#lonely

I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#i #idea #isolation #like #lonely

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#lonely #principled #usually

It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work. ↗

— Frank Borman

#certainly #clouds #does #expanse #forbidding

Later, when we've found this mysterious ship of Hector's and are safely away, when I have time to rest and worry and a quiet corner to hide in, I will coldly remember that being a queen means being strategic. And I will imagine sending off the man I love to marry my sister. I'll rehearse it in my head, maybe. Get used to the feeling. ↗

— Rae Carson

#sad #imagination

When I’m lonely I stand in the corner and play my saxophone and feel sorry for myself. I would ask you to accompany me on the piano, but if I did that I wouldn’t be lonely, would I? And what’s the point of a saxophone if not to celebrate despair?
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— Jarod Kintz

#celebrate #celebration #despair #funny #humor

The Internet is for lonely people. People should live. ↗

— Charlton Heston

#life #lonely #life

Every time the wind blows I think of her. I wonder if I could generate electricity off my yearning. Maybe a mind wind farm of some kind. Hopefully I could provide enough power for all the lonely people in my bathtub to stay warm. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#electricity #funny #humor #lonely #power

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

— Edna O'Brien

#lonely #love #love

Please don’t carve me another heart—‘tis easier to photosynthesize than to love ↗

— S.D. Foster

#subsidence #love

Touring is really a pretty lonely business. ↗

— Eddy Arnold

#lonely #lonely business #pretty #really #touring