Alive Quote by Wilferd Peterson

We are born to die tomorrow, and yet through books we are able to know events of thousands of years.

— Yamaga Soko

“Books are the way that the dead communicate with us. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us,…

— Neil Gaiman

While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced by the…

— Robert Darnton

Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us,…

— Neil Gaiman

All my life, books have felt alive; some more so than people, or rather, some people. Alive - this has to do with me,…

— Andrea Barrett

Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life of the…

— Susan Sontag

“In books I meet the dead as if they were alive in books I see what is yet to come... All things decay and…

— Richard de Bury

“Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur…

— Louis L'Amour

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow…

— Clarence Day

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the…

— William Butler Yeats

Good books leave an impression. Great books forever alter the way you think about what it means to be alive. You Disappear is not…

— Dara Horn

And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of a human…

— Matt Haig