554 Quotes About Reading-books

Reading is like riding through a tunnel and coming out with a new landscape...

You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage and you cannot let go or turn the course aside.

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.

One thing I will surely miss is that I couldn't read all the good books in this lifetime.

For my success I am immensely grateful to God, my parents, my family, my friends, my teachers and to the books I read.

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

– Io non potrò mai darti quel genere di sensazioni, mi dispiace.– Ed io non le voglio … perché ho capito che è facile innamorarsi di un mito. Chi non s’innamorerebbe di un attore bello e famoso? Chi rifiuterebbe un’attrice bella e famosa? Chi non resterebbe senza parole se qualcuno che ha carisma, ed è amato da tutti, decidesse di dargli attenzione?– Chi sa amarsi per quello che è e non per quello che vorrebbe essere.

Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are stopped, the moment is stayed, you can sometimes be there more fully than you can in your real life.