top of page
.png){kind=small}
"The wise are above books."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Books quotes
"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."
"I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction was an escape from the intolerable, a doorway into impossibly hospitable worlds where things had rules and could be understood; stories had been a way of learning about life without experiencing it, or perhaps of experiencing it as an eighteenth-century poisoner dealt with poisons, taking them in tiny doses, such that the poisoner could cope with ingesting things that would kill someone who was not inured to them. Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it."
Explore more quotes by Samuel Daniel
"By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown."
"Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb."
"Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using."
"Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been."
bottom of page