Quotes about lone
loneliness reflection ability
Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone. Gao Xingjian
loneliness solitude one-thing
Loneliness is one thing, solitude another. Friedrich Nietzsche
loneliness excellence property
Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals. Franz Grillparzer
lonely drama acceptance
I know our feelings can be so unbearable that we employ ingenious strategies – unconscious strategies – to keep those feelings away. We do a feelings-swap, where we avoid feeling sad or lonely or afraid or inadequate, and feel angry instead. It can work the other way, too – sometimes you do need to feel angry, not inadequate; sometimes you do need to feel love and acceptance, and not the tragic drama of your life. It takes courage to feel the feeling – and not trade it on the feelings-exchange, or even transfer it altogether to another person. Jeanette Winterson
lonely feelings feeling-sad
Trust Me. Life is not worth living feeling sad and down and lonely. Always be true to who you are. Jessie J
loneliness talking secret
The best antidote for loneliness, hopelessness, and fear is vulnerability: sharing your secrets and talking about what shames you, what you fear. Jewel
loneliness being-alone gathering
Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life. Jerzy Kosinski
lonely space empty
Whoever reflects recognizes that there are empty and lonely spaces between one’s experiences. Jerome Bruner
loneliness married
married was the loneliest I got - being without the one you're with. Jennifer Stone
lonely mean two
I mean, any time an actress gets to work with another actress, it's like, 'Oh, there are two of us in a movie! How are you? Let's sit in the hair chair together!' We're lonely women. Jennifer Garner
lonely philosophy loneliness
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company. Jean-Paul Sartre
lonely loneliness depth
No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness. Georges Bernanos
lonely want governors
I don’t want to be a lonely governor. Jim Gibbons
loneliness passion being-alone
I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness. Jim Harrison
lonely crazy eccentric
I'm not crazy or dangerous, just a bit eccentric and lonely. Emma Forrest
loneliness good-man priceless
Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And anyone can have them. Elsa Maxwell
lonely steps sound
And it feels strange, almost sad, to walk through ther empty halls. Each step I take sounds so lonely. Jay Asher
loneliness being-alone thinking
I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness. Jason Schwartzman
lonely loneliness cities
As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.
loneliness self expression
There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil at his desk. It was a self-absorption with no comfort, a demand for expression with no outlet, a sense of time rushing by, ceaselessly and wastefully - assuaged only by that conviction that there was nothing to waste, because all efforts and attainments were equally valueless. F. Scott Fitzgerald
lonely rose sphinx
From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building.
loneliness night feeling-lonely
I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.
lonely reading school
He was resentful against all those in authority over him, and this, combined with a lazy indifference toward his work, exasperated every master in school. He grew discouraged and imagined himself a pariah; took to sulking in corners and reading after lights. With a dread of being alone he attached a few friends, but since they were not among the elite of the school, he used them simply as mirrors of himself, audiences before which he might do that posing absolutely essential to him. He was unbearably lonely, desperately unhappy.
loneliness twilight night
At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner -- young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.
loneliness party sleep
His youth seemed never so vanished as now in the contrast between the utter loneliness of this visit and that riotous, joyful party of four years before. Things that had been the merest commonplaces of his life then, deep sleep, the sense of beauty around him, all desire, had flown away and the gaps they left were filled only with the great listlessness of his disillusion.
loneliness grief done
She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.
lonely book reading
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
loneliness men survival
The survival of the fittest is going to make some man very lonesome some day. Evan Esar
lonely loneliness positive-thinking
The way you feel is your point of attraction, and so, the Law of Attraction is most understood when you see yourself as a magnet getting more and more of the way you feel. When you feel lonely, you attract more loneliness. When you feel poor, you attract more poverty. When you feel sick, you attract more sickness. When you feel unhappy, you attract more unhappiness. When you feel healthy and vital and alive and prosperous-you attract more of all of those things. Esther Hicks
loneliness moveable-feast ends
I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life. Ernest Hemingway
loneliness writing organization
Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.
lonely felt
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
lonely writing lonely-life
Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.