book lover quotes

60 of The Best Quotes for Book Lovers

This post may contains affiliate links. If you click and buy we may make a commission, at no additional charge to you. Please see our disclosure policy for more details.

October was National Book Month, so to celebrate, I’ve been reading even more books than usual in the last few weeks. And spending a little extra time doing the thing I love the most has reminded me why I fell in love with books in the first place.

Books provide us with escapism, adventure, comfort, inspiration, education, and much, much more. Plus, a good book is like a trusted friend, someone you can go to when life gets a little too much.

They allow us to journey to far-off locations around the globe, and even different dimensions and realms, all from the comfort of our favorite armchair.  And sometimes, this escape is all we need to recharge, reboot, and get ready for another day in the real world.

The Collins English dictionary defines a book lover as “ someone who enjoys reading and reads more than the average person ,” and I’m pretty sure most of us in the Hooked to Books family fall into that category. In fact, a more accurate term is probably ‘book obsessed with a severe case of bibliomania.’

So to pay homage to our collective love of reading, I’ve put together this list of 60 of the all-time greatest quotes for book lovers. Each one is guaranteed to put a knowing smile on the face of any bibliophile.

Quotes for Book Lovers

“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.” ― H.L. Mencken

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” ―Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Books were safer than other people anyway.” ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.” ― Saul Bellow

“We live for books.” ― Umberto Eco

“I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day.” ― Gail Carriger

“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.” ― Anne Herbert

“Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.” ― Anne Rice, The Witching Hour

“Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you’re working. Tell them it’s research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.” ― Jennifer Weiner

“The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.” ― Patricia A. McKillip, The Bell at Sealey Head

“I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.” ― Simon Van Booy

“That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.” ― Anthony Trollope

“When the Day of Judgement dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.” ― Virginia Woolf

Also Read:- 55 of The Best Wuthering Heights Quotes

“Dogeared pages were Antichrist of book lovers everywhere.” ― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Onyx

“It is both relaxing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book…from the reading of ‘good books’ there comes a richness of life that can be obtained in no other way.” ― Gordon B. Hinckley

“What a blessing it is to love books.” ― Elizabeth von Arnim, The Solitary Summer

“About half a second after finishing your book, after reading the very last word, the reader should be overwhelmed by a particular feeling. For a moment he should think only of what he has just read; he should look at the jacket and smile a little sadly because he is already missing all the characters. A good book, Marcus, is a book you are sorry has ended.” ― Joël Dicker

“I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.” ― Dorothy Parker, The Collected Dorothy Parker

“I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to “I hate to read new books,” and I hollered “Comrade!” to whoever owned it before me.” ― Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” ―Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I imagined accumulating books as the truest form of wealth and dreamt of vast libraries with rolling ladders, shelves rising up to high ceilings, volumes filled with my notes and annotations. Selling half of my collection reduced me. I worried that I’d given too much away.” ― Megan Baxter, Farm Girl: A Memoir

“Some like to believe it’s the book that chooses the person.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.” ― Siri Hustvedt, The Summer Without Men

Also Read:- 75 Most Famous Book Quotes of All Time

“I took my time, running my fingers along the spines of books, stopping to pull a title from the shelf and inspect it. A sense of well-being flowed through me as I circled the ground floor. It was better than meditation or a new pair of shoes- or even chocolate. My life was a disaster, but there were still books. Lots and lots of books. A refuge. A solace. Each one offering the possibility of a new beginning.” ― Beth Pattillo, Jane Austen Ruined My Life

“If I could have anything I wanted, I would choose a story without end, and it seems I have lots of company in that.” ― Annie Barrows, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to.” ― Eudora Welty

“There is nothing like the smell of books, both new and old. If someone ever bottled the smell, I would be all over it .” ― Tiffany King, Meant to Be

“Books are magical keys to open up worlds and change perspectives.” ― AAAA

“She would read a book hundreds of times, carrying it with her until the pages were torn and the covers were falling off, then she’d paste the covers to the ceiling where she could stare at them, like remembering a good dream.” ― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

“Friends in books are the best. They sleep in the pages when I don’t want to talk, and they share their days with me soundlessly—I know what makes them sad or scared or happy—when I lift their covers.” ― Jennifer Gennari, Muffled

“There’s a vast underground network for goodness at work in this world—a web of people who’ve put reading at the center of their lives because they know from experience that reading makes them more expansive, generous people…” ― George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

“In a second-hand bookshop head to the back, find the old books with dust undisturbed and worn off covers for these clothe true treasures.” ― Rachel Hall

Read More:- 50 Walt Whitman Quotes (Author of Leaves of Grass)

“I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That’s right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that’s kind of perverted or maybe it’s just romantic and highly intelligent.” ― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been misplaced or used as kindling by my subtenant. “You’re my sacred ones,” I told the books. “No one but me still cares about you. But I’m going to keep you with me forever. And one day I’ll make you important again.” I thought about that terrible calumny of the new generation: that books smell.” ― Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story

“What is it with you and that book?” Rafael laughed. “We have a personal relationship.” ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster

“To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones.” ― Will Thomas, Some Danger Involved

“Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.” ―Khaled Hosseini

“When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.” ― Piers Anthony, Golem in the Gears

“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It’s like falling in love.” ― Christopher Morley

“They were steaming out of the station before Maia asked, ‘Was it books in the trunk?’ ‘It was books, ‘admitted Miss Minton. And Maia said, ‘Good.” ― Eva Ibbotson, Journey to the River Sea

“I loved women the way I loved books. Ravenously, as fast and as many as I could lay my hands on. Reading indiscriminately in every genre and savoring my favorites again. Slowly.” ― G.L. Morrison, Chiaroscuro Kisses

“You have to store up books, becoming acquainted with human experience; let them lie around your thoughts, becoming yours—ring upon ring, as a tree grows, let them rise up from the depths like coral islands. If it gets crowded with all the books and there’s nowhere to put your bed, it’s better to exchange it for a folding bed” ― Viktor Shklovsky

“All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed … No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.” ― Eugene Field, The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac

“A blessed companion is a book–a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend…a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own.” ― Douglas Jerrold

“I wish I could remember the moment when I was a kid and I discovered that the letters linked into words, and that the words linked to real things. What a revelation that must have been. We don’t have the words for it, since we hadn’t yet learned the words. It must have been astonishing, to be given the key to the kingdom and see it turn in our hands so easily.” ― David Levithan, Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares

“Reality doesn’t always give us the life that we desire, but we can always find what we desire between the pages of books.” ― Adelise M. Cullens, Dead Bunnies Make All Eight Of Me Cry

“I’m filled with that buzz that finishing a good book gives you. You know the one. When all you want to do is savor the words that just changed your life, even if for just a moment. When you’re still high from experiencing every up and down the characters went through. Feeling as though you were right there with them, seated front row, hands in the air as you take that first plunge down to the final dip of the roller coaster they call life.” ― Joanne Ganci, Their Book Nerd

“Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.” ― John Edgar Wideman

“I used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not afraid anymore, because when I write, I am not trying to prove anything to anyone, I am just expressing myself and my opinions. It’s ok if my opinions are different from those of the reader, each of us can have his own opinions. So writing is like talking, if you are afraid of writing, you may end up being afraid of talking” ― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“I want to read every book that’s written hear every song that was sung I want to gaze at every cloud and hold the zing of each fruit on my tongue.” ― Sanober Khan, A touch, a tear, a tempest

“Overhyped books are the empty calories of the literary world.” ― Kevin Ansbro

“Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.” ― Joseph Joubert, The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert

“Mark ran his fingers over the bindings and whispered words, written long ago, words that wriggled through the aged leather, trembled beneath his touch. What lives and loves, hopes and dreams, deaths and despair these volumes held.” ― Ellen Read, Love The Gift

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” ― Stephen King

“Any bookseller will tell you that, even with 100,000 books neatly sorted and shelved in a well-lit, warm shop, if you put an unopened box of books in a dark, cold, dimly lit corner, customers will be rifling through it in a matter of moments. The appeal of a box of unsorted, unpriced stock is extraordinary.” ― Shaun Bythell, The Diary of a Bookseller

“Marco could not have known about the mystical effect of a full moon on cats and books left on their own in the library. Not until he saw the lines breathe, the words unveiled.” ― Rahma Krambo, Guardian Cats and the Lost Books of Alexandria

“Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation, if he is enjoyed by plain persons, and if he can fill several theatres at once, he cannot possibly be worth reading and merits only indifference and disdain.” ― Arnold Bennett

“Many of the people who came to us were of the kind who would be a nuisance anywhere but have special opportunities in a bookshop” ― George Orwell, Bookshop Memories

“Book hangovers are more fun than alcohol hangovers. They take you into a completely different world. They don’t numb the mind but open it to imagination and different perspectives to reality. I knew many worlds better than reality and that they existed in books.” ― Namrata Gupta, A Silent Promise

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.” ― Maya Angelou

I hope these book lover quotes resonated with you just as much as they did me. Personally, I find it pretty hard to express just how much I love reading, but these quotes put it better than I ever could.

What are your favorite book lover’s quotes on this list? Do you have any suggestions that I missed? Let me know in the comments below!

Leave a Comment Cancel reply

100 Best Book Lover Quotes for Readers (With Pictures)

If you’re a lover of books like I am, you know that this art form has the power to change your life.

From inspiring stories to philosophical ideas, books open our minds and hearts in ways we never imagined before. That’s why I collected the 100 best book lover quotes to help us find the words for why you love reading.

Here Are the 100 Best Book Lover Quotes for Readers

• “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”—Ernest Hemingway
• “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”―Haruki Murakami
• “Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.”—Joseph Addison
• “A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”―Terry Pratchett
• “We live for books.”―Umberto Eco
• “Books were safer than other people anyway.”―Neil Gaiman
• “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”―Sir Francis Bacon
• “So many books, so little time.”—Frank Zappa
• “In the end, we’ll all become stories.”―Margaret Atwood
• “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you will go.”―Dr. Suess
• “That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.”—Anthony Trollope
• “If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”—Irving Stone
• “The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to write one book.”—Christopher Kokoski
• “The richest people are those who own books.”—Anonymous
• “You see, unlike in the movies, there is no THE END sign flashing at the end of books. When I’ve read a book, I don’t feel like I’ve finished anything. So I start a new one.”―Elif Shafak
• “There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.”—Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
• “To be absorbed by a book is pure bliss and solace.”—Anonymous
• “There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”—Christopher Morley
• “A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your morality.” –Anonymous

• “Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.”―R.L. Stine
• “A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.”―Neil Gaiman
• “The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.”―Malcolm X
• “Reading is an intellectual collision with minds greater than our own.”―Anonymous
• “When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”―Jane Austen
• “Unlike television, every book opens up new worlds that can be explored at our leisure and discretion.”―Anonymous
• “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.”—William Styron
• “There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.”—Gilbert K. Chesterton
• “When I open a book I open my heart and soul, too.”―Anonymous
• “I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.”―Arthur Conan Doyle
• “No two persons ever read the same book.”―Edmund Wilson
• “ Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”—Fernando Pessoa
• “The story is truly finished – and meaning is made – not when the author adds the last period, but when the reader enters.”―Celeste Ng
• “A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”—Lemony Snicket
• “Books stretch your limits, they make you think bigger and wider than ever before.”―Anonymous
• “In principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder.”―Gail Honeyman
• “Books are like little worlds that live between the pages.”―Anonymous
• “When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”—Hilaire Belloc
• “It is a good rule after reading a new book never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”—CS Lewis
• ”Words on paper can be just as powerful as any image or artwork.”—Anonymous

• “When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.”―Maya Angelou
• “Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”―Mark Twain
• “Books may well be the only true magic.”—Alice Hoffman
• “Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”―Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”—Francois Mauriac
• “If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”—Toni Morrison
• “The problem with books is that they end.”―Caroline Kepnes
• “When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.”—Desiderius Erasmus
• “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”—John Green
• “She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”—Annie Dillard
• “A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.”―Lisa Kleypas
• “A person who doesn’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.”―Mark Twain
• “Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.”—Jim Bishop
• “It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.”―Catherynne M. Valente
• “Maybe it’s possible to have more than one home. Maybe it’s possible to belong in a hundred different ways to a hundred different people and places.”―Emily Henry
• “Life without books would be like a summer without ice cream – so terribly boring!”―Anonymous
• “It’s not hoarding if it’s books―it’s collecting!”―Anonymous
• “Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.”―Khaled Hosseini
• “That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”—Jhumpa Lahiri
• “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”―Jorge Luis Borges

• “No matter how many times you read a good book, it will always surprise you with something new.”―Anonymous
• “I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else’s story, the delicious ache of a last page.”―Naomi Shihab Nye
• “People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”—Logan Pearsall Smith
• “I’m not a bookworm, I’m a book dragon!”―Anonymous
• “A book is like a garden carried in your pocket.”―Chinese Proverb
• “Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”―David Mitchell
• “A love of reading shows empathy, the desire to understand how others live or act or might act—and why.”—Celeste Ng
• “Books help you discover things about yourself that you didn’t know before.”―Anonymous
• “A book is a device to ignite the imagination.”―Alan Bennet
• “Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”―Diane Duane
• “The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.”—Abraham Lincoln
• “I met all my favorite boyfriends in books.”―Anonymous
• “Once I began to read, I began to exist. I am what I read.”―Walter Dean Myers
• “I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”—H.L. Mencken
• “Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.”—Mary Ann Shaffer
• “Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.”—Kate DiCamillo
• “No. I can survive well enough on my own — if given the proper reading material.”―Sarah J. Maas
• “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero
• “A good book has no ending.”―R. D. Cumming
• “We lose ourselves in books; we find ourselves there too.”―Anonymous

Check out this video of book lover quotes:

• “I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”―Orhan Pamuk
• “Books may well be the only true magic.”―Alice Hoffman
• “A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”—Madeleine L’Engle
• “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”―Oscar Wilde
• “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”―Harper Lee
• “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.”—Walt Disney
• “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”—C.S. Lewis
• “I believe there is power in words, power in asserting our existence, our experience, our lives, through words.”―Jesmyn Ward
• “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.”—Mortimer Adler
• “A house without books is like a room without windows – no light; all dark inconclusiveness.”―Henry Ward Beecher
• “It’s incredibly easy to slip away into another world with a book firmly in your grasp.”―Darren Shan
• “To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out Is a spark.”―Victor Hugo
• “The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.”―Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• “Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”―Anne Herbert
• “My alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”―Malcolm X
• “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”―Ray Bradbury
• “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… The man who never reads lives only one.”―George R.R. Martin
• “But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”—Jane Austen
• “I love the sound of the pages flicking against my fingers. Print against fingerprints. Books make people quiet, yet they are so loud.”―Nnedi Okorafor
• “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”—Stephen King

Final Thoughts: Best Book Lover Quotes

If you like reading (of course you do, you’re reading these quotes), then you might enjoy starting a book blog.

Or being an “alpha reader” for a writer.

If so, check out the articles I handpicked for you below.

Read This Next:

• 100 Best Black Hat Quotes (With Pictures)
• How To Start a Book Blog for Free (Ultimate Guide for 2023)
• How To Become an Alpha Reader (Easy Guide for Beginners)

Fortune & Frame

Built with love in NYC

• NEW ARRIVALS
• Necklaces & Pendants
• Letter Necklaces

Fortune Cookies

• Fortune Lockets
• Anniversary
• Our Story Fortunes Press Blog Contact Us FAQs Log in

Your Fortune Pack

• Add fortune or leave blank…

Save Your Fortunes

Create an account to save your favorite fortunes and build your own personal collection. Access them any time and add them to your orders.

Have an Account?

Your own private fortunes.

• × -->

Save your Fortunes

Save the fortunes you love! Just click on the heart icon ❤ and it will show up here. You can then add the fortune to your order.

Your Favorite Fortunes

• Best Sellers
• Necklaces (All)

By Collection

• Zodiac Signs

Fortune Lockets + Frames

Book Jewelry

• Anniversary Gifts

Gifts for Her

Gifts for Significant Others

Gifts for Mom

Gifts for Friends

50 Inspiring Quotes for Book Lovers

Calling all bibliophiles! Here, we’ve curated a variety of book lover quotes from our favorite authors for whenever you need an inspirational pick-me-up.

by Julia Mazzella

“Never judge a book by its cover”. It’s a popular quote and rightfully so since you don't know what the story's like until you read it, right? 

I try to live by this saying each day, but the ironic part is that I’m not a big reader. I wish I was. I wish that I could sit down, curl up with a good book and spend the day lost between the pages (I’ve always been jealous of those who can). Book lover or not, we are all authors. As we write the story of our own lives, we may erase ideas, tear out old pages, and like some chapters better than others. 

The best part: we are in control.

Whether you are a total bookworm or someone like me, who takes a bit longer to get through a story, books can be an escape from the real world.

What Book Quotes Mean To Book Lovers

Like all art forms, the words written on the pages of our favorite books can be interpreted in various ways. Book quotes simply or not hold different values to different people. For bookworms, lines from their favorite authors can captivate and help inspire the tales they live in their own lives. 

A book quote is a frame of mind. 

It is the monologue of a character, an explanation of a situation or a word of advice from the narrator. Above all, it has the power to move the story in a new direction.  A good book is nothing without its characters, big and small. Each person mentioned has a greater purpose, connecting different worlds in one story. We resonate with characters and the meaningful book quotes they share because oftentimes, we can relate to them in some form.

Authors often create their characters based off of people they know or even themselves. Maybe we haven’t traveled down the rabbit hole or are on a quest to defeat a snarling beast and rescue the damsel in distress, but there may be parts of us that are not so different. Maybe the way the character is described looks like us, have the same thoughts and values, or we are fighting similar battles. For book lovers , using their favorite book quotes is a form of escape, empowerment, and even reminder at times.  We’ve compiled our favorite, meaningful book quotes about all different genres of life…

Maybe you are a total travel junkie and enjoy reading your favorite books on the way to your next destination. You are constantly planning trips and trying new things—living life to the fullest. OR this just doesn’t apply to you at all. You may enjoy living vicariously through the lens of your favorite heroes and explorers. 

Regardless of how spontaneous you are in reality, I like to think a wanderlust spirit lives within all of us. We all want to live the nomad life, even though some of us barely leave our beds. The pandemic has definitely forced many of us, even the vagabonds, into this slump. But luckily, books allow us to travel the world with each new chapter. These adventurous book quotes will inspire you to book your next trip and hit the road…

• “Say the word 'quest' out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so full of wonder, so full of hope.” —Kate DiCamillo,  The Tale of Despereaux 
• “Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” —J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” —Mary Oliver, The Summer Day
• "There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars." —Jack Kerouac, On the Road
• “Not all those who wander are lost.” —J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
• “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974
• “See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” —Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
• “Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.”  ―John Green, Looking for Alaska
• “So much universe, and so little time." ―Terry Pratchett, The Last Hero
• “If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.” ―Nora Roberts, Tears of the Moon

_BOOK-BRACELET

We’ve all been there—a day, a week or even a month where we don’t feel like doing a single thing. You’ve got a list of things you have to get done and no energy to do it. It’s harder to get up in the morning and accomplish something, especially in this new reality we have been living in this past year. 

Daily quotes and reminders that you come across on Pinterest or Instagram may not cut it and won’t magically help (most of the time). But book quotes are different. Empowering quotes from stories have action behind them. 

We get to know the person who lives that life, the mind the words came from and the result of their actions. For book lovers , reading about someone’s burst of motivation, whether their situation relates to them or not, may inspire the reader to do the same. Get up, get moving, and go find what you are looking for. Get something done, even the smallest task. 

These book quotes will not only help move you forward, they can also provide a bit more wisdom to spark action… 

• “Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.” —Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
• “Begin at the beginning,” the King said, very gravely, “and go in till you come to the end: then stop.” —Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
• “Courage does not always roar. Valor does not always shine.” —Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone
• “The sun does not abandon the moon to darkness.” ―Brian A. McBride, Dominion
• “And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” —John Steinbeck, East of Eden
• “Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.” —Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
• “You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.” —Neil Gailman , Stardust
• "Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair." —Alexandre Dumas, fils, The Lady of the Camellias
• “Get smart and nothing can touch you.” ― S.E. Hinton , The Outsiders
• "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will." —Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

Books have the ability to take us to faraway places. With the power of imagination, each chapter can transport us to fantasy lands in the comfort of our own homes. The possibilities, really, are endless. 

Whether you are on your way to the wizarding world of Hogwarts, or have just opened the door to Narnia, these quotes will remind you that your imagination is limitless… 

• “When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.” —Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
• “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." —J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of The Ring
• “If something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn’t there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That’s why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.” —Norton Juster , The Phantom Tollbooth
• “Why sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” —Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
• “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.” —J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
• “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” ―Neil Gaiman, Coraline
• “If you built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” —Henry David Thoreau, Walden
• “Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worthwhile.” —Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables 
• “Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.” ―Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven 
• “But remember. Just because you don’t believe in something doesn’t mean it isn’t real.” —Katherine Howe, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

_BOOK-LOCKET 

Not only do books act as an escape from our own lives, they also have the power to shift our frame of mind—even on the rainiest of days when we can’t seem to get that dark, looming cloud to lift off your head. Optimistic book quotes can really change your frame of mind and remind us that sometimes happy endings do exist, even the littlest ones.

Maybe it’s naive and maybe I’m just living in a fairytale, but things can go from totally awful to not that bad with just a few lines that help change my outlook. 

Some problems are big and some are small, book quotes can help remind ourselves to put things in perspective. 

These quotes for book lovers will surely put a smile on their faces today… 

• “Laughter is poison to fear.” —George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
• “You must be the best judge of your own happiness.” —Jane Austen, Emma 
• “My home is not a place, it is people.” —Lois McMaster Bujold, Barrayar 
• “I shall take the heart,” returned the Tin Woodman; “for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.” —L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
• “Because survival is insufficient.” ―Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven
• “Things are never as bad as they seem.” —Harper Lee Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird 
• “I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.” ―Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
• “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” ―Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married
• “It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.” ―Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
• Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.” 
• ―Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

As the focus of countless classic stories, it felt wrong not to include book quotes on love in this roundup. Love is something that everyone can relate to, a universal language of appreciation for a special person.

First off: don’t get me wrong, everyone loves a good Nicholas Sparks romance novel and the saga that comes with it, but there are so many other forms of love that it’s a bit unfair to only concentrate on one genre. The love between best friends, family, and yes, significant others, has a special way of radiating off the pages of our favorite stories due to it’s consistent relevance. 

Love is never perfect in any relationship—some stories may seem like it, however, if you read between the lines you may come to the realization that perfect isn’t always the best. Another important relationship in stories iis how characters express self-love . I think that we can learn a lot from how characters feel about themselves, not only things that should be mimicked, but also things to avoid. 

We have the ability to grow in love with others and with ourselves however we please. These meaningful book quotes in love are perfect for sharing or keeping to yourself as daily reminders… 

• "We accept the love we think we deserve." —Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
• "You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful." —John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
• "We love the things we love for what they are." —Robert Frost, Hyla Brook
• “To love or have loved that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.” —Victor Hugo, Les Miserables 
• “Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made…” —Ursula K Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
• “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” ―Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
• “If you live to be a hundred, I want to like to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.” —A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh 
• “Who, being loved is poor?” —Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance 
• “The winds were warm about us, the whole earth seemed wealthier for our love.” —Harriet Prescott Spofford, The Amber Gods 
• “Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.” ―Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

Thoughtful Ways Of Using Book Quotes

Now that we have shared some of our all-time favorite book quotes with you, let’s put those words to good use—somewhere other than that 1st edition copy you have. 

Perhaps these quotes would be great to share with your favorite bookworm or you are the literary connoisseur yourself. 

The great part about these book quotes is that they each hold unique messages that guide us in some way. And you can add them anywhere, including…

• Write them in your journal.
• Personalize a canvas or print for your home.
• Gift a bookmark with the words written on.
• Add them to a card or letter.
• Write them inside a book gift.
• Put them on your phone wallpaper.

I could go on and on, but that’s the great thing about words like these book quotes : they never expire, you can interpret them in so many ways, and they can add a personal touch to any gift.

For more gifts and inspirational messages for book lovers, check out:

• Gifts for Book Lovers
• Famous Literary Quotes
• Heartfelt Messages to Write in a Book Gift

For book lover gifts, shop our selection of book bracelets  and book necklaces.

Julia Mazzella

Message Between the Lines

Speaking of book quotes, looking for a way to keep your favorite words close to you? Store ‘em inside our book bracelet designed to honor the moments and milestones along your personal narrative. 

Story of Your Own

Maybe you’ve written a noteworthy quote of your own. Store it inside our Book Locket to remind yourself of the saying—after all, your life is your story. 

From the Blog

These pieces are a great start for creating your own capsule jewelry collection to compliment your capsule wardrobe. Minimal, versatile, and it makes choosing your outfit for the day an actual breeze. Perfect pieces for any day to go anywhere.

The Reader’s Delight: 100 Best Book Lover Quotes

Affiliate Disclaimer

As an affiliate, we may earn a commission from qualifying purchases. We get commissions for purchases made through links on this website from Amazon and other third parties.

“The Reader’s Delight: 100 Best Book Lover Quotes” is a collection of inspiring and thought-provoking quotes that celebrate the joy of reading and literature.

For book lovers, there is nothing quite like the feeling of getting lost in a good book, and this collection captures that sentiment perfectly. Whether you are a lifelong reader or just starting to discover the joys of literature, these quotes are sure to inspire and delight.

From classic authors to modern-day celebrities, the collection features quotes from a wide range of voices. Some are humorous, some are profound, but all of them speak to the power of books to transport us to new worlds and expand our horizons.

Whether you are looking for inspiration to start a new reading habit or simply want to celebrate your love of books, “The Reader’s Delight” has something for everyone. So sit back, relax, and let these quotes remind you of the joy and wonder of reading.

The Essence of Book Love

Celebrating Bibliophilia

Book lovers, also known as bibliophiles, are a unique breed of people who have a deep and abiding love for books. They are often seen as eccentric, but their passion for reading is something to be celebrated. Bibliophiles find joy in the written word, and they appreciate the power of a good book to transport them to another world.

For many bibliophiles, collecting books is a hobby that brings them great joy. They take pride in their collections, and they love to share their favorite books with others. They also enjoy discussing books with other book lovers, and they often form book clubs and attend literary events.

Literary Joy and Personal Freedom

The love of books is not just a hobby, it is a way of life. For bibliophiles, reading is a form of personal freedom that allows them to escape from the stresses of everyday life. They find joy in the act of reading, and they appreciate the way that books can broaden their horizons and help them to see the world in a new way.

Books also provide a sense of comfort and security for many book lovers. They can turn to their favorite books again and again, finding solace in the familiar words and characters. This love of books can also inspire creativity, and many bibliophiles become writers themselves.

In conclusion, the essence of book love is a celebration of the written word and the joy of reading. Bibliophiles find personal freedom in their love of books, and they appreciate the way that books can broaden their horizons and inspire their creativity. Whether collecting books or discussing them with other book lovers, the love of books is a passion that is both personal and universal.

Influential Voices on Reading

When it comes to reading, there are many influential voices that have shaped the way we think about literature. From classic literary icons to contemporary authors, their thoughts and ideas on the subject have inspired and enlightened readers around the world. In this section, we will explore some of these voices and their insights on the joys and benefits of reading.

Classic Literary Icons

Jane Austen, the beloved author of classics such as “Pride and Prejudice” and “Sense and Sensibility,” once said, “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.” Her words reflect the sentiment that many readers share – that reading is a source of endless pleasure and enrichment.

Oscar Wilde, the renowned playwright and author of “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” also had much to say about reading. He believed that “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” His words remind us that the best books are those that we can return to time and time again, finding new meaning and enjoyment with each reading.

Contemporary Authors and Their Thoughts

In more recent times, authors such as Stephen King and J.K. Rowling have continued to inspire readers with their thoughts on the power of reading. King, the master of horror and suspense, has said that “Books are a uniquely portable magic,” highlighting the fact that reading allows us to transport ourselves to different worlds and experience new perspectives.

Rowling, the author of the beloved “Harry Potter” series, has also spoken about the importance of reading. She once said, “I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.” Her words capture the essence of what makes reading such a special and transformative experience.

In conclusion, the voices of these influential authors remind us of the many joys and benefits of reading. Whether we are reading classic literature or contemporary works, we can find inspiration, enlightenment, and pure enjoyment in the pages of a good book.

Quotable Insights from Diverse Genres

Fiction and Non-Fiction

The world of literature is vast, and there is a quote for every book lover, regardless of their preferred genre. From classic literature to contemporary fiction, here are some of the most insightful quotes from both fiction and non-fiction books.

• “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
• “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” – John Green, Looking for Alaska
• “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison, Non-Fiction

Essays and Poetry

Essay collections and poetry books are a treasure trove of beautiful and thought-provoking quotes. Here are some of the most memorable ones.

• “The only way to deal with fear is to face it head-on.” – Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
• “Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” – Dylan Thomas, Poetry
• “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs, Non-Fiction

Whether you’re looking for inspiration, wisdom, or just a good laugh, these quotes from diverse genres have got you covered.

Reading as a Transformative Experience

Reading has the power to transform a person’s mind, heart, and soul. It can transport readers to different worlds, introduce them to new ideas, and challenge their beliefs. In this section, we will explore how books serve as carriers of civilization and how life-changing literary quotes can inspire readers to make positive changes in their lives.

Books as Carriers of Civilization

Books have been a vital part of human civilization for centuries. They have preserved knowledge, history, and culture, and have allowed us to learn from the past. Reading books can help us understand the world around us and give us a sense of perspective. They can also provide us with a glimpse into different cultures and ways of life.

Books can also serve as a way to connect with others. They can be a source of comfort, inspiration, and empathy. Reading can help us feel less alone in the world and can help us understand the experiences of others.

Life-Changing Literary Quotes

Certain quotes from books have the power to stay with us long after we have finished reading them. These quotes can inspire us, challenge us, and motivate us to make positive changes in our lives. They can also serve as a reminder of the power of literature to transform us.

One such quote is from the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee: “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” This quote encourages readers to practice empathy and to try to understand others before making judgments.

Another life-changing quote is from the book “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho: “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” This quote reminds readers that they have the power to make their dreams a reality and encourages them to pursue their passions.

In conclusion, reading can be a transformative experience that can change the way we see the world and ourselves. Books serve as carriers of civilization and can help us connect with others. Life-changing literary quotes can inspire us to make positive changes in our lives and can remind us of the power of literature to transform us.

The Social and Cultural Impact of Reading

Friendship and empathy through literature.

Reading can be a solitary activity, but it also has the power to connect people. Sharing a love of books can create strong bonds between individuals, leading to new friendships and a sense of community. Book clubs and literary events provide opportunities for people to come together and discuss their favorite works, fostering a sense of belonging and connection.

In addition to promoting friendship, reading can also be an exercise in empathy. Through literature, readers are exposed to different perspectives and experiences, allowing them to better understand and relate to others. This can lead to increased compassion and a greater sense of social responsibility.

Literature in the Age of Digital Media

In the age of Instagram and television, it’s easy to forget the value of reading. However, literature remains a vital part of our cultural landscape. In fact, studies have shown that reading can improve cognitive function, reduce stress, and even increase empathy.

While digital media has its benefits, it’s important to remember the unique benefits of reading. Unlike other forms of media, books require active engagement and encourage deep thinking and reflection. They allow readers to slow down and fully immerse themselves in a story, leading to a more meaningful and fulfilling experience.

In conclusion, the social and cultural impact of reading cannot be overstated. From promoting friendship and empathy to improving cognitive function, literature remains a vital part of our lives. While digital media has its place, it’s important to remember the unique benefits of reading and to continue to promote its value in our society.

Latest posts

Achieving Your Word Count Goals with Daily Sprints: A Guide

Many writers struggle with meeting their word count goals, whether it’s for a school assignment, a blog post, or a novel. It can be frustrating to stare at a blank page or screen and feel like you’re not making progress. However, there is a technique that can help you achieve your word count goals and…

Beat Burnout: Setting Reasonable Writing Expectations

Writing can be a fulfilling and rewarding experience, but it can also be exhausting and draining. Writing burnout is a real phenomenon that can affect anyone, from professional writers to students. When writers push themselves too hard, they can experience stress, lack of motivation, and even physical symptoms like headaches and fatigue. To avoid burnout,…

Dealing with Criticism and Rejection as an Author: Tips and Strategies

As an author, receiving criticism and rejection is an inevitable part of the writing process. It can be difficult to navigate the emotions that come with having your work scrutinized, but it’s important to remember that criticism and rejection are not personal attacks. Instead, they are opportunities for growth and improvement. One way to deal…

50 Quotes for Book Lovers

We read to be inspired, liberated, and understood.

• Photo Credit: Sincerely Media / Unsplash

For those who love to read, there is no better feeling than being curled up with a book on a rainy afternoon or sifting through your local library on a Sunday morning, enveloped in the smell of old hardcovers and newly printed paperbacks. For others, it’s the unique joy of getting a new library card, or finally getting your hands on the next book in a series near and dear to your heart.

These quotes for book lovers capture all of those feelings and more. Whether you speed read through every work on Oprah Winfrey’s book list , or can’t remember the last time you read something at all, everyone can remember the moment they fell in love with a mind blowing book, powerful chapter, or quote—maybe even one of the quotes listed here.

With that in mind, here are some of the best quotes from fellow book lovers!

1. “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” ―Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

2. “The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.” - Alan Bennett

3. “‘A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies,’ said Jojen. ‘The man who never reads lives only one.’” ―George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

4. “The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”—Rene Descartes

5. “I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.”—Montesquieu

6. “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”—Ernest Hemingway

7. “But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”—Jane Austen

8. “That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”—Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake  

9. “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” - Mortimer J. Adler

10. "Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge." - Patrick Ness 

14 Fantastic Things That Can Happen at the Library

Sign up for the Early Bird Books newsletter and get the best daily ebook deals delivered straight to your inbox.

11. “Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting for one at the end of a long day makes the day happier.” – Kathleen Norris

12.  “Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.” – Lena Dunham

13. “One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.” – Carl Sagan

14.  “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” – Anna Quindlen

15. “I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.” – J.K. Rowling

16. “Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.” - Vera Nazarian

17. “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.” - Walter Cronkite 

18. “Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.” - John Green

19.  “Some like to believe it’s the book that chooses the person.” - Carlos Ruiz Zafón

20.  “If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.” – Toni Morrison

15 Inspiring Quotes About Writing

21. “Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.” - Mark Haddon

22. “You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.” - Paul Sweeney

23. “The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.” - W. Somerset Maugham

24. “I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget.” - William Lyon Phelps

25. “Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.”– Abraham Lincoln

7 Signs You're Going Through Book Withdrawal

26. “In the end, we’ll all become stories.” - Margaret Atwood​​

27. “Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.” –Mason Cooley

28. "I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card." - Laura Bush 

29.  “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” - Groucho Marx

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

15 Must-Read Books for Fans of Jane Austen

31. “Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life.’” – Helen Exley

32. “Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.” - Louis L’Amour

33. “Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.” - Henry David Thoreau

34. “It is both relaxing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book…from the reading of ‘good books’ there comes a richness of life that can be obtained in no other way.” ― Gordon B. Hinckley 

35. “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?” – Henry Ward Beecher

36. “I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once”. – C.S. Lewis

37. “Reading—even browsing—an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search.” - James Gleick

38. “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”  - Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

39. “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.” - John Green 

40. “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading” - William Styron

41.  “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. - Charles W. Eliot

42. “Books were my pass to personal freedom.” - Oprah Winfrey

43. “The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.”—Abraham Lincoln 

44. “Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.” - Annie Proulx

45. “No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.” - Mary Wortley Montagu

46. "I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of Library." - Jorge Luis Borges 

47. “A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.” - Abraham Lincoln

48. “Reality doesn’t always give us the life that we desire, but we can always find what we desire between the pages of books.” ―Adelise M. Cullens

49. “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” - James Baldwin

50. “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” ―Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

12 To Kill a Mockingbird Quotes to Make You Understand People

Featured photo: Sincerely Media / Unsplash

Get the best daily book deals delivered to your inbox

© 2024 OPEN ROAD MEDIA

• We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.

wisdom quotes trending all quotes

100 Reading Quotes Every Book Lover Can Relate To

By Maxime Lagacé

Maxime is the founder of WisdomQuotes. He has been collecting quotes since 2004. His goal? To help you develop a calm and peaceful mind. Learn more about him on his about page .

Here are 100 of the best reading quotes I could find. Hope it will spark your desire to read more books, or even better, to reread your favorite ones. Enjoy!

Reading is sowing. Rereading is the harvest. Johnny Uzan

The right book for the right person is not enough. It needs to be the right book, for the right person at the right time. Johnny Uzan

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. Dr. Seuss

The smarter you get, the slower you read. Naval Ravikant

We read books to find out who we are. Ursula K. Le Guin

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one. George R.R. Martin

You become knowledgeable by reading. You become strong by doing. You become wise by thinking. Maxime Lagacé

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. C.S. Lewis

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. Groucho Marx

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it. Oscar Wilde

Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book. Thomas à Kempis

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. C.S. Lewis

It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met. Yoshida Kenko

In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn’t read all the time – none, zero. Charlie Munger

A book is a dream that you hold in your hands. Neil Gaiman

• 100 Learning Quotes To Inspire You To Learn (Forever)
• 100 Knowledge Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective
• 100 Book Quotes Every Book Lovers Will Love

The Best Reading Quotes

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. Henry David Thoreau

I was raised by books. Books, and then my parents. Elon Musk (Tesla)

View reading as an investment. Naval Ravikant

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. Haruki Murakami

A novel worth reading is an education of the heart . It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is, of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness. Susan Sontag

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste. Voltaire

A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle. Vladimir Nabokov

Fools read popular books. The wise the ones they need. Maxime Lagacé

Reading for curiosity is better than reading for self improvement. Shane Parrish ( Source )

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand. Ezra Pound

I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once. C.S. Lewis

We read to know we are not alone. C.S. Lewis

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. Robertson Davies

At every moment, you should be reading the best book you know of in the world for you. Patrick Collison

Reading a book isn’t a race – the better the book, the slower it should be absorbed. Naval Ravikant

Reading is not a chore. Reading is theft. It is a robbery. Someone smarter than you has spent 20 years beating their head against the wall trying to solve the problem you’re dealing with. You can steal that hard-won knowledge and make it yours. That is power. @TheStoicEmperor

A book is something that can be read ten years after publication. A real book, twenty. Otherwise it is a magazine report with bookbinding. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

What a great treasure can be hidden in a small, selected library! A company of the wisest and the most deserving people from all the civilized countries of the world, for thousands of years, can make the results of their studies and their wisdom available to us. The thought which they might not even reveal to their best friends is written here in clear words for us, people from another century. Yes, we should be grateful for the best books, for the best spiritual achievements in our lives. Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are sensitized by the books we read. And the more books we read, and the deeper their lessons sink into us, the more pairs of glasses we have. And those glasses enable us to see things we would have otherwise missed. Alain de Botton

The quality of your thoughts is determined by the quality of your reading. James Clear

Reading: One of the best ways to upgrade human software. Shane Parrish

Remember: reading is a journey to find the great books for you. Johnny Uzan

Reading the whole book is not important, understanding what you are reading is. @AmuseChimp

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela

Part 2. Reading Quotes That Are…

The most famous reading quotes (mark twain, malcolm x, emerson, etc.).

Books are a uniquely portable magic. Stephen King

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly. Francis Bacon

My alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity . Malcolm X

When I wasn’t working, the weekends would usually find me alone in an empty apartment, making do with the company of books. Barack Obama

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. Albert Einstein

When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. Arthur Schopenhauer

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people. Will Rogers

I read myself to sleep every night. Charlie Munger (One of the richest man in the world)

I just sit in my office and read all day. Warren Buffett (One of the richest man in the world)

The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them. Mark Twain

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. Oscar Wilde

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. Voltaire

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. Malcolm X

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. René Descartes

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world. Napoleon Bonaparte

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read . It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive. James Baldwin

I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. Ralph Waldo Emerson

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. Robert Louis Stevenson

Reading brings us unknown friends. Honoré de Balzac

Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers. Steven Spielberg

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. Confucius

Short Reading Quotes

Go to table of contents

You are what you read. Shane Parrish

Sow the right seeds. Maxime Lagacé

Reading means borrowing. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

So many books, so little time. Frank Zappa

Beware of the person of one book. Thomas Aquinas

Most people don’t read. Or if they do, they’re just reading mind candy. Naval Ravikant

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. Margaret Fuller

Reading, reflecting, and meditating. Naval Ravikant (On where he gets his best ideas)

I guess there are never enough books. John Steinbeck

Go to bed smarter than when you woke up. Charlie Munger

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere. Mary Schmich

No two persons ever read the same book. Edmund Wilson

If they wrote it to make money, don’t read it. Naval Ravikant

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. G.K. Chesterton

One who believes all of a book would be better off without books. Mencius

Forget speed-reading. Anything worth reading is worth reading slowly. Johnny Uzan

Reading new books is overrated. Rereading good old books is underrated . D. Muthukrishnan

Inspirational Reading Quotes

A great book takes years to write but only hours to read. The reader nets the difference. Johnny Uzan

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. Jane Smiley

I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to be content with. Plato

60 minutes of reading. 60 minutes of exercise. 20 minutes of meditation. 140 minutes in total, each day. Will significantly change your how you feel for the remaining 1300 minutes of the day. @LifeMathMoney

Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn’t worth rereading. Susan Sontag

All of the smartest people I’ve met, regardless of where they received their formal education, were mostly self-taught, incredibly curious and voracious readers. Jim O’Shaughnessy

Through reading we discover the world, and through writing we discover ourselves. Unknown

But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone. Jonathan Franzen (How to Be Alone)

Reading is wise if you want to learn. Writing is wise if you want to think. Doing is genius if you want to be happy. Maxime Lagacé

Once you do come across a treasure chest, a life-changing book — throw all of this out the window. Do whatever you can to absorb it. Go all in. Johnny Uzan

Reading science, math, and philosophy one hour per day will likely put you at the upper echelon of human success within seven years. Naval Ravikant

Sit in a room and read – and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time. Joseph Campbell ( The Power of Myth , Amazon book)

The best moments in reading are when you come across something — a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things — that you’d thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you’ve never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it’s as if a hand has come out and taken yours. Hector (The History Boys)

Combine reading, thinking and doing and you become unstoppable. Maxime Lagacé

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading. William Styron

Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author’s words reverberating in your head. Paul Auster

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul. Joyce Carol Oates

If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I’ve gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time. Tom Peters

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1000 years. To read is to voyage through time. Carl Sagan

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. Criss Jami

Related : 10 Benefits of Reading: Why You Should Read Every Day (lifehack.org)

Part 3. Conclusion

To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That’s what lasts. That’s what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better. A better state of one’s feelings or simply the idea of a silence in one’s self that allows one to think or to feel. Which to me is the same. Susan Sontag

I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read. George R.R. Martin

Further Readings

• Topic: Education
• 100 Education Quotes That Will Inspire You To Keep Growing
• 65 Growth Mindset Quotes (To Improve Your Life)
• 75 Understanding Quotes To Bring Clarity Into Your Life
• 145 Thinking Quotes To Make You More Thoughtful
• A Helpful Guide to Reading Better (fs.blog)
• 77 Intelligence Quotes (From The Best Minds Ever)
• How To Learn Faster (Based on Science)

Table Of Contents

Part 1 Top 15 Images Best Reading Quotes

Part 2 Reading Quotes That ARE Famous Short Inspirational

Part 3 Conclusion

Was this helpful?

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." -Aristotle

Copyright © 2004-2024

Book lover quotes

A book lover is never alone, for they always have company in the characters of their favorite books.

Books are the windows to another world, where anything is possible.

A truly good book leaves you slightly different than how you were before.

A book lover can travel the world without ever leaving their seat.

Books are like old friends, always there to provide comfort and wisdom.

There is no better companion than a good book.

In books, we find the voice of the past and the vision of the future.

Books allow us to live many lives in one.

A book lover’s heart is filled with stories waiting to be discovered.

Books are the ultimate escape from reality.

A home without books is like a body without a soul.

Books are a treasure trove of knowledge, waiting to be explored.

When you open a book, you open your mind to new possibilities.

Books have the power to ignite the imagination and inspire the soul.

A book is a magic portal that transports us to far-off lands and unknown adventures.

Books are the best teachers, offering lessons and insights that stay with us forever.

A book lover’s heart is forever longing for the next great story.

Books have the power to heal a broken heart and mend a troubled mind.

In the world of books, we find solace and understanding.

Reading is the best way to exercise the mind and expand one’s horizons.

Books are the building blocks of a well-rounded individual.

A book lover knows that a book is a tangible piece of magic.

Books are the soundtrack to the movie that plays in our imagination.

Reading is a journey that takes us to places we could only dream of.

A book lover’s heart is forever restless, always searching for the next great story.

Books are the glue that holds society together, for they teach us empathy, compassion, and understanding.

A book can be a mirror that reflects our own struggles and triumphs.

Books guide us through the darkness and shine a light on the path ahead.

In books, we find our true selves and discover who we are meant to be.

A book is a piece of art that paints pictures in our minds.

Books have the power to change lives and shape the course of history.

A book is a friend that never judges, but instead accepts us for who we are.

Books are a refuge for the weary soul, offering comfort and solace in troubled times.

Reading is the key that unlocks the door to knowledge and understanding.

Books are bridges that connect us to people and cultures far beyond our own.

A book lover’s heart is filled with stories waiting to be shared with others.

Books teach us that the human experience is universal, regardless of time or place.

In books, we find kinship with characters who understand our deepest fears and wildest dreams.

A book is a symphony of words, playing a beautiful melody in our minds.

Books are the fuel that ignites the fire of curiosity and fuels the flames of imagination.

A book lover’s heart is forever young, always eager for the next adventure.

Books are a garden that blooms with wisdom and enlightenment.

In books, we find words that soothe the soul and heal the heart.

A book is a time machine that transports us to different eras and cultures.

Books are the companions that never leave our side, no matter how dark the night.

In books, we find inspiration to chase our dreams and conquer our fears.

A book lover’s heart is a library of stories waiting to be shared and explored.

Books are the canvas on which the colors of imagination come alive.

In books, we find answers to questions we didn’t even know we had.

A book is a treasure chest that holds the keys to unlocking the mysteries of the universe.

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.

You may like

Stay Positive Quotes – Uplifting Messages to Inspire and Motivate

Inspirational Spring Quotes

Best quotes in "quotes", intimacy without commitment is like icing without cake; it can be sweet, but it’s going to end up making you sick., opposites attract quotes.

Like fire and ice, opposites attract. In a world of black and white, opposites attract in color. Opposites attract like

Quotes to Embrace Forgiveness

Forgiveness is the key to unlocking the chains that bind our hearts. To forgive is not to forget, but to

Turning 30 quotes

Turning 30 is like opening a new chapter in the book of life. At 30, you are no longer a

Most popular posts

Funny gamer quotes.

Sorry, I can’t hear you over the sound of my victory dance. I may have lost the game, but I

Best Health Journey Quotes to Inspire Your Wellness Goals

Your health journey is a lifelong adventure. Embrace it with open arms. Inhale confidence, exhale doubt on your health journey.

Quotes about true love

True love is not found, it is built with patience and understanding. Love is not about how much you say

Quotes about Friends and Family

Family is not always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept

Write for Us

TheThingsWeSay

Personality Quizzes

ILikeToQuote

Unsubscribe

[email protected]

45 Beautiful Book Lover Quotes to Savour

By: Author Laura

Posted on Published: 2nd March 2021  - Last updated: 7th April 2024

Categories Book Quotes , Books

These quotes about loving books, written by classic and modern literary giants, are some of the most inspirational literary quotes ever written. If you’re a bookworm then you’ll love these 45 beautiful quotes for book lovers.

For book lovers, quotes can be a great way of taking you back to a favourite scene or passage without re-reading the entire chapter or novel.

The below slogans on reading range from classical literature quotes to modern book lover quotes – all brilliant, all noteworthy.

If you love literature more than anything then you’ll definitely be able to relate to these beautiful quotes about reading.

45 Best Book Lover Quotes

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”  ―  Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Books were safer than other people anyway.” ― Neil Gaiman,  The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”  ―  Ernest Hemingway

“You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.”  ―  Paul Sweeney

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”  ―  Cicero

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.” ― Saul Bellow

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.”  ―  George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.” ―  W. Somerset Maugham

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”  ―  Haruki Murakami

“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”  ―  Neil Gaiman

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”  ―  Anna Quindlen

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”  ―  Mark Twain

“When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.” ― Virginia Woolf

“A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.”  ―  Neil Gaiman

“Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”  ―  Marcel Proust

“Once you learn to read you will be forever free.”    ―  Frederick Douglass

“No two persons ever read the same book.”  ―  Edmund Wilson

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”  ―  Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!  

“So many books, so little time.”  ―  Frank Zappa

“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must be the one to write it.”  ―  Toni Morrison

“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”  ―  Oscar Wilde

“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.”    ―  Alberto Manguel

“I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.”  ―  Thomas Babington Macaulay

“Libraries are the wardrobes of literature.”  ―  George Dyer

“She is too fond of books and it has turned her brain.”   ―  Louisa May Alcott,  Work: A Story of Experience .

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”  ―  Annie Dillard

“Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled “This could change your life”.” ―  Helen Exley

“Endless lively conversations over endless cups of coffee in literary cafés”  ―  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”  ―  Stephen King

“The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented.”  ―  John F.W. Herschel

“Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.”  ―  Bill Watterson

“Books are the best type of the influence of the past.”  ―  William Wordsworth,  Personal Talk

“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.”  ―  Marcel Proust

“It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”  ―  C.S. Lewis

“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”  ―  Mason Cooley

“I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget.”  ―  William Lyon Phelps

“Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.”  ―  John Green

“A book is a device to ignite the imagination.”  ―  Alan Bennett

“Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”  ―  P.J. O’Rourke

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”  ―  C.S. Lewis

“You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy books and that’s kind of the same thing.”  ―  Anonymous

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”  ―  Henry Ward Beecher

“Read few books well.”  ―  John Horne Tooke,  Recollections of S. Rogers

“An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise.” ―  Thomas Wharton

“Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.”  ―  Roald Dahl

There you have some of the best book love quotes and quotes about bookworms by some of the world’s best authors, old and new! Which one did you like best? Do you have any favourites to share?

If you loved this post, check out these: Why the Book is Better than the Movie Best Dumbledore Quotes Best Normal People Quotes Throne of Glass Quotes A Court of Thorns and Roses Quotes A Court of Mist and Fury Quotes

Editor of What’s Hot?

Thursday 16th of June 2022

Good books lead people's good way

26 Quotes for the Ultimate Book Lover

If you're always reading a novel (or three), these are for you.

Alberto Manguel

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.

Annie Dillard

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

Betty Smith

The world was hers for the reading.

Jhumpa Lahiri

That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.

Malala Yousafzai

Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

Mark Haddon

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

Paul Sweeney

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

Beverly Cleary​

If you don’t see the book you want on the shelf, write it.

The story is truly finished — and meaning is made — not when the author adds the last period, but when the reader enters.

Colson Whitehead

What isn't said is as important as what is said.

Donna Tartt​

Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.

Dr. Seuss​​

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Emily Ruskovich​​

Poetic language is a way of giving the sense of an answer, just a sense of one, that the story itself is unable to provide.

George R.R. Martin​

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

Margaret Atwood​​

In the end, we’ll all become stories.

Anna Quindlen

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

Neil Gaiman​

A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.

J.K. Rowling

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

Stephen King

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

Mason Cooley

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

@media(max-width: 64rem){.css-o9j0dn:before{margin-bottom:0.5rem;margin-right:0.625rem;color:#ffffff;width:1.25rem;bottom:-0.2rem;height:1.25rem;content:'_';display:inline-block;position:relative;line-height:1;background-repeat:no-repeat;}.loaded .css-o9j0dn:before{background-image:url(/_assets/design-tokens/goodhousekeeping/static/images/Clover.5c7a1a0.svg);}}@media(min-width: 48rem){.loaded .css-o9j0dn:before{background-image:url(/_assets/design-tokens/goodhousekeeping/static/images/Clover.5c7a1a0.svg);}} 100+ Quotes For Any Occasion

Monday Motivation Quotes to Read ASAP

Inspirational 4th of July Quotes

47 Memorial Day Quotes to Honor Our Heroes

Anniversary Quotes That Celebrate All Love

44 Comforting Loss of Mother Quotes

Heartfelt Mother's Day Quotes

Inspirational Quotes to Start Your Day

129 Inspirational Graduation Quotes

126 Best Graduation Instagram Captions of 2024

78 Sweet and Silly Father's Day Quotes

Beautiful Quotes All About Friendship

Book Lovers Quotes

Recommended quote pages.

• Help Center
• B Board Book Club
• P Picture Book Club
• J Junior Chapter Book Club
• M Middle Grade Book Club
• Gift a Book Club
• B Book Registries
• Beautiful Collections
• C Classrooms
• B Book Fairs
• Schedule Demo

Book Platform

• Find a Book
• Reading App
• Community Editors

Authors & Illustrators

• Get Your Book Reviewed
• Submit Original Work

Follow Bookroo

Best 70 Book Quotes for Bibliophiles and Avid Readers

Ioanna Zafeiriou Quotes book titles , education and academic life , entertainment

Look at me! I can bring a smile on your face or a tear to your eye. I can fly you around the world and to far distant places. I can show you how things are done, reveal secrets and knowledge. For I am a book , an instrument of learning and awakening. That is more or less the message that’s hidden behind all these book quotes below.

Books can be truly amazing! They are the most loyal friends and expert mentors with a power to influence our thoughts and emotions and positively affect our lives. They ignite our imagination and function as doorways to other worlds, defying the limits of space and time. Books are simply a portal to magic!

They are quintessential in the development of our cognitive functions, molding our thinking and reasoning processes, challenging ideas and beliefs and therefore profoundly influencing who we become. Books help us expand our knowledge base through the acquisition of new concepts and competencies, are extremely beneficial for building up our vocabulary, reading and writing skills, and enhance our vivacity of expression.

Through a book we establish a mystical connection with its author, have the chance to get inside his mind and pick up the subtlest nuances. We get immersed in the narrative and actively intertwine with the characters, something that cultivates our empathy and adds depth to our emotional intelligence. Books are a heaven for our soul! They are the destination and the journey!

Here we have curated for you the most inspirational quotes on the value of books. Share them with your loved ones to enlighten and motivate them. Use them as a caption to add “depth” to your Instagram and social media posts! Reflect upon them, they are the next best thing to reading a book!

Table of Contents

Best book quotes that will make you appreciate their importance, passionate book lover quotes to stimulate enthusiasm for books, motivational reading books quotes on the knowledge and entertainment you get from them, famous book quotes that are full of wisdom, inspirational book quotes to think and reflect upon, book quotes about the peace and balance they bring to our life.

Here are the finest quotes about the key role books have in our life and culture.

• A book is a dream that you hold in your hand. Neil Gaiman
• A word after a word after a word is power. Margaret Atwood
• The best books… are those that tell you what you know already. George Orwell
• Books are a uniquely portable magic. Stephen King
• Books were my pass to personal freedom. Oprah Winfrey
• In the end, we’ll all become stories. Margaret Atwood
• Books may well be the only true magic. Alice Hoffman A room without books is like a body without a soul. Cicero
• Some books leave us free and some books make us free. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Patrick Rothfuss
• I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books. Gary Paulsen
• Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. Mark Twain
• ′Classic′ – a book which people praise and don’t read. Mark Twain
• Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself. Octavia E. Butler
• Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don’t you agree? Christopher Paolini
• If you don’t see the book you want on the shelf, write it. Beverly Cleary
• Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world. Napoleon Bonaparte
• One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time. Carl Sagan
• All I have learned, I learned from books. Abraham Lincoln
• Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. Jeremy Collier
• When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values. Simone de Beauvoir

A lot of people love reading, but some are fond of the book itself as an object. Be it the smell of the ink, the sound of turning the pages or the touch of the paper in your hands, these quotes will take you to the core of this feeling.

• She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain. Louisa May Alcott
• I love the smell of book ink in the morning. Umberto Eco
• She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. Annie Dillard
• A first book has some of the sweetness of a first love. Robert Aris Willmott
• I have always imagined paradise will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis Borges
• I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. Jane Austen
• Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? Henry Ward Beecher
• I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books. Jorge Luis Borges
• Five years from now, you’re the same person except for the people you’ve met and the books you’ve read. John Wooden
• What a blessing it is to love books as I love them; to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal! Thomas Babington Macaulay
• I love books. I adore everything about them. I love the feel of the pages on my fingertips. They are light enough to carry, yet so heavy with worlds and ideas. I love the sound of the pages flicking against my fingers. Print against fingerprints. Books make people quiet, yet they are so loud. Nnedi Okorafor
• My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read. Abraham Lincoln
• A status symbol is a book. A very easy book to read is The Catcher in the Rye. Walk around with that under your arm, kids. That is status. Vivienne Westwood
• Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else. Mark Twain

The following quotes are about the habit and the experience of reading. Books have the power to take us on a journey in space and time – once you start reading, you enter a magical world that everything is possible!

• No two persons ever read the same book. Edmund Wilson
• If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book. K. Rowling
• That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet. Jhumpa Lahiri
• A half-read book is a half-finished love affair. David Mitchell
• I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book. K. Rowling
• The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. Rene Descartes
• It is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially. Donna Tartt
• If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. Haruki Murakami
• I love the way that each book — any book — is its own journey. You open it, and off you go… Sharon Creech
• You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. Paul Sweeney
• A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading. William Styron

Here are some quotes by great people of the past and the present on the significance of books.

• Wear the old coat and buy the new book. Austin Phelps
• I guess there are never enough books. John Steinbeck
• Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world. Malala Yousafzai
• You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. S. Lewis
• A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one. George R.R. Martin
• Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks. Dr. Seuss
• Writing is nothing more than a guided dream. Jorge Luis Borges
• Soon, books will read you while you are reading them. Yuval Noah Harari
• If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it. Toni Morrison
• There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island. Walt Disney
• I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. Groucho Marx

A book is never just a book – it is a friend, a mirror, a door, a fresh view and a wonderful journey to the world. Read these inspiring quotes and choose the one you like to write the nicest inscriptions!

• A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. Charles Baudelaire
• Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you. Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night. Isabel Allende
• Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. Anna Quindlen
• Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world. Jeanette Winterson
• My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. Malcolm X
• The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. Pablo Neruda
• A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. Salman Rushdie
• Think of this – that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other. S. Byat
• The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. Oscar Wilde
• In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. Mortimer J. Adler
• Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. Henry Ward Beecher
• A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read it even twenty times, it can open us up, by cut or caress, to a new truth. Andre Dubus

These book quotes will educate you, make you think and maybe even provide you with an Instagram caption!

• We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Joan Didion
• Sleep is good, he said, and books are better. George R.R. Martin
• I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book. Benedict Cumberbatch
• The only thing you absolutely have to know is the location of the library. Albert Einstein
• Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. Jane Smiley
• Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book. Bill Patterson
• I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them. Emma Thompson
• When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes. Erasmus
• You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. Ray Bradbury
• Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. Anne Herbert
• Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people – people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book. B. White
• There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy. Henry Ford

If you like it, pin it!

You May Also Like:

132 Powerful Quotes About Education to Inspire Both Teachers and Students

160+ Quotes about Teachers and the Power of Teaching

Journeys on Paper | 224 Reading Quotes

Related Posts

Best 90 George Orwell Quotes on the Danger of Oppression

Characterized by a direct and lucid prose, uncluttered from literary devices that seek to please or entertain, George Orwell, was […]

To Kill A Mockingbird: 50 Unforgettable Quotes on Human Morality

Mockingbirds are known for their skillful ability to mimic not only the calls of other birds and animals, but also […]

60 Alice in Wonderland Quotes About Going Down the Rabbit Hole

“Alice in Wonderland” is a famous novel by English author and mathematician, Charles Dodgson, alias Lewis Carroll. The story was […]

80+ Fascinating Quotes To Inspire and Motivate College Students

College life is an exciting world of opportunities and represents a major milestone for everyone who has the chance to […]

30 It’s a Wonderful Life Quotes from the Classic Christmas Movie

It’s a Wonderful Life is a classic Christmas movie based on a book directed by Frank Capra in 1946. The […]

30+ Indelible Quotes from Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a romantic sci-fi movie written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Michel Gondry. […]

70 Inspirational Mentor Quotes to Help You Make a Leap from Good to Great

“To my father I owe my life, but to my teacher I owe the essence of my life”. These were […]

Best 82 Effort Quotes to Emphasize the Importance of Trying

Everybody dreams of getting the most out of life and becoming successful in his career, personal relationship, or in any […]

72 Keep Going Quotes that Will Boost Your Everyday Motivation

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” This famous quote by the […]

How Can You Resist These 45+ Mamma Mia! Quotes?

Mamma Mia! started off as a musical inspired by the music of the Swedish band ABBA, then it became a […]

70 Preparation Quotes to Motivate Prudent and Timely Action

We all dream big and want a successful life, but how do we prepare for it? Life is not full […]

75 Quotes about Knowledge to Inspire and Motivate you on your Pursuit of the Truth

As humans we are innately curious and inquisitive about everything around us, and in our search for answers we acquire […]

31 Quotes from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Robert M. Pirsig’s book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values was first published in 1974. […]

99 Graduation Quotes for a Day of True Achievements

Do you remember all the rushing in the morning to make it to class on time, or the late night […]

Best 50 How the Grinch Stole Christmas Quotes

Just as it happens with every Scrooge and Krampus, the list of all Christmas villains helps us realize the true […]

55+ Unbreakable Quotes from Sun Tzu’s Art Of War

While his work, the Art of War, is world-famous, the life of Sun Tzu is less well known. Traditionally, he […]

Best 60 Fight Club Quotes That Challenge Our Modern Lifestyle

It’s hard to believe David Fincher’s iconic 1999 movie “Fight Club” was at the time considered a commercial failure. However, […]

160+ Teacher Quotes to Demystify the Power of Teaching

Teachers, remember them? We’ve all had them and maybe even got to be one. Some of us may have grown […]

Discover 40 Inspiring Quotes for Book Lovers

Turtle quotes.

• 29th January 2023
• Inspirational Quotes , Instagram Quotes , Success Quotes

Last updated on February 2nd, 2023 at 05:52 am

Book lovers are a unique breed of individuals who possess a deep love and appreciation for the written word. They understand the power of books to transport us to different worlds, introduce us to new ideas and perspectives, and provide us with a source of endless entertainment and education. In celebration of these passionate readers, we’ve compiled a list of some of the best book-lover quotes to inspire and uplift .

These quotes come from some of the most famous authors, thinkers, and literary figures of all time. From the wise words of Maya Angelou to the wit and wisdom of Oscar Wilde, these quotes will resonate with book lovers of all ages and backgrounds. Whether you’re a lifelong bookworm or just starting to explore the world of literature, these quotes will remind you of the magic and beauty of books.

Whether you’re looking for inspiration to start your next book club, or simply want to remind yourself why you love reading, these book-lover quotes will do the trick. So, grab a cup of tea , find a comfortable spot to sit, and let these words remind you of the wonder and joy that books bring to our lives.

Best Book Lover Quotes

Whether you’re an avid reader, a book collector, or simply someone who appreciates the power of the written word, these quotes will resonate with you. From famous authors to everyday readers, these quotes capture the joy, wonder, and inspiration that comes from reading and connecting with literature. So grab your favorite book, and let’s dive in!

“We live for books.” UMBERTO ECO

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.” ERNEST HEMINGWAY

“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” MARK TWAIN

“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.” WALT DISNEY

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.” MADELEINE L’ENGLE

“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.” H.L. MENCKEN

“The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.” ABRAHAM LINCOLN

“Books may well be the only true magic.” ALICE HOFFMAN

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” NEIL GAIMAN

Motivational Book Lover Quotes

These motivational book-lover quotes will serve as a reminder of the power of literature to excite, elevate, and enhance our lives. From Jane Austen’s wisdom to Oscar Wilde’s humor, these quotes will remind you of why we enjoy books and the influence they can have on our lives. So grab a book and let these words remind you of the joy of reading.

“There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.” MARY ELLEN CHASE

“The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.” DAVID BAILEY

“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” TONI MORRISON

“That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.” JHUMPA LAHIRI

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” DR. SEUSS

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.” CARLOS RUIZ ZAFÓN

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.” WILLIAM STYRON

“Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood”. JOHN GREEN

“The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.” MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE

“You can get lost in any library, no matter the size. But the more lost you are, the more things you’ll find.” MILLIE FLORENCE

Famous Reading Quotes

Reading is a powerful tool that can transport us to new worlds, introduce us to new ideas and perspectives, and expand our understanding of the world around us. Throughout history, many famous figures have shared their love and appreciation for reading, expressing their thoughts and feelings through memorable quotes. These famous reading quotes are from authors, politicians, scientists, and artists, and offer impulse, encouragement, and a deeper knowledge of the power of the written word.

“I look at books as being a form of activism. Sometimes they’ll show us a side of the world that we might not have known about.” ANGIE THOMAS

“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” RENE DESCARTES

“Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.” MALORIE BLACKMAN

“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.” LEMONY SNICKET

“Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.” R.L. STEIN

 “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” RAY BRADBURY

“Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.” MARK HADDON

“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.” JOSEPH ADDISON

“A love of reading shows empathy, the desire to understand how others live or act or might act—and why.” CELESTE NG

Positive Book Lover Quotes

Here you will find a curated selection of inspiring and uplifting quotes from some of the world’s most renowned authors and literary figures. These positive book-lover quotes will remind you of the joy and wonder of reading, and the transformative power of books. So, sit back, relax, and let these words of wisdom transport you to a world of imagination and enlightenment.

“Some like to believe it’s the book that chooses the person.” CARLOS RUIZ ZAFÓN

“I love the sound of the pages flicking against my fingers. Print against fingerprints. Books make people quiet, yet they are so loud.” NNEDI OKORAFOR

 “I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.” J. K. Rowling

 “But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.” JANE AUSTEN

“I believe there is power in words, power in asserting our existence, our experience, our lives, through words.” JESMYN WARD

“Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting for one at the end of a long day makes the day happier.” KATHLEEN NORRIS

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” ANNA QUINDLEN

“Reality doesn’t always give us the life that we desire, but we can always find what we desire between the pages of books.” ADELISE M. CULLENS

In the end, it’s not the pages we’ve read that stay with us, but the memories we’ve made while turning them. Books have the power to transport us to new worlds, introduce us to new characters, and open our minds to new perspectives. They inspire us, challenge us, and provide endless entertainment. For the true book lover, there is nothing quite like the feeling of diving into a good book and getting lost in the story. So, let us embrace our love for books and continue to explore the vast world of literature that awaits us.

These Quotes by Notebook Movie Will Make You Fall In Love Again

Related Posts

• Business Quotes
• Entrepreneur Quotes
• Greatness quotes
• Inspirational Quotes
• Motivational Quotes
• Success Quotes

Billionaire Quotes That Define Success

• Kishan Kumar

• Celebrity Quotes
• Encouraging Quotes
• Positive Quotes

30 Andrew Tate Quotes That Inspire and Enlighten

• Quotes by Sportsperson
• Sports Quotes

Cristiano Ronaldo Quotes to Elevate Your Game and Spirit

• Agriculture Quotes

Agriculture Quotes to Cultivate Growth and Reflection

• Funny Quotes

Master Your Destiny: Life-Transforming Elon Musk Quotes

• Nitesh Kucchal

• Author Quotes

Zig Ziglar Quotes to Success

• karimbatran

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Discover more from turtle quotes, the best place for your daily quote needs.

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Type your email…

Continue reading

• Share on Facebook
• Share on Twitter
• Share on Pinterest
• Share on Email
• Subscribe to our Newsletter

40 Best Love Quotes From Books To Make Your Heart Happy

A way with words..

• Jill Zwarensteyn

Written on Apr 27, 2022

The greatest love quotes of all time can be found in the pages of our most beloved books. 

From classic novels that are the staples of literature to contemporary books that reflect popular culture, love is a constant theme throughout them all. It is timeless. It is universal.

Love speaks to all generations and cultures, and because of this, it has served as the inspiration for some of the most celebrated and respected works of literature. From Jane Austen to F. Scott Fitzgerald to Elizabeth Gilbert, love is a common thread no matter when their novels were written. 

RELATED:  100 Best Love Quotes That'll Make Anyone Believe In Love

Books also give us a feeling of love nostalgia.

In the era of dating apps and hookup culture that feel as though they have sucked the life out of romance, a quote about love from a great author is utterly refreshing. After all, no one can describe love quite like a writer. Their poetic words not only provide wonderful stories of love , but they inspire us to seek it for ourselves. 

Perhaps you have been single for a while and are  feeling bitter and frustrated about the modern dating world . Let the words of these timeless authors remind you that true love still exists, no matter how rare it may seem. 

Maybe you are in a relationship and are falling in love for the first time . These quotes about love are sure to speak to you.

Our world can feel harsh. It's good to be reminded of the joy in life and love is the best source of happiness out there.

These 40 love quotes from books will bring a smile to your face, warm your heart, and inspire you to never give up on love.

1. "do i love you my god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches." — william goldman, 'the princess bride'.

As you wish.

2. "And I'd choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I'd find you and I'd choose you." — Kiersten White, 'The Chaos of Stars'

3. "In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." — Jane Austen, 'Pride & Prejudice'

Say how you feel.

4. "Traveling is the great true love of my life... I am loyal and constant in my love of travel. I feel the way about travel the way a happy new mother feels about her impossible, colicky, restless newborn baby - I just don't care what it puts me through. Because I adore it. Because it's mine. Because it looks exactly like me." — Elizabeth Gilbert, 'Eat Pray Love'

Discovering what you love in life. 

5. "Gatsby looked at Daisy in a way that every young girl wanted to be looked at." — F. Scott Fitzgerald, 'The Great Gatsby'

How lucky to find someone like that.

6. "Here's to all the places we went. And all the places we'll go. And here's to me, whispering again and again and again and again: I love you." — John Green, 'An Abundance of Katherines'

Now that's a toast.

7. "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." — Emily Bronte, 'Wuthering Heights'

Soul mates. 

8. "'How do you spell love?' 'You don't spell it. You feel it.'" — A. A. Milne, 'Winnie the Pooh'

That's the truth.

9. "I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, every day we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours." — Nicholas Sparks, 'The Notebook'

10. "I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be." — Charles Dickens, 'Great Expectations'

Love knows no reason.

11. "You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how." — Margaret Mitchell, 'Gone with the Wind'

Yes, please.

12. "Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and in sickness it would still be dear." — Charlotte Bronte, 'Jane Eyre'

I love all of you.

13. "You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not." — Jodie Picoult, 'My Sister's Keeper'

Love is not about being perfect.

14. "You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful." — John Green, 'The Fault in Our Stars'

The hope and joy that love brings.

15. "I think... if it is true there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts." — Leo Tolstoy, 'Anna Karenina'

Every love is unique.

16. "Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition." — Madeleine L'Engle, 'A Wrinkle in Time'

Follow your heart.

17. "Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience." — Harper Lee, 'To Kill a Mockingbird'

You have to love yourself first before loving others.

18. "You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope... I have loved none but you." — Jane Austen, Persuasion'

My only love.

19. "Who, being loved, is poor?" — Oscar Wilde, 'A Woman of No Importance'

Love is true wealth.

20. "Did my heart love till now? Foreswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night." — William Shakespeare, 'Romeo and Juliet'

When you first see your true love.

RELATED:  101 Romantic Quotes For People Who Are In Love

21. "Balance, my darling, is not letting anybody love you less than you love yourself." — Elizabeth Gilbert, 'Eat Pray Love'

Know what you deserve.

22. "I wish I had done everything with you." — F. Scott Fitzgerald, 'The Great Gatsby'

The person I want to experience life with.

23. "I ached all over for her; I leaned my head in her beautiful hair. Her little shoulders drove me mad; I hugged her and hugged her. And she loved it. 'I love love,' she said, closing her eyes. I promised her beautiful love. I gloated over her. Our stories were told; we subsided into silence and sweet anticipatory thoughts. It was as simple as that. You could have all your Peaches and Bettys and Marylous and Ritas and Camilles and Inezes in this world; this was my girl and my kind of girlsoul, and I told her that." — Jack Kerouac, 'On the Road'

That perfect connection.

24. "If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you." — Joan Powers, 'Pooh's Little Instruction Book'

For when you want to tell them you mean forever.

25. "When he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of Heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun." — William Shakespeare, 'Romeo and Juliet'

That magical feeling of falling in love. 

26. "Love is patient. Love is kind. It does not envy. It does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered. It keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres." — 1 Corinthians 13:4-8

How would you describe love?

27. "You're mad. Bonkers off your head...but I'll tell you a secret...all of the best people are." — Lewis Carroll, 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'

Love your unique madness. 

28. "You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are." — John Green, 'The Fault in our Stars'

Those who love us can see what we may not see in ourselves. 

29. "You have bewitched me body and soul and I love, love, love you." — Jane Austen, 'Pride and Prejudice'

I put a spell on you...

30. "I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul." — Charles Dickens, 'A Tale of Two Cities'

Good to know.

31. "Love looks not with the eyes." — William Shakespeare, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'

Love is blind.

32. "He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking." — Leo Tolstoy, 'Anna Karenina'

Love is a powerful force.

33. "She is a mortal danger to all men. She is beautiful without knowing it, and possesses charms that she's not even aware of. She is like a trap set by nature - a sweet perfumed rose in whose petals Cupid lurks in ambush! Anyone who has seen her smile has known perfection. She instills grace in every common thing and divinity in every careless gesture." — Edmond Rostand, 'Cyrano de Bergerac'

When you're completely smitten. 

34. "Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again."

"'hell,' i said, 'i love you enough now. what do you want to do ruin me'", "yes. i want to ruin you.", "'good,' i said, 'that's what i want too." — ernest hemingway, 'a farewell to arms'.

Take the leap of love together.

35. "Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar: but never doubt I love." — William Shakespeare, 'Hamlet'

My love is true.

36. "You see, until I met you, I had only ever experienced desire. Love, never." — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses'

Real love is a game-changer.

37. "It is better to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all." — William Makepeace Thackeray, 'Vanity Fair'

Don't be afraid to take a chance on love. 

38. "Soul meets soul on lovers' lips." — Percy Bysshe Shelley, 'Prometheus Unbound'

Kissing sparks. 

39. "By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her." — Samuel Richardson, 'Clarissa, or the History of a Young Lady'

The craziness of love.

40. "I wanted to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me." — F. Scott Fitzgerald, 'Benediction'

When you need someone in your life. 

RELATED:  25 Quotes That Remind You What It Was Like To Fall Madly In Love

Jill Zwarensteyn is a writer and Michigan native who covers trending topics, pop culture, and astrology. When she's not writing for YourTango, she is also a travel blogger and actress.

Our Newsletters

Get the best of YourTango delivered straight to your inbox — the biggest stories, actionable advice & horoscope predictions!

50 Swoon-Worthy Love Quotes from Books

Mary Kay McBrayer

Mary Kay is a belly-dancer, horror enthusiast, sideshow lover, prose writer, Christian, and literature professor from south of Atlanta. Her true crime novel, America’s First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster is available for pre-order, and you can hear her analysis (and jokes) about scary movies on the podcast she co-founded, Everything Trying to Kill You. She can be reached at [email protected] .

View All posts by Mary Kay McBrayer

One of the best things about love quotes from books is that writers so well articulate the experience of being in love that you start to fall in love a little—whether or not you are actually in a relationship! They make you nostalgic, they make you swoon, and they make you yearn. What I have assembled below are some of the best literary quotes about love. These are—to me—the best love quotes from books, whether the books are of poetry , individual poems , novels, or even nonfiction.

The Marquis dusted off the Italian theorbo. He restrung it, tuned it with a perseverance that could be understood only as love, and once again accompanied the songs of the past, sung with the good voice and bad ear that neither years no troubled memories had changed. This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. “It is true,” he replied, “but you would do well not to believe it.” — Of Love and Other Demons   by Gabriel García Márquez

Physical attraction? Not a real thing. If, at thirty-six years old, I’m sitting over here talking about chiseled abs and perfect teeth, then I am undeserving of genuine romantic love. — We are Never Meeting in Real Life   by Samantha Irby

I was able to squirrel away 4,213 of Fusun’s cigarette butts. Each one of these had touched her rosy lips and entered her mouth, some even touching her tongue and becoming moist, as I would discover when I put my finger on the filter soon after she had stubbed the cigarette out; the stubs, reddened by her lovely lipstick, bore the unique impress of her lips at some moment whose memory was laden with anguish or bliss, making these stubs artifacts of singular intimacy. — The Museum of Innocence   by Orhan Pamuk

Other people seemed to turn up their volume when Sula was in the room. More than any other thing, humor returned. She could listen to the crunch of sugar underfoot that the children had spilled without reaching for the switch; and she forgot the tear in the living-room window shade. Even Nel’s love for Jude, which over the years had spun a steady gray web around her heart, became a bright and easy affection, a playfulness that was reflected in their lovemaking. — Sula   by Toni Morrison

If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down. — Romeo and Juliet   by William Shakespeare

Now and then my heart wanders off like a tomcat. It comes back later, it always comes back, who am I kidding?I don’t control it. I may control it. I really don’t know. — “My Pet Heart” by Emily Hipchen

For the first eighteen years we were together, I’d give Hugh chocolates for Valentine’s Day, and he’d give me a carton of cigarettes. Both of us got exactly what we wanted, and it couldn’t have been easier. Then I quit smoking and decided that in place of cigarettes I needed, say, an eighteenth-century scientific model of the human throat. It was life-size, about four inches long, and, because it was old, handmade, and designed to be taken apart for study, it cost quite a bit of money. “When did Valentine’s Day turn into  this ?” Hugh asked when I told him that he had to buy it for me…“Eventually, we’ll celebrate by spaying a few dozen kittens,” I said, “but until that day comes,  I want that throat .” — “Understanding Owls” by David Sedaris

“Do you want to untie the ribbon?” I ask him. “After these many years, is that what you want of me?” — Her Body and Other Parties   by Carmen Maria Machado

He was too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. — Love in the Time of Cholera   by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

I do not think that they will sing to me. — “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot

…by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare. —”Sonnet 130″ by William Shakespeare

I love you ’cause I changed my life to love you because you saw me one Friday afternoon and decided that I would — “Resignation” by Nikki Giovanni

and possibly i like the thrill of under me you so quite new — [i like my body] by E.E. Cummings

and if he wants to leave then let him leave you are terrifying and strange and beautiful something not everyone knows how to love. —”For Women Who are Difficult to Love” by Warsan Shire

I wish I knew how to quit you. — BrokeBack Mountain  by Annie Proulx

Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. — Hamlet  by William Shakespeare

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. — Wuthering Heights  by Emily Brontë

We loved with a love that was more than love. —” Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe

Always. — Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows   by J.K. Rowling

He had written to her just before he sailed for America. The  Queen’s Pride  was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love you. Like that.) — The Princess Bride   by William Goldman

You don’t love because, you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults. — The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

That any one should care in this heat whose flushed lips he kissed, whose head made damp the pajama pocket over his heart! — The Great Gatsby   by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you. — Everything Is Illuminated   by Jonathan Safran Foer

But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires. —”Araby” by James Joyce

Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows. Man lies in the woman’s womb only to gather strength, he nourishes himself from this fusion, and then he rises and goes into the world, into his work, into battle, into art. He is not lonely. He is busy. The memory of the swim in amniotic fluid gives him energy, completion. Woman may be busy too, but she feels empty. Sensuality for her is not only a wave of pleasure in which she is bathed, and a charge of electric joy at contact with another. When man lies in her womb, she is fulfilled, each act of love a taking of man within her, an act of birth and rebirth, of child rearing and man bearing. Man lies in her womb and is reborn each time anew with a desire to act, to  be . But for woman, the climax is not in the birth, but in the moment man rests inside of her. — The Diary of Anaïs Nin , Vol. 1: 1931–1934  by  Anaïs Nin

Marrying a woman for her beauty makes no more sense than eating a bird for its singing. But it’s a common mistake nonetheless. — Cold Mountain   by Charles Frazier

My love for you is frightening, Maha. Like Antar Ibn Shadad, I gallop towards metal eagles because I see a glimpse of your face there, our children’s faces and the high foreheads of the Arabs. — Pillars of Salt   by Fadia Faqir

Holding hands, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together. — The History of Love  by Nicole Krauss

The seeds of courtly love were imported in part from the Arab countries, the style and sentiment of whose poetry delighted troubadors in southern France. Howewomen differed from the idealized and longed-for women of the harem—Frenchwomen were available. — A Natural History of Lov e   by Diane Ackerman

Shug say, Us each other’s people now, and kiss me. — The Color Purple   by Alice Walker

(Y)ou might have wounded someone you love, you might have woken the neighbors, you might have pushed your voice until it sounds cartoonish and alien, but this scream of yours, if it comes from deep enough inside you, it is your best bet. — Let Me Clear My Throat   by Elena Passarello

June, take everything from me but not Henry. Leave me Henry. He is not necessary to you. You do not love him as I do today. You can love many men. I will love only a few. For me, Henry is rare. — Henry and June   by Anais Nin

I can’t let him go. I can’t. There must be some way to bring him back. Oh, I can’t think about this now! I’ll go crazy if I do! I’ll think about it tomorrow. But I must think about it. I must think about it. What is there to do? What is there that matters? Tara! Home. I’ll go home. And I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all…tomorrow is another day! — Gone with the Wind   by Margaret Mitchell

He looked back at her. She saw his eyes, tense and brilliant, fierce, not moving. But her will had left her. A strange weight was on her limbs. she was giving way. She was giving up. — Lady Chatterly’s Lover   by D.H. Lawrence

In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. — Pride and Prejudice   by Jane Austen

Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips. — Prometheus Unbound  by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Who, being loved, is poor? — A Woman of No Importance   by Oscar Wilde

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves. —” Blood Wedding and Yerma” by Federico García Lorca

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking. — Anna Karenina   by Leo Tolstoy

You can’t own a human being. You can’t lose what you don’t own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don’t, do you? And neither does he. You’re turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can’t value you more than you value yourself. — Song of Solomon   by Toni Morrison

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand. — Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by  Dorothy Allison

There is a loneliness that must be particular to monsters, I think, the feeling that each is the only child of a species. And now that loneliness was over. — Vampires in the Lemon Grove   by  Karen Russell

To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude. — The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake   by Aimee Bender

He knew only that the child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke. — The Road   by Cormac McCarthy

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy. — The Count of Monte Cristo   by Alexandre Dumas

The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can’t love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little. — The Kite Runner   by Khaled Hosseini

“Maybe…you’ll fall in love with me all over again.” “Hell,” I said, “I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?” “Yes. I want to ruin you.” “Good,” I said. “That’s what I want too.” — A Farewell to Arms   by  Ernest Hemingway

Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover’s inward eye. — The Bluest Eye   by Toni Morrison

What did we miss? What are some of your favorite literary quotes about love?

You Might Also Like

65+ Quotes About Love from Much-Loved Authors

Searching for just the right words to express how you feel about the one you love? We've gathered quotes on love from some of the world's most admired authors to inspire you.

While saying "I love you" speaks volumes, there are times when you yearn to express your feelings for a loved one—whether a cherished friend, serious crush, or your soul mate—in a way that's more creative, more eloquent, more memorable...in a word: quotable . For those times, there's no better source to turn to than great authors.

To help you find the perfect love quote for your special someone, we've collected some of most tender, most romantic, and most passionate quotes from some of the world's most-loved authors. How many touching, meaningful, and oh so beautiful ways can you say "I love you"? Here are 65:

Longing to be with your lover so much it hurts? These quotes capture the sweet torment of being madly in love.

1. "I can’t sleep, I can’t eat, I can’t do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him, all day I wait to see him, and when I do see him my heart turns over and I think I will faint with desire." - Philippa Gregory , The Other Boleyn Girl

2. "The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity." - George Orwell, 1984

3. "One thing never changed: the brilliant charge of their infrequent couplings was darkened by the sense of time flying, never enough time, never enough." - Annie Proulx , Brokeback Mountain

4. "I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed." - A.S. Byatt , Possession

5. "By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her." - Samuel Richardson , Clarissa

6. "You pierce my soul. I am half agony. Half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever." - Jane Austen , Persuasion

7. "If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody." - James Baldwin , Giovanni's Room

8. "Explain my preference! I never had a PREFERENCE for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living." - George Eliot , Middlemarch

9. "I love you more than I hate everything else." - Rainbow Rowell , Landline

10. "Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you." - Ernest Hemingway , A Farewell to Arms

Swoon-worthy

Does the mere thought of your lover make your heart beat faster? These quotes reflect the rapture of romance.

11. "I have for the first time found what I can truly love—I have found you. You are my sympathy—my better self—my good angel." - Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

12. "He sweeps her hair back from her ears; he swings her above his head. He says she is his émerveillement. He says he will never leave her, not in a million years." - Anthony Doerr , All the Light We Cannot See

13. "Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book." - Michael Ondaatje , The English Patient

14. "‘Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again. Hell,' I said, 'I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me? Yes. I want to ruin you. Good,' I said, 'That's what I want too.’"- Ernest Hemingway , A Farewell to Arms

15. "Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?" - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie , Half of a Yellow Sun

16. "I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be." - Charles Dickens , Great Expectations

17. "You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought." - Arthur Conan Doyle , The White Company

18. "In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." - Jane Austen , Pride and Prejudice

19. "I love you more than words can wield the matter, Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty." - William Shakespeare , King Lear

20. "If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more." - Jane Austen , Emma

21. "For you, a thousand times over." - Khaled Hosseini , The Kite Runner

22. "I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul." - Charles Dickens , A Tale of Two Cities

Warm and Wonderful

Does that special someone lift your spirits and fill your life with sunshine? These quotes express the warmth and wonder of love.

23. "This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie , Half of a Yellow Sun

24. "You are sunlight through a window, which I stand in, warmed." - Jessie Burton , The Miniaturist

25. "Her love was entire as a child’s, and though warm as summer it was fresh as spring." - Thomas Hardy , Far From the Madding Crowd

26. "All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity." - D.H. Lawrence , Lady Chatterley's Lover

27. "He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking." - Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

28. "When someone loves you it's like having a blanket all round your heart." - Helen Fielding , Bridget Jones's Diary

29. "He understood everything she did not say, which at its core was: Don't let go ." - Celeste Ng , Everything I Never Told You

30. "I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand." - Benjamin Alire Saenz , Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

31. "I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once." - John Green , The Fault in Our Stars

32. "Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved." - Alice Walker , The Color Purple

33. "For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home." - Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

34. "You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me." - Cassandra Clare , City of Glass

35. "Why should one not enjoy in a light-hearted sort of way stories of ladies and gentlemen who fall in love and express their feelings for each other, often in most elegant phrases?" - Kazuo Ishiguro , The Remains of the Day

Destined and Forever Devoted

Do you believe that you and your significant other were meant to be together for eternity? These quotes affirm that sentiment.

36. "We’ve loved each other so long I’ve never been a man and not loved her." - Sarah Perry , The Essex Serpent

37. "My own one, I have never loved anyone in the world but you." - Oscar Wilde , The Importance of Being Earnest

38. "If I were to live a thousand years, I would belong to you for all of them. If we were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one." - Michelle Hodkin , The Evolution of Mara Dyer

39. "I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together." - Lisa Kleypas , Blue-Eyed Devil

40. "It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight." - Vladimir Nabokov , Lolita

41. "That the last two letters in her name were the first two in his, a silly thing he never mentioned to her but caused him to believe that they were bound together." - Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth

42. "I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life." - Ian McEwan , Atonement

43. "Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear." - Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

44. "I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me." - Veronica Roth , Allegiant

45. "I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love." - Gabriel García Márquez , Love in the Time of Cholera

46. "What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life—to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?" - George Eliot , Adam Bede

47. "So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you." - Paulo Coelho , The Alchemist

48. "I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, every day we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours." - Nicholas Sparks , The Notebook

49. "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." - Emily Brontë , Wuthering Heights

50. "Here's to all the places we went. And all the places we'll go. And here's to me, whispering again and again and again and again: I love you." - John Green , An Abundance of Katherines

From outstanding authors, these quotes ponder the meaning of love and its incredible power.

51. "Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface." - Truman Capote , Other Voices, Other Rooms

52. "It is better to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all." - William Makepeace Thackeray , Vanity Fair

53. "Love sought is good, but given unsought is better." - William Shakespeare , Twelfth Night

54. "Love lets you find those hidden places in another person, even the ones they didn’t know were there, even the ones they wouldn’t have thought to call beautiful themselves." - Hilary T. Smith , Wild Awake

55. "When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance." - Oscar Wilde , The Picture of Dorian Gray

56. "People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life." - Elizabeth Gilbert , Eat, Pray, Love

57. "Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all." - Toni Morrison , Beloved

58. "You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It’s not overrated. There’s a reason for all those songs." - Sarah Dessen , This Lullaby

59. "The love between humans is the thing that nails us to this earth." - Ann Patchett, This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

60. "Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel." - Neil Gaiman , Stardust

61. "Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind." - Toni Morrison , Paradise

62. "Love is a great beautifier." - Louisa May Alcott , Little Women

63. "It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love." - Graham Greene , The End of the Affair

64. "You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not." - Jodi Picoult , My Sister's Keeper

65. "When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another." - Oprah Winfrey , What I Know for Sure

70+ Memorable Sylvia Plath Quotes About Life and Love

Find your memorable Sylvia Plath quote from this collection of selected works and passages from one of the 20th century’s most tragic and brilliant writers.

The lushest romance listens for "Bridgerton" fans

Pining for the return of the swoon-worthy Netflix series? Here's our list of romance audiobooks like Bridgerton that fans are bound to fall for.

The top 100 romance books of all time

From forever classics to modern-day favorites, 100 happily-ever-afters await you on our list.

Outlander's Best Love Scenes

The beloved romance series Outlander is adored by millions for its compelling characters and rich plot, but it’s also known for its steamy love scenes. Here are a few of our favorites.

The 15 Most Romantic Harry Potter Quotes

• Love plays a crucial role in the Harry Potter franchise, from saving Harry's life to forming strong relationships between characters.
• Romantic quotes in the series highlight the power of love and the enduring nature of relationships throughout the story.
• Various characters in the series, like Ginny, Hermione, and Ron, express deep and heartfelt feelings of love that resonate with fans.

The Harry Potter franchise is full of important themes of messages such as family, friendship, hope, and, of course, love, both platonic and of a more romantic nature. The Harry Potter franchise is thought of as more of a fantasy coming-of-age story than a story of love, but love provides the foundation of Harry's world when his mother's love saves his life as a baby. Harry repeatedly sees how love triumphs as his friends fall for one another and love brings a bright spot to the middle of the wizarding war.

As is the case with so many of the deeper issues explored by the Harry Potter films and books , there is a slew of romantic quotes that will leave a smile on the faces of fans and leave them appreciating the power of love. Many of the Harry Potter love quotes are more so nuggets of wisdom about love and its power , but there are definitely some lines of in-the-moment romance that will leave fans both happy and maybe even slightly jealous of what they have.

Harry Potter: 10 Most Enjoyable Relationships To Watch, According To Reddit

The relationships in the Harry Potter franchise offer a variety of intrigue and emotions, and these 10 Redditor picks examine the best.

You Are Protected, In Short, By Your Ability To Love!

Albus dumbledore.

Love isn't just the theme of many great Harry Potter quotes, but it's a core element of all the books and movies. Love is what separates Harry from Voldemort, with Voldemort's power stemming for his unlimited lust for power, fear of death, and capacity for hate. On the other hand, both Harry's unwavering determination to stop Voldemort and the ancient magic that prevented Voldemort from killing him more than once all stem from Harry's capacity both to love and be loved.

This Harry Potter love quote from Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Halfbood Prince perfectly encapsulates this fact. Dumbledore doesn't just imply that Harry's ability to love is a great defense against everything Voldemort tries to demoralize him, he states that it's a key reason Voldemort will always struggle to harm him. It may not be the most romantic Harry Potter quote, but it is the one which best demonstrates how important love is to the overall story.

"I Never Really Gave Up On You."

Ginny weasley.

This Harry Potter love quote comes from the woman Harry ultimately ends up with — Ginny Weasley. It's a line she says to him in the Harry Potter and the Halfblood Prince novel, and comes at an incredibly touching moment. Harry ultimately knows he has to break up with Ginny until Voldemort is truly defeated, as worrying about her will make his task that much more difficult. Ginny takes the news incredibly maturely, though does take the time to explain to him that she'd waited for him for years, and would continue to wait if that's what it took.

Ginny always believed that sooner or later she and Harry would end up together.

Ginny reveals that Hermione had advised her several years prior to live her life and not wait around for Harry, but Ginny never gave up hope. Even though they both had other partners, such as when Harry dated Cho Chang, Ginny always believed that sooner or later she and Harry would end up together. It's an incredibly sweet moment, even if it does come when they're parting ways, and shows why she was always right for Harry.

And I Heard it. A voice. Your Voice, Hermione. You Said My name And I Knew It Was Going To Take Me Where I Needed To Go.

Ron weasley.

This is one of the most touching Harry Potter love quotes to stem from Ron and Hermione's long-gestating relationship. It comes in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows when the emotional effect of one of Voldemort's Horcrux's leads to Ron leaving Harry and Hermione to finish the search by themselves. However, once out of the range of its effects, Ron immediately realizes he's made a terrible mistake and desperately tries to find his friends again (a difficult task, since the trio had originally taken several measures to ensure being found was all-but-impossible).

However, thanks to the Deluminator given to Ron by Dumbledore, he was able to locate Harry and Hermione. More specifically, he was able to find Hermione, due to his intense love for her. Ron was far from in touch with his feelings — a fact Hermione would often scold him for — but this was a key point in their relationship as it showed just how much Ron cared for her deep down.

"Numbing The Pain For A While Will Make It Worse When You Finally Feel It."

Albus Dumbledore is responsible for many great Harry Potter love quotes in both the books and movies, but one of his most profound comes from J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. This quote doesn't directly come from a romantic moment — on the contrary, Dumbledore says this to Harry after he returns to Hogwarts following the death of Cedric Diggory and the resurrection of Voldemort. However, it's also a quote that fits as perfect advice for those mourning a lost love.

Ultimately it's better in the long run to face the upset head-on, as delaying those feelings will only serve to intensify them.

Dumbledore is incredibly wise, and here he gives Harry the sound advice that time cannot heal wounds until those they're inflicted on face the pain they cause. While it may feel like it's easier to try and numb oneself to the hurt caused by a failed romance, ultimately it's better in the long run to face the upset head-on, as delaying those feelings will only serve to intensify them.

Harry Potter: Albus Dumbledores 10 Wisest Quotes

Albus Dumbledore found a place in Harry Potter and its spin-off, especially loved for the wisdom he imparted generously.

"Ginny Seemed Very Prone To Knocking Things Over Whenever Harry Entered A Room."

The narrator (j.k. rowling).

Harry and Ginny may end up together by the end of Harry Potter, but Harry's feelings for his best friend's younger sister didn't emerge for several years. The same cannot be said for Ginny, however, who had a phenomenally large crush on Harry from the moment the two met. This Harry Potter romance quote comes from when Harry first arrives at the Weasley home in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. While it may not be the most profound line about love in the series, it's certainly one of the most astute.

It's completely believable that young Ginny — who would go on to be a fierce Quidditch player and so is by no means clumsy — would become something of a klutz whenever Harry was around. It's a moment that accurately portrays the effects of burgeoning romantic feelings at such a young age. This may be a relatively minor moment of romantic subtext in Harry Potter, but it's definitely one of the most funny and adorable.

Severus Snape

As far as romantic quotes go, this may well be the most controversial that the Harry Potter franchise has to offer. However, that is perfectly in line with Snape, who is more often than not the franchise's most controversial character. This Harry Potter romance quote comes from one of Snape's memories as he confesses to Albus Dumbledore that he still loves Lily Potter.

To those who love this quote and the moment surrounding it, Snape's iconic admission of " Always " could be the Wizarding World's most romantic line.

The unrequited feelings Snape has for Lily Potter are among the most complex aspects of the Harry Potter franchise. From one point of view, Snape's adoration and deep-rooted care for Lily is beautiful; from another, it is obsessive and creepy . Nevertheless, to those who love this quote and the moment surrounding it, Snape's iconic admission of " Always " could be the Wizarding World's most romantic line.

"The Ones Who Love Us, Never Truly Leave Us."

Sirius black.

Love is a key theme throughout Harry Potter, though it's not just romantic love that's importanct, but familial and other kinds of platonic love too. A handful of wonderfully delivered quotes on love in the Harry Potter movies may not necessarily be said about romantic love but cannot help but be thought about in that sense , such as this from Sirius. He might be talking about the loss of Harry's parents, but the quote can apply to plenty of other relationships.

For both family and romance, it is the very same message; those who are loved do not leave as they stay in the hearts and the memories of those who loved them. It is a lovely message from Sirius to his godson, and this softer side to his personality is what has drawn so many fans to adore him.

"What Do I Care How He Looks? I'm Good Looking Enough For The Both Of Us."

Fleur delacour.

Harry and Ginny may be the most well-known couple in the Harry Potter books and movies, with Hermione and Ron being a close second, but many of the sweetest relationships are actually those between background characters. While Fleur Delacour and Bill Weasley's romance may not be the most popular in the eyes of the latter's family, nor the most prominent relationship in the Potter films , they are a strong unit and gave fans this incredibly romantic quote.

It is a line that will resonate with many, showcasing that looks in a romantic partnership are far from the most important thing

This Harry Potter love quote is not just great for its obvious romantic implications, but also because it is pretty funny from the former Beauxbatons student. It is a line that will resonate with many, showcasing that looks in a romantic partnership are far from the most important thing and that the love will stay there even if one person wrongly feels as though their physical appearance is not good enough for their partner.

"Oh, To Be Young And Feel Love's Keen Sting."

Dumbledore may be an incredibly Stoic character at points, but he's shown more than once that he's a firm believer in love, romance, and the importance of matters of the heart. As he does for most of life's most meaningful aspects, Albus Dumbledore has many quotes regarding love that can definitely be taken as appreciation for the romantic. He offers his own observations on the love blossoming among his teenage students, seemingly looking back on love fondly.

This Harry Potter love quote from Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Halfblood Prince is in response to Ron saying Hermione's name and not Lavender's while unconscious from an accidental poisoning. It's a comment not only on young love and the infatuation many teens get wrapped up in, but also on the risk that comes with love and how incredibly worth it that risk is more often than not.

10 Harry Potter Relationships As Taylor Swift Songs

Taylor Swift is the queen of romantic songs, and her sparkling tunes capture exactly the type of sweet and enduring love that Harry Potter depicted.

"When You Have Seen As Much Of Life As I Have, You Will Not Underestimate The Power Of Obsessive Love."

Horace slughorn.

Many of the characters either know first-hand or will come to know the immense power of love, with Horace Slughorn demonstrating himself to be one of those people with this incredibly memorable Harry Potter love quote. Professor Slughorn demonstrates that he's both intelligent and observant many times throughout his appearances in the movies, though he often uses his intelligence for selfish gains instead of to help his students.

It is great to think that when it is true, consuming, obsessive love, the depths of its power can never get counted out.

There appear to be few things, if anything, more powerful than love, and with all of his life experience, Slughorn is aware of this. It is great to think that when it is true, consuming, obsessive love, the depths of its power can never get counted out. It's especially powerful given that it comes from Slughorn, one of the greatest potions makers who ever lived, and an incredibly knowledgeable wizard. Few wizards know the true extent of power as thoroughly as Slughorn, so if he vouches for love as one of the most powerful forces, then it must certainly be true.

"But She Wants You."

Arthur weasley.

Hermione and Ron or Harry and Ginny may be the more well known romantic couplings in Harry Potter, but they're far from the only characters who end up together. Tonks and Lupin may well be one of the most beloved relationships among Harry Potter fans despite its severe lack of depth and screentime in the films. Tonks and Lupin fall in love during the war, but Lupin tries to avoid his feelings for her, believing she deserves better than him.

This Harry Potter romance quote from Arthur Weasley is one of the many great moments involving them in the books — one that many feel should have been in the movies . This is Arthur's reply to Lupin when Lupin says Tonks deserves better than him, a fear so many have. Arthur's response encapsulates what can so often make romance so incredible; of all the people Tonks could have, she chose Lupin and loved them despite what flaws Lupin thinks he has, and that is a beautiful thing.

"And Without Thinking, Without Planning It, Without Worrying About The Fact Fifty People Were Watching, Harry Kissed Her."

The romantic spark between Ginny and Harry in the films has so often been bombarded with criticism for not existing — a fair assessment — but in the Harry Potter books, it is a far more enjoyable and natural pairing. As Ginny grows up and out of her awkward shyness around Harry, the two become friends in the novels. Harry grows to have feelings for her as well.

A moment that far exceeds anything the films showcase between the two.

This quote from Harry Potter and the Halfblood Prince is not from the mouth of a character but rather just a written passage that showcases the passion and the lack of care that can come in moments of pure romance. Harry was just consumed by his desire to kiss Ginny, and with a brilliant air of spontaneity, he did just that, creating a moment that far exceeds anything the films showcase between the two.

"It Is Impossible To Manufacture Or Imitate Love."

For all the wonders of magic and potions in the Potter movies , not everything can be perfectly replicated, and love is at the top of that list, being a natural thing that can never be matched by something synthetic. Being a master of potions, Slughorn is better aware of this than most others, and the point that he puts forward is wholly romantic. The idea that love is so raw, so beautiful, and so powerful that to make any attempts to imitate it would be futile is one many can take solace in. Love cannot be created or stopped.

This might seem like it contradicts the existence of love potions in the world of Harry Potter , but that's not the case. Slughorn knows that love potions don't last. It's one of the more subtle Harry Potter love quotes, but also one of the most powerful. It shows that, for all the great things magic can do in the wizarding world, there's no substitute for genuine affection.

"So It's Now Or Never, Isn't It?"

Fans have their thoughts on the many romances in the Harry Potter books and movies, including that between Ron and Hermione. There's a school of thought that believes Harry and Hermione should have ended up together, and the debate around this is one of the fiercest in the Harry Potter fandom. However, there is no denying the romance oozing from their climactic kiss in the books.

The whole excerpt is incredibly touching.

What is so great about it is how it is triggered — by Ron, mid-battle, saying that the heroes should tell the House Elves to leave Hogwarts, to flee to safety rather than stay and be killed or fight. Even though Harry shuts the kiss down due to the Battle of Hogwarts still raging around them, Ron musters this response. They may die, so Ron knows if he doesn't show his love for Hermione he might not get a second chance. The whole excerpt is incredibly touching.

Harry Potter: Ron & Hermione's Relationship Timeline, Movie By Movie

Ron and Hermione are one of the central couples of Harry Potter, but their budding relationship definitely had its ups and downs.

"Do Not Pity The Dead, Harry. Pity The Living, And Above All, Those Who Live Without Love."

The best and most profound Harry Potter love quote comes, somewhat unsurprisingly, from the franchise's wisest character — Albus Dumbledore. Dumbledore lived a long life, experiencing all the trials and tribulations it had to offer, and at the end of it, despite all the controversy and divisiveness surrounding him, he valued the most important ideas, such as friendship and love.

This may well be his best quote on the latter. Life without love is far worse than death , and even though that may be a scary thought for many, there is love all around people, whether that be platonic, familial, or romantic. The dead experienced that love and therefore have no need to be pitied. It is those like Voldemort who live a life void of all love that should get that. This line isn't just one of the best Harry Potter love quotes, but also one of Dumbledore's most poignant.

The Harry Potter movies are available to stream on Max.

Harry Potter

Harry Potter is a multimedia franchise about an orphaned boy who enrolls at Hogwarts School of Wizardry, where he learns the truth about himself, his family, and the terrible evil that haunts the magical world. Adapted from the novels, Harry Potter is an eight-episode film saga that follows the journey of Harry Potter and his friends, Hermoine Granger and Ron Weasley, as they navigate the tricky world of growing up, school life, and magic. Starting from year one and moving to their seventh year, the films chronicle the students' time at Hogwarts while unfurling a sinister plot that centers around the unsuspecting Harry. With the return of the dark wizard, Voldemort, the students and professors at Hogwarts will fight to carry on as the world around them may change forever. Harry Potter has expanded beyond the world of its films and novels with several video games, a spin-off film series titled Fantastic Beasts, and even attractions at Universal Studios.

Created by J.K. Rowling

Cast Alfred Enoch, Katie Leung, Dan Fogler, Jason Isaacs, David Tennant, Ralph Fiennes, Ezra Miller, Mads Mikkelsen, Gary Oldman, Tom Felton, Eddie Redmayne, Richard Harris, Harry Melling, Matthew Lewis, Oliver Phelps, James Phelps, Bonnie Wright, Evanna Lynch, Imelda Staunton, Michael Gambon, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson, Emma Watson, Warwick Davis, Timothy Spall, Rupert Grint, Robbie Coltrane, Maggie Smith, Katherine Waterston, Jude Law, Jamie Campbell Bower, Helena Bonham Carter, David Thewlis, David Bradley, Daniel Radcliffe, Alison Sudol, Alan Rickman

First Film Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

First TV Show Harry Potter

Character(s) Dobby the House Elf, Ginny Weasley, Rubeus Hagrid, Sirius Black, Minerva McGonagall, Ron Weasley, Voldemort, Harry Potter, Dumbledore, Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger