Quotes about lone
lonely
I would always be lonely, but no more alone. Sonya Hartnett
lonely fall rain
You're not supposed to have iron bars around you - no one is supposed to have that. You're supposed to fall down hills and get lonely, and find your own food and get wet when it rains. That's what happens when you're alive. Sonya Hartnett
lonely book character
I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own. Ruta Sepetys
lonely responsibility spirit
Often I have struggled for days to get the image of the photograph to overlap the spirit I see. It is an awesome responsibility, and a lonely one. Ruth Bernhard
lonely peace war
... it is a commonplace that men like war. For peace, in our society, with the feeling we have then that it is feeble-minded to strive except for one's own private profit, is a lonely thing and a hazardous business. Over and over men have proved that they prefer the hazards of war with all its suffering. It has its compensations. Ruth Benedict
lonely dark love-is
In the Lonely Hour is about a guy that I fell in love with last year, and he didn't love me back. I think I'm over it now, but I was in a very dark place. I kept feeling lonely in the fact that I hadn't felt love before. Sam Smith
loneliness being-alone profound
Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity. Thomas Merton
lonely jobs thinking
I've always dreamt of having some sort of undercover job. I think it's probably the coolest thing in the world, but ultimately a very lonely life. Rashida Jones
loneliness two saws
Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it. Robin Hobb
lonely somewhere-else family-and-friends
...sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one's friends and family are well. Robin Hobb
lonely sunset fate
The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate; The lonely mountains soar in scorn As still as death, as stern as fate. Robert W. Service
lonely kids way
'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies. Rob Sheffield
lonely feelings hungry
The hungry feeling and the lonely feeling merged until it was hard to tell them apart. Rob Sheffield
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. Robert M. Pirsig
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
lonely night men
All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in his time, and been more than once beset by Satan in divers shapes, in his lonely pre-ambulations, yet daylight put an end to all these evils; and he would have passed a pleasent life of it, in despite of the devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was - a woman. Washington Irving
loneliness feelings mind
Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant. Washington Irving
loneliness loss bird
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet to become tender and imaginitive in the loneliness of confinement. He banquets upon the honey of his own thoughts, and, like the captive bird, pours forth his soul in melody. Washington Irving
loneliness walks
Loneliness is something you can't walk away from. William Feather
loneliness reading library
Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay. William Styron
lonely flower race
And the blue gentian-flower, that, in the breeze, Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last. William C. Bryant
lonely cheer loneliness
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds. William Butler Yeats
lonely peace fall
Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love's lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.... William Butler Yeats
lonely loneliness world
And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight. William Butler Yeats
lonely loneliness spring
Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring. William Butler Yeats
lonely contentment delight
A lonely impulse of delight William Butler Yeats
lonely nature fear
Him who trembles before the flame and the flood, And the winds that blow through the starry ways, Let the starry winds and the flame and the flood Cover over and hide, for he has no part With the lonely, majestical multitude. William Butler Yeats
lonely teaching taken
For centuries great, brave, lonely men have been telling you what to do. Time and again you have corrupted, diminished and demolished their teachings; time and again you have been captivated by their weakest points, taken not the great truth, but some trifling error as your guiding principal. Wilhelm Reich
lonely loneliness thinking
When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone. Walter Scott
lonely dog moon
The moon, our own, earthly moon is bitterly lonely, because it is alone in the sky, always alone, and there is no one to turn to, no one to turn to it. All it can do is ache across the weightless airy ice, across thousands of versts, toward those who are equally lonely on earth, and listen to the endless howling of dogs. (“A Story About The Most Important Thing”) Yevgeny Zamyatin
lonely painter
Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Winston Churchill