Quotes about lone
lonely thinking spotlight
I think [the spotlight] is a lonely place to be. Everybodys wanting something from you, pulling at you. Angie Everhart
lonely character mirrors
Though I still turn up my coat-collar in a lonely way and am always looking at myself in mirrors, they’re only habits and give no clue at all to my character, whatever that is. The most difficult performance in the world is acting naturally isn’t it? Everything else is artful. Angela Carter
lonely writing thinking
I don't really think that writers, even great writers, are prophets, or sages, or Messiah-like figures; writing is a lonely, sedentary occupation and a touch of megalomania can be comforting around five on a November afternoon when you haven't seen anybody all day. Angela Carter
lonely regret taken
I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me... I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely... I could have used a bit more solitude. Andrew Greeley
lonely loneliness writing
I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely. Amy Tan
lonely character childhood
A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood. Anthony Browne
loneliness desire privacy
We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness. Andy Rooney
lonely lying weird
When he was talking, he was lying and if he wasn't lying, he was stealing. He was just a weird and lonely guy.
lonely whoever
For whoever is lonely there is a tavern. Georg Trakl
lone rough
We're the lone rangers. It's rough out there.
lonely voice
We've been kind of a lonely voice out there. Tom Cullen
lonely eye gone
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you. Paul Simon
lonely truth two
He who seeks truth must be content with a lonely, little-trodden path. If he cannot worship her till she has been canonized by the shouts of the multitude, he must take his place with the members of that wretched crowd who shouted for two long hours, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians!" till truth, reason, and calmness were all drowned in noise. Frederick William Robertson
lonely children museums
True majorities, in a TV-dominated and anti-intellectual age, may need sound bites and flashing lights and I am not against supplying such lures if they draw children into even a transient concern with science. But every classroom has one [Oliver] Sacks , one [Eric] Korn, or one [Jonathan] Miller , usually a lonely child with a passionate curiosity about nature, and a zeal that overcomes pressures for conformity. Do not the one in fifty deserve their institutions as well magic places, like cabinet museums, that can spark the rare flames of genius? Stephen Jay Gould
lonely creativity cutting
No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be based on unbiased observation of nature in the raw is mythology. Creative work, in geology and anywhere else, is interaction and synthesis: half-baked ideas from a bar room, rocks in the field, chains of thought from lonely walks, numbers squeezed from rocks in a laboratory, numbers from a calculator riveted to a desk, fancy equipment usually malfunctioning on expensive ships, cheap equipment in the human cranium, arguments before a road cut. Stephen Jay Gould
lonely his-love fellowship
God made us for one reason: so He could have fellowship with us. It wasn't that He was lonely or needed us but He made us in His image so He could shower His love upon us. Billy Graham
lonely loneliness reading
I am never lonely when I am reading the Bible. Nothing dissolves loneliness like a session with God's Word. Billy Graham
lonely religious loneliness
How on earth can religious people believe in so much arbitrary, clearly invented balderdash?....The acceptance of a creed, any creed, entitles the acceptor to membership in the sort of artificial extended family we call a congregation. It is a way to fight loneliness. Any time I see a person fleeing from reason and into religion, I think to myself, There goes a person who simply cannot stand being so goddamned lonely anymore. Kurt Vonnegut
lonely loneliness being-alone
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. Kurt Vonnegut
lonelier older people share
People are getting older... and older people are getting lonelier and they will need communities where they can share their interests.
loneliness mind earth
Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
lonely loneliness snakes
Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
loneliness exercise night
Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They are the enemies of our loneliness, our doubt, our anxiety, our tendencies to abdicate. To continue to be in good conversation over our enormous and terrifying problems is to be calling out to each other in the night. If we attend with imagination and devotion to our conversations, we will find what we need; and someone among us will act—it does not matter whom—and we will survive. Barry Lopez
lonely
Everything about life makes me lonely. Billy Corgan
loneliness needs conscious
We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves. C. S. Lewis
loneliness conscious born
We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness... C. S. Lewis
lonely men ideas
The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development-- C. S. Lewis
lonely couple cutting
We have a long way to go to being the perfect couple, we certainly don’t live the fairy tale marriage, he doesn’t shower me with rose petals and fly me to Paris on weekends but when I get my hair cut, he notices. When I dress up to go out at night, he compliments me. When I cry, he wipes my tears. When I feel lonely, he makes me feel loved. And who needs Paris, when you can get a hug? Cecelia Ahern
lonely inspiration space
I've always been interested in queerness and underground and fringe and periphery, and who and what flourishes in those spaces. Those spaces that are darker and dingier and more dangerous, more lonely. What comes out of there, to me, is the life force. I'm excited when the center reaches over to those places and pulls inspiration from them, and translates it for a lot of people. Carrie Brownstein
loneliness way underestimate
You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was the way out of loneliness. Carrie Brownstein
loneliness self uniting
Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self. Carl Rogers
lonely blue civilization
What a splendid perspective contact with a profoundly different civilization might provide! In a cosmic setting vast and old beyond ordinary human understanding we are a little lonely, and we ponder the ultimate significance, if any, of our tiny but exquisite blue planet, the Earth.... In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves. Carl Sagan
lonely jobs fate
...if you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely cosmos, to monitor where it is going and keep a record of where it has been, you wouldn't choose human beings for the job. But here's an extrememly salient point: we have been chosen, by fate or Providence or whatever you wish to call it. As far as we can tell, we are the best there is. We may be all there is. It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously. Bill Bryson