Unpeopled Quotes

#1. Betrayed and wronged in everything,
I'll flee this bitter world where vice is king,
And seek some spot unpeopled and apart
Where I'll be free to have an honest heart.

Moliere

#2. My writing time needs to surround itself with empty stretches, or at least unpeopled ones, for the writing takes place in an area of suspension as in a hanging nest that is almost entirely encapsulated.

Maxine Kumin

#3. My early book learning came to me as naturally as the seasons in ... the little town in which I grew up. ... Quite early I began to find a special charm in an unpeopled world ... of lava rock and sagebrush desert. ... I was often more purely happy at such times than I think I have ever been since.

Richard McKenna

#4. We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.

C.S. Lewis

#5. They spoke to me of people, and of humanity.
But I've never seen people, or humanity.
I've seen various people, astonishingly dissimilar,
Each separated from the next by an unpeopled space.

Fernando Pessoa

#6. If you were to buy a [BMW] 6-series, I recommend you select reverse when leaving friends' houses so they don't see its backside.

Jeremy Clarkson

#7. Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.

Os Guinness

#8. The contemplative man always lives alone. Regardless of who may reside in his home, his is a solitary world.

Daniel J. Rice

#9. I have actor friends, but they're not famous. I feel like if you're an actor or - famous, you have to overly prove that you're a normal, cool person.

Amanda Bynes

#10. When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.

Madeleine L'Engle

#11. Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.

Ann Brashares

#12. The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.

Kit Bond

#13. They should all be cheered by it, for isn't it what they want? What we all want: to leave a message behind us that has an effect, if only a dire one: a message that cannot be cancelled out.

Margaret Atwood

#14. Action isn't a burden to be hoisted up and lugged around on our shoulders. It is something we are. The work we have to do can be seen as a kind of coming alive. More than some moral imperative, it's an awakening to our true nature, a releasing of our gifts.

Joanna Macy

#15. How will I feel when I look in a mirror and see the reflection of my grandmother?

S.J. Watson