"Don't you understand? Listen carefully to what I'm saying. If you do, you'll get it. you can grasp this easily. In short...in short, I shut myself in because I'm lonely. Because I don't want to face any more loneliness, I shut myself away."

-- Tatsuhiko Takimoto

#Lonely Quotes #Loneliness Quotes #Want Quotes

“In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.”
“Behold congenial Autumn comes, the Sabbath of the Year.”

Source : James Grahame, John Logan (1823). “The poems of James Grahame, John Logan, and William Falconer”, p.153
“The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.”

Source : Harvey Cox (1966). “The Secular City”
“Just as composers go to concerts and artists visit galleries, writers read. You will learn, in the most enjoyable way, more about style and language from reading good literature than you will ever acquire from workshops and how-to books.”

Source : Judith Barrington (2002). “Writing the Memoir”
“Make choices that are loving for yourself - with your diet, your relationships, and in speaking your loving truth - that are in alignment with what you want to be doing. When you see that in a person, you are seeing their passion and fulfillment, and that person feels good to you because they feel good to themselves. I know that I feel good and I think that comes across on stage; when I didn't feel good before, I think that came across on stage.”
“Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party whether he realizes it or not must always come out the worse.”

Source : Jack Vance (2011). “Rhialto the Marvellous”, p.73, Hachette UK
“Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy would suggest to Nato that the organisation was no longer necessary.”
“[French intellectuals] could never address themselves to the working classes. They don't know what it means, and that gives them a bad conscience about it. [Albert] Camus has a greater proximity to those in poverty.”

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