“My books are based on the "what if" principle. "What if you became invisible?" or "What if you did change into your mother for one day?" I then take it from there. Each book takes several months in the long process of writing, rewriting, writing, rewriting, and each has its own set of problems. The one thing I dislike about the writing process is the sometimes-loneliness of it all. Readers only get to see the glamour part of a bound book, not some of the agonizing moments one has while constructing it.” IfsWritingLongBookSometimesMomentsProblemMotherProcessPrinciplesOne ThingLonelinessMonthsReaderOne DayBoundsInvisibleWhat IfDislikeWriting ProcessGlamourRewritingAgonizing Author:Mary Rodgers
“Living in a rural town really compelled me to start tweeting so much. Mostly, my Twitter usage is fueled by loneliness. I can go days without talking to another human being unless it's my mother, especially when I'm not teaching or on break.” HumansI CanMotherHuman BeingsTalkingBreakTeachingLonelinessTownsCompelledUsage Author:Roxane Gay
“There is a core of loneliness. It's partly existential. Secondly, I was raised a loner. My parents were not there. My father was asked to leave because he couldn't metabolize ethanol. Actually, my mother ran away with us when I was 2 months old and my brother was 5. Real dramatic stuff: down the fire escape, through backyards. So, I sort of raised myself. I was alone a lot and I invented myself - I lived through the radio and through my imagination.” RealMotherFatherStuffParentImaginationFireLonelinessBrotherMonthsRaisedRadioCoreRanDramaticMy BrotherExistentialMy ImaginationLonerBackyardsEthanolFire Escapes Author:George Carlin
“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.” FirstsMotherRealizingLosesFamilyLonelinessFirst TimeTerrorHelplessnessDesolation Author:Francis Thompson
“Jesus never tried to hide his loneliness and dependence on other people. He chose his disciples not as servants but as friends. He shared moments of joy and grief with them, and asked for them in times of need. They became his family, his substitute mother and brothers and sisters. They gave up everything for him, as he had given up everything for them. He loved them, plain and simple.” PeopleNeedsMomentsJoyMotherJesusGivenSimpleGriefLonelinessBrotherServantSubstitutesDiscipleDependenceBrothers And SistersGiven UpGave UpTime Of NeedPlain And SimpleDependence On OthersJoy And GriefShared Moments Author:Philip Yancey
“When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.” MotherLonelinessDecidedSingersBeing Lonely Author:Whitney Houston
“There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them.” LoveMayPainMotherPoorOur LivesLonelinessTerribleParentingHungerCalcuttaBlessed MotherAnti ValentinePoor FamilyAnti Valentines DayFunny Anti Valentines DaySilence Of The HeartHunger For Love Author:Mother Teresa
“Once I heard my mother say that each of us lives in a separate universe, one we have dreamed into being. We love pople when their dream coincides with ours, the way two cutout designs laid one on top of the other might match. But dream worlds are not static like cutouts; sooner or later they change shape, leading to misunderstanding, loneliness and loss of love.” WorldWayTwoDreamMightMotherUniverseLossHeardLonelinessDesignShapesSooner Or LaterMisunderstandingStaticDream WorldLove Loss Author:Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
“Oh, God, help me! And I walked faster, my thoughts pursuing me, and I began to run, my frozen shoes squealing like mice, but running didn't help, the thoughts to the left and right and behind me. But as I ran, The Arm, that good left arm, took hold of the situation and spoke soothingly: ease up, Kid, it's loneliness, you're all alone in the world; your father, your mother, your faith, they can't help you, nobody helps anybody, you only help yourself, and that's why I'm here, because we are inseperable, and we'll take care of everything.” WorldHelpingCareRunningKidsMotherFatherLeftBehindsSituationLonelinessArmsShoesTake CareFasterEaseRanHelp MeSpokesMiceMy ThoughtsFrozenAll AloneGod HelpHelp YourselfLeft And RightGod Help MeSquealing Author:John Fante
“I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead, my brother dead, my mother faraway, my sister and my wife far away, nothing here but my own tragic hands that once were guarded by a world, a sweet attention, that now are left to guide and disappear their own way into the common dark of all our deaths, sleeping in me raw bed, alone and stupid: with just this one pride and consolation: my broke heart in the general despair and opened up inwards to the Lord, I made a supplication in this dream” WorldWayWritingHeartMadeBookDreamHandsMotherDiesFatherLeftDarkMy OwnSleepCommonAttentionLordWifeLonelinessStupidSweetBrotherPrideBedDespairMy WifeDisappearGuidesBrokeMy BrotherTragicMy SisterFar AwayConsolationMy Own LifeGuardedHeart BrokeSleeping InSupplication Book:Visions of Cody Source: Visions of Cody
“You sense my loneliness, (...) my bitterness at being shut out of life. My bitterness that I'm evil, that I don't deserve to be loved and yet I need love hungrily. My horror that I can never reveal myself to mortals. But these things don't stop me, Mother. I'm too strong for them to stop me. As you said yourself once, I am very good at being what I am. These things merely now and then make me suffer, that's all” NeedsSaidI CanMotherSufferingEvilStrongLonelinessHorrorDeserveVery GoodMortalsBitternessNow And ThenNeed LoveLestat Author:Anne Rice
“My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I negotiated the no man's land between the country of my past and the continent of my present.” MenFirstsCountryPastMotherFeltNovelLandLonelinessDaughterAcknowledgeContinentsTigersMy Past Author:Bharati Mukherjee
“We come together only to go apart again. The law of life can't be avoided. The law comes into operation the moment we detach ourselves from our mother's womb. All struggle & misery in life is due to our attempt to arrest this law or get away from it or in allowing ourselves to be hurt by it. The fact must be recognized. A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life. All else is false. The law of life. No sense in battling against it.” MomentsFactsTogetherLawLife IsMotherHurtStruggleLonelinessMiseryProfoundDuesOperationsGet AwayAllowingTruth Of LifeWombAvoidedLaws Of Life Book:Memories of Malgudi Source: Memories of Malgudi
“Before getting to my mother's house, I would always think of her on the porch or even on the street, sweeping. She had a light way of sweeping, as if removing the dirt were not as important as moving the broom over the ground. Her way of sweeping was symbolic; so airy, so fragile, with a broom she tried to sweep away all the horrors, all the loneliness, all the misery that had accompanied her all her life.” IfsThinkingWayImportantLightMovingMotherHouseStreetsLonelinessHorrorMiseryFragileDirtSymbolicSweepingPorchAiryBrooms Book:Before Night Falls Source: Before Night Falls
“I believe that our heavenly Father, our Savior, saved my mother from loneliness because of her daily walk with the Lord Jesus, He was the love of her life. I saw that in her life. It was her love for the Lord Jesus, with whom she walks every day, that made me want to love Him and walk with Him like that.” WantBelieveMadeMotherFatherJesusI BelieveWalksLordSawsLonelinessSavedHeavenlySaviorHeavenly Father Author:Anne Graham Lotz