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.

Isaac Disraeli

There is a society in the deepest solitude.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.

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.