Famous Quotes & Sayings

T. S. Eliot

Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

Nicole Krauss

After all who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness

Jim Harrison

I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

His youth seemed never so vanished as now in the contrast between the utter loneliness of this visit and that riotous, joyful party of four years before. Things that had been the merest commonplaces of his life then, deep sleep, the sense of beauty around him, all desire, had flown away and the gaps they left were filled only with the great listlessness of his disillusion.

Fay Weldon

Youth gives a sense of new days dawning bright, going on for ever, and a kind of tamped-down excitement which keeps breaking through even the worst days of poverty, depression and loneliness. But then youth is something which only exists in retrospect; you are barely conscious of it while you have it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.

Peter McWilliams

I must conquer my loneliness alone. I must be happy with myself or I have nothing to offer you. Two halves have little choice but to join; and yes, they do make a whole. But two wholes when they coincide... that is beauty. That is love....

Pete Wilson

We are called to love even in the loneliness, worship even in the tears and follow even in the darkness.

Paulo Coelho

You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith.

Brian Henson

We try to keep it a classy show, but it certainly is blue at times. And it all depends on the audience, sometimes we've have audiences that don't really want us to go too far in that direction.

John Capel

Even at the trials we've never quite seen anything like that, ... All the red, white and blue coming around the corner like that -- all in a straight line, all in stride, all in unison.

John Cohen

Big Blue Nation was out in full force. It was great to see that many blue shirts in the stands.

Michael Kors

the optimism of an endless horizon and blue skies ahead.

Larry Finucane

You have to represent the blue and orange with pride, and dignity, and class, and I think they are responding to that, and I'm very proud about that.

Larry Wachtel

What does Buffett know? He's only worth $18 billion. I think he has warned of this in the past. And, indeed, he's right on blue chips There has been a gravitation toward the cyclical stocks and away from the blue chips.

Shirley Manson

We just wanted to make a record that sounded cool. So we stole from hip-hop, we stole from techno and blues and mashed them all up.

E. B. White

I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.

Annie Dillard

I saw in a blue haze all the world poured flat and pale between the mountains

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.

Samuel Rogers

Then never less alone than when alone.

Samuel Johnson

Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves

Nelson Mandela

Although I am a gregarious person, I love solitude even more.