I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
—Henry David Thoreau
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
—Franz Kafka
“Christ is your life; such a life as you never knew before, nor could have known apart from him.”
Never put off a good deed if you can do it now, because death doesn’t take into account whether you’ve done what you should have or not.
—Leo Tolstoy
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
—George Orwell
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
—George Orwell
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
—John Milton
Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
—Voltaire
Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
—Voltaire
Never praise yourself, never judge others, and never argue.
—Leo Tolstoy
We need never be ashamed of our tears.
—Charles Dickens
People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
—Georg Hegel
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.”
—Voltaire
The Tao is like a well: used but never used up.
—Laozi
A wise person never wants to change his earthly life, because he’s always happy with the life he’s living.
—Leo Tolstoy
I have never failed, I’ve only shown the way I did it before doesn’t work.
—Thomas Edison
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
—Charlie Chaplin
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
—Oscar Wilde
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.
—Charles Dickens
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
—Mark Twain
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.
—Stephen Hawking
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.
—Stephen Hawking
“No man ever became holy by chance.
There must be resolve, a desire, a panting after obedience to God, or else we shall never have it.”
— Charles Spurgeon
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
—Vincent Van Gogh
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
—Voltaire
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
—Charles Dickens
Never was the harvest greater; never were the labourers fewer.
—George Whitefield
For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
—Aldous Huxley
Whoever does not lose heart and does not cry, also never rejoices.
—Taras Shevchenko
Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.
—John Milton