"We walk alone in the world."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on solitude
7 fans of this quote   

"No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone."

Browne, Jackson on solitude
8 fans of this quote   

"Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This is the verse you grave for me:
'Here he lies where he longed to be;
Here is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.'"

Stevenson, Robert Louis on grave
3 fans of this quote   

"Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on night
5 fans of this quote   

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep."

Frost, Robert on death
16 fans of this quote   

"Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on."

Frost, Robert on losers and losing
4 fans of this quote   

"The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and for a long time prevented him from speaking. Falling on his knees by her bed. He held his wife's hand to his lips and kissed it, and her hand responded to his kisses with weak movement of finger. Meanwhile, at the foot of the bed, in the midwife's expert hands, like the flame of a lamp, flickered the life of a human being who had never existed before..."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on kisses and kissing   

"Such as we are made of, such we be."

Shakespeare, William on destiny
22 fans of this quote   

"One may smile, and smile, and be a villain. [Hamlet]"

Shakespeare, William on smile
6 fans of this quote   

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. [Twelfth Night]"

Shakespeare, William on greatness
10 fans of this quote   

"The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]"

Shakespeare, William on art
9 fans of this quote   

"Let's not burden our remembrance with a heaviness that's gone."

Shakespeare, William on regret
4 fans of this quote   

"Journeys end in lovers meeting."

Shakespeare, William on travel
10 fans of this quote   

"To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still."

Shakespeare, William on beauty
7 fans of this quote   

"In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o clock in the morning, day after day."

Unknown, Source on despair
6 fans of this quote   

"My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on misfortunes
3 fans of this quote   

"There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought --a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!"

Twain, Mark on loneliness
11 fans of this quote   

"Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming."

Carr, Emily on isolation
8 fans of this quote   

"Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think. This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep."

Daumal, Rene on humankind   

"The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself."

Beecher, Henry Ward on humankind   

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."

Keller, Helen on art
11 fans of this quote   

"We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon."

Adenauer, Konrad on humankind
9 fans of this quote   

"Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on humankind
5 fans of this quote   

"I have found little that is good about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think."

Freud, Sigmund on humankind
5 fans of this quote   

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly."

Heinlein, Robert on humankind
3 fans of this quote   

"The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it."

Janeway, Elizabeth on humankind   

"One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night."

Mead, Margaret on humankind
5 fans of this quote   

"The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line."

Mencken, H. L. on humankind   

"Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid."

Shaw, George Bernard on humankind   

"Every man has a sane spot somewhere."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on humankind   

"Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him."

Wells, H.G. on humankind   

This quotation can be viewed in the context of a book

"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary."

Luther, Martin on art
3 fans of this quote   

"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"

Beecher, Henry Ward on books - reading
13 fans of this quote   

"Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends."

Adams, Dawn on books - reading
25 fans of this quote   

"Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love."

Mencken, H. L. on pleasure   

"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

Bagehot, Walter on pleasure   

"The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business."

Burr, Aaron on pleasure   

"We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them."

Maeterlinck, Maurice on loneliness
12 fans of this quote   

"All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone."

Bruyere, Jean De La on loneliness
9 fans of this quote   

"The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness."

Cousins, Norman on loneliness
23 fans of this quote