Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Bell

One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. I mean it's one of the things that goes way back; loneliness is not good for the world. And so, whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural, and healthy to want somebody to go through life with. It's central to our humanity.

Emile M. Cioran

The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his desert through the marketplace and deploys his talents as a smiling leper, a mountebank of the irreparable.

Epictetus

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?

Emily Carr

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

Nhat Hanh

I hold my face in my two hands. No, I am not crying. I hold my face in my two hands to keep the loneliness warm - two hands protecting, two hands nourishing, two hands preventing my soul from leaving me in anger.

Jodi Picoult

Loneliness is a mirror, and recognizes itself.

Kenneth Williams

Fundamentally, diaries are about loneliness.

Patti Smith

I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.

Marya Mannes

The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.

Anne Hendricks

Kids love it. They get learning experiences out of it. They learn what having a job is. What responsibility is. How that math lesson you hate to do will come in handy.

Diddy Puff

Haters wanna stop my lute,they don't want me wearing Sean John, they want me wearing lawn suits.

Carolyn Freeman

I thought what a wonderful thing it is to leave a legacy to this world, which he has, because his music is his legacy. I hated to see it just go away.

Manti Te'o

I think what I bring to the table is a lot of heart, a lot of energy, and somebody that works hard. Somebody who hates to lose.

Jim Finlen

I think we're improving. But you hate to lose a game, and especially one you could have won.

Anton LaVey

Hate your enemy with a whole heart, and if a man smite you on one cheek, SMASH him on the other!

Debra Alexander

I don't know which one of us hates to lose more. I can't stand it when you have to go over there and shake (the other team's) hands.

Gary Mormino

He was the most hated man in North Florida.

Robert Cormier

The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good out of evil. Didn't flowers grow out of dirt?

Plato

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

Gerald Johnson

I think we'll pull through this, ... Real Men Pray Everyday.

Jane Fonda

I was a chameleon, the woman men wanted me to be.

Raquel Cassidy

I went to see 'Men In Black 2.' It was just a commodity, just money being shifted.

William Wilberforce

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.

William Wilberforce

Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue. Let them favor and take part in any plans which may be formed for the advancement of morality.

William Wilberforce

Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.

Allan Carr

I'm just generally hugely frustrated, I'm a very, very frustrated man. I'm just a ball of pent-up frustration.

Abbott L. Lowell

There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.