Quotes about lone
lonely loneliness feelings
All right, that was my moment with loneliness. I'm not afraid of feeling lonely, but now I'm going to put that loneliness aside and know that there are other emotions in the world, and I'm going to experience them as well. Morrie Schwartz
loneliness men doors
I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him. Jose Saramago
loneliness worry doe
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits. Jorge Luis Borges
loneliness writing dreamer
A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer - to be living a kind of double life.
lonely loneliness paint
Oh, I am a lonely painter / I live in a box of paints... Joni Mitchell
lonely song stranger
Oh it gets so lonely When you're walking And the streets are full of strangers
loneliness symphony play
Loneliness is the theme, and I play it like a symphony, in endless variations. Jonathan Tropper
lonely knowing feelings
You can sit up here, feeling above it all while knowing you’re not, coming to the lonely conclusion that the only thing you can ever really know about anyone is that you don’t know anything about them at all.
lonely believe years
Silver is forty-four years old, if you can believe it, out of shape, and depressed—although he doesn’t know if you call it depression when you have good reason to be; maybe then you’re simply sad, or lonely, or just painfully aware, on a daily basis, of all the things you can never get back.
loneliness sadness simple
The sadness, the silence, the darkness, the loneliness... all of it held in a simple little moment. It was just so... I don't know. Just so much. Kevin Brooks
loneliness inspiration being-alone
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
lonely heart winter
Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up sudden and solitary from the heart of the great black forests of Northern California Joaquin Miller
loneliness expression community
Online communities are an expression of loneliness. Joanne Harris
lonely angel hands
When you are lonely or frightened, talk to your guardian angel. You can do it out loud or inside your head, your angel can hear you. Ask your angel to be near you, to put his or her hand on your shoulder, to give you courage and protect you. Joan Anderson
lonely school people
I had [at school] my own little posse of people that all felt weird together so it wasn't so lonely. John C. Reilly
lonely rain grieving
I've seen fire and I've seen rain I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend But I always thought that I'd see you again. James Taylor
lonely men age
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority. James Thurber
lonely loneliness party
Fitzgerald describes the social disillusionments and ballroom romanticism of the young people of the upper classes and the loneliness of Gatsby, who gives large parties and has an extensive social life; yet he is lonely, and his guests scarcely know him.... Hemingway's characters live in a tourist world, and one of their major problems is that of consuming time itself. It is interesting to observe that his works are written from the stand point of the spectator. His characters are usually people who are looking--looking at bullfights, scenery, and at one another across cafe tables. James T. Farrell
lonely loneliness two
One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world. Emile M. Cioran
lonely loneliness dying
We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.
loneliness men suffering
The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his desert through the marketplace and deploys his talents as a smiling leper, a mountebank of the irreparable.
lonely enough used
I've liked life well enough, but I reckon I'll like death even better as soon as I've gotten used to the feel of it. ... I shouldn't be amazed to find it less lonely than life after I'm once safely settled. Ellen Glasgow
lonely loneliness world
No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.
loneliness being-alone doors
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing? Epictetus
loneliness political world
You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming. Emily Carr
lonely inspire dreamer
Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now? Emily Bronte
lonely house looks
I know some lonely houses off the road A robber'd like the look of,-- Wooden barred, And windows hanging low Emily Dickinson
loneliness flower angel
I HIDE myself within my flower That wearing on your breast, You, unsuspecting, wear me too— And angels know the rest. I hide myself within my flower, That, fading from your vase, You, unsuspecting, feel for me Almost a loneliness...
lonely men awful
I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-.
loneliness dark soul
The Loneliness One dare not sound -- And would as soon surmise AS in its Grave go plumbing To ascertain the size -- The Loneliness whose worst alarm Is lest itself should see -- And perish from before itself For just a scrutiny -- The Horror not to be surveyed -- But skirted in the Dark -- With Consciousness suspended -- And Being under Lock -- I fear me this -- is Loneliness -- The Maker of the soul Its Caverns and its Corridors Illuminate -- or seal
lonely
All the lonely people, where do they all come from? / All the lonely people, where do they all belong?
loneliness self soul
We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being. Hermann Hesse
lonely men tree
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche.