Quotes about lone
lonely wall literature
I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful. Danielle Steel
lonely block friendly
Meggie Folchart: Having writer's block? Maybe I can help. Fenoglio: Oh yes, that's right. You want to be a writer, don't you? Meggie Folchart: You say that as if it's a bad thing. Fenoglio: Oh no, it's just a lonely thing. Sometimes the world you create on the page seems more friendly and alive than the world you actually live in. Cornelia Funke
loneliness block voice
Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to make wonderful worlds better than this one, comforters, companions in loneliness. Keepers of secrets, speakers of the truth...all those glorious words.
loneliness heart sadness
Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression that affect our hearts, minds and souls and remind us of who we are as human beings, the fragility of our human status and the inevitability of death. Cornel West
loneliness sadness sacrifice
I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and sadness.
lonely ideas world
She was lonely without Blunt, but she was lonelier at the idea that the world went on as though she had not loved him. Colm Toibin
loneliness trying world
No shame in saying that I felt a loneliness drifting through me. Funny how it was, everyone perched in their own little world with the deep need to talk, each person with their own tale, beginning in some strange middle point, then trying so hard to tell it all, to have it all make sense, logical and final. Colum McCann
loneliness odds world
Corrigan told me once that Christ was quite easy to understand. He went where He was supposed to go. He stayed where He was needed. He took little or nothing along, a pair of sandals, a bit of a shirt, a few odds and ends to stave off the loneliness. He never rejected the world. If He had rejected it, He would have been rejecting mystery. And if He rejected mystery, He would have been rejecting faith.
lonely self light
Like all other lonely or hungry things, ego loves the light. It sees light, and the possibility of being close to the soul, and it creeps up to it and steals one of its essential camouflages. In a hunger for soul, our own ego-self steals the pelt Clarissa Pinkola Estes
lonely punctuality believer
I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely E. V. Lucas
lonely men memories-dreams-reflections
If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely. Carl Jung
lonely loneliness being-alone
you'll never be lonely if you learn to be friend your self David Archuleta
lonely long people
At a time when it's possible for thirty people to stand on the top of Everest in one day, Antarctica still remains a remote, lonely and desolate continent. A place where it's possible to see the splendours and immensities of the natural world at its most dramatic and, what's more, witness them almost exactly as they were, long, long before human beings ever arrived on the surface of this planet. Long may it remain so. David Attenborough
lonely kind
Being on the road is kind of lonely. Dave Attell
lonely jesus pay-the-price
The road that leads to heaven is risky, lonely, and costly in this world, and few are willing to pay the price. Following Jesus involves losing your life-and finding new life in him. David Platt
lonely teenager oxygen
Music was my oxygen. It's what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager. Corey Hart
lonely giving purpose
When you least feel like it, do something for someone else. You forget about your own situation. It gives you a purpose, as opposed being sorrowful and lonely. Dana Reeve
lonely valentine being-in-love
Valentine's Day is a time to celebrate the joy of being in love. Unless you're single & lonely then it's called Laundry Day. Dane Cook
loneliness solitude haste
Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness. Dallas Willard
lonely feelings lines
It's instinctive in a certain kind of painting...It's like a nervous system. It's not described, it's happening. The feeling is going on with the task. The line is the feeling, from a soft thing, a dreamy thing, to something hard, something arid, something lonely, something ending, something beginning. Cy Twombly
loneliness believe boys
..and I thought how liking a boy was just the same as believing you wanted to know a secret - everything was better when you were denied and could feel tormented by curiousity or loneliness. But the moment of something happening was treacherous. It was just so tiring to have to worry about whether your face was peeling, or to have to laugh at stories that weren’t funny. Curtis Sittenfeld
lonely worried notice-me
I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.
lonely cycling way
Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. David Byrne
loneliness writing
Loneliness is just a thing that I'm not personally interested in. So far, it hasn't been on my docket of things to write about. Dave Eggers
lonely past views
I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else. I will never feel the pressure of peers or the burden of parental expectation. I can view everyone as pieces of a whole, and focus on the whole, not the pieces. I have learned to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present because that is where I am destined to live. David Levithan
lonely talking slipping
When he talked to you, you seemed to fit in, but when someone else was talking, or he would be distracted, you jsut looked lonely over there. At least to me. But whenever I would tell you that, you'd say "I'm fine. I just slip out of it, you know?" And I'd say "I'll catch you," and you would say, "It's not the kind of slipping you can catch.
loneliness damage moments
Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Or is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else?
lonely differences knowing
What I learned The well-documented difference Between alone and lonely The comfort of knowing
loneliness knowing missing
We remember what it was like to meet someone new. We remember what it was like to grant someone possibility. You look out from your own world and then you step into his, not really knowing what you’ll find there, but hoping it will be something good. Both Ryan and Avery are doing this. You step into his world and you don’t even realize your loneliness is missing. You’ve left it behind, and you don’t notice because you have no desire to turn back.
loneliness bad-relationship profound
She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship.
lonely betrayed awful
It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it’s lonely, because you feel you can’t talk about it.
lonely children museums
True majorities, in a TV-dominated and anti-intellectual age, may need sound bites and flashing lights and I am not against supplying such lures if they draw children into even a transient concern with science. But every classroom has one [Oliver] Sacks , one [Eric] Korn, or one [Jonathan] Miller , usually a lonely child with a passionate curiosity about nature, and a zeal that overcomes pressures for conformity. Do not the one in fifty deserve their institutions as well magic places, like cabinet museums, that can spark the rare flames of genius? Stephen Jay Gould
lonely creativity cutting
No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be based on unbiased observation of nature in the raw is mythology. Creative work, in geology and anywhere else, is interaction and synthesis: half-baked ideas from a bar room, rocks in the field, chains of thought from lonely walks, numbers squeezed from rocks in a laboratory, numbers from a calculator riveted to a desk, fancy equipment usually malfunctioning on expensive ships, cheap equipment in the human cranium, arguments before a road cut.