Quotes about lone
loneliness people guilt
That's the strangest thing about this life, about being in the ministry. People change the subject when they see you coming. And then sometimes those very same people come into your study and tell you the most remarkable things. There's a lot under the surface of life, everyone knows that. A lot of malice and dread and guilt, and so much loneliness, where you wouldn't really expect to find it, either. Marilynne Robinson
loneliness reflection appreciate
People don't acknowledge loneliness in themselves, and don't appreciate its benefits, the reflection and attentiveness that come with it, the deepened acquaintance with oneself.
loneliness unhappy facts
The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, "I shall be unhappy without loneliness," shows that he made loneliness his master. Matsuo Basho
loneliness circles littles
Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took your little circle of loneliness with you... Mary Stewart
loneliness book men
A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory. Pablo Neruda
loneliness heart dimensions
Shyness is a condition foreign to the heart -- a category, a dimension which leads to loneliness.
lonely privacy feels
We seek more and more privacy, and feel more and more alienated and lonely when we get it. Philip Slater
lonely jobs communication
Sin is a lonely thing, a worm wrapped around the soul, shielding it from love, from joy, from communion with fellow men and with God. The sense that I am alone, that none can hear me, none can understand, that no one answers my cries, it is a sickness over which, to borrow from Bernanos, “the vast tide of divine love, that sea of living, roaring flame which gave birth to all things, passes vainly.” Your job, it seems, would be to find a crack through which some sort of communication can be made, one soul to another. Phil Klay
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.
loneliness sea feelings
The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.
loneliness essentials make-things-happen
Spells of acute loneliness are an essential part of travel. Loneliness makes things happen. Jonathan Raban
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 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
loneliness sadness thinking
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. The remarkable thing is that the cessation of the inner dialogue marks also the end of our concern with the world around us. It is as if we noted the world and think about it only when we have to report it to ourselves. Eric Hoffer
lonely loneliness eye
With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.
loneliness failure being-alone
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
lonely valleys
Ah, the strange, sweet, lonely delightOf the Valleys of Dream. William Sharp
lonely fun weekend
Oh, God, I'm so lonely. An entire weekend streching ahead with no one to love or have fun with. Anyway, I don't care. I've got a lovely steamed ginger pudding from M&S to put in the microwave. Helen Fielding
loneliness inspiration being-alone
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
lonely heart winter
Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up sudden and solitary from the heart of the great black forests of Northern California Joaquin Miller
loneliness expression community
Online communities are an expression of loneliness. Joanne Harris
lonely angel hands
When you are lonely or frightened, talk to your guardian angel. You can do it out loud or inside your head, your angel can hear you. Ask your angel to be near you, to put his or her hand on your shoulder, to give you courage and protect you. Joan Anderson
lonely school people
I had [at school] my own little posse of people that all felt weird together so it wasn't so lonely. John C. Reilly
lonely rain grieving
I've seen fire and I've seen rain I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend But I always thought that I'd see you again. James Taylor
lonely men age
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority. James Thurber
lonely loneliness party
Fitzgerald describes the social disillusionments and ballroom romanticism of the young people of the upper classes and the loneliness of Gatsby, who gives large parties and has an extensive social life; yet he is lonely, and his guests scarcely know him.... Hemingway's characters live in a tourist world, and one of their major problems is that of consuming time itself. It is interesting to observe that his works are written from the stand point of the spectator. His characters are usually people who are looking--looking at bullfights, scenery, and at one another across cafe tables. James T. Farrell
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
loneliness i-realized knows
...I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away. Octavia Butler