#line

I was lonelier than I should be, for a woman in love, or half in love. ↗

— Edna O'Brien

#lonely #love #love

My friends, tonight we bring you something entirely different. Something special. The poets will rest, the sonnets will be silent, and what words of love there are will not be spoken. Tonight, my friends, and I can hear you out there, sitting alone, like me, in your chairs, your beds, driving down an empty street with no one but me to listen to your weeping; tonight, I'm going to bring you Armageddon. ↗

— Charles Grant

#loneliness #raven #love

I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn't such a bad feeling. It was like the stillness of the pin oak after the little birds had flown off. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#loneliness #love #love

…he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs pinned into the white faces of young men [...] In the hush his entrance creates, the excessive courtesy the weary woman behind the counter shows him amplifies his strangeness. He orders coffee quietly and studies the rim of the cup to steady the sliding in his stomach. He had thought, he had read, that from shore to shore all America was the same. He wonders, Is it just these people I’m outside or is it all America? ↗

— John Updike

#angstrom #inspirational #isolation #loneliness #outside

A deadline gets a writer's work done done better and faster than any inspiration, if only because inspirations don't always come, but the deadline is always there. ↗

— A.A. Patawaran

#inspiration #time-pressure #writing #inspirational

Life…we understand it differently at different stages. It’s what is interesting about getting older, you realize your relationship with the past is always negotiable. There is a lot of freedom in that, because you realize you can go back to what you did such a long time ago. You can talk with the dead, talk with your lost self, your disappeared self, and you can visit those places again, and understand it differently. That makes a huge difference. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#interview #life #online-interview #places #freedom

A vast and abandoned world laid out in anonymous grids and quadrants, a view that confirmed you were much more alone than you thought you were, a view that inspired the flickering thoughts of suicide. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#suicide #inspirational

...самотните вечери на мъжа могат да бъдат приспани в женски устни... ↗

— Radostina A. Angelova

#loneliness #love #lovers #men #women

Your quick ‘no’ is because I refused to say ‘yes’ to sex. They say men think with their dicks. I hope you do not run Easton with your— ↗

— Avery Aster

#erotica-romance #sarcasm-humor #men

People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#inspirational #inspirational