Books Quote by John Cowper Powys Download Open image ““Life is short and the number of books is appalling.”” — John Cowper Powys ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Life Life is short Literature Mathematics Reading Words
“Life isn’t really short. There are just too many good books to read in one lifetime.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Life was too short for bad books, or even good books that you just don’t like.” — Sarah Moriarty Copy Share Image
“This life is short, and you never know how many chapters you have left in your novel,” — Brittainy C. Cherry Copy Share Image
“It always gave Wolf a peculiar thrill thus to tighten his grip upon his stick, thus to wrap himself more closely in his faded… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
“though books, as Milton says, may be the embalming of mighty spirits, they are also the resurrection of rebellious, reactionary, fantastical, and wicked spirits!… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected. — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. … The way of wisdom is to treat it airily,… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous notion that… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
Every day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted, every day that we allow some little physical infirmity or worldly worry to… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence with limitless skepticism. — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
The more money you give to people the better; and the less advice. — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
It is that cricket field that, in all the sharp and bitter moments of life as they come to me now, gives me a… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
“There occurred within a causal radius of Brandon Station one of those infinitesimal ripples in the creative silence of the First Cause. In the… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
Most of the pathetic scenes in almost everybody's life are scenes unnoted by anyone and totally disregarded by the person in question. — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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