#lon

I shuffle along, letting the current pull me, and i have the sense that I am like a rat caught in a maze of tunnels, moving endlessly toward some promise of...of what? Light? Life? Cheese? ↗

— Lisa Ann Sandell

#hope #life #loneliness #school #life

Alone you're refinding a glittering, a clarity, you're finding your distilled self. ...You think of the two types of aloneness you've known recently: this wonderful, sparkly, soul-refreshing type, and the despairing loneliness that sucks the breath from your life. ↗

— Nikki Gemmell

#loneliness #solitude #life

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

You must live a very free life." "Me?" she laughed. "I am not who swoops out of the sky to rain fire on pirates!" "Yeah, but before this I never did much. I mean I did a lot, but...I lived in a room at a university, and my whole world was in that little room. There was this world inside my head." De la Fitte studied his head as if she could see through his skull to a little globe inside it somewhere. ↗

— Sam Starbuck

#america #engineer #fire #london #pirates

It is one of life's great ironies that most people's only connection to success is their attachment to the pain of not having achieved it. ↗

— Stephen Smoke

#pain #success #life

There is no ownership. There is only stewardship. ↗

— LeeAnn Taylor

#belonging #earth #humanity #life #man

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness ↗

— Kate Atkinson

#hate #life #loneliness #lonely #solitude

All these people moving through life, all around me, and no one, not a single person, knows what I'm going through. ↗

— Lee Thompson

#life #lonely #struggle #life

In Shahid's view, the best way through difficult times, as through life in general, was just to go along with things. It was a rare problem that couldn't be solved by being ignored. ↗

— John Lanchester

#difficulties #going-along #ignoring-things #life #problems