4,370 Quotes About Literature

What would be the description of happines? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it, can be told.

The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men

Seek to know the history of the sacred souls.

You have never asked for anything, yet you have become an albatross around my neck. Your bony arms are knotted behind my head, I walk bowed under the weight of you.

I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946. We were both war heroes, and both of us had just been elected to Congress.

The worth of a book is infinite.

They sat a few meters apart, speaking very rarely, and there was really only the noise of turning pages (…) Where Hans Hubermann and Erik Vandenburg were ultimately united by music, Max and Liesel were held together by the quiet gathering of words."Hi, Max.""Hi, Liesel."They would sit and read.

The child who gets lost in a book can emerge from the experience a changeling.

The love for literature is the key to knowledge.