Lines Quotes - Page 60

Reading functions as hallucinating a meaning between letters and lines.

The reason the lawyers lead the line to the guillotine or the firing squad is that, while law is supposed to be a device to serve society, a civilized way of helping the wheels go round without too much friction, it is pretty hard to find a group less concerned with serving society and more concerned with serving themselves than the lawyers.

The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her.

Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.

At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner -- young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

They do the soaps differently in Mexico. You just have to know the storyline and not memorize the lines. There would be someone feeding you lines while you were performing.

Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome.

I'm proud of being a vaudevillian, the last of my line. A lot of people think my entertainment is candy-floss. Well, entertainment is too aggressive these days, all 'in your face.'

Like falling stars from the universe we are hurled Down through the long loneliness of the world Until we behold the pain, become the pearl

Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.

It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today.

Loneliness is a required course for leadership.

This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.

I have lived those lines and I know that if I had not been apprehended I would have slit some white throats.

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line.

I lived below the official American poverty line until I was 31.

Death is the only thing keeping us in line.

The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.

When you cross the finish line, it will change your life forever

Loneliness is a very special place, Silently silently you touch my face

Isolation and loneliness create the conditions for rapid aging. The key is to stay connected and open to new relationships throughout your life.

It follows that unless your headline sells your product, you have wasted 90 percent of your money.

But at least this got Mouth thinking about how his loneliness wasn't unique. We all suffered. And I guess we all had good times too. Man - if every person who ever felt lonely killed himself, the world would be littered with corpses. And far lonelier.