#lone

Prudence's flat was in the kind of block where Jane imagined people might be found dead, though she had never said this to Prudence herself; it seemed rather a macabre fancy and not one to be confided to an unmarried woman living alone. ↗

— Barbara Pym

#imagination

When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don’t have an audience; I have a set of standards. But when I think of my work out in the world, written and published, I like to imagine it’s being read by some stranger somewhere who doesn’t have anyone around him to talk to about books and writing—maybe a would-be writer, maybe a little lonely, who depends on a certain kind of writing to make him feel more comfortable in the world. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#loneliness #reader #readership #imagination

Durum semolina, golden wheat wafting in Italian fields. Can you imagine how astonished the Italians would be if they knew that what they were exporting in 1971 was really loneliness ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#imagination

When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#loneliness #inspirational

Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone. ↗

— Francine Rivers

#christian #fight #inspirational #lord #inspirational

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. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#loneliness #universe #inspirational

Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#jodi-picoult #lone-wolf #wise #inspirational

I think we are and will always be lonely people in a lonely world under lonely stars. We can never starve our loneliness. We can only hope that by the company of others, it doesn't devour us. ↗

— Christopher Poindexter

#hope #loneliness #love #universe #friendship

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#after #alone #bodies #emotionally #energy

Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Molly read me some books, those writers reached out and said, Look Gideon, we know about your loneliness and we know you're feeling downtrodden. And they said...I'll stand up for you. You're not lone anymore. ↗

— Leon Uris

#inspirational #lonely #writing #inspirational