Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Chief Seattle

What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit

Chief Seattle

If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.

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.

Alan Paton

The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.

Chief Joseph

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.

David Mitchell

The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken.

Cai Guo-Qiang

For me it's really important that the work here displays an aesthetic of decay along with the sunken boat with the broken ceramic pieces. They form a unity in showing the power of destruction, the beauty of destruction, whether it's from nature- because the boat has sunk- or through other forces. It's really the beauty of decay and death that holds a power here.

Buffalo Bill

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

Bruce Wilkinson

Imagine what your life will look like when you have broken the bondage of fear.

Bryan Davis

Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.

Alan Alda

life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.

Alan Alda

Life is great-I wouldn't know what I'd do without it.

Akhenaton

Be upright in thy whole life; be content in all its changes;so shalt thou make thy profit out of all occurrences; so shall everything that happeneth unto thee be the source of praise

Chris Cleave

My whole life is my work.

Chris Cleave

Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.

Chris Cagle

Life is short so go on and live it cause the chicks dig it.

David Rubenstein

My work life is intense. But I love what I do.

C. J. Mahaney

A cross centered life is made up of cross centered days.

Casey Neistat

A shared life is a great life.