F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Loneliness Quotes, Self 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.

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I HIDE myself within my flower That wearing on your breast, You, unsuspecting, wear me too - And angels know the rest. I hide myself within my flower, That, fading from your vase, You, unsuspecting, feel for me Almost a loneliness.

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It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another.

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And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness.

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It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted.

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And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.

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My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

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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.

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One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.

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Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

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In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.

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Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness.

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Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth

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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

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The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.

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I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.

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What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from him, this is obviously more essential for him than everything that he possesses or what he may be in the eyes of others.

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As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

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You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith.

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Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

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