Quote by Joyce Carol Oates Download Open image ““Nothing is more lonely than fucking ‘good works.”” — Joyce Carol Oates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“It's a funny thing in my job: you remain perpetually lonely in a world where loneliness is the rarest commodity.” — Brian W. Aldiss Copy Share Image
“Creating is often a solitary experience. Yet work made entirely in isolation is usually doomed to remain lonely.” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“One feels rather lonely in the dessert.' 'It is just as lonely among men.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“The desperate loneliness is nothing compared to the torture of falling in love and then being abandoned.” — A.J. Nuest Copy Share Image
“Even being alone it's better than sitting next to your lover and feeling lonely.” — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
“You grieve in loneliness, and if I understand you fuck in loneliness.” — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“There is no loneliness more profound, in my experience, than being ignored by one's sole companion in life.” — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“A woman who has lost her husband is invalid, thus an invalid. In” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Did you know, Marianne: how by breaking the code that day, you broke it forever? For us all?” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the exploitation not… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
