Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vincent Van Gogh

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.

Virginia Woolf

To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.

Salman Rushdie

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

Rod McKuen

Never fear being alone, because you never are.

John Cleese

To be creative you must create a space for yourself where you can be undisturbed... separate from everyday concerns.

Martha Beck

If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

Marilyn Monroe

A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

Rabindranath Tagore

Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.

Desmond Tutu

We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Secrecy is as essential to intelligence as vestments and incense to a Mass or darkness to a spiritualist séance and must at all times be maintained, quite irrespective of whether or not it serves any purpose.

Alan Thicke

And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.

Jay Garner

This is a tough job, and it's very difficult to take people out of a darkness and lead them into light. Once they have been standing in light long enough, their eyes will adjust.

Gerard Hopkins

That night, that year / Of now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with (my God!) my God.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.

Ben Okri

An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.

Vin Diesel

This woman comes from the darkness into the spotlight and says, 'Get down here right this minute!'

Desiderius Erasmus

They are looking in utter darkness for that which has no existence whatsoever.

Finnish Proverb

Even a small star shines in the darkness

It's fascinating to think that all around us there's an invisible world we can't even see. I'm speaking, of course, of the World of the Invisible Scary Skeletons.

Rene Magritte

A thing which is present can be invisible, hidden by what it shows

Sebastian Faulks

I don't like being rumbled, I like to be invisible.

Neil Gaiman

I love CGI if it's invisible. I don't like it when it's there and obvious.

Nick Cave

I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.

Michael Haneke

As a private person, professionally I am invisible.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Fatality makes us invisible.

Herman Melville

We cannot live for ourselves alone.

Pico Iyer

I think one reason, obviously, that I spend so much time in one place is that I've been lucky enough to travel a lot, and now there are other different, invisible trains that are more interesting to me.