Life Celebration Quotes
Significant Others, Partners & Friendship
Philosophical Insights on Friendship
Amos Bronson Alcott
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
Betty Smith
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. There was poetry for quiet companionship. There was adventure when she tired of quiet hours. There would be love stories when she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could read a biography. On that day when she first knew she could read, she made a vow to read one book a day as long as she lived.
Bill Walton
The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.
Björk
There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.
Bob Dylan
Chaos is a friend of mine.
Brandon Sanderson
Authors also create lovable, friendly characters, then proceed to do terrible things to them, like throw them in unsightly librarian-controlled dungeons. This makes readers feel hurt and worried for the characters. The simple truth is that authors like making people squirm. If this weren't the case, all novels would be filled completely with cute bunnies having birthday parties.
C.J. Langenhoven
Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.
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.
Carmen Electra If you don't have a valentine, hang out with your girlfriends, don't go looking for someone. When it's right, they'll come to you.
Charles William Eliot
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
Christopher Paolini
Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.
Cornelia Funke
There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar voices, friends that never quarreled with her, clever, powerful friends -- daring and knowledgeable, tried and tested adventurers who had traveled far and wide. Her books cheered her up when she was sad and kept her from being bored.
Cornelia Funke
This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.
Cornelia Funke
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.
Cory Doctorow
We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books. We treasure books we inherit from our parents, and we cherish the idea of passing those books on to our children. Indeed, how many of us started reading with a beloved book that belonged to one of our parents? We force worthy books on our friends, and we insist that they read them. We even feel a weird kinship for the people we see on buses or airplanes reading our books, the books that we claim. If anyone tries to take away our book.
E. B. White
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
Why not keep this resource at your fingertips?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
Elizabeth Kostova
When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.
Emily Dickinson
The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul - BOOKS.
Ernest Hemingway
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Fulton J. Sheen
Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more.
Gary Paulsen
Why do I read? I just can't help myself. I read to learn and to grow, to laugh and to be motivated. Reading for me, is spending time with a friend. A book is a friend. You can never have too many.
George R.R. Martin
Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.
It is both relaxing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book...from the reading of 'good books' there comes a richness of life that can be obtained in no other way.
Guillaume Musso
When it comes to books and friends, it is best to have only a few but all good ones.
Hedy Lamarr
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
Helen Keller
In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their "large loves and heavenly charities.”
Henry Miller
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.
Honoré de Balzac
Reading brings us unknown friends.
J.D. Salinger
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.
John Waters
I'm always amazed at friends who say they try to read at night in bed but always end up falling asleep. I have the opposite problem. If a book is good I can't go to sleep, and stay up way past my bedtime, hooked on the writing. Is anything better than waking up after a late-night read and diving right back into the plot before you even get out of bed to brush your teeth?
Joshua Slocum
I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.
Katherine Mansfield
The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - reading between the lines - has become the secret friend of their author.
Kevin Brooks
To me a good book is like a quiet friend.
Louisa May Alcott
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen the more select, the more enjoyable.
Mackenzi Lee
God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends.
Mark Twain
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and forever.
Neil Gaiman
Libraries are our friends.
Nina George
Books are more than doctors, of course. Some novels are loving, lifelong companions; some give you a clip around the ear; others are friends who wrap you in warm towels when you've got those autumn blues. And some...well, some are pink candy floss that tingles in your brain for three seconds and leaves a blissful voice. Like a short, torrid love affair.
Paul Sweeney
You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.
Roberto Bolaño
Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.
Ruskin Bond
Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure. Those who do not read are the unfortunate ones. There's nothing wrong with them; but they are missing out on one of life's compensations and rewards. A great book is a friend that never lets you down. You can return to it again and again and the joy first derived from it will still be there.
Tahereh Mafi
I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.
Tamora Pierce
Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends.
Victor Hugo
He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends.
Wilkie Collins
The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!
Winston S. Churchill
If you cannot read all your books... fondle them - peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.
