Clerks Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“There's a special quality to the loneliness of dusk, a melancholy more brooding even than the night's.”

— Ed Gorman

Nighttime to some, a brief interlude. To others, the fear of solitude.

— The Moody Blues

It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties - that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains a roomful…

— Paul Merton

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can…

— Lawrence Durrell

For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I…

— Patty Duke

It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to…

— Elizabeth Bowen

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details,…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.

— Pablo Neruda

Working alone on stories, I began to feel the anonymity of motels on interstate highways reached by jet planes and rental cars. It was…

— John Loengard

“It also had extraordinary acoustics: in the hush of the small hours, a goods truck smashing into a pothole sounded like an explosion, and…

— Joseph O'Neill

As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as…

— Chris Ware