Books Quote by Lionel Trilling Download Open image “Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.” — Lionel Trilling ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Time Time Books Writer Youth Youth Time
Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time. — James Crumley Copy Share Image
You get tired of always wondering anew why life has to take the place of youth. — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart. — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
Youth is such a fascinating and volatile concoction of vulnerability, dependence, restlessness, relentlessness. You're still learning the terms of the world and of the… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Youth comes but once a life time. Perhaps, but it remains strong in many for their entire lives. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“Books make their greatest mark when they reach readers in their growing years. The young look everywhere for that ground of truth on which… — Milton Meltzer Copy Share Image
Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from being a burden to… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Youth is a frame of mind. If you get out there and enjoy it, you can have it at any time of your life. — Kenny Rogers Copy Share Image
One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways of addressing… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
The definitions of humanism are many, but let us here take it to be the attitude of those men who think it an advantage… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
A primary function of art andthought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
“...perhaps we have never been more than vocal and perhaps soon we can hope to be no more than thoughtful...” — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas to which, for various… — Lionel Trilling 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
