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.

Carlos Ghosn

I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.

Carlos Fuentes

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

Carlos Fuentes

In literature, you know only what you imagine

Carlos Fuentes

Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.

Carlos Fuentes

I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.

Carlos Fuentes

Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more.

Carlos Fuentes

One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.

Carlos Fuentes

You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.

Carlos Fuentes

I need, therefore I imagine.

Charlotte Bronte

There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find myself amongst strangers, I should be solicitous to examine before I condemned.

Charles Dickens

Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

Jane Austen

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

Edmund Spenser

Ill seemes (sayd he) if he so valiant be, That he should be so sterne to stranger wight; For seldom yet did living creature see That courtesie and manhood ever disagree.

Boyd Holbrook

I just crushed Stranger Things. It's got one of my favorite actors, David Harbour. And obviously Breaking Bad and stuff like that.

Arthur C. Clarke

The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

John Abraham

I don't even see the point. He's like a stranger to me.

Mira Nair

Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful.

Willie Morris

He must always be a stranger to the place he loves, and its people.