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“Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all one way, the way home. Telegraph poles ahead looked like half-used pencils; the small cross on the steeple glittered with a sharp and shapely permanence.”

Way Home Used Half Loneliness Fields Wind Higher Bird Crosses One Way Pencils Permanence Way Home Telegraph Foliage Steeples

Author:A. E. Coppard

“Marriage is supposed to do everything, like Duz, which is more than half its problem. It is said to save us, define us, give us purpose, keep us from loneliness, and incidentally balance our diet and wash our socks, and when it doesn't, we get divorced.”

Giving Said Problem Purpose Half Marriage Loneliness Balance Diets Divorced Sock

Book:Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others

Source: Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others

“If there are 1,500 people in a theater and they're all there to see you, there are no other guys. You're the guy. So it is a monastic life, it is very lonely, if I was prone to loneliness. It's a lot like wrestling, no one can throw a block for you, no one can give you a pass. Nobody can hand the ball off to you, it's you only for an hour and a half every night.”

People Ifs Giving Hands Night Guy Hours Half Loneliness Lonely Balls Theater Block Wrestling Every Night Other Guys Monastic Life

Author:Jay Mohr

“If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.”

Ifs Fall Half Loneliness Proportion Companion Being Alone Plight Thoughtlessness

Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks

“Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime.”

Wells Half Loneliness Coffee Drunk Gas Stations Exhilarating Nighttime Freeways Gas Stations

Book:An Abundance of Katherines

Source: An Abundance of Katherines

“I must conquer my loneliness alone. I must be happy with myself or I have nothing to offer you. Two halves have little choice but to join; and yes, they do make a whole. But two wholes when they coincide... that is beauty. That is love.”

Littles Two Whole Choices Half Love You Loneliness Offers Conquer

Book:Catch me with your smile

Source: Catch me with your smile

“While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior.”

Ifs Half Loneliness Masters Solitude Behavior Proportion Companion

Book:Leonardo's Notebooks: Writing and Art of the Great Master

Source: Leonardo's Notebooks: Writing and Art of the Great Master

“An intimate relationship does not banish loneliness. Only when we are comfortable with who we are can we truly function independently in a healthy way, can we truly function within a relationship. Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it takes two wholes.”

“Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart.”

Feels Heart Real Moments Home Values Half Loneliness Proud Solitude Evening Ashamed Somewhere Else Highlights Dazzle True Value Pining

Author:Tahir Shah