Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness.

C. S. Lewis

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.

Agnes Repplier

A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.

Charlotte Bronte

Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.

Charlotte Bronte

Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. The sternest-seeming stoic is human after all, and to burst with boldness and good-will into the silent sea of their souls is often to confer on them the first of obligations.

Charlotte Bronte

The vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and love within me, was claiming mastery, and struggling for full sway; and asserting a right to predominate: to overcome, to live, rise, and reign at last; yes,--and to speak.

Charles Dickens

Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man," returned Mr. Brownlow, "and such tales usually are; if it were one of unmixed joy and happiness, it would be very brief.

Charles Dickens

And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!

Charles Dickens

A blight had fallen on the trees and shrubs; and the wind, at length beginning to break the unnatural stillness that had prevailed all day, sighed heavily from time to time, as though foretelling in grief the ravages of the coming storm. The bat skimmed in fantastic flights through the heavy air, and the ground was alive with crawling things, whose instinct brought them forth to swell and fatten in the rain.

Cesar Romero

I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.

Cheyenne Jackson

Unfortunately, I suffer from insomnia, so my bedtime is as soon as I start to feel the least bit sleepy.

Barbara Kingsolver

Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.

Chris Frantz

It was daunting at first. I did have insomnia for two weeks.

Charles Kuralt

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

Elizabeth Bishop

Insomnia" perhaps she's a daytime sleeper.

Antonio Tabucchi

I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

Alain de Botton

Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.

Delia Smith

I don't get insomnia, but I do get the odd night when I can't unwind.

Charlotte Whitton

Call me anything you like, but don't call me a lady.

Alexandre Dumas

...but my friends call me Edmund Dantes.

Huey Long

For the present you can just call me the Kingfish.

Kit Harington

When I'm applying for a new passport, or something, someone will call me Christopher. Other than that, no one ever calls me Christopher.

Kevin O'Leary

Don't call me, I'll call you... I'm out.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be.

Gwyneth Paltrow

You can call me a lot of things, but you can't call me complacent!

Jeaniene Frost

…well just call me Hannibal Lecter. With cleavage.

Henry A. Kissinger

I do not stand on protocol. If you just call me Excellency, it will be okay.