Loneliness Quotes - Page 56

There's a weird loneliness that comes with being a comedian, especially standup. Even with improvisers, I think there are certain moments of truth where you feel really, really connected to audiences, and that's when you're on stage. I think there's definitely something inside the personality of a person who wants to be a comedian that's looking to connect at all times. That's where the adrenaline rushes in their lives come from.

Loneliness comes suddenly like waves and recedes just as fast. That continues on forever. It’s the same for you. It’s the same for everyone.

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.

Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.

... as lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on.

We have to live with our loneliness and the destiny that drives each person to the order of things.

.. then when the hurt goes, anger takes its place; when the anger runs out of system, loneliness steps in to take over. it's a never ending circle of emotions; every lost emotion being replaced by another.

She felt as if she bled her regret and loneliness from her very pores, and yet she could not shape those feelings into any sentiment she could imagine her parents could bear reading.

Loneliness is the most compelling force in the universe.

Usually there's no specific reason for loneliness - it's a broad feeling.

These are frightening times...when she feels herself annointed by loneliness.

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

Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.

I think Id like to be able to heal peoples pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever.

Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.

I have always photographed loneliness because that is my life.

They are sharing a drink called loneliness.

You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too. Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev'rybody loves you now.

... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.

Python carries his loneliness in him as if he had eaten clay.

Writing can be a lonely business. But gradually your characters, or the scenes and peopl from your past, begin to rise up around you, and you find yourself writing your way out of loneliness, writing into your own company.

Why were we so far apart, even when we were together? It was a nice loneliness, like the sensation of washing your face in cold water.

maybe the lonely places are the only things that make human beings of us all.

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.