Best lonely & enough Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“So who is better off, those who share love long enough to see which parts inevitably fade or those who lose their love when it is still pristine? I think each is lonely in a different place, though if you lose your love while it is still perfect you at least have a clear explanation for your grief, while if it gradually crumbles in your hands you do not.”

Ifs Thinking Long Stills Different Enough Hands Loses Perfect Grief Clear Share Lonely Explanation Fades Better Off Different Place Pristine

Book:Losing Julia

Source: Losing Julia

“Consume more than you need This is the dream Make you pauper Or make you queen I won't die lonely I'll have it all prearranged A grave that's deep and wide enough For me and all my mountains o'things”

Needs Enough Dream Dies Mountain Lonely Wide Graves Queens Consumerism Overconsumption

Author:Tracy Chapman

“Even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.”

Long Ends Enough Loneliness Lonely

Book:A Saucer of Loneliness

Source: A Saucer of Loneliness

“I've liked life well enough, but I reckon I'll like death even better as soon as I've gotten used to the feel of it. ... I shouldn't be amazed to find it less lonely than life after I'm once safely settled.”

Feels Wells Enough Used Lonely Amazed

Book:Works

Source: Works

“Changing schools and friends is hard on children and can often make them desperate and lonely enough to form closer ties with a sibling.”

Children Hard Enough School Form Lonely Ties Desperate Sibling

Author:Linda Sunshine

“Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.”

“I have seen lonely people of advancing age, yet as constant as angels, keeping faith to those they loved who fell in wars that current generations, not having known them, cannot even forget. The sight of them moving hesitantly among the tablets and crosses is enough to break your heart.”

“All stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. Especially do all stories of monogamy end in death, and your man who is monogamous while he often lives most happily, dies in the most lonely fashion.”

Ifs Men Ends Enough Stories Dies Fashion Lonely True Story Monogamy

Book:Death in the Afternoon

Source: Death in the Afternoon

“If our poor die of hunger, it is not because God does not care for them. Rather, it is because neither you nor I are generous enough. It is because we are not instruments of love in the hands of God. We do not recognize Christ when once again He appears to us in the hungry man, in the lonely woman, in the child who is looking for a place to get warm.”

Ifs Men Children Doe Enough Hands Care Dies Christ Poor Lonely Instruments Hunger Warm Hungry Generous Hands Of God Hungry Man Lonely Women

Author:Mother Teresa

“In an attempt to help me move on from my failed marriage, my mom set me up with Jesus Freak. In fact, the stoner hadn't even finished moving out when she told me not to worry, because she already had someone better lined up for me. I was just lonely and desperate enough to endure a four-month celibate long distance relationship with a guy who read 15 chapters of the Bible and prayed for two hours every day and expected me to follow suit. He wanted to give our hypothetical children Bible names and for us to move to Korea to become missionaries.”

“I live a much better life without having to worry about people chasing me. I spent five years in prison from 21 to 26, which is probably the best part of my youth behind bars. I was in some very bad prisons overseas as well. It was not a fun life, it was a very lonely life in reality. I was a smart enough kid to know that I was going to get caught. The law sometimes sleeps, but the law never dies. I knew it was just a matter of time. I would be caught and I'd get punished and face the consequences.”

People Sometimes Enough Reality Kids Fun Sleep Worry Youth Smart Consequence Lonely Prison Better Life

Author:Frank Abagnale

“The internet takes a lot of the anxiety of life away. It's a kind of deity. You're never lonely. You're always distracted. If you spend enough time on it, there's not really that nagging sensation of existential despair; it erases it very effectively. And it's monolithic. And thanks to it, we've got the ways to linger there after death - your blog exists afterwards, your e-mail exists afterwards.”

Kind Enough Internet Despair Anxiety Lonely Thanks Existential Distracted After Death Erase

Author:Joshua Ferris

“A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called "The Road Less Traveled", describing a journey he took through the woods along a path most travelers never used. The poet found that the road less traveled was peaceful but quite lonely, and he was probably a bit nervous as he went along, because if anything happened on the road less traveled, the other travelers would be on the road more frequently traveled and so couldn't hear him as he cried for help. Sure enough, that poet is dead.”

Ifs Men Enough Helping Would Be Used Found Bits Path Happened Journey Poet Lonely Woods Nervous Peaceful Cried Traveled Traveler Acquaintance Describing Road Less Traveled

Author:Daniel Handler

“Tell him solitude is creative if he is strong and the final decisions are made in silent rooms. Tell him to be different from other people if it comes natural and easy being different. Let him have lazy days seeking his deeper motives. Let him seek deep for where he is a born natural. Then he may understand Shakespeare and the Wright brothers, Pasteur, Pavlov, Michael Faraday and free imaginations Bringing changes into a world resenting change. He will be lonely enough to have time for the work he knows as his own.”

Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

“If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn't mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately hard and so obsessive and so lonely to write that, in return for all this work, one would like a little self satisfaction. And that is never going to come, for the simple reason that I do not deserve it. I cannot be a good enough writer. You see? I call it grim. But the future looks awfully clear to me.”

Source: The letters of Martha Gellhorn

“You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you tried to see them off into life and hoped that the little piece of time you’d given them was enough to prevent them from one day feeling lonely and afraid and hopeless. You wouldn’t know the outcome for a long time.”

Knows Children Littles Long Enough Feelings Lasts Given Pieces Childhood Minutes One Day Long Time Lonely Gold Your Children Outcomes Hopeless Feeling Lonely Last Minute Shaving Ambient

Book:The Ten-Year Nap

Source: The Ten-Year Nap

“If you do not learn to hate you will never be lonely enough to love easily nor will you always be brave, although it does not grow any easier. Do not pretend to convenient beliefs, even when they are righteous; you will never be able to defend your city while shouting.”

Ifs Doe Enough Able Hate Belief Grows Cities Easier Lonely Brave Righteous Hate You Be Brave Convenient Shouting

Book:The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

Source: The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

“It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.”

Life Inspirational Should May Enough Helping Joy Hope Lost Vision Loneliness Creating Lonely And Love Caring Determined Helping Others Recovery Betterment

Author:Leo Buscaglia

“The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply lonely and unglamorous task of tolerating oneself long enough to push something out.”

Long Art Enough Artist Tasks Lonely Opposites Oneself Hanging Out Precise

Author:David Rakoff

“I went from one to the other holding my sorrow - no, not my sorrow but the incomprehensible nature of this our life - for their inspection. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends, I to my own heart, I to seek among phrases and fragments something unbroken - I to whom there is no beauty enough in moon or tree; to whom the touch of one person with another is all, yet who cannot grasp even that, who am so imperfect, so weak, so unspeakably lonely.”

People Heart Persons Enough My Own Our Lives Tree Sorrow Moon My Friends Lonely Weak Phrases Priests Imperfect Fragments Unbroken Inspection

Book:The Waves

Source: The Waves

“Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.”

Ifs Writing Believe Enough Jobs Differences Speech Lonely Believe In You

Book:On writing: a memoir of the craft

Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft

“He was thirty-one now, not too old, but old enough to be lonely. He hadn't dated since he'd been back here, hadn't met anyone who remotely interested him. It was his own fault, he knew. There was something that kept a distance between him and any woman who started to get close, something he wasn't sure he could change even if he tried. And sometimes in the moments right before sleep came, he wondered if he was destined to be alone forever.”

Ifs Sometimes Enough Moments Sleep Forever Mets Lonely Distance Faults Thirty Destined

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.”

Long Enough Lonely Lays Disappointed Whales

Book:The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much.”

Enough Feelings Lonely Isolation Accustomed

Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“If you tell people enough times that they are unhappy, incomplete, possibly insane and definitely selfish there is bound to come a grey morning when they wake up with the beginning of a nasty cold and wonder if they are lonely rather than simply “alone.””

People Ifs Enough Wonder Morning Cold Lonely Wake Up Bounds Selfish Unhappy Insane Nasty Grey Incomplete Enough Time

Author:Sara Maitland

“My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream.”

Heart Enough Dream Fire My Heart Lonely Guests Household Chill Kindles

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Our work is not to change what you do, but to witness what you do with enough awareness, enough curiosity, enough tenderness that the lies and old decisions upon which the compulsion is based become apparent and fall away. When you no longer believe that eating will save your life when you feel exhausted or overwhelmed or lonely, you will stop. When you believe in yourself more than you believe in food, you will stop using food as if it were your only chance at not falling apart. When the shape of your body no longer matches the shape of your beliefs, the weight disappears.”

Source: Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

“Good story' means something worth telling that the world wants to hear. Finding this is your lonely task...But the love of a good story, of terrific characters and a world driven by your passion, courage, and creative gifts is still not enough. Your goal must be a good story well told.”

World Want Wells Mean Stills Enough Character Stories Passion Goal Creative Findings Tasks Lonely Driven Terrific Good Story

Author:Robert McKee

“If you go far enough out you can see the Universe itself, all the billion light years summed up time only as a flash, just as lonely, as distant as a star on a June night if you go far enough out. And still, my friend, if you go far enough out you are only at the beginning - of yourself.”

Ifs Years Stills Enough Light Night Time Universe Stars My Friends Lonely Billions Flash June Space Exploration Light Years

Author:Rolf Jacobsen

“Life is made of moments and choices. Not all of them matter, or have any lasting impact Then there's a different kind of moment. One when things are irrevocably changed by a choice we make. A moment we will play endlessly in our minds on lonely nights and empty days So we explain it to ourselves, justify it enough to sleep. And then we bury it deep, so deep we can almost pretend it never happened. But as much as we wish it were different, the truth is, our worlds are sometimes balanced on choices we make and the secrets we keep.”

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