Best Literary Affection And Anxiety Quotes
Literary Affection And Anxiety
Table of Contents
- Love and Affection for Books
- Books as Gifts and Treasures
- Books as Companions
- Books and Personal Connection
- Books and Intellectual Exploration
- Books and Emotional Impact
- Books as Connections to Authors
- Books and Their Limitations
- Books and Nostalgia
- Other
Love and Affection for Books
The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.
Books should not be loved selfishly. Neither books nor anything else, in fact.
It makes me sad that not every book is good,' I said. 'Not every book can be loved.''But when I pull a book off a shelf, and examine it, turning it this way and that, inspecting the cover, flipping through the pages and glancing at the words as they flash by, a thought here and a sentence there and I know that there is potential between those pages for love. Even if in my opinion the book is bad, someone else may find it good. Isn’t that like love?
To love a book is, above all, to love its author: we want to meet him again, we want to spend our days with him.
Will: I've never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You'd think they were diamonds.Tessa: Well, they are, aren't they? Isn't there anything you love like that?
If you love books enough, books will love you back.
What a blessing it is to love books.
What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.
A longing for books was nothing compared with what you could feel for human beings. The books told you about that feeling. The books spoke of love, and it was wonderful to listen to them, but they were not substitute for love itself.
The love I knew was from books..
Books connect us in a world where a lot of connections are broken nowadays. They can help us, heal us, break us and put our broken pieces back together again. They can make us believe in magic. In love. In anything.
The love of books was an instant connection, and a true boon for a girl who tended toward shyness, because it was a source of endless conversation.
Books as Gifts and Treasures
A book is a sacred gift.
There is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can read it. We can set it down. We can think of what we have read. It does something for us. We can share great minds, great actions, and great undertakings in the pages of a book.
Remember, a book is always a gift.
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!
A book is a gift you can open again and again.
A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.
Books are such great gifts, because they don’t just say what you think about the book, but about the person you’re giving them to.”MARK LEE
Books make great gifts because they can unveil hidden secrets.
If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life.
In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.
Books make great gifts because they're something you love that you can share.
If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.
We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.
Books as Companions
Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.
It is one of the strongest bonds, I think, that can spring up between people: sharing a passion for certain books and their authors.
Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask for anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly. Love, truth, beauty, wisdom and consolation against death. Who had said that? Someone else who loved books.
Of all the comforting objects in this world, few things are as reassuring and accepting as books.
Aren’t we blessed, we who love books?
Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.
Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.
Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive
Fishing books , lit by emotion recollected in tranquility, are like poetry. .. . We do not think of them as books but as men. They are our companions and not only riverside. Summer and winter they are with us and what a pleasant company they are.
The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love to know our own hearts and minds better.
Books are like blankets, the mere sight of them around the house provides warmth and comfort. They are like mirrors, too, reflecting places I've been, phases I've been through, people I've loved or thought I did.
Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
Books and Personal Connection
Books are an immeasurable pleasure.
My favourite books got happily-ever-afters— why couldn’t I?
It's about creating a record of who's read and loved each book. I love thinking about other people reading the books I love, or why someone gave that book as a present - those names and messages are like tiny moments of time travel linking readers from different eras and families and even countries. (This is the Grandad talking to Tilly about finding books with written notes in them or a book owner's name written on the inside of the book. I like think that way as well). :)
The very fact that there are so many unread books means there is so much happiness in the future that we have not yet tasted.
Our goal as adults is not to love all books alike, or as few as possible, but rather to love as widely and as well as our limited selves will allow.
To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about it is one of the greatest joys that life can offer.
because we all know that the books we’ve loved best are seldom the ones we esteem the most highly
Because by now Elinor had understood this, too: A longing for books was nothing compared with what you could feel for human beings. The books told you about that feeling. The books spoke of love, and it was wonderful to listen to them, but they were no substitute for love itself. They couldn't kiss her like Meggie, they couldn't hug her like Resa, they couldn't laugh like Mortimer. Poor books, poor Elinor.
The relationship between book and reader is intimate, at best a kind of love affair, and first loves are famously tenacious. [...] First love is a momentous step in our emotional education, and in many ways, it shapes us forever.
No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do
You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.
When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.
People who fall in love with books never really stop falling.
Books and Intellectual Exploration
Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.
There is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can read it. We can set it down. We can think of what we have read. It does something for us. We can share great minds, great actions, and great undertakings in the pages of a book.
There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human souls we never saw who lived perhaps thousands of miles away, and yet these little sheets of paper speak to us, arouse us, teach us, open our hearts and in turn open their hearts to us like brothers. Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, philosophy lame.
As with companions so with books. We may choose those which will make us better, more intelligent, more appreciative of the good and the beautiful in the world, or we may choose the trashy, the vulgar, the obscene, which will make us feel as though we've been 'wallowing in the mire.
What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put questions to these books they will answer me with all the faithfulness and fulness which has been left in them by the great men who have left the books with us.
If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.
A bookman’s love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.
Only the best books are special. Why? Because they open our eyes, touch us, excite us, extend us.
Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.
Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.
Books and Emotional Impact
What's happiness for a reader? Be pleasantly surprised by a book from which he expected nothing.
When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced."[Books vs. Goons, L.A. Times, April 24, 2005]
After family, books are the things that make me happy. Books are my solace, my sanctuary from the everyday cares. If I could I would make reading my soul occupation.
Books have entire worlds inside them. Magic and strength and inspiration and joy. What’s not to love
To be a person who loves books is to be half in love with the idea of New York.
When we love something, we always want more of it, whether it’s good for us or not. This is as true of ice cream and French fries as it is of great books. It’s only natural to wish for more time with our favorite characters, but an essential part of what makes us fall in love with a book is the fact that it ends (something it wouldn’t hurt to remind the heads of Hollywood studios). When there can be no more of something, it makes what already exists more precious and perfect.
Books make great gifts because they're everybody's favorite things.
Perhaps they were right in putting love into books, . . . Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
Books are a languid pleasure.
Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.
People who fall in love with books never really stop falling.
When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced.
Books as Connections to Authors
To love a book is, above all, to love its author: we want to meet him again, we want to spend our days with him.
I have tried to teach you to read books for the sake of their form, their visions, their art. I have tried to teach you to feel a shiver of artistic satisfaction, to share not the emotions of the people in the book but the emotions of its author — the joys and difficulties of creation. We did not talk around books, about books; we went to the center of this or that masterpiece, to the live heart of the matter.
The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end.
I very much love a physical book myself. I think people who have had this experience of also seeing a book come together, from sitting down and writing the first word, to holding the binding in your hand, we have a deeper sentimental attachment to it than others might.
The love of books and reading has created a bond between our two quite different communities and has allowed our children and community to once again demonstrate how much we care about others in need. We are pleased to be a part of this wonderful effort.
Books wind into the heart.
Books make great gifts because they expand your horizons and keep you cooking.
Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach They read with joy, then shut the book.
If there is an amateur reader still left in the world—or anybody who just reads and runs—I ask him or her, with untellable affection and gratitude, to split the dedication of this book four ways with my wife and children.
Books and Their Limitations
People aren't books. You can't bookmark your favourite pages to return to whenever you're feeling lonely; when the nights are too cold and you need something familiar to keep you warm, you can't reopen their spines and wear out their pages and call that obsession love.
Some books you read and savor. Some, you carry close to your heart.
Books should be read with a generous heart.
I don't give books as gifts. Books are extremely personal, and I would hate to give someone a book that they don't like or want, because it would break my heart if they didn't read it.
Because by now Elinor had understood this, too: A longing for books was nothing compared with what you could feel for human beings. The books told you about that feeling. The books spoke of love, and it was wonderful to listen to them, but they were no substitute for love itself. They couldn't kiss her like Meggie, they couldn't hug her like Resa, they couldn't laugh like Mortimer. Poor books, poor Elinor.
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.
Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.
Love of books is the best of all.
When you give someone a book, you dont give him just paper, ink, and glue. You give him the possibility of a whole new life.
We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.
Books and Nostalgia
Lhe love of a book is what's in your heart
What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!
I did realize, as do you, how blessed I was to know bookjoy, the private pleasure of savoring text.
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.
Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light it with words.
I think that all of us have a sentimental attachment to books,
The awesome part about The Book of Awesome is the realization that if you enjoy the simple moments in your life, you will be happier.
If I give a book as a gift, it is invariably a children's book with beautiful artwork and a simple text. I adore the feel of them, the care taken in the artwork, and the high visual stimulation that sets off the simple but often powerful message the text conveys.
When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.
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A read book now becomes very happy because the ideas in it are now beginning to transfer to many living organisms, and even if the book is physically on the shelf, it begins to circulate spiritually all over the world!
A book is sacred gift.
A book a day keeps the mind happy and gay!
Seeing someone read a book you love is seeing a book recommend a person.
Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.
What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off and broaching it. I think I could happily live here and read forever.
A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.
Books are gifts. They nourish your mind, spirit, and heart.
I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…
Books have souls. Or so romantics like me tend to think.
Two things that the human being sees in the world and never tires of appreciating: nature and books.
If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life
Seeing someone reading a book you love is seeing a book recommending a person
The love for books is a paradise.
We are what we read -- and the power of books to transform the minds and personalities of their readers can give cause for anxiety as well as for celebration.
We love books. And these authors get it. This is literally just 45 of the best, most aww-inspiring, warm and squishy quotes about books and why we love them so dang much. Get on the book-love train.
We want splendid books, books that immerse us in the splendor of reality and keep us there; books that prove to us that love is at work in the world next to evil, right up against it, at times indistinctly, and that it always will be, just the way that suffering will always ravage hearts. We want good novels...And even if there is only one such book per decade,...only one...every ten years, that would be enough. We want nothing else.
The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it's for the best.
A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.
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