7,712 Quotes About Books

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.

Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.

I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn’t have to write at all anymore if I didn’t want to. It was the end of some sort of career. I don’t know why, exactly. I suppose that flowers, when they’re through blooming, have some sort of awareness of some purpose having been served. Flowers didn’t ask to be flowers and I didn’t ask to be me. At the end of Slaughterhouse-Five…I had a shutting-off feeling…that I had done what I was supposed to do and everything was OK .

[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

لو سُئلت :ماالذي تتمنى أن تشربه دون أن تفيق ؟، لقلت : عصير الكتب ، خلاصة الفكر ، مسحوق الفلسفة

Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.

If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it.

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.