Montesquieu Quotes

I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable.

People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. They help us to forget the crossness of men and things, compose our cares and our passions, and lay our disappointments asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride or design in their conversation.

Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.

Reading was my escape growing up in Ohio. Both of my parents lost their jobs when I was a teen, and it was hard. But I always had my books. Reading gave me a way of living different lives.

Books have literally powered most of my life. Whether as a stress relief when doing hard things or as vacation fodder, they are a constant and important part of my life.

We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it's full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living - the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living - is play.

To divert myself from a troublesome fancy, it is but to run to my books; they presently fix me to them, and drive the other out of my thoughts, and do not mutiny to see that I have only recourse to them for want of other more, real, natural, and lively conveniences; they always receive me with the same kindness.

Reading gave me hope.

In this job, there are some simple pleasures that really help you cope. One is books, I mean, books are a great escape. Books are a way to get your mind on something else.

Books afford the surest relief in the most melancholy moments.

Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.

I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways.

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

It was actually books that started to make those pockets of freedom, which I hadn't otherwise experienced. I do see them as talismans, as sacred objects. I see them as something that will protect me, I suppose, that will save me from things that I feel are threatening. I still think that; it doesn't change. It doesn't change, having money, being successful. So from the very first, if I was hurt in some way, then I would take a book -- which was very difficult for me to buy when I was little -- and I would go up into the hills, and that is how I would assuage my hurt.

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.

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

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.

Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

That's what I wanted for myself for even just a little while-to be unaware of the rest of the world. I needed some time.

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

A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death.

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment