825 Quotes About Library

In the library, time is dammed up-- not just stopped but saved. The library is a gathering pool of narratives and of the people who came to find them. It is where we can glimpse immortality; in the library, we can live forever.

I don't know why anyone has a living room when they could have a library instead.

There are two rooms used as libraries, for which my mother and grandfather keep two separate and opposing systems of organization in their heads—hers by subject, his by the way he feels about the author: Animosity, Betrayed, Curious, Delighted, etc.

...I, like Borges, think of heaven as something very like a library

Libraries hold more than books - they also contain salvation.

For anyone but the landed gentry to refer to a room in their house as "the library" might seem affected. But there really was no other word for it.

I had faith in the library long before he walked in and told me what I already knew: A library is a miracle. A place where you can learn just about anything, for free. A place where your mind can come alive.

A library is a place where you can find the stones and the diamonds together that you separate, and evaluate for the use of your purpose.

Fiction, nonfiction. Biography, memoir. Science, psychology. History. Everything had its place. That was the beauty of libraries. No surprise except when someone screwed up, or was lazy, or was a thief.