Quotes about lone
loneliness twilight thinking
I have come to think that life is a far more limited thing than those in the midst of its maelstorm realize. That light shines into the act of life for only the briefest moment-perhaps only a matter of seconds. Once it is gone and failed to grasp its offered revelation, there is no second chance. One may have to live the rest of one's life in hopeless depth of loneliness and remorse. In that twilight world, one can no longer look forward to anything. All that such a person holds in his hands is the withered corpse of what should have been. Haruki Murakami
lonely sweet hurt
Let's start with this statistic: You are delicious. Be brave, my sweet. I know you can get lonely. I know you can crave companionship and sex and love so badly that it physically hurts. But I truly believe that the only way you can find out that there's something better out there is to first believe there's something better out there. What other choice is there? Greg Behrendt
loneliness achievement realizing
Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small. Gordon Parks
loneliness allies isolation
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. Gilbert K. Chesterton
lonely children real
...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the real Unitarians who with scimitar in hand have laid waste the world. For it is not well for God to be alone.
lonely stars sea
I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by. John Masefield
lonely loneliness heart
Tore up my heart and shut it down. Nothing to do, nowhere to be. A simple little kind of free. Nothing to do, no one but me, and that's all I need. I'm perfectly lonely. John Mayer
lonely art parent
When I was your age, art was a lonely thing: no galleries, no collecting, no critics, no money. We didn't have mentors. We didn't have parents. We were alone. But it was a great time, because we had nothing to lose and a vision to gain. John Logan
loneliness car stories
Working alone on stories, I began to feel the anonymity of motels on interstate highways reached by jet planes and rental cars. It was hard to have a good time, and the only way I could make the loneliness excusable was by taking pictures I thought were very good, even valuable. John Loengard
loneliness men self
Michael Jackson plays the wounded puppy very well. 'I must be the loneliest man in the world'. Well, you're not a man. And the loneliness is self inflicted, so sod off you pathetic puerile pimp. I wonder what color his willy is. John Lydon
lonely vanity people
It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts. John le Carre
lonely writing thinking
It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.
lonely congratulations home
Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
lonely growing-up book
When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated the outcasts, people who sat on the margins of society contemplating their interiors. . . Books were my cure for a romanticized unhappiness, for the anxiety of impending adulthood. They were all mine, private islands with secret passwords only the worthy could utter. Jodie Foster
lonely numbers views
There is only one number one. It is a lonely spot but it has got the best view of all. Jimmy Connors
lonely character writing
I'm never lonely when I'm writing, because you live with the characters that are so alive in your mind. And you really see them and know them and get to be friends with them. Julie Andrews
loneliness form
Death is loneliness in its purest form ... Katherine Anne Porter
lonely alive fierce
It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity. Karen Russell
lonely fall men
A single note, held in an amber suspension of time, like a charcoal drawing of Icarus falling. It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity. It went on and on, until my own lungs were burning. “What bird are you calling?” I asked finally, when I couldn’t stand it any longer. The Bird Man stopped whistling. He grinned, so that I could see all his pebbly teeth. “You.
loneliness purpose fiction
The purpose of fiction is to combat loneliness. Josh Radnor
lonely destiny belief
I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life... Joseph Conrad
lonely memories loneliness
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
loneliness people community
Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes identity. These are natural and very human instincts. Joshua Ferris
lonely stars sun
The sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear. Joseph Gordon-Levitt
loneliness self might
It didn't occur to him that she might have chosen to remain this way. That where he saw reserve and loneliness, Cassandra saw self-preservation and the knowledge that it was safer when one had less to lose. Kate Morton
loneliness mean bears
Please make me empty, if I'm empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I'm not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness. Leonard Cohen
lonely laughter love-is
Maybe there's a God above, As for me, all I've ever seemed to learn from love Is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you. Yeah but it's not a complaint that you hear tonight, It's not the laughter of someone who claims to have seen the light No it's a cold and it's a very lonely Hallelujah.
loneliness feelings holy
When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned.
loneliness thinking feelings
Yes, you who must leave everything that you cannot control, It begins with your family, and soon it comes round to your soul. Well I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned: When you're not feeling holy your loneliness says that you've sinned.
loner
I am essentially a loner. Lauren Bacall
loneliness vampire world
It was as if the power and loneliness of the vampires' world had combined with the group oriented puppy-pile world of the shapeshifters and made something new. Laurell K. Hamilton
lonely jesus heart
The cure for a lonely heart is to be alone with Jesus! Joseph Prince
lonely stars moon
The night folds her trembling hands over a weary world. Out of a pale blue rises the shining moon. My thoughts are flying to the stars like lonely swans. Joseph Goebbels