Staying Alone Happily Quotes & Sayings

Too much damned TV. Thinks he's Sherlock Holmes."
"That's professor Moriarty," corrected Foaly.
"Holmes, Moriarty, they both look the same with the flesh scorched off their skulls. — Eoin Colfer

Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned? — Confucius

Ghosts everywhere. Even the living were only ghosts in the making. You learned to ration your commitment to them. This moment in this tent already had the quality of remembered experience. Or perhaps he was simply getting old. But then, after all, in trench time he was old. A generation lasted six months, less than that on the Somme, barely twelve weeks. — Pat Barker

We had already planned my wedding when my brother passed away in 2012. When you're grieving, you don't necessarily want to think about something like that, but my brother told me that he wanted me to, so we went ahead and did it. — Yaya DaCosta

And the rats eat my face. So what. — Sarah Kane

Truth is no prostitute, that throws herself away upon those who do not desire her; she is rather so coy a beauty that he who sacrifices everything to her cannot even then be sure of her favour. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest - but suffer from a constant strain. — Henry David Thoreau

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India! — Romaine Rolland

I pretty much came out of the womb singing. I think I sang all the time. — Jodi Benson

The small family farm is dying; people's lives are being dislocated. — Bobbie Ann Mason

Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things. — Vernor Vinge

Julie gave me a look generally reserved for naughty children and husbands justifying their recent electronics purchase. — Katherine Bayless

...go live happily alone requires a serious amount of intentional thought. It's not as simple as signing the lease on your own apartment and leaving it at that. You must figure out what you need to feel comfortable at home and in the world, no matter your means (indeed, staying within your means), and arrange your life accordingly--a metaphorical architecture. — Kate Bolick