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"I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me; I can see the stars again and the world of starlight. I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness. Loveliness and a quiet exultation."
"It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?'...If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time-the stuff of life"
""Is it how she moves, or how she looks?" I say it's loneliness suspended to our own like grappling hooks, And as long as she's got noise, she's fine. But I could teach her how I learned to dance when the music's ended."
"The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness."
"The point of books is to combat loneliness."
"Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved."
"You really come to life on stage but outside - this is a bit of a sad clown cliché - there is that element of loneliness you get from travelling and being on the road. Stand-ups can bring a lot of that to a dramatic role and make it work for them."
"Shall I let in the stranger, Shall I welcome the sailor, Or stay till the day I die? Hands of the stranger and holds of the ships, Hold you poison or grapes?"
"there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock"
"... as lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on."
"Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine."
"Whatever the cause, I could not meet his sunshine with cloud. If this were my last moment with him, I would not waste it in forced, unnatural distance. I loved him well - too well not to smite out of my path even Jealousy herself, when she would have obstructed a kind farewell. A cordial word from his lips, or a gentle look from his eyes, would do me good, for all the span of life that remained to me; it would be comfort in the last strait of loneliness; I would take it - I would taste the elixir, and pride should not spill the cup."
"she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty"
"... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be."
"We all know how important love is, yet how often is it really emoted or exhibited? What so many sick people in this world suffer from-loneliness, boredom and fear-can't be cured with a pill."
"I better be honest about my feelings, even those involving loneliness, jealousy, and fear."
"Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire."
"Every loneliness is a pinnacle"
"Everything is freedom and everything is loneliness. Make your choice and let the rest fall away."
"Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant."
