Quotes about lone
loneliness car people
People were buying milk, or filling their cars with petrol, or even posting letters. And what no one else knew was the appalling weight of the thing they were carrying inside. The superhuman effort it took sometimes to be normal, and a part of things that appeared both easy and everyday. The loneliness of that. Rachel Joyce
loneliness self hands
I hold my face in my two hands. No, I am not crying. I hold my face in my two hands to keep the loneliness warm - two hands protecting, two hands nourishing, two hands preventing my soul from leaving me in anger. Nhat Hanh
loneliness people solitude
And for this you must have quiet and solitude. But society does not allow you to have them. You must be with people, outwardly active at all costs. If you are alone you are considered antisocial or peculiar, or you are afraid of your own loneliness. Jiddu Krishnamurti
loneliness struggle evil
Fear is the process of the mind in the struggle of becoming. In becoming good there is the fear of evil; in becoming complete, there is the fear of loneliness. Jiddu Krishnamurti
lonely writing long
I write all the time because I'm lonely. When you're acting, you're working every day all day. But then you have long amounts of time off. Jesse Eisenberg
lonely book writing
When I'm blogging, I think book writing is easier and vice versa. Writing is lonely work, and the good thing about blogging is that you have immediate feedback from commenters. Jenny Lawson
lonely party successful
I once threw myself a surprise party on Twitter because I was lonely. It was awesome. Thousands of people showed up and then Wil Wheaton and I made a bunch of monkey-ponies. It was the most successful surprise party I've ever thrown in my life. It was also the only surprise party I've ever thrown in my whole life. Jenny Lawson
loneliness eagles liberty
The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness. Gilbert K. Chesterton
lonely loneliness solitude
Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing. Fred Rogers
lonely humanity humans
Humans are almost always lonely. Frank Herbert
lonely hate broken
A person cries out in life because it's lonely and because life's been broken off from whatever created it. But no matter how much you hate life, you love it too. It's like a caldron boiling with everything you have to have, but very painful to the lips. Frank Herbert
lonely simple civilization
No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/human interface, there always come interludes of lonely power when the course of humankind, the very future of humankind, depends upon the relatively simple actions of single individual. Frank Herbert
loneliness past self
In our opposed forms of loneliness and self-recognition and recognition of the other, we touched each other often as we spoke; and on shore in explorations of the past, we strolled with our arms linked... Harold Brodkey
lonely real reading
Real reading is a lonely activity. Harold Bloom
loneliness light fire
We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these poets bring us fire and light. Harold Bloom
lonely
I'd rather be lonely than happy with somebody else. Gus Kahn
loneliness home waiting
Here had lived someone else who knew that the only thing waiting at home was a sense of loneliness. Sometimes it is comforting. Most often, it isn't. Jim Butcher
lonely thrill woods
No amount of rationalisation, reform, or Freudian analysis can quite annul the thrill of the chimney-corner whisper or the lonely wood. H. P. Lovecraft
loneliness spring being-alone
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. Jean de la Bruyere
lonely stubborn crowds
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed. Moliere
lonely sick interesting
When you feel happy, really happy, it somehow seems that you've always been happy and that you'll always be happy. The same is often true when you feel sad, or lonely, or depressed, or broke, or sick, or scared. Something, perhaps, to remember. Mike Dooley
lonely book reading
in reading ... stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance to do in ordinary life. It's amazing that those twenty-six little marks of the alphabet can arrange themselves on the pages of a book and accomplish all that. Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely. Natalie Babbitt
lonely reading bored
Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely. Natalie Babbitt
lonely children loneliness
Because of my childhood where I was constantly by myself, I always feel lonely. I have a lot of people that I absolutely love and I know love me but I can't get rid of that feeling of loneliness no matter who I'm with - even with my children. Natalia Vodianova
lonely loneliness mask
It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask. Katherine Mansfield
loneliness ducks mates
Mandarin ducks mate for life and will die of loneliness if separated from their chosen mate. Katherine Paterson
lonely powerful real
Now that I no longer feel lonely, and now that my own past feels resolved in a whole new and very deep way, I am excited to write about the real world, to stay in it. Fiction is an escape, a parallel life, and it was a powerful source of comfort for me when my own life was raw and uncomfortable. I don't feel the burning need to disappear into a fictional character these days. Kate Christensen
lonely writing office
We were 15 minutes into it and nothing was happening; I thought, well, that's not going to work. Then all of a sudden everything clicked. I don't know how long it took us, but I would just show up at Alison's [McGhee] office. She would type and we'd just kick it back and forth. Writing is so scary for me, such a lonely endeavor, and it became a wonderful thing to show up and have somebody else go through it with me. It was actually a wonderful experience. Kate DiCamillo
lonely writing laughing
One, we [with alison McGhee] laugh a lot - that was great. Two, I enjoy writing, but it's a lonely undertaking. To have someone in the room with me is an absolute delight and makes it seem less impossible. It became a kind of comforting, joyful process. Kate DiCamillo
lonely fun important
I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family... and that's really important to me. Things can get so lonely without it. Kristen Bell
lonely strong jobs
My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were so lonely. People rarely visited them. I only stayed there a couple of months, but it made a strong impression on me. Kim Edwards
lonely filled-up giving
...so young, so lonely and naive, that she imagined herself as some sort of vessel to be filled up with love. But it wasn't like that. The love was within her all the time and its only renewal came from giving it away. Kim Edwards
loner yeah okay
Yeah, I like being on my own. I do. I tend to be a loner, so I'm okay. I'm not okay when I have to be around everyone all the time. Keri Russell