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A lot of people are lonely. A lot of people are lonely even when they're surrounded by other people.Collection: Lonely
There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or 'terror in a lonely place', the original semantic content of the word. The lonely place was his own mind.Collection: Lonely
Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.Collection: Lonely
So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.Collection: Lonely
I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.Collection: Lonely
Nobody stood by Jesus. Maybe nobody will stand by you. It's a lonely life, but it's a glorious life.Collection: Lonely
Being alone does not mean you are lonely, and being lonely does not mean you are alone.Collection: Lonely
[I]n the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape. He is either on a horse or driving a car, depending, and either way he’s carrying a gun. This is one of the essential images in American mythology.Collection: Lonely
There is something desperately lonely about Barack Obama's universe. One gets the overwhelming sense of someone yearning for connection, for something that binds human beings together, for community and commonality, for what he repeatedly calls "the common good". This is hardly news.Collection: Lonely
There are always so many things happening [to us] at one time. We read Isherwood's A Single Man in class, and we had to ask: How is he talking about all this stuff: teaching, being lonely, all his memories, all at the same time? He's telling us: This is where my head is at, let me be straightforward. And of course, try be artful about it.Collection: Lonely
When small drops began to fall and darken the world in penny-shaped circles, no one around him scurried for cover. For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.Collection: Lonely
Writing has always allowed me to escape. I was a very lonely child. Because I was very socially awkward, I would always have trouble making friends. And so reading and writing allowed me to have friends and to have an active imaginary life that really sort of kept me sane.Collection: Lonely
Facts are lonely things.Collection: Lonely
The possibility for rich relationships exists all around you - you simply have to open your eyes, open your mouth and most importantly, open your heart.Collection: Lonely
Even though I had a fantastic family, I always felt lonely - not lonely in the melancholic way but knowing that, to really survive, I have to do everything for myself. I had to work and study, and I was out in the street really surviving, bringing food back home.Collection: Lonely
It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in the bone.Collection: Lonely
Our work is not to change what you do, but to witness what you do with enough awareness, enough curiosity, enough tenderness that the lies and old decisions upon which the compulsion is based become apparent and fall away. When you no longer believe that eating will save your life when you feel exhausted or overwhelmed or lonely, you will stop. When you believe in yourself more than you believe in food, you will stop using food as if it were your only chance at not falling apart. When the shape of your body no longer matches the shape of your beliefs, the weight disappears.Collection: Lonely
It's lonely on the top when there's no one on the bottom.Collection: Lonely
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.Collection: Lonely
Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely.Collection: Lonely
Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue.Collection: Lonely
I didn't think I was in a morbid mood, but it appears I am. My mind goes round and round trying to figure things out, but I always come back to the same two things: Loneliness and Death. Life ends before we figure anything out, most importantly how not to be lonely. Solitude is fine. But feeling like you have no one to love - abject lonliness - is not alright.Collection: Lonely
A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.Collection: Lonely
Maybe there's a God above, As for me, all I've ever seemed to learn from love Is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you. Yeah but it's not a complaint that you hear tonight, It's not the laughter of someone who claims to have seen the light No it's a cold and it's a very lonely Hallelujah.Collection: Lonely
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.Collection: Lonely
Together, we looked down at the tiny house, the sole thing on this vast, flat surface. Like the only person living on the moon. It could be either lonely or peaceful, depending on how you looked at it. "It's a start," I said.Collection: Lonely
I don’t mind being alone either. The only problem is that if you’re always alone, you get lonely.Collection: Lonely
I spend so much time living by myself - mostly in hotels - and I pick up cats when I'm feeling particularly lonely.Collection: Lonely
I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life.Collection: Lonely
Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity.Collection: Lonely
Some feel lonely because they haven't found that perfect 'companion' yet. Sometimes Allah sends everyone else away so you can find that only in Him.Collection: Lonely
Because it doesn't matter anymore, and because I'm so desperately lonely I can't stand it.Collection: Lonely
One day we'll look back we'll smile and we'll laugh,but right now we just cry. Cuz it's so hard to say good-bye.Collection: Lonely
In the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape.Collection: Lonely
What did it mean, the first time, a thinking creature looked deeply into another's eyes? Did it take a hundred thousand years before this happened or it was the first thing they did, transcendingly, the thing that made them higher, made them modern, the gaze that demonstrates we are lonely in our souls?Collection: Lonely
We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.Collection: Lonely
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?Collection: Lonely
It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that every one was forsaking me and going away from me. Of course, any one is entitled to ask who "every one" was. For though I had been living almost eight years in Petersburg I had hardly an acquaintance. But what did I want with acquaintances? I was acquainted with all Petersburg as it was.Collection: Lonely
There have been times in my life when I have felt I was lonely, but I don't think you want to live your life in order to mitigate against loneliness.Collection: Lonely
This is the most enormous extension of vision of which life is capable: the projection of itself into other lives. This is the lonely, magnificent power of humanity. It is . . . the supreme epitome of the reaching out.Collection: Lonely
Nothing grows among its pinnacles; there is no shade except under great toadstools of sandstone whose bases have been eaten to the shape of wine glasses by the wind. Everything is flaking, cracking, disintegrating, wearing away in the long, inperceptible weather of time. The ash of ancient volcanic outbursts still sterilizes its soil, and its colors in that waste are the colors that flame in the lonely sunsets on dead planets.Collection: Lonely
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 peltCollection: Lonely
May you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?Collection: Lonely
Dark and lonely. I need somebody to hold meCollection: Lonely
Face to face, just you and me, with no rules. Just like you, I get lonely too.Collection: Lonely
When I'm lonely, frustrated or hurt it usually comes from a male person and from unrequited love. I often carry that pain around with me and my ribs actually start to ache. That's when I sit down and write.Collection: Lonely
Sometimes i feel lonely, but it's okCollection: Lonely
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.Collection: Lonely
From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building.Collection: Lonely