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“And behind their frail partitions Business women lie and soak, Seeing through the draughty skylight Flying clouds and railway smoke. Rest you there, poor unbelov'd ones, Lap your loneliness in heat, All too soon the tiny breakfast, Trolley-bus and windy street!”

Lying Poor Behinds Seeing Streets Loneliness Clouds Tiny Flying Smoke Heat Breakfast Bus Lap Frail Railway Windy Partition Lying Men Business Woman Trolleys Women Lie Skylights

Author:John Betjeman

“The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.”

Lying Existence Loneliness Liars

Book:Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations

Source: Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations

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

Ifs Feels Sometimes Might Lying Loneliness Frightening

Author:Brock Clarke

“Courage looks you straight in the eye. She is not impressed with power trippers, and she knows first aid. Courage is not afraid to weep, and she is not afraid to pray, even when she is not sure who she is praying to. When she walks it is clear she has made the journey from loneliness to solitude. The people who told me she was stern were not lying. they just forgot to mention she was kind.”

People Knows Firsts Looks Kind Made Eye Lying Walks Clear Journey Loneliness Praying Solitude Aids Not Sure Not Afraid Impressed Not Impressed

Author:J. Ruth Gendler

“Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.”

Men Doe Lying Choices Loneliness Despair Destruction Alternatives

Book:Love

Source: Love

“The Lord is near! You're not alone. You may feel alone. You may think you're alone. But there's never a moment in which you face life without help. God is near. God repeatedly pledges his proverbial presence to his people. Don't assume God is watching from a distance. Avoid the quicksand that bears the marker "God has left you!" Don't indulge this lie. If you do, your problem will be amplified by a sense of loneliness. It's one thing to face a challenge, but to face it all alone? Isolation creates a downward cycle of fret.”

People Thinking Moments Helping Problem Lying Challenges Lord Loneliness Distance Assuming Isolation Indulge Not Alone Pledge All Alone Proverbial Quicksand

Author:Max Lucado

“Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation, and sadness. And our public life lies in shambles, shot through with icy cynicism and paralyzing pessimism. To put it bluntly, beneath the record-breaking stock markets on Wall Street and bipartisan budget-balancing deals in the White House lurk ominous clouds of despair across this nation.”

Source: Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America

“She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.”

Stills Lying Loneliness Objects Color Horror Familiar Menace Intricacy

Author:Toni Morrison

“This, she thought, isn’t just for today. It’s for everything. For the heartache that still felt like a punch in the gut each time it struck, fresh as new, at unpredictable moments; for the smiling lies and the mental images she couldn’t shake; for the shame of having been so naive. For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.”

Source: Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy

“And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.”

Ifs Feels Looks Lying Certain Universe Company Sky Loneliness Bed Window Look Up

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Only in Relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness; this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.”

“Lights come and go in the night sky. Men, troubled at last by the things they build, may toss in their sleep and dream bad dreams, or lie awake while the meteors whisper greenly overhead. But nowhere in all space or on a thousand worlds will there be men to share our loneliness.”

Source: The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature

“He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the open, like some old stone lying on the sand; he looked as if he had become physically what was always at the back of both of their minds-that loneliness which was for both of them the truth about things.”

Ifs Mind Running Lying Water Loneliness Waste Stones Sand Running Away Lighthouse

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final. In a world without future, each laugh is the last laugh. In a world without future, beyond the present lies nothingness, and people cling to the present as if hanging from a cliff.”

People Ifs World Lasts Lying Laughing Loneliness Future Finals Nothingness Cliffs Parting

Author:Alan Lightman