Quotes about lone
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. Emile M. Cioran
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 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
loneliness sea fishing
Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness. John D. Voelker
lonely hate night
What are you thinking?" he asks. I know Gage hates it when I cry - he is completely undone by the sight of tears - so I blink hard against the sting. "I'm thinking how thankful I am for everything," I say, "even the bad stuff. Every sleepless night, every second of being lonely, every time the car broke down, every wad of gum on my shoe, every late bill and losing lottery ticket and bruise and broken dish and piece of burnt toast." His voice is soft. "Why, darlin'?" "Because it all led me here to you. Lisa Kleypas
lonely hate sleep
It's hard in L.A. not to go out, it gets lonely. Being an actress is lonely, and I never want to be alone. I hate sleeping alone. Lindsay Lohan
lonely voice talking
The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely. Khalil Gibran
lonely brother strong
I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.
loneliness sea feelings
The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.
loneliness essentials make-things-happen
Spells of acute loneliness are an essential part of travel. Loneliness makes things happen. Jonathan Raban
lonely people wonder
It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong? Jonathan Safran Foer