Lonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavelengths, do not know how to carry themselves, are lost when it comes to visitors. They are shy, defensive, curious places; places that do not know how they are supposed to behave.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.
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Charles M. Schulz
For Beatrice, when we first met, I was lonely, and you were pretty. Now I am pretty lonely.
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Lemony Snicket
I missed him so much that it felt like a physical pain in the area below my ribs. I opened my mouth to accommodate it. I put my hand to it. A hollow, aching, piercing place.
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Marya Hornbacher
I learned that day that there is no more lonely state than being in a lonely marriage.
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Julie Metz
We're always contradicting ourselves. We want people to tell us apart....yet we don't want them to be able to. We want people to get to know us...but we also want them to keep their distance. We've always longed for someone to accept us.. <span style="margin:15px;...
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Bisco Hatori
More Quotes By Pico Iyer
We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge,...
Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.
One of the strange laws of the contemplative life, " Thomas Merton, one of its sovereign explorers, pointed out, "is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life solves them...
... a man sitting still is alone, often, with the memory of all he doesn't have. And what he does have can look very much like nothing.
Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice
