratchett

198. “It’s not so much that nothing means anything but more that it keeps meaning nothing. there’s no release, just gurus and self- appointed gods and hucksters. the more people say, the less there is to say. even the best books are dry sawdust.”

— Charles Bukowski

199. “The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”

— Ray Bradbury

200. “I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex.”

— Stephen Hawking