Quotes about lone
lonesome felt lonesomeness
I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead. J. D. Salinger
loneliness self life-and-death
What, after all, are the world's deepest problems? They are what they always have been, the individual's problems—the meaning of life and death, the mastery of self, the quest for value and worth-whileness and freedom within, the transcending of loneliness, the longing for love and a sense of significance, and for peace. Society's problems are deep, but the individual's problems go deeper; Solzhenitsyn, Dostoyevsky, or Shakespeare will show us that, if we hesitate to take it from the Bible. J. I. Packer
lonesome lovely summer
It was a soft, reposeful summer landscape, as lovely as a dream, and as lonesome as Sunday. Mark Twain
lonely sure
It's a lonely job. I'm sure they appreciated the other one's situation.
lonely all-alone
And it was lonely, to yearn, all alone. Lois Lowry
lonely pain memories
The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
lonely rain wine
The Gods on the death of his wife Yang Kai-hui I lost my proud poplar and you your willow As poplar and willow they soar straight up into the ninth heaven and ask the prisoner of the moon, Wu Kang' what is there. He offers them wine from the cassia tree. The lonely lady on the moon, Chang 0, spreads her vast sleeves and dances for these good souls in the unending sky. Down on earth a sudden report of the tiger's defeat. Tears fly down from a great upturned bowl of rain. Mao Zedong
lonely space earth
They are very young. And on their earth, as they call it, they never communicate with other planets. They revolve about all alone in space." "Oh," the thin beast said. "Aren't they lonely? Madeleine L'Engle
lonely littles sometimes
Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own. Lucy Maud Montgomery
loneliness home coming-home
I've come home in love with loneliness
lonely loneliness might
There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.
lonely anchors giving
I feel as if something has been torn suddenly out of my life and left a terrible hole. I feel as if I couldn't be I — as if I must have changed into somebody else and couldn't get used to it. It gives me a horrible lonely, dazed, helpless feeling. It's good to see you again — it seems as if you were a sort of anchor for my drifting soul.
lonely loneliness long
I've been so lonely for long periods of my life that if a rat walked in I would have welcomed it. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
loneliness grief
…nothing remained but loneliness and grief… Louisa May Alcott
lonely heart eye
…I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes that goes to my heart.
lonely sometimes dare
I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me…
lonely children heart
It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.
lonely effort sometimes
One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely. John Fowles
lonely art past
Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy and effete. We have done both an injustice. The life of the artist is, in relation to his work, stern and lonely. He has labored hard, often amid deprivation, to perfect his skill. He has turned aside from quick success in order to strip his vision of everything secondary or cheapening. His working life is marked by intense application and intense discipline. John F. Kennedy
lonely blue without-you
but i know blue only blue lonely blue without you Jonathan Larson
loneliness resentment companion
To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions. Jonathan Lethem
loneliness writing years
Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come to the joint conclusion that the purpose of writing fiction was “a way out of loneliness.” (NY Times article on the memorial service of David Foster Wallace.) Jonathan Franzen
loneliness solitude needs
Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in their reach inward, via print, for a way out of loneliness.
lonely loneliness thinking
I didn't think I was in a morbid mood, but it appears I am. My mind goes round and round trying to figure things out, but I always come back to the same two things: Loneliness and Death. Life ends before we figure anything out, most importantly how not to be lonely. Solitude is fine. But feeling like you have no one to love - abject lonliness - is not alright. Jonathan Ames
lonely feelings acting
I was aware that I was acting atrociously but I couldn't stop myself. Rarely had I behaved in such a manner. But I guess when we're feeling lonely in life, we attack those who actually do love us. It's one of the things that characterizes human nature and can be summed up in one word: FLAWED.
loneliness self devil
Loneliness is dangerous ... because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self. Joyce Carol Oates
loneliness writing hazards
Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.
loneliness realizing hungry
Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.
lonely kids mia
Experiencing those moments of being alone... is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to be in when you're just not used to it... But I've never been lonely. And with my kids Mia and Joe that remains the case. Kate Winslet
loneliness solitude conundrums
Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve. Kate Atkinson
lonely emo kids
No matter how much you care about a person, you have to be able to know that you can sit down at night and be happy with who you are without that person. That's really hard when you're a lonely emo kid. Justin Vernon
loneliness leave-me-alone leaving-me
This loneliness won't leave me alone. Otis Redding
loneliness eye dark
Sylvia's dark eyes widened. "You are more than you appear to be" "Yes. I am a monster of Darkness, a beast," he agreed with her. Her lips tilted up. "Can a beast weep in sorrow? Does darkness have the capacity to feel loneliness? I think not. P. C. Cast