A Quote by John Fowles

One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.

John Fowles

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Effort Lonely Oneself Sometimes

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John Fowles
English - Novelist
March 31, 1926 - November 5, 2005

She smoked because she craved something to do with her hands, that delicate interplay of light and cup and first inhale. Craved the repetition of it. It was so difficult sometimes to be still in a room, alone with oneself. To bare oneself to the lonely.

Kate Zambreno

One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union.

Robert Motherwell

The decision to give an indicative date for a return is a mistake. It degrades the process. It degrades human life.

David Trimble

I think everybody gets lonely sometimes. I don't know if people can ever understand how you can be in a room full of people and be lonely sometimes.

Trey Songz

Whoever degrades another degrades me.

Walt Whitman

To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire and love give us the strength to make this effort. The only books that we truly absorb are those we read with real appetite, after having worked hard to get them, so great had been our need of them.

Marcel Proust

There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or 'terror in a lonely place', the original semantic content of the word. The lonely place was his own mind.

Don DeLillo

I'd rather be single, happy, and lonely sometimes than married, lonely, and happy sometimes.

Mark Fiore

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

Oscar Wilde

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

Walt Whitman

Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.

James Franco

I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.

John Cazale

How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and rightfully represented as oneself.

Criss Jami

All my life I've been lonely. I've been lonely at crowded parties. I've been lonely in the middle of kissing a girl and I've been lonely at camp with hundreds of fellows around. But now I'm not lonely any more.

Betty Smith

It takes effort to not be lonely.

Neena Gupta

Oh, no, I think I'd die on my own. I'd be so lonely. Even at home, I'm lonely. I sit in my room and sometimes cry. It is so hard to make friends, and there are some things you can't talk to your parents or family about. I sometimes walk around the neighborhood at night, just hoping to find someone to talk to. But I just end up coming home.

Michael Jackson

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