(36 quotes found)
“Be good and you will be lonely”
Mark Twain
“There is an old-time toast which is golden for its beauty. "When you ascend the hill of prosperity may you not meet a friend.”
“No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all other things in the world”
Aristotle
“Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.”
Maya Angelou
“Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness.”
Contributed by: Randi
Floyd W. Tomkins
“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.”
“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.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.”
Barbara De Angelis
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