Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Brisbane

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Robert Frost

Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God.

May Sarton

I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy.

Janet Erskine Stuart

... life is a solitude ...

Henry David Thoreau

I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.

Jacques Derrida

We are given over to absolute solitude. No one can speak with us and no one can speak for us; we must take it upon ourselves, each of us must take it upon himself.

Jessamyn West

It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.

Honore de Balzac

We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.

David Berry

Sometimes I get lost in the books, if they're good,

Italian Proverb

The stitch is lost unless the thread be knotted

Daniel Handler

All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found

Thomas Murray

I lost everything, mister, everything -- credibility, business,

Garth Nix

I can see time," whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.

Dick Bennett

He totally lost his composure. He totally played into their hands. He had been playing so well.

James Billups

He told me that he lost it but that he didn't snap.

Kay Granger

I don't know how you can sleep at night, ... You lost the battle.

Michael Charles

I didn't know what else to do. I lost everything.

Sarah Hall

I used to dislike bookshops immensely as a child and was won over only later in life.