Quotes about lone
lonely inspiration two
People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two. Sara Sheridan
lonely tired space
I am alone, as though I stood On the highest peak of the tired gray world,About me only swirling snow, Above me, endless space unfurled;With earth hidden and heaven hidden, And only my own spirit's prideTo keep me from the peace of those Who are not lonely, having died. Sara Teasdale
lonely loneliness being-alone
So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
lonely emptiness quiet
Get yourself empty in the Eastern sense. Not in the Western sense. In the Western sense when we feel empty we feel lonely, miserable, but in the Eastern sense - "I'm so empty, because I'm filled with everything, and I'm connected to everything." It's very energizing. You want that kind of emptiness, whatever you have to do to get yourself quiet. Sandra Cisneros
lonely writing remember
You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely.
lonely loneliness clouds
"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others." Samuel Johnson
lonely loneliness care
In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.
lonely long gone
Ive gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while. Rufus Sewell
lonely children reading
Writing has always allowed me to escape. I was a very lonely child. Because I was very socially awkward, I would always have trouble making friends. And so reading and writing allowed me to have friends and to have an active imaginary life that really sort of kept me sane. Roxane Gay
lonely bottom lonely-at-the-top
It's lonely on the top when there's no one on the bottom. Rodney Dangerfield
lonely world literature
That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely. Robert Stone
lonely years bored
I had a stalker while filming a movie in Spain last year. She stood outside of my apartment I used every day for weeks, all day, every day. I was so bored and lonely that I went out and had dinner with her. I just complained about everything in my life and she never came back. Robert Pattinson
lonely attitude real
The real evil isn't the objects of technology but the tendency of technology to isolate people into lonely attitudes of objectivity. It's the objectivity, the dualistic way of looking at things underlying technology, that produces the evil. Robert M. Pirsig
loneliness
Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.
lonely memorable thinking
There's no story if there isn't some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely and trapped sometimes. I would think it's more or less the norm. Wes Anderson
loner attention way
Some praise me, some blame me. I go the other way. Sometimes those things that attract the most attention to us are the things which afford us the greatest privacy Tom Robbins
lonely strong atheist
If Atheists are lonely and downtrodden, we have only ourselves to blame. Numerically, we are strong. Let's start punching our weight. Tom Flynn
lonely book home
It's pretty lonely and sad to be single. Every night was the same for me, I'd go home and curl up in bed with my favorite book. Well, actually it was a magazine. Tom Arnold
lonely sex men
I'm not the kind of man that holds out on a need for nothing. I'm as lonely as any man around, I just don't like to pick 'em up and lay 'em down. Toby Keith
lonely solitude downtown
When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go downtown. Tony Hatch
lonely writing business-writing
It's a dismally lonely business, writing. Toni Cade Bambara
lonely reading mind
In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation. Stephane Mallarme
lonely play people
Perhaps I am too tame, too domestic a magician. But how does one work up a little madness? I meet with mad people every day in the street, but I never thought before to wonder how they got mad. Perhaps I should go wandering on lonely moors and barren shores. That is always a popular place for lunatics - in novels and plays at any rate. Perhaps wild England will make me mad. Susanna Clarke
lonely matter i-can
Because it doesn't matter anymore, and because I'm so desperately lonely I can't stand it. Suzanne Collins
lonely comforting firsts
I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.
loneliness school years
It was a time of great loneliness. He had a group of friends, and suddenly I had no one and did not understand why. I felt excluded. Some days, the majority was in high school and did not know who to talk to. And that is something really terrible when you're twelve years old. Taylor Swift
loneliness kissing laughing
When we finished the kiss she said laughing, I can taste your loneliness - it tastes like vinegar. That annoyed me. Everyone knows loneliness tastes like cold potato soup. Steve Toltz
lonely thinking roots
My Hamlet was about as alienated as you can get. Mine was a bitter and lonely prince. Valid, I think, but maybe tough to root for. I think that romance was missing. Stephen Lang
lonely children real
A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic idea of what blindness is; only the formerly sighted have a real grip on the thing. Ben Hanscom had no sense of being lonely because he had never been anything but. If the condition had been new, or more localized, he might have understood, but loneliness both encompassed his life and overreached it. Stephen King
lonely jobs believe
Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.
lonely hunting cells
He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a lonely lunatic cell looking for a mate - they would set up housekeeping and raise themselves a cozy little malignant tumor.
lonely believe kind
I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.
lonely jobs ocean
Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction, can be a difficult, lonely job; it's like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There's plenty of opportunity for self-doubt.