501 Quotes by Book

I am simply a ‘book drunkard.’ Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.

If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

The gospel we preach must not be just something we hear from men or read from books or even conceived through our meditation. Unless it is delivered to us by God, it can serve no spiritual utility.

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

My books are friends that never fail me.

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.

Whether I’m at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I’m looking forward to reading.

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!

Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you’ll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.