T Quotes
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“The loiterer often imputes delay to his more active friend.”
Source: The Fables of Aesop
“The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it; records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.”
“The London Games will be designed for the athletes and we will provide them with the very best venues and the very best conditions to pursue their sporting dreams in London.”
“The London music world isn't a particularly cohesive place. And when I'm composing, I'm not very friendly. I need isolation.”
“The London property market has excellent investment opportunities.”
“The London season is like one of those Drury Lane melodramas in which marriage is always the ending. And no one ever seems to give any thought as to what happens after. But marriage isn’t the end of the story it’s the beginning. And it demands the efforts of both partners to make a success of it.”
Source: Tempt Me at Twilight
“The London streets are paths of loveliness; the very omnibuses look like colored archangels, their laps filled full of little trustful souls.”
Source: Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness
“The lone human and the mangled vampire,' he murmured. 'The others should be trembling in pure fucking terror.”
Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night
“The lone path, the richly emotional one brings out the unbroken, undivided self..whole and untouched to the core...”
“The Lone Ranger of vampires. Did that make me Tonto?”
“The loneliest battle is to stay alone in the world of slaves”
“The loneliest days are the ones where you keep company with someone you love who can’t hear you.”
“The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.”
“The loneliest man on earth is that man who does not cherish his own company.”
“The loneliest moment in life is when you have just experienced that which you thought would deliver the ultimate, and it has just let you down.”
“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
“The loneliest people are the kindest. The saddest people smile the brightest. The most damaged people are the wisest. All because they don't wish to see anyone else suffer the way they did.”
“The loneliest people in the world are those who have exhausted pleasure and come away empty.”
“the loneliest place to be is a hotel room in a big city in early evening.”
“The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.”
“The loneliest you will get is in the most public of arenas: You will go to a place and end up in the smallest compartment possible, because it's a distraction to everybody, and you end up not getting to enjoy it like everyone else.”
“The loneliness caused by not hearing Ren's voice... I felt it deep in the night. I felt it deeper than anyone else. Even now at times I look back. In this ordinary life without Ren, I think my life with him was like a dream. Especially on a snowy night like this. On a night as cold as this. Someone keep this guy warm for me, please.”
“The loneliness felt like an infection I couldn't shake, something hollowing me out from the inside. It wasn't the longing for him that hurt the most; it was the gnawing feeling that no one wanted me and I had no idea when, or if, that would ever change.”
“The loneliness is the mother of wisdom.”
“The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.”
“The loneliness of a monster can only become sentimental after it is dead.”
Source: Godshot
“The loneliness of a one night stand is hard to take.”
“The loneliness of a visionary is that you might be the only one in the universe at that time who recognizes magic. I'm a magical person, and so I recognize other magical people. It takes ones to know one.”
“The loneliness of a woman can only be alleviated by her fulfillment of DREAMS OF ECSTASY®️.”
“The loneliness of a woman cannot be alleviated by happiness. It can only be alleviated by DREAMS OF ECSTASY®️.”
“The loneliness of a woman cannot be alleviated by happiness. It can only be alleviated by the fulfillment of DREAMS OF ECSTASY®️.”
“The loneliness of another can be shocking when it lays itself bare without warning.”
Source: Prayers For Rain
“The loneliness of depression isn’t something I’d wish on my worst enemy. One feels like a seagull swooping for scraps - scraps of love, scraps of undivided attention.”
“The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.”
Source: Paris to the Moon
“The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)
“The Loneliness of the Military Historian
Confess: it's my profession
that alarms you.
This is why few people ask me to dinner,
though Lord knows I don't go out of my way to be scary.
I wear dresses of sensible cut
and unalarming shades of beige,
I smell of lavender and go to the hairdresser's:
no prophetess mane of mine,
complete with snakes, will frighten the youngsters.
If I roll my eyes and mutter,
if I clutch at my heart and scream in horror
like a third-rate actress chewing up a mad scene,
I do it in private and nobody sees
but the bathroom mirror.
In general I might agree with you:
women should not contemplate war,
should not weigh tactics impartially,
or evade the word enemy,
or view both sides and denounce nothing.
Women should march for peace,
or hand out white feathers to arouse bravery,
spit themselves on bayonets
to protect their babies,
whose skulls will be split anyway,
or,having been raped repeatedly,
hang themselves with their own hair.
There are the functions that inspire general comfort.
That, and the knitting of socks for the troops
and a sort of moral cheerleading.
Also: mourning the dead.
Sons,lovers and so forth.
All the killed children.
Instead of this, I tell
what I hope will pass as truth.
A blunt thing, not lovely.
The truth is seldom welcome,
especially at dinner,
though I am good at what I do.
My trade is courage and atrocities.
I look at them and do not condemn.
I write things down the way they happened,
as near as can be remembered.
I don't ask why, because it is mostly the same.
Wars happen because the ones who start them
think they can win.
In my dreams there is glamour.
The Vikings leave their fields
each year for a few months of killing and plunder,
much as the boys go hunting.
In real life they were farmers.
The come back loaded with splendour.
The Arabs ride against Crusaders
with scimitars that could sever
silk in the air.
A swift cut to the horse's neck
and a hunk of armour crashes down
like a tower. Fire against metal.
A poet might say: romance against banality.
When awake, I know better.
Despite the propaganda, there are no monsters,
or none that could be finally buried.
Finish one off, and circumstances
and the radio create another.
Believe me: whole armies have prayed fervently
to God all night and meant it,
and been slaughtered anyway.
Brutality wins frequently,
and large outcomes have turned on the invention
of a mechanical device, viz. radar.
True, valour sometimes counts for something,
as at Thermopylae. Sometimes being right -
though ultimate virtue, by agreed tradition,
is decided by the winner.
Sometimes men throw themselves on grenades
and burst like paper bags of guts
to save their comrades.
I can admire that.
But rats and cholera have won many wars.
Those, and potatoes,
or the absence of them.
It's no use pinning all those medals
across the chests of the dead.
Impressive, but I know too much.
Grand exploits merely depress me.
In the interests of research
I have walked on many battlefields
that once were liquid with pulped
men's bodies and spangled with exploded
shells and splayed bone.
All of them have been green again
by the time I got there.
Each has inspired a few good quotes in its day.
Sad marble angels brood like hens
over the grassy nests where nothing hatches.
(The angels could just as well be described as vulgar
or pitiless, depending on camera angle.)
The word glory figures a lot on gateways.
Of course I pick a flower or two
from each, and press it in the hotel Bible
for a souvenir.
I'm just as human as you.
But it's no use asking me for a final statement.
As I say, I deal in tactics.
Also statistics:
for every year of peace there have been four hundred
years of war.”
Source: Morning in the Burned House: Poems
“The loneliness of the place had entered our very bones, and silence seemed natural, for after a bit the sound of our voices became a trifle unreal and forced; whispering would have been the fitting mode of communication, I felt, and the human voice, always rather absurd amid the roar of the elements, now carried with it something almost illegitimate. It was like talking out loud in church, or in some place where it was not lawful, perhaps not quite safe, to be overheard.”
Source: The Willows
“The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.”
“The Loneliness One dare not sound -- And would as soon surmise AS in its Grave go plumbing To ascertain the size -- The Loneliness whose worst alarm Is lest itself should see -- And perish from before itself For just a scrutiny -- The Horror not to be surveyed -- But skirted in the Dark -- With Consciousness suspended -- And Being under Lock -- I fear me this -- is Loneliness -- The Maker of the soul Its Caverns and its Corridors Illuminate -- or seal”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“The loneliness, the certainty of isolation, that he had felt in his first hour aboard the Mindful, rose up in him and asserted itself as his true condition, ignored, suppressed, but absolute.
He was alone, here, because he came from a self-exiled society. He had always been alone on his own world because he had exiled himself from his society. The Settlers had taken one step away. He had taken two. He stood by himself, because he had taken the metaphysical risk.”
Source: The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
“The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.”
Source: The Fortunes of Indigo Skye
“The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.”
Source: Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead
“The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.”
“The lonely entrepreneur will struggle all his long-life career to barely make it, but the one who belongs to a network of friends will uplift each other all the way to the top ladder of success”
“The lonely evenings in the life of a newly married girl may be really agonizing.”
“The lonely fill up their lives with books. I don’t live in nature. I don’t live in culture. I don’t live in my relationships. I live in books. What good can all the books of the world be, penned by the loneliest men who ever lived?”
Source: Motherhood
“The lonely heart you see tonight will not give up without a fight.”
“The lonely mind in the busy city yearns for connection because it thinks human-to-human connection is the point of everything. But amid pure nature (or the ‘tonic of wildness’ as Thoreau called it) solitude took on a different character. It became in itself a kind of connection. A connection between herself and the world. And between her and herself.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“the lonely mind wanders.
the happy mind goes.
the weary mind travels.
the thoughtful mind flows.”
“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche