Quotes about lone
loneliness solitude feelings
Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone. Lord Byron
loneliness solitude should
If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
lonely wind water
And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
lonely nature travel
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
lonely wine sunset
Nothing grows among its pinnacles; there is no shade except under great toadstools of sandstone whose bases have been eaten to the shape of wine glasses by the wind. Everything is flaking, cracking, disintegrating, wearing away in the long, inperceptible weather of time. The ash of ancient volcanic outbursts still sterilizes its soil, and its colors in that waste are the colors that flame in the lonely sunsets on dead planets. Loren Eiseley
loneliness night years
For the first time in four billion years a living creature had contemplated himself and heard with a sudden, unaccountable loneliness, the whisper of the wind in the night reeds.
lonely empathy humanity
This is the most enormous extension of vision of which life is capable: the projection of itself into other lives. This is the lonely, magnificent power of humanity. It is . . . the supreme epitome of the reaching out.
loneliness dark unique
Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like the mysterious universe itself, the unique, the strange, the unexpected. Numerous observers have testified upon the loneliness of the process.
lonely hands light
There was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of the Consul himself, the Greek e's, the flying buttresses of d's, the t's like lonely wayside crosses save where they crucified an entire word. Malcolm Lowry
loneliness solitude trying
I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do. It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem. Maggie Nelson
loneliness blue solitude
It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem. Can blue solve the problem, or can it at least keep me company within it?-No, not exactly. It cannot love me that way; it has no arms. But sometimes I do feel its presence to be a sort of wink-Here you are again, it says, and so am I.
lonely believe men
There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover worth having. Gene Wolfe
lonely school teeth
I'm solitary as a pulled tooth, Lonely as an unwelcome truth, Lost as a minnow out of school, A genius in a crop of fools. Gail Carson Levine
lonely civilization rushing
The first great thing is to find yourself and for that you need solitude and contemplation - at least sometimes. I can tell you deliverance will not come from the rushing noisy centers of civilization. It will come from the lonely places. Fridtjof Nansen
loneliness differences solitude
Theres a difference between solitude and loneliness Maggie Smith
lonely kings book
Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such store I might sit by thy dear side in some lonely place, I should deem myself happier than a king in his kingdom. Omar Khayyam
lonely writing research
Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
lonely future play
I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.
lonely memories life-and-love
To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life--there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death.
lonely kids wife
Life was good to me. I had a great wife, good kids, money, my own health -- and I'm lonely and bored. O. J. Simpson
loneliness i-realized knows
...I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away. Octavia Butler
loneliness being-alone men
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. Octavio Paz
lonely loneliness two
One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world. Emile M. Cioran
lonely loneliness dying
We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.
loneliness men suffering
The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his desert through the marketplace and deploys his talents as a smiling leper, a mountebank of the irreparable.
lonely enough used
I've liked life well enough, but I reckon I'll like death even better as soon as I've gotten used to the feel of it. ... I shouldn't be amazed to find it less lonely than life after I'm once safely settled. Ellen Glasgow
lonely loneliness world
No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.
loneliness political world
You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming. Emily Carr
lonely inspire dreamer
Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now? Emily Bronte
lonely house looks
I know some lonely houses off the road A robber'd like the look of,-- Wooden barred, And windows hanging low Emily Dickinson
loneliness flower angel
I HIDE myself within my flower That wearing on your breast, You, unsuspecting, wear me too— And angels know the rest. I hide myself within my flower, That, fading from your vase, You, unsuspecting, feel for me Almost a loneliness...
lonely men awful
I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-.
loneliness dark soul
The Loneliness One dare not sound -- And would as soon surmise AS in its Grave go plumbing To ascertain the size -- The Loneliness whose worst alarm Is lest itself should see -- And perish from before itself For just a scrutiny -- The Horror not to be surveyed -- But skirted in the Dark -- With Consciousness suspended -- And Being under Lock -- I fear me this -- is Loneliness -- The Maker of the soul Its Caverns and its Corridors Illuminate -- or seal