„I can see he’s not in your good books,’ said the messenger.’No, and if he were I would burn my library.“

— William Shakespeare

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„Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.“
— William Shakespeare
„Many books in my library are now behind and beneath me. They were good in their way once, and so were the clothes I wore when I was ten years old; but I have outgrown them. Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.“
— Charles Spurgeon
„If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.“
— Charles Bukowski
„Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading. He did not permit it and would fly in a rage when he caught me in the act. He hid the candles when he found that I was reading in secret. He did not want me to spoil my eyes. But I obtained tallow, made the wicking and cast the sticks into tin forms, and every night I would bush the keyhole and the cracks and read, often till dawn.“
— Nikola Tesla
„A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to.“
— Swami Vivekananda
„I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.“
— Jean Paul Sartre