Famous Quotes

"I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor."

Laurence Sterne on Alone

More quotes about Alone

• "It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely."

  Albert Einstein on Alone

• "Alone we can do so little together we can do so much."

  Helen Keller on Alone

• "It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone."

  Marilyn Monroe on Alone

• "Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company."

  George Washington on Alone

• "I restore myself when I'm alone."

  Marilyn Monroe on Alone

More quotes by Laurence Sterne

• "Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas."

• "So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil."

• "Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness."

• "People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy."

• "People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy."