Famous Quotes & Sayings

Britney Spears

My loneliness ain't killing me no more.

Edgar Allan Poe

Thy soul shall find itself alone ’Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone— Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into thine hour of secrecy. Be silent in that solitude, Which is not loneliness—for then The spirits of the dead who stood In life before thee are again In death around thee—and their will Shall overshadow thee: be still. [...]

T. S. Eliot

Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

Pablo Neruda

A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory.

Laini Taylor

For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.

Lisa Kleypas

When the pace of our feet matched perfectly, I felt a deep inner pang of satisfaction. I could have gone on walking like that forever, side by side with him. There had been few times in my life I had ever inhabited a moment so fully, with no loneliness lurking at the edges.

Nicole Krauss

After all who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness

Jim Harrison

I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner -- young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

Jay Garner

This is a tough job, and it's very difficult to take people out of a darkness and lead them into light. Once they have been standing in light long enough, their eyes will adjust.

Anthony Hopkins

We are fascinated by the darkness in ourselves, we are fascinated by the shadow, we are fascinated by the boogeyman.

Alexander Pope

Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.

Andrew Solomon

I encounter a lot of prejudice and a lot of darkness. I have to negotiate constantly through situations that are uncomfortable or difficult or strange.

Rumi

Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest.

Toby Jones

I still don't feel I know Hitchcock at all. I find that the more one looks, the more elusive he becomes. But my admiration for Hitchcock the filmmaker remains undiminished. He is a giant of the cinema and the darkness in him informs his cinematic language. You can't separate one from the other.

Victor Hugo

If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. (Monseigneur Bienvenu in _Les Miserables_)

Stephen King

The last good time always comes, and when you see the darkness creeping toward you, you hold on to what was bright and good. You hold on for dear life.

Sylvia Plath

See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.