The human yearning for innocent pastime is a pathetic…

What a frail, easily hurt, rather pathetic thing a human body is, naked; somehow a little unfinished, incomplete!

— D. H. Lawrence

“An upturned tortoise is the ninth most pathetic thing in the entire multiverse.”

— Terry Pratchett

The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do.

— Robert Andrews Millikan

We have this idea that everyone should be totally independent, totally whole, totally together spiritually, totally fulfilled. That is a myth. In reality, our…

— Gerald May

The practicality of technology may distinguish it from art, but both spring from a similar, distinctly human yearning.

— Nicholas G. Carr

“One recalls John Updike’s argument: the only evidence for the existence of God is the collective human yearning that it should be so.”

— Martin Amis

“Life is too short to waste your time with bad books.”

— Michael Krüger

I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first…

— Alice Hoffman

“I am a passionate reader. New interested books keep adding on my reading list. My wildest dream is to complete reading all the books.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Look at Mann's reading habits, his explicit comments on Nietzsche, and his copy of Birth of Tragedy, and it starts to seem doubtful that…

— Philip Kitcher

When I look back on my reading habits when I was really young, I was really drawn to stories about strong girls who in…

— Jesmyn Ward

“Reading is like skiing. When done well, when done by an expert, both reading and skiing are graceful, harmonious, activities. When done by a…

— Mortimer J. Adler

“A man who does not read miss great wisdom.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“My eyes hunger to read more books then time allows me to devour.”

— Jazz Feylynn

Love of books is the best of all.

— Jackie Kennedy