Quotes about lone
lonely children ambition
I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life. George Orwell
loneliness memorable two
For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live.
lonely defeat oneself
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
lonely ghost
He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.
lonely mind world
Did he understand, as those interminable minutes ticked by, that being alone is not the same as being lonely? That being alone is a neutral state… something that exists only in the mind, not in the world, and, like a virus, is unable to survive without a willing host? Garth Stein
loneliness causes baldness
The worst thing baldness causes is loneliness. Gail Porter
lonely adventure men
The last of the lonely places is the sky, a trackless void where nothing lives or grows, and above it, space itself. Man may have been destined to walk upon ice or sand, or climb the mountains or take craft upon the sea. But surely he was never meant to fly? But he does, and finding out how to do it was his last great adventure. Frederick Forsyth
lonely believe long
The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been. George F. Kennan
lonely intellectual black
It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed. Henry Louis Gates
lonely men artist
I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable Henry Miller
lonely evil duos
Clary: "He wanted me to come with him. To join him and Sebastain. I guess he wants their evil little duo to be a little evil trio." She shrugged. "Maybe he's lonely. Sebastian cant be the greatest company. Magnus: we don't know that. He could be absolutely fantastic at Scrabble. Cassandra Clare
lonely loneliness being-alone
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? George Eliot
lonely clouds stones
It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work. Frank Borman
lonely memories home
The few surviving Armenians no longer ask to go home. They do not ask for restitution. They ask simply to have the memory of their obliteration acknowledged. It is a moral obsession, the lonely legacy passed onto the third and fourth generation who no longer speak Armenian but who carry within them the seeds of resentment that will not be quashed. Chris Hedges
lonely being-single thinking
The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think? Christine Feehan
lonely typewriters history
There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but in the history of their manufacture, which is filled with raids, battles, lonely pioneers, great gambles, hope, fear, despair, triumph. If some of our novels could be written by the typewriters instead of on them, how much better they would be. J. B. Priestley
lonely husband magic
I would like to be with my husband together sitting somewhere in a lonely place in the woods and take something, maybe some pills or something, a magic potion and die together. Isabel Allende
lonely character people
Humanity has this need to hear stories because they connect us with other people, they teach us about our own feelings. We feel less lonely when we see other people going through the same things, even if they're fictional characters.
loneliness yoga being-alone
Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness. Indra Devi
loneliness solitude delight
He who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. Friedrich Nietzsche
lonely loneliness crowds
In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.
lonely drama acceptance
I know our feelings can be so unbearable that we employ ingenious strategies – unconscious strategies – to keep those feelings away. We do a feelings-swap, where we avoid feeling sad or lonely or afraid or inadequate, and feel angry instead. It can work the other way, too – sometimes you do need to feel angry, not inadequate; sometimes you do need to feel love and acceptance, and not the tragic drama of your life. It takes courage to feel the feeling – and not trade it on the feelings-exchange, or even transfer it altogether to another person. Jeanette Winterson
lonely feelings feeling-sad
Trust Me. Life is not worth living feeling sad and down and lonely. Always be true to who you are. Jessie J
loneliness talking secret
The best antidote for loneliness, hopelessness, and fear is vulnerability: sharing your secrets and talking about what shames you, what you fear. Jewel
lonely space empty
Whoever reflects recognizes that there are empty and lonely spaces between one’s experiences. Jerome Bruner
lonely mean two
I mean, any time an actress gets to work with another actress, it's like, 'Oh, there are two of us in a movie! How are you? Let's sit in the hair chair together!' We're lonely women. Jennifer Garner
lonely philosophy loneliness
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company. Jean-Paul Sartre
lonely loneliness depth
No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness. Georges Bernanos
lonely men thinking
A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. George Bernard Shaw
lonely poetry world
That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.
loneliness vegetarianism alcohol
I, however, cannot force myself to use "meat drugs" to cheat on my loneliness. Franz Kafka
loneliness writing creativity
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
loneliness being-alone needs
The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness. Erich Fromm