Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
226 Quotation By Bertrand Russell
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Famous Quotes for Pinterest by C. S. Lewis and Albert Einstein
We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness…
by C. S. Lewis
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
233 – Quotation by Dag Hammarskjold
What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
54 – Quotation by Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
173 – Quotation by Dag Hammarskjold
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
Friendship Quotes
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
Charles Alexander Eastman
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius
Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
Oscar Wilde
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Katherine Mansfield
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.
Muhammad Ali
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Plutarch
175 – The Simpsons Quote by Homer Simpson
Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hasspoken! Leave my loneliness unbroken! — quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
41 – Quotation by Henry A. Kissinger
The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.
61 – Quote of Edward Gibbon
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
114 – Quote from Woody Allen
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.
309 – Quotation by Amy Lowell
Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.
428 – Quote by Jessica Lange
The only place I’ve felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There’s something in the water there that connects me to that place. There’s also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I’ve never been able to shake.
1459 Quotation by Joseph Conrad
Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
56 – Easy A Movie Quote by Olive Penderghast
Oh, happy day, Mama! Oh, I thought I was gonna have to spend my dowry on booze and pills to numb the loneliness. A gentleman caller, hurray!
501 – Quote by Eric Hoffer
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
81 – Quotation by Albert Schweitzer
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
32 – Quote by Tom Hanks
There’s a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.
378 – Quote by Maggie Smith
There’s a difference between solitude and loneliness.