Book Quote by William Shakespeare

“Every man, however brief or inglorious may have been his academical career, must remember with kindness and tenderness the old university comrades and days.…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“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

Happy the youth who believes that his duty is to remake the world and bring it more in accord with virtue and justice, more…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“Perhaps I had missed a great deal, reading so continually and seeing the world through the windowpanes of books. But then, maybe not. If…

— Fred Chappell

“Youth was the time for happiness, its only season; young people, leading a lazy, carefree life, partially occupied by scarcely absorbing studies, were able…

— Michel Houellebecq

“The woman dying of cancer in The Barracks facing the raw fear of everything in her life disintegrating. The abused adolescent boy in The…

— John McGahern

“an adolescent’s knowledge of death and evil ‘should be limited to what one discovers in literature’.”

— Blaine Harden

“Man’s own youth is the world’s youth; at least, he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth’s granite substance is something…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

There was something in the pages of these books that had the power to make him feel better about things, a life raft to…

— Justin Cronin

“He believed in the unarguable notion that if a young person is lucky enough to read the right books at the right time in…

— Charles Cumming

“To the young, indeed, death is sometimes welcome, for the young can feel. They love and suffer, and it wrings them to see their…

— H. Rider Haggard

“Books. They live their own life in melancholy Happy in their crispy destruction under yellowish tinge.”

— Raj Doctor