Quotes about lone
lonely wimbledon finals
To cry on court during a Wimbledon final, you must feel so lonely. Marion Bartoli
lonely memories book
Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories. Mario Vargas Llosa
lonely wall heart
Look around. Take the tour. Fear hangs on the wall and shame sometimes. Emotional dislocation too. But I am brave in my admission. Are you? When no one is looking, I check to see if anyone seems as scared as me, or lonely, or shy, or insecure. Is it just me? I'm not so sure. Is your heart an onion too? Show me yours, I'll show you mine we used to say. Your turn. Peel away. Nikki Grimes
loneliness moving cells
I'm just a believer in keeping all of the creative brain cells moving and working even when you're not working because the inevitable loneliness and boring drought in the actor's world, it can eat you alive. Nikki Reed
lonely art connections
We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection. Nikki Giovanni
lonely falling-in-love distance
When you are young, you think it's going to be solved by love. But it never is. Being close -- as close as you can get -- to another person only makes clear that impassable distance between you.' If being in love only made people more lonely, why would everyone want it so much?' Because of the illusion. You fall in love, it's intoxicating, and for a little while you feel like you've actually become one with the other person. Merged souls and so on. You think you'll never be lonely again. Nicole Krauss
loneliness dark past
I left the library. Crossing the street, I was hit head-on by a brutal loneliness. I felt dark and hollow. Abandoned, unnoticed, forgotten, I stood on the sidewalk, a nothing, a gatherer of dust. People hurried past me. and everyone who walked by was happier than I. I felt the old envy. I would have given anything to be one of them. Nicole Krauss
loneliness solitude understanding
He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated mind, one that is capable of reason and poetry but which grasps at straws when it comes to understanding another, a mind aware of the impossibility of absolute understanding. The difficulty of having a mind that understands that it will always be misunderstood. Nicole Krauss
lonely falling-in-love thinking
Because of the illusion. You fall in love, it's intoxicating, and for a little while, you actually feel like you've become one with the other person, merged souls and so on. You think you'll never be lonely again. Nicole Krauss
loneliness thinking self
I am quite surprised and rather disappointed by the loneliness, isolation and indeed demonisation the sadly misunderstood CO2 is experiencing. Thus, upon leaving the parliament, I am contemplating the foundation of an organisation called 'The Friends of Carbon Dioxide'. Membership will of course be open to all, including the plants whose very existence depends on CO2. I think this organisation's slogan, 'CO2 is not pollution', self-selects. It has both accuracy and melody to commend it. Nick Minchin
lonely people life-is
That’s why; he’s worried about how his life is turning out, and he’s lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all Nick Hornby
loneliness opposites trying
Linda seemed to recognize loneliness. Possibly she could see it sitting opposite her, sipping lager and trying not to lose its temper. It was an illness, loneliness-it made you weak, gullible, feebleminded. Nick Hornby
lonely sweet way
There's something really sweet about the way he's playing the part and he's kind of irresistible in a way. They're both really lonely. That's kind of established from the very beginning in the movie. The way they meet is just classic, lonely losers. Mary-Louise Parker
lonely race imagination
For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races. Mary McCarthy
lonely deception ephemeral
With extramarital courtship, the deception was prolonged where it had been ephemeral, necessary where it had been frivolous, conspiratorial where it had been lonely. Mary McCarthy
lonely play care
To share is precious, pure and fair. Don't play with something you should cherish for life. Don't you wanna care, ain't it lonely out there? Marvin Gaye
lonesome be-good
Be good and you'll be lonesome Mark Twain
loneliness labor
Labor in loneliness is irksome. Mark Twain
lonely distance sleep
He was thirty-one now, not too old, but old enough to be lonely. He hadn't dated since he'd been back here, hadn't met anyone who remotely interested him. It was his own fault, he knew. There was something that kept a distance between him and any woman who started to get close, something he wasn't sure he could change even if he tried. And sometimes in the moments right before sleep came, he wondered if he was destined to be alone forever. Nicholas Sparks
lonely children home
Headline?" he asked. "'Swing Set Needs Home,'" I said. "'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'" he said. "'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,'" I said. John Green
lonely divorce eye
You can’t divorce Margo the person from Margo the body. You can’t see one without seeing the other. You looked at Margo’s eyes and you saw both their blueness and their Margo-ness. In the end, you could not say that Margo Roth Spiegelman was fat, or that she was skinny, any more than you can say that the Eiffel Tower is or is not lonely. Margo’s beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection – uncracked and uncrackable. John Green
loneliness waiting want
I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did. John Green
loneliness coffee drunk
Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime... John Green
loneliness space understood
I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust. Patti Smith
loneliness more-time needed
Most of my life I have needed more time to be on my own. P. D. James
lonely fun having-fun
Everybody's having fun, except me I'm the lonely one I live in shame. Ozzy Osbourne
loneliness funny-simpsons comic-book-guy
Oh, loneliness and cheeseburgers are a dangerous mix. Matt Groening
loneliness thinking environment
Do we have any food that wasn't brutally slaughtered?" Homer: "Well, I think the veal died of loneliness. Matt Groening
loneliness being-alone space
The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit. Marya Mannes
lonely reality brain
My brain sometimes departs from the agreed-upon reality, and my private reality is a very lonely place. But in the end, I'm not sure I wish I'd never gone there. Marya Hornbacher
lonely depressing writing
If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn't mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately hard and so obsessive and so lonely to write that, in return for all this work, one would like a little self satisfaction. And that is never going to come, for the simple reason that I do not deserve it. I cannot be a good enough writer. You see? I call it grim. But the future looks awfully clear to me. Martha Gellhorn
lonely trying culture
At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture. Martha Beck
lonely people kind
Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind. Martha Beck