Lines Quotes - Page 31

But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

The straight line is ungodly.

Always in the short story there is this sense of outlawed figures wandering about the fringes of society.... As a result there is in the short story at its most characteristic something we do not often find in the novel--an intense awareness of human loneliness.

Now me and my brother go to see him some times but he don't have much to say anymore. So we sit on his headstone with a fifth of Jack D. Here's to a long line of sinners like me.

But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

I am going to give you a piece of advice... advice I wish I'd been told in guidance class back in high school, in between the don't-do-acid and don't-drink-and-drive films. I wish our counselors had told us, 'When you grow older a dreadful, horrible sensation will come over you. It's called loneliness, and you think you know what it is now, but you don't. Here is the list of the symptoms, and don't worry—loneliness is the most universal sensation on the planet. Just remember one fact—loneliness will pass. You will survive and you will be a better human for it.

I've never had a good line. Well, maybe 'I must break you'.

The greatest sin is appearing naive or old-fashioned so that somebody can give you a sort of a very cool arch smile and devastate you with one extraordinarily crafted line that puts kind of a hole in your pretentious balloon.

Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may.

Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.

Nashville used to have more integrity than just looking at the bottom line.

You get to a point where you have to start planning, when you cross that line where you have enough value to get someone's movie made if you attach yourself to it, you have to be very thoughtful and have to plan. When you're starting out, you're willing to do anything.

Personally I'm obsessive-compulsive about the placement and cleanliness of my things.

That opinion, which supposes personal sanctification to be unnecessary to final glorification, stands in direct opposition to every dictate of reason, to every declaration of scripture.

People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line.

Holiness has nothing to do with what we know and everything to do with Who we know.

I hate learning lines, so the fight stuff's always my favorite.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.

When we finished the kiss she said laughing, I can taste your loneliness - it tastes like vinegar. That annoyed me. Everyone knows loneliness tastes like cold potato soup.

But I put my life on the line to save animals.

Life is not, nor ever has been, a straight line forward ... Life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than by total or perfect order.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.