Quotes about lone
lonely being-single thinking
The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think? Christine Feehan
lonely depressing writing
You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence... stick to what you love and someone will hear your voice. Chris Terrio
lonely men bitter
I'm very happy and lonely single old man - and bitter. Chris Kirkpatrick
loneliness fighting against-love
I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death. F. Scott Fitzgerald
loneliness people ego
It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves. There was some element of loneliness involved--so easy to be loved--so hard to love.
loneliness people used
People living alone get used to loneliness.
lonely children ambition
I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life. George Orwell
loneliness memorable two
For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live.
lonely defeat oneself
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
loneliness people age
To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people to whom your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasphemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs.
lonely ghost
He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.
loneliness artist creating
The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of God creating from a primal loneliness. Garry Wills
lonely mind world
Did he understand, as those interminable minutes ticked by, that being alone is not the same as being lonely? That being alone is a neutral state… something that exists only in the mind, not in the world, and, like a virus, is unable to survive without a willing host? Garth Stein
loneliness causes baldness
The worst thing baldness causes is loneliness. Gail Porter
lonely adventure men
The last of the lonely places is the sky, a trackless void where nothing lives or grows, and above it, space itself. Man may have been destined to walk upon ice or sand, or climb the mountains or take craft upon the sea. But surely he was never meant to fly? But he does, and finding out how to do it was his last great adventure. Frederick Forsyth
loneliness grief book
Gail Godwin has written a book about the heaviest matters of loss, grief, and loneliness with a touch so light that I was as often deeply amused by it as I was deeply moved. Frederick Buechner
lonely believe long
The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been. George F. Kennan
loneliness leader acting
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone. Ferdinand Marcos
loneliness new-day giving
Youth gives a sense of new days dawning bright, going on for ever, and a kind of tamped-down excitement which keeps breaking through even the worst days of poverty, depression and loneliness. But then youth is something which only exists in retrospect; you are barely conscious of it while you have it. Fay Weldon
lonely withered withered-leaves
Death, lonely death, Beneath the withered leaves. Federico Garcia Lorca
lonely sky joy
We have often had this particular exchange about climate and landscape and why we both feel so lonely here uprooted. It was what each of us had wanted of course.Besides wanting to experience a place we hated, we wanted to be insomniacs and loners, losers and drop-outs. To know the sky was the only location of meaning and joy left to us. Fanny Howe
loneliness heart solitude
To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived. Fanny Burney
lonely loneliness being-alone
Man's loneliness is but his fear of life. Eugene O'Neill
lonely sex heart
Prom night can be a special night, if you let it be. I know you think it's for losers and something that popular kids do because they are boring people with porcelain hearts who don't know what it means to be lonely. But you're wrong. Prom is a chance for everyone to try oral sex. Go for it. Eugene Mirman
lonely kids college
I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college. Francis Ford Coppola
loneliness fleeing way
[...] We have to realize that this wound [of loneliness] is inherent in the human condition and that what we have to do is walk with it instead of fleeing from it. We cannot accept it until we discover that we are loved by God just as we are, and that the Holy Spirit in a mysterious way is living at the centre of the wound. Jean Vanier
loneliness desire fundamentals
Loneliness is the fundamental force that urgees mystics to a deeper union with God... An experience of God quenches this thirst for the absolute but at the same time, paradoxiacally, whets it, because this is an experience that can never be total; by necessity, the knowledge of God is always partial. So loneliness opens up mystics to a desire to love each other and every human being as God loves them.
loneliness people community
People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition.
lonely pain loneliness
To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately lonely lose themselves in mental illness or violence to forget the inner pain.
loneliness knowing thought-provoking
The numbing mind-ream of knowing you're alone not because people won't accept you but because you find so little worth accepting. An imposed solitude is better than simply tolerating your company in waiting for something better. So loneliness is not such a terrible thing when you consider that the alternative to thought provoking solace is to be surrounded only by remindings of why that solitude is preferable. Jhonen Vasquez
lonely lying deserted
Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends. Graham Greene
lonely memories comfort
To comfort me is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort.
lonely self knows
Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others. Harriet Lerner