Bells Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

“Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail the sky cracked its poems in naked wonder, that the clinging of the church…

— Bob Dylan

“However deaf the ring of our love bells should strike they will eventually disperse this world’s emptiness clouds.”

— Sorin Cerin

Books wind into the heart.

— William Hazlitt

“The lesson of bells is that no work is worth finishing, so why care too deeply about anything? Years of bells will condition all…

— John Taylor Gatto

“For ordinary books are like meteors. Each of them has only one moment, a moment when it soars screaming like the phoenix, all its…

— Bruno Schulz

“Crucial insights that we need to convey to ourselves can often be received only at night, like city church bells that have to wait…

— Alain de Botton

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

— Anonymous

“Books Fall Open Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where, you've never been. Hear voices not once heard before, Reach world through world,…

— David McCord

The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as…

— D. H. Lawrence

...the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of…

— Anne Fadiman

“real books should be the offspring not of daylight and casual talk but of darkness and silence”

— Marcel Proust

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

— Voltaire