Quotes about lone
lonely stars heart
Let your heart look on white sea spray and be lonely. Love is a fool star. You and a ring of stars may mention my name and then forget me. Love is a fool star. Carl Sandburg
lonely believe men
There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely. Carl Sandburg
lonely heart silence
There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music. Carl Sandburg
lonely strong brother
Tell him solitude is creative if he is strong and the final decisions are made in silent rooms. Tell him to be different from other people if it comes natural and easy being different. Let him have lazy days seeking his deeper motives. Let him seek deep for where he is a born natural. Then he may understand Shakespeare and the Wright brothers, Pasteur, Pavlov, Michael Faraday and free imaginations Bringing changes into a world resenting change. He will be lonely enough to have time for the work he knows as his own. Carl Sandburg
lonely loneliness learning
Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work. Carl Sandburg
lonely scary sidekicks
I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary. Carson Daly
lonely men quality
All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers. Carson McCullers
lonely heart hunters
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Carson McCullers
loneliness heart waiting
We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong. Carson McCullers
lonely powerful self
After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us. Carson McCullers
loneliness way bears
the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear. Carson McCullers
lonely heart hunters
The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished..... Carson McCullers
lonely thinking long
Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just - when all along we knew it wasn't. Carson McCullers
lonely religious heart
What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead. Carson McCullers
loneliness people essentials
I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen. Carson McCullers
lonely thinking differences
I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely. Carson McCullers
loneliness independent weather
A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him. I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen. Carson McCullers
lonely heart light
The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire...driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there's no sign of love in sight! Carson McCullers
loneliness lying future
In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final. In a world without future, each laugh is the last laugh. In a world without future, beyond the present lies nothingness, and people cling to the present as if hanging from a cliff. Alan Lightman
loneliness being-alone past
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Alan Lightman
lonely book should
It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is no one for us to hold or love. Alain de Botton
lonely book writing
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to. Alain de Botton
lonely book thinking
There are things that are not spoken about in polite society. Very quickly in most conversations you'll reach a moment where someone goes, 'Oh, that's a bit heavy,' or 'Eew, disgusting.' And literature is a place where that stuff goes; where people whisper to each other across books, the writer to the reader. I think that stops you feeling lonely – in the deeper sense, lonely. Alain de Botton
loneliness europe sky
There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold. Ajay Naidu
lonely children play
Every time a child organizes and completes a chore, spends some time alone without feeling lonely, loses herself in play for an hour, or refuses to go along with her peers in some activity she feels is wrong, she will be building meaning and a sense of worth for herself and harmony in her family. Barbara Coloroso
lonely loneliness sea
Here in a little lonely room I am master of earth and sea, And the planets come to me. Arthur Symons
loneliness men people
There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity. All young people should be taught now to put up with loneliness ... because the less man is compelled to come into contact with others, the better off he is. Arthur Schopenhauer
loneliness eye giving
What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from him, this is obviously more essential for him than everything that he possesses or what he may be in the eyes of others... Arthur Schopenhauer
loneliness philosophical being-alone
To live alone is the fate of all great souls. Arthur Schopenhauer
loneliness cutting opportunity
Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone. Bruce Lee
lonely writing men
Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation. Brooks Atkinson
lonely book reading
As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds. Edmund Hillary
lonely loneliness believe
Loneliness and solitude are two different things. When you are lonely, it is easy to delude yourself into believing that you are on the right path. Solitude is better for us, as it means being alone without feeling lonely. But eventually it is best to find a person, the person who will be your mirror. Remember, only in another person’s heart can you truly see yourself and the presence of God within you Elif Safak