Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.

I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.

Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.

As long as we have books, we are not alone.

I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They show us that conversations are possible across distances.

You're never alone when you're reading a book.

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.

One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

I honestly believe there is absolutely nothing like going to bed with a good #book; or a friend who's #read one.

He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends

He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

My mother taught me how to read very early on and at school I was ahead of everyone in class... Reading was always something that I liked because I could do it alone and I was alone a lot of the time with my mother working the hours she did. Books became my friends very early on.

When you write, you're alone in a room. And when someone reads a book, they're alone in a room, too, usually. It's a really intimate exchange. And so people ask me where I get the boldness to talk about this or that, but I didn't feel like it required any sort of courage, because I was alone. Sometimes it feels weird for people to read it.

Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.

We never tire of the friendships we form with books.

you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never have met otherwise, either because they have been dead for centuries or because they spoke languages you cannot understand. And, nonetheless, they have become your closest friends, your wisest advisors, the wizards that hypnotize you, the lovers you have always dreamed of. -Antonio munoz molinas, "the power of the pen

…books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made a bee-line to the well-laden shelves, which were the joy of her heart and the comfort of her life.

A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it.

Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning.

Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.