Loneness Quotes

#1. But learning-time is always a long, secluded time, and so loving, for a long while ahead and far on into life, is-solitude, intensified and deepened loneness for him who loves.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#2. We [with David Cunningham] did do Top Of The Pops. It was an eye-opener. I mean, one of the things that was so interesting - I've talked about this a few times recently, and people can't believe it - they used to do this thing called tape switch with the Musicians Union.

David Toop

#3. To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.

Lawrence Durrell

#4. Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.

Rumi

#5. Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life ... The object of art is to give life a shape, and to do it by every conceivable artifice.

Jean Anouilh

#6. Every woman is distinctly beautiful because every woman has a motherly instinct.

Debasish Mridha

#7. Mussolini and his lover were brought back to Milan and hung upside-down like fowls.

Catherine McNamara

#8. These companies are in it for their dollars, and whatever is hot that is what they follow.

Ja Rule

#9. In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Maya Angelou

#10. I'm afraid you gave up the right to pontificate on social mobility when you abolished educational maintenance allowance [EMA], trebled tuition fees and betrayed a generation of young people.

Harriet Harman

#11. I'm not sure that my upbringing has in itself informed my acting choices.

Morgan Freeman

#12. Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.

Jean-Luc Godard

#13. I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

Robert Redford

#14. We must infer that a plant or animal of any species, is made up of special units, in all of which there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to aggregate into the form of that species: just as in the atoms of a salt, there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to crystallize in a particular way.

Herbert Spencer

#15. The dead should not linger.

Sarwat Chadda

#16. There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into the world with the same design with which men put little fish into a pike pond, in order only to be devoured by that voracious water-hero.

Henry Fielding