Best loneliness & stories Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“What's mysterious, ambiguous, inexplicable. What doesn't fit into a story, what doesn't have a story. Glint of brightness on a barely-there chain. Patch of sunlight on a yellow wall. The loneliness that separates every living creature from every other living creature. Sorrow inseparable from joy.”

Stories Joy Loneliness Wall Fit Sorrow Creatures Mysterious Chains Yellow Sunlight Patches Inseparable Brightness Ambiguous Inexplicable Living Creatures

Author:Donna Tartt

“There's a romance to danger. There's a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of those things can be used to make the story of our lives better.”

Stories Romance Used Our Lives Crime Loneliness Danger Drug Drinking Petty

Author:Joey Comeau

“Always in the short story there is this sense of outlawed figures wandering about the fringes of society.... As a result there is in the short story at its most characteristic something we do not often find in the novel--an intense awareness of human loneliness.”

Humans Stories Results Novel Awareness Loneliness Figures Intense Wander Characteristics Short Story Fringe

Author:Frank O'Connor

“Krys Lee has written a book of unforgettable stories, each one building on the other to create a complex, moving portrait of contemporary Korea and its diaspora. She guides us surely through the fallout of war, immigration, and financial crisis, always alert to the possibility of tenderness, transcendence, and even humor along the way. Lee is a writer who really understands loneliness, but her voice is so appealing, and her perceptions so wise, that we feel all the less lonely for knowing her characters and experiencing their lives.”

“But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it.”

Thinking Way Sometimes Stories Literature Deals Numbers Fate Loneliness Infinite Injustice

Author:Tom Hanks

“The impulse to perfection cannot exist where the definition of perfection is the arbitrary decision of authority. That which is born in loneliness and from the heart cannot be defended against the judgment of a committee of sycophants. The volatile essences which make literature cannot survive the clichés of a long series of story conferences.”

Heart Long Stories Literature Born Decision Loneliness Authority Judgment Perfection Essence Series Definitions Impulse Committees Conferences Arbitrary Sycophants

Book:Raymond Chandler Speaking

Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking

“When so much is left to the listener's imagination, it is bound to be more scary. But our stories are not just to frighten; they are engaged with the things that are really scary like loneliness and madness.”

Stories Left Imagination Loneliness Madness Bounds Scary Engaged Listeners Really Scary

Author:Larry Fessenden

“I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future - the timelessness of the rocks and the hills - all the people who have existed there.”

People Thinking Feels Whole Stories Shows Feelings Dream Past Fall Waiting Rocks Loneliness Structure Winter Bones Awful Hills Landscape Timelessness

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“Working alone on stories, I began to feel the anonymity of motels on interstate highways reached by jet planes and rental cars. It was hard to have a good time, and the only way I could make the loneliness excusable was by taking pictures I thought were very good, even valuable.”

Source: Pictures under discussion

“You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.”

Writing Stories Loneliness Experts Being Alone

Author:Theodore Sturgeon

“She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror stories, and read only romance novels. Because, by God, when a woman picked up one of those steamy books, she had a firm guarantee that there would be a Happily-Ever-After. That though the world outside those covers could bring such sorrow and disappointment and loneliness, between those covers, the world was a splendid place to be.”

“Too many dogs continue to be abused and abandond - one is too many - and people continue to kill people for money and envy and no reason at all. Bad people succeed and good people fail, but that's not the end of the story. Miracles happen that nobody sees, and among us walk heroes who are never recognised, and people live in loneliness because they cannot believe they are loved”

People Believe Ends Reason Stories Happens Walks Failing Dog Loneliness Hero Succeed Miracle Envy No Reason Good People Bad People

Author:Dean Koontz

“If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.”

Ifs Stories Loneliness Disease Cures

Author:Richard Ford

“Join with those who sing, tell stories, talk pleasure in life, and have joy in their eyes, because joy is contagious, and can prevent others from becoming paralysed by depression, loneliness and difficulties.”

Stories Eye Joy Pleasure Loneliness Becoming Difficulty Contagious

Author:Paulo Coelho

“We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — "Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought."”

Way Feels Trying Stories Animal Our Lives Loneliness Method Ancient Storytelling Listeners Storyteller Begging Telling Stories Lonesome Lonesomeness

Author:John Steinbeck

“A thousand recollected lives were passing through her, a thousand stories - of love and work, of parents and children, of duty and joy and grief. Beds slept in and meals eaten, and the bliss and pain of the body, and a view of summer leaves from a window on a morning it had rained; the nights of loneliness and the nights of love, the soul in it's body keeping always longing to be known.”

Source: The Passage

“..and I thought how liking a boy was just the same as believing you wanted to know a secret - everything was better when you were denied and could feel tormented by curiousity or loneliness. But the moment of something happening was treacherous. It was just so tiring to have to worry about whether your face was peeling, or to have to laugh at stories that weren’t funny.”

Knows Feels Believe Moments Stories Wanted Faces Secret Boys Worry Laughing Loneliness Happenings Your Face Denied Tire Treacherous Peeling Curiousity

Book:Prep: a novel

Source: Prep: a novel

“We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist. So, for a time, if such a passion come to fruition, the man will get what he wants. He will get the moral support, the encouragement, the relief from the sense of loneliness, the assurance of his own worth. But these things pass away; inevitably they pass away as the shadows pass across sundials. It is sad, but it is so. The pages of the book will become familiar; the beautiful corner of the road will have been turned too many times. Well, this is the saddest story.”

Source: The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion

“Closer of lovely eyes to lovely dreams, Lover of loneliness, and wandering, Of upcast eye, and tender pondering! Thee must I praise above all other glories That smile us on to tell delightful stories.”

Stories Dream Eye Loneliness Lovers Glory Praise Lovely Wander Thee Delightful Pondering Lovely Eyes

Book:Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard

Source: Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard

“For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live.”

Two Ends Stories Events Loneliness Memorable Seconds Locked Glances

Book:Animal Farm and 1984

Source: Animal Farm and 1984

“Eva is a story of repetition. It is a story where our protagonist faces the same situation many times over and determinedly picks himself back up again. It is a story of the will to move forward, even if only a little. It is a story of the resolve to want to be together, even though it is frightening to have contact with others and endure ambiguous loneliness. I would be most gratified if you found enjoyment in these four parts as it takes the same story and metamorphoses it into something different.”

“Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren't true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react.”

Men Play Stories Games Sports Loneliness Absolutes

Author:Jennifer Beals

“Loneliness is the inability to share your story, your Unique Self story. For most people, the move beyond loneliness requires us to share our story with a significant other. For the spiritual elite, the receiving of our own story - and the knowing that it is an integral part of the larger story of All-That-Is - is enough. But for most human beings, loneliness is transcended through contact with another person.”

People Humans Persons Self Enough Stories Spiritual Moving Human Beings Knowing Share Loneliness Unique Significant Contact Elites Receiving Inability Significant Other Unique Self

Author:Marc Gafni

“When we suffer in silence, we think that we are alone, different, separate. When we share our stories of suffering, we find that we are the same.”

Stories Truth Suffering Community Silence Loneliness Honesty Vulnerability Sharing Tribe Sharing Stories

Author:Vironika Tugaleva

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