Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

... as lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on.

Charles Studd

Sometimes I feel... that my cross is heavy beyond endurance... My heart seems worn out and bruised beyond repair, and in my deep loneliness I often wish to be gone, but God knows best, and I want to do every ounce of work He wants me to do.

Chief Seattle

If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.

Edward Hopper

It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.

Edward Hoagland

Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days.

Edith Wharton

She felt a stealing sense of fatigue as she walked; the sparkle had died out of her, and the taste of life was stale on her lips. She hardly knew what she had been seeking, or why the failure to find it had so blotted the light from her sky: she was only aware of a vague sense of failure, of an inner isolation deeper than the loneliness about her.

Edith Wharton

He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of it's frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface; but there was nothing nothing unfriendly in his silence. I simply felt that he lived in a depth of moral isolation too remote for casual access, and I had the sense that his loneliness was not merely the result of his personal plight, tragic as I guessed that to be, but had in it, as Harmon Gow had hinted, the profound accumulated cold of many Starkfield winters.

Edith Wharton

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

August Strindberg

if you are afraid of loneliness, don't get married

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Each time he suggested they get married, she said no. They were too happy, precariously so, and she wanted to guard that bond; she feared that marriage would flatten it into a prosaic partnership.

Charlotte Bronte

Reader, I literally married him.

Bipasha Basu

My wedding won't be a hush-hush affair. When I get married, everyone will get to know about it... there'll be nothing speculative about my wedding.

Elizabeth Moon

I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.

Ron Fehr

There's a lot more soldiers that are married than single.

Jeff Foxworthy

Now, it's true I married my wife for her looks...but not the ones she's been givin' me lately.

Tom Aldredge

I've been married for 52 years, ... I realize it more as the years go on ? that's all that's important. Everything else I can work around, I can sacrifice. But that relationship matters.

Jane Fonda

I vowed I wouldn't get married until someone gave me one good reason to. No one ever did - but I got married anyway

Jason Biggs

I'm married. I'm not attracted to any other woman, ever.

Alan Watts

For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.

Al Pacino

If something is working, don't fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.

Chip Kidd

If you intend to die, you can do anything.

China Chow

If I don't work for a while, I don't work for a while.

Audre Lorde

If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.

Charles Sanders Peirce

The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs.

Charles M. Schwab

If you must be a glutton, be a glutton for work.

Charles M. Schulz

There's no sense in doing a lot of barking if you don't really have anything to say.

Catherine Booth

If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.