Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Shields

These are frightening times...when she feels herself annointed by loneliness.

Carol Shields

The larger loneliness of our lives evolves from our unwillingness to spend ourselves, stir ourselves. We are always damping down our inner weather, permitting ourselves the comforts of postponement, of rehearsals

C. S. Lewis

And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that it contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the joy that is felt by the least in Heaven, would have no weight that could be registered at all. Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good.

Alan Ladd

Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth

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.

Bram Stoker

Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.

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.

John Audubon

When, for the first time... I left my father, and all the dear friends of my youth, to cross the great ocean... my heart sunk within me... The lingering hours were spent in deep sorrow... My affections were with those I had left behind, and the world seemed to me a great wilderness.

Thomas Middleton

When affection only speaks, truth is not always there

E. F. Benson

What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.

Kara Swisher

In Greek mythology, Cassandra was given the gift of prophecy, except - due to her rejection of Apollo's affections - nobody would ever believe her warnings.

Damon Galgut

Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.

Marguerite Gardiner

When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.

Edmund Hillary

I still had the same affection for New Zealand as I've always had. Didn't change at all.

Ken Starr

I think the President inspires tremendous affection and loyalty by a wide range of people.

Lillian Gordy Carter

We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment.

Lee Sandy

We have had a couple kids step up in the absence. Leon's been out for nine to 10 days, but as we get into district play it should add to our depth.

Josh Bernoff

The extension won't save the company, but the absence of it would have been really bad.

Brendan Barber

The reality is that Britain has one of the lowest rates of sick absence in Europe and sickness rates have been coming down for the last 10 years,

Robert Massey

The real driver for this discussion is the presence or absence of life on Mars. Like most astronomers, I'd love to believe it's there (or life was at one time) but we probably won't know for sure until humans explore the planet.

Tom Ojienda

We shall study and obtain credible evidence against those mentioned in these scandals and in the absence of the attorney general moving on time to charge them, we shall bring private prosecution.

Theodor Mommsen

The history of Rome presents various men of greater genius than Scipio Aemilianus, but none equalling him in moral purity, in the utter absence of political selfishness, in generous love of his country, and none, perhaps, to whom destiny has assigned a more tragic part.

Gareth Thomas

We know from experience that the absence of sexual and reproductive health services results in an increase in unintended pregnancies and, inevitably, a greater number of unsafe abortions.

Carl Sagan

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

Karen Abbott

In the sudden absence of husbands, fathers, brothers and beaus, white Southern women discovered a newfound freedom - one that simultaneously granted them more power in relationships and increased their likelihood of heartbreak.