Reading
Quotes - In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own
“The
reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past
centuries.”
―
René Descartes
“A
truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in
old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by
moonlight.”
―
Robertson Davies
“Ah,
how good it is to be among people who are reading.”
―
Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
“Libraries
will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through
times of no libraries.”
―
Anne Herbert
“When
the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to
receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms
and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them.
They have loved reading.”
―
Virginia Woolf
“In
books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.”
―
Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
“No
entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”
―
Mary Wortley Montagu
“Reading,
after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any
man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits
of thinking.”
―
Albert Einstein
“There's
nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the
words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book
you've read only once can't.”
―
Gail Carson Levine, Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly
“Reading
is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
―
Joseph Addison
“No
man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.”
―
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Most
of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for
us.”
―
Alain de Botton
“Writing
and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand
our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads
with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh
about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at
dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead
of being squashed by it over and over again. It's like singing on a boat during
a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can
change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.”
―
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
“Reading
is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.”
―
Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
“All
morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through
the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new
book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You
leave the previous book with ideas and themes -- characters even -- caught in
the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with
you.”
―
Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
“It
wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in
school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life
without being like everybody else.”
―
John Waters
“Read
not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find
talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted,
others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some
books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and
some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.”
―
Francis Bacon, The Essays
“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, The Power of Myth
“A
library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you
may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you
feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question
answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are
people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of
a book."
[Letters
of Note; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]”
―
E.B. White
“Don't
join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing
evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read
every book...”
―
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“When
we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. In
learning to write, the pupil goes over with his pen what the teacher has
outlined in pencil: so in reading; the greater part of the work of thought is
already done for us. This is why it relieves us to take up a book after being
occupied with our own thoughts. And in reading, the mind is, in fact, only the
playground of another’s thoughts. So it comes about that if anyone spends
almost the whole day in reading, and by way of relaxation devotes the intervals
to some thoughtless pastime, he gradually loses the capacity for thinking; just
as the man who always rides, at last forgets how to walk. This is the case with
many learned persons: they have read themselves stupid.”
―
arthur schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
