"Loneness" Quotes from Famous Books
... and the awe gather'd icily o'er me, So far from the earth, where man's help there was none! The one human thing, with the goblins before me— Alone—in a loneness so ghastly—ALONE! Deep under the reach of the sweet living breath, And begirt with the broods of the ... — The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 • Ministry of Education
... too many associations with license and indulgence. Weak things were often beautiful, weak things were never good. And in this new loneness of his that had been selected for what greatness he might achieve, beauty must be relative or, itself a harmony, it ... — This Side of Paradise • F. Scott Fitzgerald |