17 Quotes from The Cat Who Saved Books book by Sosuke Natsukawa
Hello and Welcome. This page is a collection of 17 quotes from The Cat Who Saved Books book by Sosuke Natsukawa that I underlined while reading the book. I hope you will like these quotes too.
By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.
Quotes on Books
- Books can't live your life for you. The reader who forgets to walk on his own two feet is like an old encyclopaedia, his head stuffed with out-of-date information. Unless someone else opens it up, it's nothing but a useless antique.
- Books and music are so similar, don't you think? They bring wisdom, courage, and healing to our lives. Created by human beings as tools that bring comfort and inspiration to ourselves.
- A book that sits on a shelf is nothing but a bundle of paper. Unless it is opened, a book possessing great power or an epic story is mere scraps of paper.
- Books have souls. A cherished book will always have a soul. It will come to its reader's aid in times of crisis.
- Books are filled with human thoughts and feelings. People suffering, people who are sad or happy, laughing with joy. By reading their words and their stories, by experiencing them together, we learn about the hearts and minds of other people besides ourselves. Thanks to books, it's possible to learn not only about the people around us every day, but people living in totally different worlds.
Quotes on Reading
- All the intellectual leaders of our time, such as myself, are constantly reading. It's vital for us always to be brushing up on our philosophy and expanding our knowledge. Books have made me the man I am today. They're my dear companions.
- Reading a book is a lot like climbing a mountain. Reading isn't only for pleasure or entertainment. Sometimes you need to examine the same lines deeply, read the same sentences over again. Sometimes you sit there, head in hands, only progressing at a painstakingly slow pace. And the result of all this hard work and careful study is that suddenly you're there and your field of vision expands. It's like finding a great view at the end of a long climbing trail.
More Quotes
- This world throws all kinds of obstacles at us, we are forced to endure so much that is absurd. Our best weapon for fighting all the pain and trouble in the world isn't logic or violence. It's humour.
- It's not true that the more you read, the more you see of the world. No matter how much knowledge you cram into your head, unless you think with your own mind, walk with your own feet, the knowledge you acquire will never be anything more than empty and borrowed.
- It's all very well to read a book, but when you've finished, it's time to set foot in the world.
- It's good to be humble. But there's such a thing as taking it too far.
- The obvious is no longer obvious in today's world. In today's world, a lot of what should be obvious has been turned upside down.
- Nobody's interested in truth or ethics or philosophy. People are worn out from living. All they want is either to be stimulated or healed. The only way for books to survive in such a world is for them to metamorphose. Dare I say it? Sales are everything. No matter how great a masterpiece, if a work doesn't sell it vanishes.
- Your feelings about a book don't determine its value. The number of copies in circulation do. In other words, in our society it is the banknote that is the arbiter of value. Those who forget this rule and try to embrace something idealistic have no choice but to drop out of society altogether. It truly is a shame.
- Time is merciless in its passing. No matter how sad, how painful, how nonsensical a thing might happen, time refused to stand still and wait.
- Being able to express shallow words of sympathy in a sweet voice doesn't make someone a caring, compassionate soul. What's important is the ability to have empathy for another human being – to be able to feel their pain, to walk alongside them in their suffering. That's not a special or unusual power. It's a natural ability that everyone possesses. The problem is that most people have lost touch with that ability in the hustle and bustle of their daily lives.
- There was no such thing as having no choice. There were many roads to choose from. What was important was not to let yourself roll along aimlessly, but to pick a road.