Top 500 Book Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Without story books is like a person with no soul.”

— Stephen King

302. “Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they’re not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.”

— Nick Hornby

303. “Books are the curse of the human race.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

304. “The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth’s dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

305. “I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams.”

— Erin Morgenstern

306. “Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another.”

— Marianne Williamson

307. “You really ought to read more books – you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

308. “If you’re looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else?”

— George Carlin

309. “The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity.”

— Immanuel Kant

310. “Life doesn’t come with an instruction book; that’s why we have fathers.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

311. “There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.”

— Henry Ford

312. “The Library is a wilderness of books.”

— Henry David Thoreau

313. “We cannot give our children what we don’t have. Where we are on our journey of living and loving with our whole hearts is a much stronger indicator of parenting success than anything we can learn from how-to books.”

— Brené Brown

314. “A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.”

— Henry Miller

315. “To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”

— Victor Hugo

316. “To get to where you want to be in the next 5 years, you are either reading the right books or you’re not.”

— Jim Rohn

317. “Our minds are shaped by the books we read. Our characters, by the people we meet. Our spirits by the love we give.”

— Robin S. Sharma

318. “The millionaire says to a thousand people, ‘I read this book and it started me on the road to wealth.’ Guess how many go out and get the book? Very few. Isn’t that incredible? Why wouldn’t everyone get the book?!”

— Jim Rohn

319. “There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.”

— Francis Bacon

320. “Books ain’t no good. A guy needs somebody – to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody.”

— John Steinbeck

321. “Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.”

— Charles Dickens

322. “And books which told me everything about the wasp, except why.”

— Dylan Thomas

323. “In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

324. “I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won’t read them soon. At least they are mine now.”

— Anaïs Nin

325. “I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.”

— James Joyce

326. “Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.”

— Louisa May Alcott

327. “Strive to preserve your health; and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for their drugs are a kind of alchemy concerning which there are no fewer books than there are medicines.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

328. “Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul – what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?”

— Salman Rushdie

329. “Cut word lines – Cut music lines – Smash the control images – Smash the control machine – Burn the books – Kill the priests – Kill! Kill! Kill!”

— William S. Burroughs

330. “My first popular book, ‘A Brief History of Time,’ aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.”

— Stephen Hawking

331. “The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.”

— Napoleon

332. “Most critics don’t realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals to close friends; and so, with some pre-ordained right to pontificate they take on the responsibility of decoding the book and risk making terrible fools of themselves.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

333. “Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.”

— Rumi

334. “Next to the Bible, the book I value most is John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. I believe I have read it through at least a hundred times. It is a volume of which I never seem to tire; and the secret of its freshness is that it is so largely compiled from the Scriptures.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

335. “To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two readers can ever inhabit the same world.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

336. “Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success.”

— Brian Tracy

337. “Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you.”

— Robin S. Sharma

338. “A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”

— Carl Sagan

339. “A girl in the convertible is worth five in the phone book.”

— Mae West

340. “Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.”

— Isabel Allende

341. “The society in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.”

— Margaret Atwood

342. “My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral.”

— Ulysses S. Grant

343. “The book of Genesis tells us that God created man and woman entrusting them with the task of filling the earth and subduing it, which does not mean exploiting it, but nurturing and protecting it, caring for it through their work.”

— Pope Francis

344. “I’m not a social person. Not that I’m not at ease. I’m pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It’s not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that’s all.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

345. “The Book of Mormon is chloroform in print.”

— Mark Twain

346. “That’s how it is with books, isn’t it: They’re not in a hurry. They’ll wait for you till you’re ready. People empty me. I have to go away to refill.”

— Charles Bukowski

347. “In other words, the percentage change in book value in any given year is likely to be reasonably close to that year’s change in intrinsic value.”

— Warren Buffett

348. “Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?”

— C.G. Jung

349. “The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.”

— Oscar Wilde

350. “Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.”

— George Washington Carver