Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
They are the we of me.
Next to music beer was best.
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
I´m a stranger in a strange land.
Writing, for me, is a search for God.
The writer must hew the phantom rock.
The world is certainty a sudden place.
Passion is more important than justice.
All we can do is go around telling the truth.
I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
I do not have any home. So why should I be homesick?
Sunday afternoons are the longest afternoons of all.
The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.
The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended.
But all the time-no matter what she was doing-there was music.
While Time, The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.
The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
When a person knows and can't make the others understand, what does he do?
There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
I got to wear blinders all the time so I won't think sideways or in the past.
Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.
Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.
The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
You don't know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
Don't you loathe it when doctors use the word 'we' when it applies only and solely to yourself?
And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.