Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.

C. S. Lewis

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness...

Carrie Brownstein

You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was the way out of loneliness.

Carl Rogers

Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self.

Anthony Swofford

My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.

Bertrand Russell

In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that.

Maurice Maeterlinck

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound.

Barry Lopez

Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They are the enemies of our loneliness, our doubt, our anxiety, our tendencies to abdicate. To continue to be in good conversation over our enormous and terrifying problems is to be calling out to each other in the night. If we attend with imagination and devotion to our conversations, we will find what we need; and someone among us will act—it does not matter whom—and we will survive.

Arnold Rothstein

Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.

Celine Dion

I guess it all depends on your nature. Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

Albert Einstein

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

Claire Danes

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

Dalai Lama

Spend some time alone every day.

Desmond Tutu

We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.

Chuck Palahniuk

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

Don Williams

When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm not a girl who needs to put on a whole face of make-up before I leave the house.

Frank Jordan

We daily share emotions, our personal and shared needs and hope.

C. S. Lewis

Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.

C. S. Lewis

If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.

Carrie Mae Weems

Sometimes my work needs to be photographic, sometimes it needs words, sometimes it needs to have a relationship with music, sometimes it needs all three and become a video projection.

Carrie Brownstein

I need a template of a template

Carrie Underwood

I say what I need to, not a whole lot more.

Carl Rogers

The elements in a relationship which seem impossible to share, the secretly disturbing, dissatisfying elements, are the most rewarding to share. This is a hard, risky, frightening thing to learn, and it needs to be re-learned over and over.

Carl Sagan

The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where did the universe come from?]