#line

I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#alchohol #drinking #drugs #loneliness #melancholy

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#life

One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier. ↗

— Helen Keller

#duty #life

You get lonely, is what it is. A person's not supposed to go through life with absolutely nobody. It's not normal. The longer you go by yourself the weirder you get, and the weirder you get the longer you go by yourself. It's a loop and you gotta do something to get out of it. ↗

— Jim Shepard

#relationships #weirdness #life

I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost. ↗

— Willard Scott

#audition #been #disasters #ever #every

There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is blink. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#fitzgerald #loneliness #scott #life

On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#life #loneliness #life

football is like life - it requires perserverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. ↗

— Vince Lombardi Jr.

#football #sports #life

To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#opening-lines #life

Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words on pieces of paper in order to give birth to what does not exist, except in your head. Why on earth would anyone want to do such a thing? The only answer I have ever been able to come up with is: because you have to, because you have no choice. ↗

— Paul Auster

#loneliness #paper #words #writer #writing