Quotes about lone
lonely loneliness learning
Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work. Carl Sandburg
lonely scary sidekicks
I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary. Carson Daly
lonely men quality
All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers. Carson McCullers
lonely heart hunters
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Carson McCullers
loneliness heart waiting
We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong. Carson McCullers
lonely powerful self
After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us. Carson McCullers
loneliness way bears
the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear. Carson McCullers
lonely heart hunters
The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished..... Carson McCullers
lonely thinking long
Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just - when all along we knew it wasn't. Carson McCullers
lonely religious heart
What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead. Carson McCullers
loneliness people essentials
I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen. Carson McCullers
lonely thinking differences
I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely. Carson McCullers
loneliness independent weather
A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him. I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen. Carson McCullers
lonely heart light
The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire...driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there's no sign of love in sight! Carson McCullers
loneliness lying future
In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final. In a world without future, each laugh is the last laugh. In a world without future, beyond the present lies nothingness, and people cling to the present as if hanging from a cliff. Alan Lightman
loneliness being-alone past
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Alan Lightman
lonely book should
It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is no one for us to hold or love. Alain de Botton
lonely book writing
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to. Alain de Botton
lonely book thinking
There are things that are not spoken about in polite society. Very quickly in most conversations you'll reach a moment where someone goes, 'Oh, that's a bit heavy,' or 'Eew, disgusting.' And literature is a place where that stuff goes; where people whisper to each other across books, the writer to the reader. I think that stops you feeling lonely – in the deeper sense, lonely. Alain de Botton
lonely crazy thinking
It's a mystery to me We have a greed with which we have agreed You think you have to want more than you need Until you have it all you won't be free When you want more than you have You think you need And when you think more than you want Your thoughts begin to bleed I think I need to find a bigger place 'Cause when you have more than you think You need more space Society, you're a crazy breed I hope you're not lonely without me Society, crazy and deep I hope you're not lonely without me Eddie Vedder
lonely frustration self
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict. Elizabeth Drew
loneliness home long
I felt more than ever the necessity of my mission. But I went home out of spirits, I hardly know why. I must work by myself all life long. Elizabeth Blackwell
lonely pain loneliness
Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain. Elizabeth Bowen
lonely sex dark
Though woman needs the protection of one man against his whole sex, in pioneer life, in threading her way through a lonely forest, on the highway, or in the streets of the metropolis on a dark night, she sometimes needs, too, the protection of all men against this one. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
loneliness new-relationship aging
Isolation and loneliness create the conditions for rapid aging. The key is to stay connected and open to new relationships throughout your life. Deepak Chopra
lonely writing feelings
What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I'm a pop singer for Christ's sake. As a person, I'm fairly uncomplicated. David Bowie
lonely hate writing
I hate albums that are really happy. When I am really happy, I don't like to hear happy albums, and when I am really sad I don't wanna hear happy albums... and I tend to gravitate towards the lonely and isolated anyway when I write. David Bowie
lonely animal matter
Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down. Aaron Carter
lonely
She said, 'I'm so lonely and I need company' - and that's how things got started.
lonely
I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself. Bruce Willis
lonely loneliness being-alone
It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness. Bruce Barton
loneliness killing
My loneliness ain't killing me no more. Britney Spears
lonely passion joy
It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it's not yours. Ben Marcus