Books Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Their history wasn’t so far off the mean track, they were going through what a thousand other civilizations had gone through, and no doubt…

— Iain M. Banks

“They, too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape, centuries dead; they'd had the experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes and…

— donna tartt

“good works gathered in a thousand ages, such as deeds of generosity, or offerings to the blissful ones, a single flash of anger shatters…

— Shantideva

“What manner of people they were only books and other people could tell... and the tale was a long and gory one dating from…

— Robert Edison Fulton Jr

“For what was civilization but the intellect’s ascendancy out of the doldrums of necessity (shelter, sustenance and survival) into the ether of the finely…

— Amor Towles

“Everywhere that we looked, were objects & artifacts reminiscent of a bygone age. of war & destruction, of mankind's determination to rule his neighbour,…

— Rob Shepherd

“And in this form, they find themselves longing to ascend mountains, wander the seas, and conquer the air, seeking to recapture the limitlessness they…

— David Eagleman

“From time to time I try to imagine this world of which he spoke--a culture in whose mythology words might be that precious, in…

— Patricia J. Williams

“they put their faith in their intellectual assets and attained material success with admirable speed. To speak in everyday language: they got somewhere in…

— Götz Aly

“To witness the awe of human beings delighting in their own hands forming the written word was humbling and he understood it profoundly at…

— T.K. Naliaka

“...given the behaviour of human beings throughout the ages, they do not deserve life, with its many dark sides, in all its beauty, grandeur…

— José Saramago

“My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern, being always provided with a good number of books; and…

— Jonathan Swift