Best Books Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I won't be sad too often,”

“That's it then. This is how it ends. I haven't even read Proust.”

“I'm not courting death; I've far too many books left to read.”

“Grief is paradoxical: you know you must let go, and yet letting go cannot happen all at once. The literature of mourning enacts that dilemma; its solace lies in the ritual of remembering the dead and then saying,”

“She was still clutching the book. She was holding desperately on to the words who had saved her life.”

“But those who believe that flowers grow in vases don't understand anything about literature. The library has now become her first-aid kit, and she's going to give the children a little of the medicine that helped her recover her smile when she thought she'd lost it forever.”

“Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.”

“It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.”

“One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.”

“Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading. [...] An old one. It's up on a library shelf, so you're safe and everything, but the book hasn't been checked out for a long, long time. All you can do is wait. Just hope somebody'll pick it up and start reading.”

“I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.”

“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.”

“I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I even simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant...I AM HAUNTED BY HUMANS.”

“- A maioria das pessoas não entende essa verdade óbvia. Limitam-se a viver a sua vidinha, e, no entanto, é apenas com o coração que se pode ver como deve ser; o que é essencial é invisível aos olhos.”

“A quote is just ink until the moment makes it matter. It’s not the words that change—it’s where you are when they find you.”

“Porque hay trenes que solo pasan una vez.”

“Working together as a team helps build a cohesive organization.”

“Judge not lest ye be judged yourself.”

“All I'm saying is that there is more to life than the main story. Check out the notes in the margins because maybe they're even more important.”

“What is home but a book we write, then”

“With slouch and swing around the ring”

“she’s caught”

“I only wrote prose before I met you.”

“I left the bank”

“The Author To Her Book”

“Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge.”

“The sun loved me again when it saw that the stars would not abandon me.”

“Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all the”

“A book,”

“But words are things, and a small drop of ink,”