Book Quote by Roberto Bolaño translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer

“There are books for when you’re bored. Plenty of them. There are books for when you’re calm. The best kind, in my opinion. There…

— Roberto Bolaño

A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people.

— Manuel Rivas

Solyndra will be remembered in the history books as a sad hallmark of a newly installed administration that felt it was above the rules,…

— Fred Upton

“Sad that there is books that are based on bad events that has happened. But there is books that has been based on really…

— Dawn Huntsman

“It made the Baudelaire sisters a little sad to see all those books sitting in the library unread and unnoticed, like stray dogs or…

— Lemony Snicket

It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad...

— Alain de Botton

I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.

— Beverly Cleary

If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read? So…

— Franz Kafka

“And whether rich or poor, well or ill, happy or sad, books can be a refuge, they do not change with changing circumstance, they…

— Gladys Taber

It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there…

— Alain de Botton

“What my parents kept failing to understand was how happy I was when I was alone with my books. There was no pressure to…

— Lisa Yee

“Altogether, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn’t shake us awake…

— Franz Kafka

“Despite the third word of the title, this is not an instruction manual that will tell you anything useful about how to be happy.…

— Daniel Gilbert

I always thought happiness was a choice and I always chose things that made me happy, and books were one of those.

— Dean Koontz

Life is sad enough without people writing sad books.

— James T. Farrell