10 Quotes on Books from Books

Hello and Welcome. This page is a collection of 10 quotes about Books that I underlined from various books. I hope you will like these quotes too.

By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.

Books Quotes from The Cat Who Saved Books book by Sosuke Natsukawa

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.
Books have souls. A cherished book will always have a soul. It will come to its reader's aid in times of crisis.
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 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.
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 The reader who forgets to walk on his own two feet is like an old encyclopaedia, his head stuffed with out-of-date information.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.

Sometimes, even when you start with the last page and you think you know everything, a book finds a way to surprise you.
Some books you don't read so much as live, and finishing one of those always makes me think of ascending from a scuba dive. Like if I surface too fast I might get the bends.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. - The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Since I was a young girl, I've been entranced by early books. The sight of them, the smell of them, the wonderful feel of their covers and pages, and the thrill of the places to which they've traveled and the barriers they've crossed. - The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
Standing around books, even books in a foreign language, you feel a kind of electricity buzzing up toward you. It just happens, the way you get erect around girls wearing tight jeans. - The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga