Quotes about lonely
lonely
All the lonely people, where do they all come from? / All the lonely people, where do they all belong?
lonely creation
The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area... the performance of the work one creates. Edward Albee
lonely men tree
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche. Hermann Hesse
lonely men air
For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him incapable of relationship, an atmosphere against which neither will nor longing availed. This was one of the significant earmarks of his life.
lonely dark green
Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons. Henry Timrod
lonely loneliness paint
Oh, I am a lonely painter / I live in a box of paints... Joni Mitchell
lonely song stranger
Oh it gets so lonely When you're walking And the streets are full of strangers
lonely knowing feelings
You can sit up here, feeling above it all while knowing you’re not, coming to the lonely conclusion that the only thing you can ever really know about anyone is that you don’t know anything about them at all. Jonathan Tropper
lonely believe years
Silver is forty-four years old, if you can believe it, out of shape, and depressed—although he doesn’t know if you call it depression when you have good reason to be; maybe then you’re simply sad, or lonely, or just painfully aware, on a daily basis, of all the things you can never get back.
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.
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
lonely gone boots
My boots were so heavy that I was glad there was a column beneath us. How could such a lonely person have been living so close to me my whole life? If I had known, I would have gone up to keep him company.
lonely voice perfect
I'm not getting it all sorted, she worried. I'm not getting it right. You are brilliant, the Voice reassured her. It is imperfect. So are all things trapped in time. You are brilliant, nonetheless. How fortunate for Us that We thirst for glorious souls rather than faultless ones, or We should be parched indeed, and most lonely in Our perfect righteousness. Carry on imperfectly, shining Ista. Lois McMaster Bujold
lonely kids independent
It's a lonely world, being independent, and they can come away with the idea that if Lloyd Kaufman can make movies with people getting their heads squashed, with hard-bodied lesbians, women masturbating with pickles, graphic diarrhea, and singing and dancing chicken zombies - if he can do that for 40 years and put his kids through Yale, Columbia, and Duke - if that idiot can do it, anybody can do it. Lloyd Kaufman
lonely lonely-places dies
Flies die in so many lonely places. -Roberta Rohbeson Lynda Barry
lonely hate love-you
Out on the moors, The lonely moors, I roll around in sheep poo. Heathcliff, it's youuuuu, I hate you, I love you tooooo. Let me in, I'm here, it's meeeee, Catheeeeeeee. Look out of your windooooow. Louise Rennison
lonely wind water
And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear. Lord Byron
lonely nature travel
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
lonely wine sunset
Nothing grows among its pinnacles; there is no shade except under great toadstools of sandstone whose bases have been eaten to the shape of wine glasses by the wind. Everything is flaking, cracking, disintegrating, wearing away in the long, inperceptible weather of time. The ash of ancient volcanic outbursts still sterilizes its soil, and its colors in that waste are the colors that flame in the lonely sunsets on dead planets. Loren Eiseley
lonely empathy humanity
This is the most enormous extension of vision of which life is capable: the projection of itself into other lives. This is the lonely, magnificent power of humanity. It is . . . the supreme epitome of the reaching out.
lonely hands light
There was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of the Consul himself, the Greek e's, the flying buttresses of d's, the t's like lonely wayside crosses save where they crucified an entire word. Malcolm Lowry
lonely believe men
There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover worth having. Gene Wolfe
lonely school teeth
I'm solitary as a pulled tooth, Lonely as an unwelcome truth, Lost as a minnow out of school, A genius in a crop of fools. Gail Carson Levine
lonely civilization rushing
The first great thing is to find yourself and for that you need solitude and contemplation - at least sometimes. I can tell you deliverance will not come from the rushing noisy centers of civilization. It will come from the lonely places. Fridtjof Nansen
lonely kings book
Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such store I might sit by thy dear side in some lonely place, I should deem myself happier than a king in his kingdom. Omar Khayyam
lonely writing research
Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
lonely future play
I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.
lonely memories life-and-love
To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life--there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death.
lonely kids wife
Life was good to me. I had a great wife, good kids, money, my own health -- and I'm lonely and bored. O. J. Simpson
lonely loneliness two
One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world. Emile M. Cioran
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.
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