Desolate Quote by Laozi

The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death.

— Diogenes

There isn't a king or a merchant prince in the whole world that I envy, for I always knew I was born to be…

— John Cheever

None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.

— Lord Byron

To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.

— William Hazlitt

“In the old stories, despite the impossibility of the incidents, the interest is always real and human.  The princes and princesses fall in love…

— Andrew Lang

Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind ….

— Henry Clay

Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.

— Robert Burton

With the royal family, you don't want to see them as people because it takes the sheen off. They're distant; you can idealize them.…

— Claire Foy

Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings.

— Edmond de Goncourt

All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on, From the hector of France to the cully of Britain.

— John Wilmot

No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not…

— Blaise Pascal