Welcome to our collection of Book Quotes! Books have the power to transport us to different worlds, challenge our thinking, and inspire us in countless ways. In this curated selection, you’ll find a treasure trove of thought-provoking, insightful, and captivating quotes from a wide range of books and authors. Whether you’re an avid reader, a book enthusiast, or simply looking for some literary inspiration, you’re in the right place. These quotes capture the essence of the written word, and you’re free to use them as you see fit – whether you want to share them on social media, create inspirational images, or just savor the wisdom they contain. So, dive into the world of words and ideas, and let these book quotes spark your imagination and creativity.
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed. Galileo Galilei
Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship. Marilyn Monroe
I don’t go anywhere without a book by James Joyce called ‘Finnegan’s Wake.’ Johnny Depp
Every book is a children’s book if the kid can read! Mitch Hedberg
We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire. George Sand
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists… When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. Edmond de Goncourt
Rereading, we find a new book. Mason Cooley
The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book. Ron Reagan
Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose. Joseph Brodsky
I’m completely honest with everyone I deal with. I genuinely care about people. I want to see people succeed and be the best that they can be. So, I wanted to write a motivational book about life, love and the pursuit of happiness. Bruce Buffer
A book is a gift you can open again and again. Garrison Keillor
A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. Franz Kafka
If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison
I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book. Joseph Smith, Jr.
Beware of the person of one book. Thomas Aquinas
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. Marcel Proust
An art book is a museum without walls. Andre Malraux
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. Charles Baudelaire
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. Thomas Jefferson
I tell you I can’t read a book, but I can read de people. Sojourner Truth
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories. Ray Bradbury
I’m not into older guys. To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive, in my book. Winona Ryder
The images from the book you make in your head are always going to be the best images. Rick Riordan
You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I’ve overcome it. Mary J. Blige
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. Oscar Wilde
The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief – call it what you will – than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course. A. A. Milne
But when I lived as a monk, solitude is often spoken of as a strength. And so the first thing I’d recommend is finding one thing that you can do every single day that brings you joy. It may be reading a book you love. It may be looking at a beautiful piece of art. Jay Shetty
The experience of reading a printed comic book will never change, but now, thanks to the digital age, there are many different ways to enjoy the same story. Digital comic books, of course, can be interactive in many different ways, allowing the reader to feel like a participant in the story. Stan Lee
I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there’s a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment. Raul Julia
If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‘Oh, I forgot that bit,’ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is! Richard P. Feynman
I don’t go by the rule book… I lead from the heart, not the head. Princess Diana
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. Helen Keller
There was a best-selling book in the late ’60s and ’70s called ‘The Adventurers’ by Harold Robbins. The lead character’s name was Dax. Anyone that’s roughly my age that’s named Dax is named from that book. Dax Shepard
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. John Steinbeck
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations – such is a pleasure beyond compare. Kenko Yoshida
You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat. Paul Brown
You can’t judge a book by its cover until you open up and read it. There are going be a million stories out there, true or not true. I say get to know me first before you judge me. Dion Waiters
Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once. Audrey Hepburn
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out. Georg C. Lichtenberg
There is no rule book, no right or wrong; you just have to make it up and do the very best you can to care for your family. Kate Middleton
I remember back in the 1960s – late ’50s, really – reading a comic book called ‘Martin Luther King Jr. and the Montgomery Story.’ Fourteen pages. It sold for 10 cents. And this little book inspired me to attend non-violence workshops, to study about Gandhi, about Thoreau, to study Martin Luther King, Jr., to study civil disobedience. John Lewis
Won’t it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history. Maya Angelou
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read. Abraham Lincoln
There are things I’ll never talk about for sure. My life is an open book, but there’s always a few secret pages in the back that nobody will be able to read. Jessica Mulroney
There’s nothing better than curling up with a good book and sitting in front of the fire on winter evenings. Leo Sayer
If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer. Anne Frank
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. Henry David Thoreau
The Christian Bible is a symbolic book, not a literal one. The one Christians know as Jesus was actually a symbol for the sun. Ancient sun worshippers believed the sun died at the end of the winter solstice and then three days later it would be reborn at the start of its cycle – December 25. David Icke
The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals. Melody Beattie
I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table. Elie Wiesel
My father always said, ‘Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf’ – so I make sure I read. Emilia Clarke
Any time women come together with a collective intention, it’s a powerful thing. Whether it’s sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens. Phylicia Rashad
I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it. Virginia Woolf
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate. Jack London
The frontiers of a book are never clear-cut: beyond the title, the first lines, and the last full stop, beyond its internal configuration and its autonomous form, it is caught up in a system of references to other books, other texts, other sentences: it is a node within a network. Michel Foucault
Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity? Cesar Chavez
Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature. Antoni Gaudi
The truth doesn’t change. It was the same when Moses got the Ten Commandments as it is today. That’s the thing about the truth. That’s the thing about real. It doesn’t change and it doesn’t have to change. Now you can put it in a different book, but it’s still real. It’s still the truth. DMX
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense. Harold Kushner
I would never want a book’s autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books. Kanye West
You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it. John Barton
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that. Harper Lee
I don’t know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don’t know where the book is, and maybe I couldn’t read it if I found it. Warren G. Harding
Miss a meal if you have to, but don’t miss a book. Jim Rohn
Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring… ‘How to Build a Boat.’ Steven Wright
There is nothing we cannot do for an athlete. If a guy wants to write a book, great. If he wants to be a ‘Fortnite’ champion, great. If he wants to act, great. He wants to buy a surfboard company? Fantastic. There is nothing we cannot do for the modern athlete. Rich Paul
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. Emily Dickinson
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon. Bertolt Brecht
I was reading a book… ‘the history of glue’ – I couldn’t put it down. Tim Vine
The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it’s time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book. James Rollins
Everyone has a book inside of them – but it doesn’t do any good until you pry it out. Jodi Picoult
You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. C. S. Lewis
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum. Michel de Montaigne
Cancel culture has always been an issue. I mean, if you look at the Book of Genesis, Cain canceled Abel. This has always been an issue, the ‘I don’t like you, I don’t like what you’re doing, I don’t like the attention that you’re getting, so you shouldn’t be here. You shouldn’t have a voice. You shouldn’t have a movement.’ Lauren Boebert
Wear the old coat and buy the new book. Austin Phelps
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well. Mark Haddon
‘Walking and Talking’ is my autobiography. It’s best to do it that way, rather than spend months writing a book that then ends up in the bargain bucket with all the other idiots’ autobiographies. Kathy Burke
All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book. David Livingstone
We came to say, the Quran is our constitution, we are committed to God and his holy book. God willing, should they try to carry out their crime against the Quran, God will tear their state apart and they will become God’s lesson to anyone who tries to desecrate the holy book. Ismail Haniyeh
You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child. Dr. Seuss
I told myself that I wanted to be a motivational speaker, I wanted to write a book, graduate college, have my own family, and have my own career. Lizzie Velasquez
‘The Sun Also Rises’ by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it. Elizabeth Olsen
If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? That’s the question that changed my life forever. Amy Purdy
The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon… The book has been thoroughly tested, and it’s very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes. Umberto Eco
You cannot open a book without learning something. Confucius
I can’t be told life is beautiful through a normal positive thinking book or a Hallmark movie; that language doesn’t work for me. James Gunn
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. Pablo Neruda
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. Saint Augustine
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read. Groucho Marx
Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private ‘revelation’. Richard Dawkins
Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book. Joe Frazier
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep. William Butler Yeats
Why buy a book when you can join a library. Ricky Gervais
There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little – the book of Nature. Claude Debussy
A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination. Louis L’Amour
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. Ronald Reagan
If I truly believe everything that’s in that book, God is in control. He is in control. He’s working for my good. Doesn’t mean everything’s going to be smooth, but that’s all I needed to know. There is a light at the end of the tunnel. Shawn Michaels
I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music. Alan Lomax
‘Classic.’ A book which people praise and don’t read. Mark Twain
