(38 quotes found)
“Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness.”
Contributed by: Randi
Floyd W. Tomkins
“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much not having at other times.”
Kate L. Bosher
“To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both -- a philosopher.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it --those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.”
“Be good and you will be lonesome”
Mark Twain
“That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.”
George Bernard Shaw
“People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.”
“Sometimes you need to put lotion on your own feet.”
Marlene M. Chavez
“Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
