Burned Books Quotes

#1. Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.

Heinrich Heine

#2. Everything is a burned book, my dear maestro. Music, the tenth dimension, the fourth dimension, cradles, the production of bullets and rifles, Westerns: all burned books.

Roberto Bolano

#3. He wondered if burned books made a special kind of smoke that clung to the world forever, in the same way that a book, once read, clings to its reader forever.

Suzanne Selfors

#4. Where books are burned in the end people will be burned too.

Heinrich Heine

#5. I am Envy ... I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

Christopher Marlowe

#6. Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

Heinrich Heine

#7. He ran his finger down the hardcover keyboard of book spines. Individual memories of each, particularly his first experience with every title, burned through him

Mike Robinson

#8. I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long. She edited out, maybe burned, every single photograph where I'm naked.

Marina Abramovic

#9. In your books I have flung myself into the bottomless pit, performed miracles, slain, burned towns, preached new religions, conquered whole kingdoms

Anton Chekhov

#10. In a recent fire Bob Dole's library burned down. Both books were lost. And he hadn't even finished coloring one of them.

Jack Kemp

#11. Julius Caesar burned down a library?" I asked. "Fucker.

Rose Christo

#12. I would like to save all books, those that are banned, those that are burned, or forgotten with contempt by the mandarins who want to tell us what is good and what is bad. Every book has a soul ... and I believe every book is worth saving from either bigotry or oblivion.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#13. Well, the man who first translated the bible into English was burned at the stake, and they've been at it ever since. Must be all that adultery, murder and incest. But not to worry. It's back on the shelves.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#14. The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#15. Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too.

Heinrich Heine

#16. No one will write books once they reach heaven, but there is an excellent library, containing all the books written up to date, including all the lost books and the ones that the authors burned when they came back from the last publisher.

Evelyn Waugh

#17. What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

Sigmund Freud

#18. There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.

Ray Bradbury

#19. I hope people of the future will remember my books for being burned, and I challenge an elite few to imagine the embers of the last copy.

Bauvard

#20. I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed --
and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.

John Dawkins

#21. Books and men left the same traces where they burned. The

Rachel Caine

#22. I KNEW I MUST do all as I was told, yet something burned inside me, a seed of defiance that must have derived from a long-ago ancestor. Perhaps my mind was inflamed from the books I had read and the worlds I had imagined.

Alice Hoffman

#23. e-books "smell like burned fuel

Ray Bradbury

#24. Books are burned, they will, in the end, burn people, too.

Joel C. Rosenberg

#25. You write your books. You scatter your seeds. Rats might eat them, or they might rot. In California, some seeds lie dormant for decades because they only germinate after fire, and sometimes the burned landscape blooms most lavishly.

Rebecca Solnit

#26. It followed then that when Hitler burned a book I felt it as keenly, please forgive me, as his killing a human, for in the long sum of history they are one and the same flesh.

Ray Bradbury

#27. A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be hated, but when books are burned the ultimate in tyranny has happened. This we cannot forgive.

John Steinbeck

#28. My books, at any rate, deserved to be burned.

Alfred Doblin

#29. Books can be burned," croaked Black.
"They have a way of rising from the ashes," said Andreus.

James Thurber

#30. I didn't like seeing books damaged. I'd seen enough burned-out schoolhouses and libraries in my first life.

Andrew Smith

#31. Prepare yourself for some bad news: Ronald Reagan's library just burned down. Both books were destroyed. But the real horror: He hadn't finished coloring either one of them.

Gore Vidal

#32. Once I had opened a book and read its pages, those characters could never be taken away from me. Even if the books were burned, they would still live on in my mind.

Jennifer Wilson