Book Quote by Cornelia Funke

“There must be many books, many lovely pines, to shield from hungry eyes the book that really matters, the wretched cave of our misfortune,…

— Roberto Bolaño

“Give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“Or is it this: To feed on the acorns and grass of knowledge, and for the sake of truth to suffer hunger in one's…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"It’s not as if I don’t have anything to read; there’s a tower of perfectly good unread books next to my bed, not to…

— Lewis Buzbee

“I love to read books. I love to read anything really, even the back of the cereal box. But there is nothing that will…

— Rachel Wojnarowski

“There is no fire like lust, no vise like hatred, no trap like delusion, and no galloping river like craving.”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me; that against…

— Herman Melville

“That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Sometimes a book that appeared dull or off-putting would somehow still draw you in, call to you, and when you finally embarked on the…

— Liam W. Russell

“As for thy thirst after books, away with it with all speed.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“Fierce midnights and famishing morrows, And the loves that complete and control All the joys of the flesh, all the sorrows That wear out…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

“Hunger brings a halt to love, or if not hunger, Time, or if those are of no avail, a noose.”

— Crates of Thebes