Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Barry

If women were in charge of all the world's nations, there would be sincerely believe this - no military conflicts, and when there WAS a military conflict, everybody involved would feel just awful and there would soon be a high-level exchange of notes written on greeting cards with flowers on the front, followed by a Peace Luncheon

Audrey Hepburn

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

Denise Richards

I am truly not one to give advice. I'm divorced and I stole my best friend's husband.

Daniel Handler

Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.

Bill Watterson

When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.

Benny Hill

Have you noticed that all the people in favor of birth control are already born?

Bob Thaves

Inside me there's a thin person struggling to get out, but I can usually sedate him with four or five cupcakes.

Quintyn Eldridge

Since he's so tall and so big it was hilarious to see him do it.

Ashleigh Brilliant

If you have something to say and say nothing, you are really telling a lie.

Charles Caleb Colton

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Charles Dickens

... as lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on.

Charles Studd

Sometimes I feel... that my cross is heavy beyond endurance... My heart seems worn out and bruised beyond repair, and in my deep loneliness I often wish to be gone, but God knows best, and I want to do every ounce of work He wants me to do.

Alan Alda

Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be.

Chogyam Trungpa

Although the warrior's life is dedicated to helping others, he realizes that he will never be able to completely share his experience with others...Yet he is more and more in love with the world. That combination of love affair and loneliness is what enables the warrior to constantly reach out to help others. By renouncing his private world, the warrior discovers a greater universe and a fuller and fuller broken heart. This is not something to feel bad about; it is a cause for rejoicing.

Darren Shan

You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.

David Mitchell

Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.

Byron Katie

If your beliefs are stressful and you question them, you come to see that they aren't true - whereas prior to questioning, you absolutely believe them. How can you live in joy when you're believing thoughts that bring on sadness, frustration, anger, alienation, and loneliness?

Cesare Pavese

The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.

Celine Dion

I guess it all depends on your nature. Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

Elbert Hubbard

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Deepak Chopra

If love is universal, no one can be left out.

Don Williams

When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.

Dalai Lama

Spend some time alone every day.

Amelia Barr

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition...

Albert Einstein

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

Chuck Palahniuk

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.