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“We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.”

Pain Fear Waiting Dark Poverty Loneliness Particular Creatures Thirds Fourth Ridicule Fifth Physical Pain Ambush

Author:Horace Walpole

“And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for. In polaroids you were dressed in women's clothes Were you made ashamed, why'd you lock them in a drawer? Well, I don't think that I ever loved you more Well let the poets cry themselves to sleep And all their tearful words will turn back into steam The sound of loneliness makes me happier.”

Thinking Wells Made Turns Waiting Sound Sleep Loneliness Cry Poet Clothes Bird This Life Ashamed Yellow Locks Steam Drawers Polaroids

Author:Conor Oberst

“The illusion of companionship sits waiting in the television set. We keep our televisions on more than we watch them - an average of more than seven hours a day. For background. For company.”

Waiting Hours Company Watches Loneliness Television Illusion Seven Average Backgrounds Companionship

Book:Alone in America: the search for companionship

Source: Alone in America: the search for companionship

“What wants to live in you may be waiting...at the end of a long loneliness.”

Want May Long Ends Waiting Loneliness

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“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

“It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them.”

Trying Force Waiting Accepting Loneliness Filled Sticks Gaps Filled In

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“And yet, standing behind her son, waiting for the traffic light change, she remembered how in the midst of it all there had been a time when she'd felt a loneliness so deep that once, not so many years ago, having a cavity filled, the dentist's gentle turning of her chin with his soft fingers had felt to her like a tender kindness of almost excruciating depth, and she had swallowed with a groan of longing, tears springing to her eyes.”

Source: Olive Kitteridge: Fiction

“At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner -- young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.”

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.”

Way Feels Heart Lasts Waiting Answers Loneliness Identity Masters Wander

Book:The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings

Source: The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings

“Here had lived someone else who knew that the only thing waiting at home was a sense of loneliness. Sometimes it is comforting. Most often, it isn't.”

Sometimes Home Waiting Loneliness Comforting

Book:Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files

Source: Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files

“I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did.”

Want Waiting Loneliness Nervousness

Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns

“The numbing mind-ream of knowing you're alone not because people won't accept you but because you find so little worth accepting. An imposed solitude is better than simply tolerating your company in waiting for something better. So loneliness is not such a terrible thing when you consider that the alternative to thought provoking solace is to be surrounded only by remindings of why that solitude is preferable.”

“Some nights, one wants to tell beloveds everything that's been waiting to be said. Some nights, a man needs flesh and blood and warm breath and a loving heart.”

Men Want Love Needs Heart Said Night Waiting Blood Loneliness Breaths Warm Flesh Flesh And Blood

Author:Janet Morris

“In every seed to breathe a flower, In every drop of dew To reverence a cloister star Within the distant blue; To wait the promise of the how, Despite the cloud between, Is Faith-the fervid evidence Of loneliness unseen.”

Faith Stars Waiting Loneliness Flower Promise Evidence Blue Clouds Breathe Seeds Despite Reverence Unseen Dew Feeling Lonely

Author:John B. Tabb

“I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me; I can see the stars again and the world of starlight. I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness. Loveliness and a quiet exultation.”

World Feels Humans I Can Night Stars Waiting Loneliness Quiet Flow Twenties Fellows Embrace Miles Stillness Loveliness Starlight

Book:Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

“In the country, I stopped being a person who, in the words of Sylvia Boorstein, startles easily. I grew calmer, but beneath that calm was a deep well of loneliness I hadn't known was there. ... Anxiety was my fuel. When I stopped, it was all waiting for me: fear, anger, grief, despair, and that terrible, terrible loneliness. What was it about? I was hardly alone. I loved my husband and son. I had great friends, colleagues, students. In the quiet, in the extra hours, I was forced to ask the question, and to listen carefully to the answer: I was lonely for myself. [p. 123]”

Wells Persons Country Asks Waiting Hours Answers Grief Known Loneliness Students Son Grew Terrible Quiet Husband Despair Anxiety Lonely Calm Extras Fuel My Husband Colleagues Great Friend Calmer

Author:Dani Shapiro

“indelible waiting l'art poetique "..I will wait for the night to chase me..." I sit on a rock and watch children playing in the park below They don't see me Or know my thoughts Or that you haven't called But I forgive them their indifference today Above me a crow caws Perhaps he smells the crumbs on my dress Or my anger But he flits away over the trees Probably has a home Probably has a wife Probably knew to call The children leave The coffee in my can turns cold The wind nips at me Some street lights flicker on But I won't move Not yet I will wait for the night to chase me Back where I came from Up the empty street To a quiet house”

Source: Years: a book of tiny poetry

“I can have patience for anything, but it's waiting for love, that kills me a little each day.”

“I have two wishes: something true somewhere and someone true sometime.”

Waiting Prayer Loneliness Wishes The Goodbye Song Wishing Birthdays Wishes Dreams Birthday Wish

Book:The Goodbye Song

Source: The Goodbye Song