Loneliness Quote by Sherman Alexie Download Open image ““We lived in a small house, so there was no escape from the goddamn racket of her loneliness.”” — Sherman Alexie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Loneliness
“She was scared about leaving everything, and I got that, but I also knew you couldn't start living in the new place until you… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
“And the feeling I had was not of wanting her so much as being surrounded by her, blundering inside her life without having moved.” — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“...the longer she had lived away, the more she realized that nowhere became home… though everywhere had.” — Susan Örnbratt Copy Share Image
“She'd been alone all her life; now she was surrounded by a loving, caring family. If only they could be hers to keep.” — Susan Sleeman Copy Share Image
“But even that was a memorable event in the locked loneliness in which one had to live.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“She had forgotten how to transmute loneliness into mere aloneness, how not to fall into the hole of his absence.” — Bar Fridman-Tell Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is like a big, empty room inside you that echoes with the sounds of the life you're not living.” — Leisa Rayven Copy Share Image
“But being a stay-at-home mom was the loneliest kind of lonely, in which she was always and never by herself.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“She was not in the least afraid of loneliness, because she was not afraid of devils. I think they were afraid of her.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“ I was a private person, and I valued my alone time. It was why I chose to have no roommates and no drama.” — Kendall Ryan Copy Share Image
“I just wanted to be alone for a while some place other than my house. Until morning.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“He says the earth is an oval marble that nobody can win. He says the sky is not blue and the grass is not… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Now, in the old days, Indians used to be forgiving of any kind of eccentricity. In fact, weird people were often celebrated. Epileptics were often shamans because people just assumed that God gave seizure-visions to the lucky ones. Gay people were seen as magical, too. I mean, like in many cultures, men were viewed as warriors and women were viewed… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share
Since Jesus was human then he most assuredly farted and burped. And if God did create us in God's image then God must fart… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“A century ago she might have been beautiful, her face reflected in the river instead of a mirror. But all the years have changed… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Is there really a difference between that killing and this killing? Does God approve of some killing and not other killing? If I kill… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
My parents banned nothing, though the Christian fundamentalists in my tribe held book-and-record burnings every now and again. So, yes, fundamentalist assholes can also… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Or maybe I could have anesthetized myself with homework and extra credit and binge-reading.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Dear wife, I'm sorry that I am mysteriously incapable of folding clean laundry, but I iron, oh, I iron. Sweetheart, I'll make your white… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Hell is only loneliness, a place without play for the soul, a place without God. How could there be God in loneliness when God… — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
We often refer to loneliness as something negative. And we look at it as a weakness. — Jay Shetty Copy Share Image
There was only the broad square with the scattered dim moons of the street lamps and with the monumental stone arch which receded into… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no one else… — Bruce D. Perry Copy Share Image
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning. For loneliness assumed the absence of other people, and the solitude she found in that desperate terrain had never admitted the possibility of other people. She wept then. Tears for the deaths of the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share
Don't let 'being single' make you feel like a loner. Its better to be alone. Relationships arent cures for loneliness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image