Weeping Books Quotes

#1. Or what if he's weeping to himself in a lonely apartment somewhere, where his family never visits him because Grandpa Penumbra is weird and smells like books?

Robin Sloan

#2. Read about things that wouldn't keep you up all night long, weeping and tearing out your hair.

Lemony Snicket

#3. Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.

Peter Latham

#4. Not so, however, with books, for books cannot change. A thousand years hence they are what you find them to-day, speaking the same words, holding forth the same cheer, the same promise, the same comfort; always constant, laughing with those who laugh and weeping with those who weep.

Eugene Field

#5. We must repent of the way that we, sometimes without even knowing it, have prized the powerful over the powerless.

Russell D. Moore

#6. All is one in Darkseid. The mighty body is my church. When I command your surrender, I speak with three billion voices ...

Grant Morrison

#7. But preserve your mistrust of the page, for a book is a fortress, a place of weeping, the key to a desert, a river that has no bridge, a garden of spears.

Sofia Samatar

#8. Immaterial art is the strongest because there's no obstacle; there's just energy, and I believe in energy.

Marina Abramovic

#9. I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.

Anton Chekhov

#10. Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body that work, not I. Tell yourself this unceasingly and realise it. Try not to know that you work.

Swami Vivekananda

#11. Books keep and reciprocate our secrets, dreams, regrets, and hopes better than any friend in the world.

Drea Damara

#12. Coloured people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book.

Ray Bradbury