#lone

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#books #how #know #men #ought

Although I managed my schedule to be home by late afternoon most days, basically, Roselle raised our children alone. And so I missed out on a lot of wonderful moments, missed watching my kids grow into the wonderful people they are today. ↗

— Perry Como

#alone #although #basically #children #days

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. ↗

— Confucius

#left #neighbors #practices #stand #virtue

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#blame #find #harder #living #living alone

Know this and know it more than you've ever bothered to understand anything before: I am, as lonely as they come. As empty as they make them. There is a reason my liver is filled with whiskey. A cloaked rhyme to why my lungs have fallen in love with smoke. I am lonely. But I have come to the conclusion that loneliness, no matter how often it weighs the soul, is sometimes, a beautiful thing. ↗

— Christopher Poindexter

#drink #loneliness #smoke #beauty

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#bookstore #buys #clears #every #him

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#lonely #most #need #time #you

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#forget #loneliness #out #politics #religion

Oh, I do get lonely, yes. ↗

— Courteney Cox

#i #i do #lonely #oh #yes

She had the kids during the day and I would have them at night. That way they were never alone. I would put the kids to bed, and then I had nothing to do and nobody to talk to, so I would write. ↗

— Clive Cussler

#bed #day #during #had #i