"Loneliness is a drug, a narcotic; it grows through veins, through nerves and muscles; it assumes some right of possession over your body and mind; it feeds itself, and creates its own requirement. Loneliness and solitude are walls."

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Source : R. J. Ellory (2010). “A Quiet Belief in Angels: A Novel”, p.100, The Overlook Press

R.J. Ellory

#Wall Quotes #Loneliness Quotes #Solitude Quotes

“Come live, and be merry, and join with me, To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!”
“I think I get in trouble sometimes, especially when it's like I need to be easier on [my] kids because maybe I'm a rule-follower now. I'll look at something like the kids' coloring or something and I'm like, "That's not the way that marker should be used." All imagination is gone, and it's just like, "Here's the proper way that we use a marker," you know? Maybe that's a dad thing.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Intent on one great love, perfect, Requited and for ever, I missed love's everywhere Small presence, thousand-guised.”

Source : Kathleen Raine, “Confessions”
“In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.”
“From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress.”
“Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.”
“I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things. I am a very impatient person and headstrong. If I've made up my mind to do something, I can't be persuaded out of it”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“In journalism, there are only two stories - "Oh, the wonder of it," and "Oh, the shame of it."”

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