Top 1200 Lonely Places Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

It's just this: that there are places we all come from-deep-rooty-common places- that makes us who we are. And we disdain them or treat them lightly at our peril. We turn our backs on them at the risk of self-contempt. There is a sense in which we need to go home again-and can go home again. Not to recover home, no. But to sanctify memory.

Men's legs have a terribly lonely life - standing in the dark in your trousers all day.

One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.

I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much.

She's lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it really is a story about people at the heart of it all.

Penance to be sure must be used as a tool, in due times and places, as need may be. If the flesh, being too strong, kicks against the spirit, penance takes the rod of discipline, and fast, and the cilice of many buds, and mighty vigils; and places burdens enough on the flesh, that it may be more subdued. But if the body is weak, fallen into illness, the rule of discretion does not approve of such a method.

Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night I can see paradise by the dashboard light.

Emotional Freedom is a must-read for anyone who's tired of feeling frustrated, lonely, or stopped by fear.

People strive for success, but it's very lonely at the top. Now I realise the ultimate prize is a family.

It can be said, then, that Everlost is heaven...for the places that deserve a share of forever. Such places are few and far between...The greatest of these stood near Manhattan's southern-most tip: the two gray brothers to the green statue in the bay. The towers had found their heaven...held fast, and held forever by the memories of a mourning world, and by the dignity of the souls who got where they were going on that dark September day.

I grew up in a small house with just my mam and felt quite lonely at times.

Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.

See, that's the thing about L.A.- When you've mastered the art of feeling lonely in a room full of people, that's when you know.

The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.

Along the road you travel, may the miles be a thousand times more lovely than lonely.

Even at a young age, when you start to do well, it's tough because it's lonely on top, and I wasn't the most popular.

Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.

When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.

I always felt that with luxury came cruelty. I do my best to live a happy, prosperous life, but I don't indulge in a lot of luxury. My husband and I are very mindful of what we eat and what we wear. I don't visit places that exploit animals or buy things that are derived from cruelty. I'm sure I'm not perfect, but I make a conscious effort to do no harm and always support people, places, or things that are on the up-and-up.

Her pupils have taken on a lonely hue, like grey clouds reflected in a calm lake.

One of the great consolations . . . is that because Jesus walked such a long, lonely path utterly alone, we do not have to do so.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

And the blue gentian-flower, that, in the breeze, Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last.

A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.

To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the truest definitions of the earth; they stand for the earth immediately and forever; they are its flags and shields. If you would know the earth for what it really is, learn it through its sacred places. At Devil’s Tower or Canyon de Chelly or the Cahokia Mounds, you touch the pulse of the living planet; you feel its breath upon you. You become one with a spirit that pervades geologic time and space.

I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.

I get so lonely sometimes, I could put a box on my head and mail myself to a stranger.

Can you imagine how terrible it is when you've got everything and you're still desperately lonely? That is awful beyond words.

If I have food in the house and I'm laying in bed, I go, 'I bet that Captain Crunch is lonely in the cupboard.'

It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it’s lonely, because you feel you can’t talk about it.

Writing is a lonely job unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.

At last my love has come along. My lonely days are over and life is like a song.

I grew up as this rather lonely European kid living in the east Malaysian jungle.

I've gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.

Many environmentalists have failed to recognize that the preservation of quiet areas, places off-limits to noise pollution, should probably be a number-one environmental concern, not something we're going to get to later. And I say that because in that quiet is a whole experience that people can have that reaches to their soul. I like to think of quiet places in nature as the think tank of the soul. It's in these very basic levels that we'll be able to see what the real problem is.

For many years I thought my job was to go to places where it would be difficult for most of the readers to ever get to. Now, in the more than 20 years I've been doing this, the concept of adventure-travel trips or expeditions by groups has sprung up. The places I went 20 years ago now have adventure-travel trips.

I don't think I've ever been lonely in my entire life. I love to shut my front door and be on my own.

There's really no honor in proving that you can carry the entire load on your own shoulders. Andit's lonely.

As lonely and sad as I am today, your return will cause a new birth in me.

Writing can be really lonely, and I find that bit difficult. I'd rather be around my people, getting ideas.

The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.

I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.

People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.

There is something so horrifying and so sad when people are living alone. That is why the old and lonely come to us.

What was the point in such loneliness among people. At least if you were by yourself, you had a good reason to be lonely.

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

His saliva tasted like the wet dicks of ten thousand lonely truck drivers.

If you see a lonely homeless, ask this question: Where the hell the society is? And here is the answer: It is rotten and enjoying somewhere!

No one wishes for crisis, but when crises come, they can call forth our best impulses, those of compassion, courage, creativity, and community. And if there are crimes and evils hidden in the dark places of our society and the darker places of our consciousnesses, all the better they come to the surface to be seen, understood, confronted, and healed. If our generation is called to bear a burden of that healing, it is a powerful calling and honor and one within our capability.

I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.

...sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one's friends and family are well.

And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.

Find someone who is having a hard time, or is ill, or lonely, and do something for him or her.

The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular.

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

Just because someone is single doesn't mean they're lonely. Some people are in relationships and they've forgotten what happiness is.