Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shatner

There was nothing lonelier than a man with a million friends.

Robert De Niro

Loneliness has been following me my whole life.

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.

Vinessa Shaw

I believe that dialogue is the key to breaking through our tendency to separate and isolate. Dialogue changes isolation and loneliness into connection and interdependence. This, I believe, is the essence of Buddhism.

Vincent Van Gogh

I began to paint again, even though I could barely hold the brush, but knowing exactly what I wanted to paint, I began three more large canvases... of large wheat fields under cloudy skies, and it did not take a great deal to express sadness and loneliness... I believe these paintings say what words cannot.

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.

Samuel Johnson

Hunger is never delicate.

Khalil Gibran

It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.

Octavia Butler

That which could hunger, could starve.

Nelson Mandela

I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

John Dewey

Hunger not to have, but to be

Mahatma Gandhi

There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.

Deepak Chopra

Eat only when you feel hungry. Notice and feel your hunger. This is conscious eating.

Diogenes

Love comes with hunger.

Bhagavad Gita

Know Me to be the creator of all creation.

Linda Chandler

Knowledge, like energy, expands; it is not weakened when it is expended between people. The force of creation that results is ever increasing in its power, its magnificence, and in its impact.

Richard Shaw

Labour has overseen an extended period of high growth, relatively low inflation, low unemployment-high job creation - and yet it has a fight on its hands.

George Bernard Shaw

We throw the whole drudgery of creation one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction

Richard LeVine

I think we've had a remarkable improvement in the engagement of the University of the city, ... I think we've made major strides in the development of downtown and substantial impact on the creation of the industrial city.

David Shearer

We can do food aid. We can do job creation. But taking over a health ministry is not something that we're equipped to do.

Craig Parker

Was Jesus sleeping? There are mysteries of your wisdom and creation that we don't understand.

Miyavi

It's really important to create something, like with my creations as a musician. Just let it flow. Focus on how to deliver message to audience. Don't get ego.

Robert Brown

Creation purged o' the miscreate, man redeemed, / A spittle wiped off from the face of God!