quotes on aloneness

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. ~Robert Louis Stevenson


Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb


I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, "Why?" Why did I cause so much pain? Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? Can't I see how we're all manifestations of love? I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, "No, that's not right." Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 30


Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. ~Joseph Conrad


Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth. ~Martin H. Fischer


I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality. ~H.A. Overstreet


Perhaps there should be one day a week when you tackle your "Things I Gotta Undo" list. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows. ~J. Robert Oppenheimer


So long as there's a jingle in your head, television isn't free. ~Jason Love


Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. ~G.K. Chesterton


Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires. ~Charles Caleb Colton


I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more. ~Henry Ward Beecher


Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude. ~Maurice Baring


For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. ~Clifton Fadiman


In college, Yuppies major in business administration. If to meet certain requirements they have to take a liberal arts course, they take Business Poetry. ~Dave Barry


That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger. ~George Eliot


Some colors exist in dreams that are not present in the waking spectrum. ~Terri Guillemets


It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to. ~W.C. Fields


For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief. ~Proverbs 24:16


I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little. ~Sheila Kaye-Smith