Library Quotes

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it’ll never end. But however hard you try you can’t run forever. Everybody knows that everybody dies and nobody knows it like the Doctor. But I do think that all the skies of all the worlds might just turn dark if he ever for one moment accepted it.

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

Human beings can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquillity; and though prepared…to meet with folly and conceit in every other room in the house, he was used to be free of them there.

Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too, that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence."

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else- is the fact that it exists.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a public library.

A library is thought in cold storage

In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquility; and though prepared... to meet with folly and conceit in every other room in the house, he was used to be free of them here.

Madam, a circulating library in a town is an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.