Max Joseph Quotes

I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.

To read too many books is harmful.

I get a little stressed even sometimes knowing all the things I want to read, I won't have enough time in this lifetime. The more you read, the more you realize there are fascinating books to be read and so little time to do so.

I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot. I think I'll always be more of a reader than a writer, definitely. There are sooo many books in the world I haven't read, sometimes I feel as if they're all piled on top of my head weighing me down and saying, 'Hurry up.'

I want to say so much more than I have time for.

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

No matter what I've done, what I've tried to do, everybody says it can't be done. And it's continuous across the complete spectrum of the various kind of realities that you confront with your ideas.

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.

I have an existential crisis every time I walk into a bookshop, knowing that I'm not going to read all the books before I die.

Haven't read a book for years - keep buying them and never getting round to reading them - I never seem to have the time.

The thought of these vast stacks of books would drive him mad: the more he read, the less he seemed to know — the greater the number of the books he read, the greater the immense uncountable number of those which he could never read would seem to be…. The thought that other books were waiting for him tore at his heart forever.

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

Middle age is when you realize that you'll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.

The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.

life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything

I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile.

The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

When I am near the end of a book, I have to sleep in the same room with it.

You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window washers. But you can’t invent more time.

That I want to try in life? There's a lot of things I want to try. There's never enough time to try anything. I would love to have a hobby. I have no hobbies.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.

There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.

I don't work for a long time on anything. I don't have too much time in life.

It’s more that I’m afraid of time. And not having enough of it. Time to figure out who I’m supposed to be… to find my place in the world before I have to leave it. I’m afraid of what I’ll miss.