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.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I really try, at least consciously, not to be cynical or ironic.

Rose Byrne

As you get older, you just lose that confidence and narcissism you have in your twenties. You realize you have less time on the planet, and you become cynical and less confident.

Winston Churchill

The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.

Zadie Smith

The world is now multicultural the same way the world is round. It's not a selling point, it's not a 'quirky' feature, it's not a cynical marketing ploy, it's not an artistic statement, it's not even a plot device. It's a fact, like seedless grapes.

Henry Rollins

When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it.

Henry A. Kissinger

Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.

Leonardo da Vinci

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

P. J. O'Rourke

There's nothing more oily and cynical in politics than telling the truth.

Paul Christopher

Cynical is a fool's word for realist.

Dan Glickman

Agriculture is particularly vulnerable to the whims of nature,

Norman O. Brown

To be is to be vulnerable.

Mike Pence

A society can be judged by how it deals with its most vulnerable: the aged, the infirm, the disabled and the unborn.

Joan Osborne

Oh, deeply vulnerable as a woman - to love someone not knowing whether they love me in return.

Stephen Ambrose

The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

All of us are vulnerable, and at times we all feel adrift. But somehow, we all muddle through.

Noah Baumbach

There's something really vulnerable about playing something that you like for someone. You don't know what their reaction will be.

Matisyahu

When you meet somebody who is vulnerable, there is an attraction. There is something to that. There is beauty there.

Jean Houston

Vulnerable is a catch-all word like "love" and "schizophrenia."