Honore de Balzac Quotes

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

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

In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

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

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

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.

Books are ever available friends, ready to serve you at will.

He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

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

The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known.

A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.

Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.

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

Good books are for consideration after, too.

We never tire of the friendships we form with books.

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

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

Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.

A book, unlike any other friend, will wait, not only upon the hour but upon the mood.

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.

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding.