Clerks Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered in front…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He was lonely because he could imagine himself as anything but himself and as anywhere but where he was. His competitiveness and self-centeredness cut…

— Wendell Berry

I left the library. Crossing the street, I was hit head-on by a brutal loneliness. I felt dark and hollow. Abandoned, unnoticed, forgotten, I…

— Nicole Krauss

“And she would feel that sharp loneliness she had felt every long evening since she was a child. It was the kind of loneliness…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream;”

— John Muir

“At such hours there was a democracy of loneliness; one felt the smog of it to be equitably distributed. Lucy”

— Victor Lodato

I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.

— Henry Rollins

My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I negotiated the no man's…

— Bharati Mukherjee

“For a long while- for many years, in fact- he had not thought of how it was before he came to the farm. His…

— Truman Capote

“The loneliness she felt before Frank walked her home from Wang's cleaners began to dissolve and in its place a shiver of freedom, of…

— Toni Morrison

“I lay there with my mind running amuck, on the brink of madness. And somehow, gradually, early Sunday morning, I became calm. I can't…

— John Marsden