Loneliness Quote by Benjamin Franklin Download Open image “A lonely man on a rainy night who cannot read.” — Benjamin Franklin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Loneliness Lonely Lonely man Men Night Rainy Rainy night
On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A man, to read, must read alone. He may make extracts, he may work at books in company; but to read, to absorb, he… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“What condition of man most deserves pity?" - Franklin offered: "A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A lonely man is a lone some thing, a stone, a bone, a stick,a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, astooped figure sitting at the edge… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“There’s a sort of melancholy romance to the experience of being lonesome. I think of reading as a kind of romantic alone activity that… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Man is lonely mainly because he has been disconnected from the Divine presence. — James Johnson Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hell is only loneliness, a place without play for the soul, a place without God. How could there be God in loneliness when God… — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
We often refer to loneliness as something negative. And we look at it as a weakness. — Jay Shetty Copy Share Image
There was only the broad square with the scattered dim moons of the street lamps and with the monumental stone arch which receded into… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no one else… — Bruce D. Perry Copy Share Image
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Don't let 'being single' make you feel like a loner. Its better to be alone. Relationships arent cures for loneliness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
