Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
Author: Kin Hubbard
Topic: Loneliness And Solitude
Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
Topic: Loneliness and Solitude
Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream. - The Man in the Water, 1994.
Topic: Loneliness and Solitude
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. - Journal, December, 1900.
Author: Jules Renard
Topic: Loneliness and Solitude
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
Topic: Loneliness and Solitude
He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts. - Love's Cure, 1647.
Author: Fletcher
Topic: Loneliness and Solitude
Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. - Essays and Soliloquies, 1924.
Topic: Loneliness and Solitude
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
Topic: Loneliness and Solitude
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
Topic: Loneliness and Solitude
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
Topic: Loneliness and Solitude
The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie. - The Silence of the Sea.
Topic: Loneliness and Solitude
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - Among My Books, 1870.
Topic: Loneliness and Solitude
Solitude is the playfield of Satan. - Pale Fire, 1962.
Topic: Loneliness and Solitude
One can acquire everything in solitude except character. - On Love, 1822.
Author: Stendhal
Topic: Loneliness and Solitude
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Topic: Loneliness and Solitude
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
Topic: Loneliness and Solitude
Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence.
Author: Ashleigh
Topic: Loneliness and Solitude
I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.
Author: Faye Dunaway
Topic: Loneliness and Solitude
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. - My Summer in a Garden.
Topic: Loneliness and Solitude
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. - Lacon, 1825.
Topic: Loneliness and Solitude
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