Secondhand Quotes

“Beauty without the beloved is a like a sword through the heart.”
― Ida Alexa Ross Wylie

“I'm perfectly happy to know the world at secondhand. It's a lot safer.”
― Cornelia Funke

“One generation's pleasure became a burden for another. Hence, entire collections from father to son were sold for a song, and the vendors, knowing nothing about literature, would place a price on the books. (about secondhand literature book)”
― Murzban F. Shroff, Breathless in Bombay: Stories

“Secondhand-love holds the sword of risk and needs.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“A second-hand bookshop draws me in a as a moth to a candle. Each shop is a small shrine to the power of beauty and words. Tightly packed shelves of old hardback novels; heavy tomes on art and design; teetering piles of poetry. There are copies of the Children's Encyclopedia used as a doorstop and wooden crates of paperbacks going for a song. Some are rare, with a price to match, others a fraction of their original cost. A book for everyone, I guess.
Yes, it's the thought of words put together with such care, the pages whose surface has been worn by years of handling; the tired bindings and torn-edged covers where a book has been in less kind hands than it should. (A chance to give a damaged book a kinder home.) But even more, it is the smell that makes me want to enter every second-hand bookshop I pass. A smell that is dusty, a cross between an old leather saddle and a country church.”
― Nigel Slater, A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts

“The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.”
― Soren Kierkegaard