The best Book Quotes (Page 46)

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.

Jules Verne in Journey to the Center of the Earth

Books

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

Jules Verne in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Ocean

While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert... that as long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.

Jules Verne in Journey to the Center of the Earth

Great souls become greater through love.

Friedrich Schiller in Don Carlos

Love

Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons. But when all is said and done, they have one thing in common: They are shooting stars-a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity. And in a flash, they're gone.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Summer Shooting Stars

For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare in Hamlet

Thinking Good & Evil

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol

Laughing & Smile

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Francis Bacon in Essays

Books

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

Friedrich Schiller in The Maid of Orleans

Foolishness

"But don't you think," I persist, "that it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?"

Audrey Niffenegger in The Time Traveler’s Wife

Happiness Time

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Friedrich Schiller in Don Carlos

Youth Men Birthday Age

But feelings are just having a picture on the screen in your head
of what is going to happen tomorrow or next year
or what might have happend instead of what did happen
and if it is a happy picture they smile,
and if it is a sad picture they cry.

Mark Haddon in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Memories Thinking Feelings & Emotions

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Wisdom of the Sands

Desire Ocean Ships

Christmas? Shut up!

Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol - Von Ebenezer Scrooge

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince

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Heart Seeing Romantic Quotes

I ask the indulgence of the children who may read this book for dedicating it to a grown-up. I have a serious reason: he is the best friend I have in the world. I have another reason: this grown-up understands everything, even books about children. I have a third reason: he lives in France where he is hungry and cold. He needs cheering up. If all these reasons are not enough, I will dedicate the book to the child from whom this grown-up grew. All grown-ups were once children– although few of them remember it. And so I correct my dedication:

To Leon Werth
When he was a little boy

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince

Book Dedications & Preambles

Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we're gone.

Cecelia Ahern in P.S. I Love You

Love Relationships

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.