“There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.”
“There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.”
“There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be.”
“I have always said,on the birth of dreams,That they must form wings and spread.For there is no sadder sight it seems,Than that of dreams that are dead.Trygvie Jensen”
“It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results of that need are. But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous.”
“A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people.”