Top 94 Quotes About Life Is Like A Book
#1. Life is like a book written with lots of surprises,
Spell it wrongly and you'll be spilled otherwise.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#2. Life is like a book. Some of the pages you want to rip out and others you want to keep. I've been ripping out a lot of pages lately, getting rid of the ugly stuff. The stuff that's left behind isn't as bad as I thought it was.
R.K. Ryals
#3. Life is like a book son. And every book has an end. No matter how much you like that book you will get to the last page and it will end. No book is complete without its end. And once you get there, only when you read the last words, will you see how good the book is.
Fabio Moon
#4. Life is like a book. It is your decision to narrate it or to live it
Gabriela Rodriguez
#5. Life is like a book. There are good chapters, and there are bad chapters. But when you get to a bad chapter, you don't stop reading the book! If you do ... then you never get to find out what happens next!
Brian Falkner
#6. Life is like a book starts with title similar to your personal names, begins to give you pleasure with each and every different chapters, and finally ends with lesson learned, leaving you in loneliness again.
Santosh Kalwar
#7. There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages on which you can spend your time. But I prefer to think that a book is like a life, particularly a good one, which is well to worth staying up all night to finish.
Daniel Handler
#8. life is like a book. some chapters are sad, some are happy, and some are exciting, but if you never turn the page... you will never know what the next chapter holds
Unknown
#9. Life is like a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself.
Marianne Williamson
#10. A life is like a book of many chapters and topics. Which Chapter are is your life?
Elizabeth Adeniyi
#11. Anyone who tells you her life is like a book has either been reading some bad books or is not being straight with you or herself about her life.
M.J. Andersen
#12. I've learned that life is like a book. Sometimes we must close a chapter and begin the next one.
- Hanz, Age 13, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, December 8
R.J. Palacio
#14. I really like Google+ it's much better than face book. The only game you can play on it is life. Which is a game that can only be played and never won.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#15. Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.
Julien Green
#16. Don't take purposeless people as your leaders. Their life is like an empty book with a nice cover paper and you have attempted to buy it. Of which use will it be to you for you to read blank pages.
Israelmore Ayivor
#17. The ability to forget is a blessing, just like memory is.
Marwane Caber
#18. Here's hoping this book will give wishful actors everywhere the inspiration and encouragement they need follow their dream. They need to know what the life of a working actor looks like and that it is possible to have a successful acting career and a full life without becoming a celebrity or star.
Debbie Zipp
#19. What draws me in is that a trip is a leap in the dark. It's like a metaphor for life. You set off from home, and in the classic travel book, you go to an unknown place. You discover a different world, and you discover yourself.
Paul Theroux
#20. The real reason why I should not like to be in the book trade for life is that while I was in it I lost my love of books. A bookseller has to tell lies about books, and that gives him a distaste for them.
George Orwell
#21. Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which is identical for everyone, and need only be turned up like a page in an account-book or the record of a will; our social personality is created by the thoughts of other people.
Marcel Proust
#22. JACK KIRBY is also the central personage of this novel because this is not a good novel. This is a seriously mixed-up book with a central personage who never appears. The plot, like life, resolves into nothing and features emotional suffering without meaning.
Jarett Kobek
#23. Everything I've ever felt, but could never put into words, is poetically orchestrated through Mat Devine 's writing. In a lonely world, a book like this will make you feel like you belong. Simply put, Weird War One changed my life.
Kat Von D.
#24. It is a peculiar thing to believe that you know someone intimately only to find that you really do not. It is like finishing a book only to discover that you have missed several key chapters.
THE LETTER Chapter 9 page 104
Richard Paul Evans
#25. It's interesting that in the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, the only practical advice given about living a meaningful life is to find a job you like, enjoy your marriage, and obey God. It's as though God is saying, Write a good story, take somebody with you, and let me help.
Donald Miller
#26. I've read somewhere in a book when something happens that is unbearable to you, sometimes, time stops. Like your inner clock just stops working, even if the world keeps spinning you will stand still for the rest of your life.
Katja Michael
#27. The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired.
Milton Berle
#28. The value of a story like 'Deadline' is kids get to look at death at the perfect distance. They can put the book down. They can experience the story, rub up against it, but it's not real life.
Chris Crutcher
#29. Just at the moment he's writing a book on famine - goodness! it's sad - and there's a dear little Chinese comrade who comes and tells him what famine is like, you never saw such a fat man in your life.
Nancy Mitford
#30. Reading a book is like life: you live it one page at a time.
Ronald E. Yates
#31. A book without conversation, is like a life without friends, you know it's going to end, but you want it to be soon.
Ken Balneaves
#32. Lizzie Harris's Stop Wanting is an unflinching book about a girlhood filled with violence, doubt, vulnerability, and loss. These gorgeously crafted and hauntingly memorable poems are a bleak place full of life, prayer, and the kind of answers only poems like these can provide.
Rachel Zucker
#33. A book collection is a cross between a Rorschach test and This Is Y our Life. It marks your life clearly like rings on a tree.
Margo Kaufman
#34. Life is to short and dull not to have a book you like in hand.
Peter Richards
#36. Make use of this tool of communication by which God speaks to us - namely, the Bible! Read it, study it, memorize it. It will change your entire life. It is not like any other book. It is a "living" book that works its way into your heart, mind, and soul.
Billy Graham
#37. A book is like a person, and one's reaction to a person invariably has more to do with one's own personality and life experience than with the actual person herself.
Chandler Burr
#38. Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life ... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend.
Dave Kellett
#39. It's hard sometimes, especially with a book like 'Scorch Trials,' to truly adapt to the way the book is because so many of the scenes that take place in the book are really graphed and painted for the imagination. Trying to bring that to life is a really big task.
Dexter Darden
#40. A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song, but your true love is the one you make a life with and write more than a line about, you write a whole book.
Garrison Keillor
#41. To be able to talk to your heart's content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about it is one of the greatest joys that life can offer.
Haruki Murakami
#42. Life is just like a book. Only after you've read it do you know how it ends. It is when we are at the end of life that we know how our life ran. Mine, until now, has been black. As black as my skin. Black as the garbage dump where I live.
Carolina Maria De Jesus
#43. Get a peek at what married life is like for Layken and Will in This Girl, the third book
Colleen Hoover
#44. Your image as a model is your currency. That's the only thing you've got. No one cares what you look like in real life. Nobody is going to say the make up guy was terrible. They will say, you look awful and let's not book her again.
Iman Abdulmajid
#45. 'Suttree' is a fat one, a book with rude, startling power and a flood of talk. Much of it takes place on the Tennessee River, and Cormac McCarthy, who has written 'The Orchard Keeper' and other novels, gives us a sense of river life that reads like a doomed 'Huckleberry Finn.'
Jerome Charyn
#46. It's like you're a character in this book that everyone around you is writing, and suddenly you have to say, 'I'm sorry, but this role isn't right for me'. And you have to start writing your own life and doing your own thing.
David Levithan
#47. That is what makes it all so fascinating, you see. Loving you is like gravity or the daily sunrise. It is a mystery that I know I will be content to explore for the rest of my life.
Amanda Quick
#48. There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
Anais Nin
#49. Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.
Holbrook Jackson
#50. Just like so many things in life, the secret to writing a book is just sticking with it. Put in the time and eventually a book will make itself known.
Jeffrey Littorno
#51. The Angel of Death took the woman's frail hand. "Don't be afraid." she said. "Life is your past. Death, on the other hand, is your soul preparing for a new beginning. A brand new adventure, if you like." An excerpt from Paradox - Equilibrium. Book 4 in the Paradox series (release date 2013)
Patti Roberts
#52. Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
#53. Every step towards Education is important , Just like every lighting lamp remove a bit of darkness from this world
Tushar Upreti
#55. I feel like my life is a book, and someone turned the page before I was ready, and now I can't follow the story.
Rachel Vincent
#56. If tragedy does not ensnare a man, if affliction does not agitate him, if love does not lay him down in the cradle of dreams, then his life is like a blank, white page in the book of existence. In that year I saw the
Kahlil Gibran
#57. But, I think that the reason I responded to this book, sort of paradoxically, is that it starts out like The Big Chill, sort of. Four friends, who are not quite happy with their life, and every year they get together for a week and look for some comfort from each other.
Lawrence Kasdan
#58. Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another.
Marianne Williamson
#59. Publishing a new book is like adding anything new to your life--marriage, a child, a new job, a new house. It takes time to adjust to a different status.
Annette Wood
#60. I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.
George Konrad
#61. Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.
Edward Abbey
#62. She told fortunes for a living. It's a wacky book and was great fun to write. It is very much a look at what life was like for women in Australia in the 1960's.
Colleen McCullough
#63. Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
Charles Caleb Colton
#64. A good book is like a stream, with which we can flow slowly, playfully, it lets us savor the joy of weaving the magic of lovely thoughts, revealing the secrets of life with beautiful words.
Balroop Singh
#65. Superciliousness is not safe after all, because a person who forms the habit of wearing it may some day find his lower lip grown permanently projected beyond the upper, so that he can't get it back, and must go through life looking like the King of Spain.
Booth Tarkington
#66. Life's like a book: What matters is the hook.
Be it short or long, just live it strong.
Whether it's five stars, or how near or far, just soar!
Ana Claudia Antunes
#67. Well, the truth is, we hope that this book will do just that. I like to think of it as idiot encouragement. Take a chance in life. Set a goal for yourself and make it happen.
Patrick Schulte
#68. A book is just like life and anything can change
Dr. Seuss
#69. Energy is a being yet is not. For it to materialise it must be pure thus it turns into a crystal like form.
That is the true being of the Elders and the Three Immortal Blades.
And your body has been cursed with it.
Max Jacket- The Three Immortal Blades
Kia Carrington-Russell
#70. Life is like reading a book ... Sometimes when you need to move forward you just have to start the next chapter.
Christie Cote
#71. Life is like a good book... some chapters engaging, some funny, some sad and some challenging...However, its all left to the design of fate in which order they are arranged...
Nirmala Kasinathan
#72. The research in Ralph Keyes' The Quote Verifier is impressive, and each conclusion is like the solution to a real-life historical mystery. Who knew a reference book could be so entertaining?
Will Shortz
#74. A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.
Ali Smith
#75. Writing a book is a bit like going on location for a movie. You're absent from your life, your family, and your friends. You're psychologically gone, so you might as well be physically gone.
Michael Crichton
#76. A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.
Maurice Sendak
#77. I do not believe in God. I have no religion. But this to me is as close to a church as I have known in this life. It is a holy place. With bookstores like this, I feel confident in saying that there will be a book business for a very long time.
Gabrielle Zevin
#78. I'd begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that life as we know it is an imperfect vision of reality, and that only art, like a pair of reading glasses can correct it.
Ian Caldwell
#79. Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.
Brandon Sanderson
#80. Life in a small town is like an intricately plotted novel, and even though I had read every book in the public library by the time I was fourteen, I found the real people around me saying and doing far more interesting things than did the imaginary book characters.
Maxine Cheshire
#81. I spend a lot of time looking at rococo books. And almanacs used to be huge sellers - they were pretty much part of the fabric of life. I thought, this is bizarre, I'd love to buy a book like this, and there isn't one. So I thought, all right then, this could be fun. I'll write an almanac.
Ben Schott
#82. Every book has it's destiny, Like a human life , Sometime when an Author is dead the destiny of the book begins" The days of Childhood !!!!!
Tushar Upreti
#83. The Bible is not merely a book-it is a living power ... Nowhere as in the Bible can be found such a series of beautiful ideas and admirable maxims which pose before us like the battalions of a celestial army ... The soul can never go astray while it has this book for its guide.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#84. I worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week for years. Being a comic book artist is like sentencing yourself to life imprisonment at hard labor in solitary confinement. I don't think I'd do it again.
Wally Wood
#85. This book is a guide to living life the right way, like the Bible is for crazies and weak people (JK, bro), this book should be to you.
Eugene Mirman
#86. We live in the best of worlds. But still, it's like we've lost something on the way to here: a sense of life. I can't know for sure, I might be the only one who's lost it. Maybe everybody else is living the now, thinking they're having it well. Anyhow, that motivated me to write the books.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#87. As Popa penetrates deeper into his life, with book after book, it begins to look like a Universe passing through a Universe. It is one of the most exciting things in modern poetry, to watch this journey being made.
Ted Hughes
#88. I like talking about comic book process, and one of the things is that I have plans going ahead for years, and the plans constantly get thrown away and shifted. There's a difference between planning and what actually happens in life, and comics have a life of their own.
Ann Nocenti
#89. None of what I know is out of books ... I prefer tactual learning. Touching, on the quick of the sore nail, of present, mobile life. To toy, to gnaw, to tear: at the living element of pain. Like at a living drumstick.
Caitlin Thomas
#90. Because a book is a life, like one man is a life.
Studs Terkel
#91. I'm doing exactly what I was supposed to do. Yeah. I didn't exactly choose this. My own life, if it were up to me, would be very, very quiet. I'd be like a shopkeeper, a book collector, or something like that. I'm not like this. Myself as a performer and an artist is totally different from who I am.
Mos Def
#92. I feel like one can have all of that as a writer; you're writing, you're reading, you're talking to interesting and intelligent people. Your life is structured around whatever book you're writing, and so is your reading and so are many of your conversations.
Sheila Heti
#93. READING A GOOD BOOK IS LIKE LIVING ANOTHER LIFE. THE BEST PART IS, YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIKE IT.
Phillip Knight
#94. Reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat.
Becca Fitzpatrick
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