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  • Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only what they had to and never what they could have done. I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day. I knew I could do better.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Loneliness Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil at his desk. It was a self-absorption with no comfort, a demand for expression with no outlet, a sense of time rushing by, ceaselessly and wastefully - assuaged only by that conviction that there was nothing to waste, because all efforts and attainments were equally valueless.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Loneliness Quotes , Self Quotes
  • What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Happiness Quotes , Loneliness Quotes
  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Loneliness Quotes , Twilight Quotes
  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Running Quotes , Loneliness Quotes