#lone

Was it so much to ask just to be left alone? ↗

— Wendelin Van Draanen

#life #life

The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world. ↗

— Leni Riefenstahl

#applause #encores #had #happiness #i

There are lots of different ways grown-ups disappear. It's lonely being the one left behind. ↗

— Julia Green

#loneliness #life

Yeah, I like being on my own. I do. I tend to be a loner, so I'm okay. I'm not okay when I have to be around everyone all the time. ↗

— Keri Russell

#being #everyone #i #i do #like

The personal desolation Christ is experiencing on the cross is what you and I should be experiencing--but instead, Jesus is bearing it, and bearing it all alone. Why alone? He's alone so that we might never be alone. ↗

— C.J. Mahaney

#loneliness #the-cross #life

Question for your life: If Socrates had a clone, would he advise that clone to know thy self, or to know myself, with myself in this case being himself? ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#clone #clones #knowledge #philosophy #socrates

Samoća je ugodna, ali krivi sliku o svemu što nas okružuje. ↗

— Jasna Horvat

#life #life

......and not out of fear or loneliness, but only to find myself again... for we have come too far my Life, to turn back now... ↗

— John Geddes

#find-myself #loneliness #poetry-quotes #turn-back #life

And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#hill #jane #lantern #love #love

Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay. ↗

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#always #become #books #captains #classics