Quotes about lone
lonely lonely-places steak
God is a lonely place without steak. Charles Bukowski
lonely loneliness wine
I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!
lonely museums empty
The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear.
loneliness pride men
I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.
lonely self pity
I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.
lonely loneliness suicidal
I've never been lonely. I've been in a room... I've felt suicidal, I've been depressed. I've felt awful ... awful beyond all , but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude...
lonely night men
A lonely man on a rainy night who cannot read. Benjamin Franklin
lonely moscow rooms
In Moscow you sit in a huge room at a restaurant; you know no one and no one knows you, and at the same time you don't feel a stranger. But here you know everyone and everyone knows you, and yet you are a stranger -- a stranger... A stranger, and lonely... Anton Chekhov
lonely loneliness being-alone
People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
lonely gratitude hurt
If I'm feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that's a black hole for me. I really have worked a lot to meet pain with both gratitude and gentleness. Bellamy Young
loneliness despair causes
Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair. bell hooks
lonely honor path
When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow. Aung San Suu Kyi
lonely alive
Let's leave one alive so that it can be lonely. Arundhati Roy
loner want feels
I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.
loneliness fall choices
Everything is freedom and everything is loneliness. Make your choice and let the rest fall away. Ariel Gore
lonely hypocrite army
Who am I? this or the other? Am I one person today and tomorrow another? Am I both at once? A hypocrite before others, and before myself a contemptible woebegone weakling? Or is something within me still like a beaten army fleeing in disorder from a victory already achieved? Who am I? They mock me, these lonely questions of mine. Whoever I am, Thou knowest, O God, I am thine! Dietrich Bonhoeffer
lonely children
It's very lonely bringing up a child on your own. Diane Abbott
lonely zoos animal
What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to commune with other beasts. In the process, we discover our shared identity. Diane Ackerman
loneliness differences people
So often loneliness comes from being out of touch with parts of oneself. We go searching for those parts in other people, but there's a difference between feeling separate from others and separate from oneself.
lonely stupid looks
I wonder if there were any goths in gothic times. They're like: You look completely appropriate. You don't look stupid or lonely at all. Demetri Martin
lonely lonely-at-the-top
They say it's lonely at the top. It must be even lonelier at the tippy top.
lonely stores fooled
I can tell how lonely I am by how easily I'm fooled by a mannequin in a store.
loneliness two doors
Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused. Dean Koontz
loneliness grief loss
But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.
loneliness reflection doors
Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom. Once you were thus convinced, you were foolish to open the door and let anyone in, not all the way in. You risked the hard-won equilibrium, that tranquility that you called peace
lonely writing mean
In the time since the Baudelaire parents' death, most of the Baudelaire orphans' friends had fallen by the wayside, an expression wich here means "they stopped calling, writing, and stopping by to see any of the Baudelaires, making them lonely". You and I, of course, would never do this to any of our grieving acquaintances, but it is a sad truth that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed. Daniel Handler
lonely journey men
A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called "The Road Less Traveled", describing a journey he took through the woods along a path most travelers never used. The poet found that the road less traveled was peaceful but quite lonely, and he was probably a bit nervous as he went along, because if anything happened on the road less traveled, the other travelers would be on the road more frequently traveled and so couldn't hear him as he cried for help. Sure enough, that poet is dead.
lonely sadness remember
When you're sad and when you're lonely and you haven't got a friend, just remember that death is not the end. Bob Dylan
loneliness people mind
Loneliness Got a mind of its own The more people around The more you feel alone
lonely home dust
Everything established, settled, everything to do with home and order and the common ground, has crumbled into dust and has been swept away in the general upheaval and reorganization of the whole of society. The whole human way of life has been destroyed and ruined. All that's left is the bare, shivering human soul, stripped to the last shred, the naked force of the human psyche for which nothing has changed because it was always cold and shivering and reaching out to its nearest neighbor, as cold and lonely as itself. Boris Pasternak
loneliness journey evil
Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever. Brennan Manning
lonely children play
Every time a child organizes and completes a chore, spends some time alone without feeling lonely, loses herself in play for an hour, or refuses to go along with her peers in some activity she feels is wrong, she will be building meaning and a sense of worth for herself and harmony in her family. Barbara Coloroso
lonely loneliness sea
Here in a little lonely room I am master of earth and sea, And the planets come to me. Arthur Symons