Beth Henley Quotes

Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong.

My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.

My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.

The sight of people sleeping on the streets hits us hardest around Christmas and New Year. We see them camped out alone on the freezing concrete, and we think, with a rush of guilt, about heading home to our families and our soft beds.

I never got to go to prom. I never went to regular school. I ate lunch by myself.

My mother was the daughter of a poor schoolteacher - well, that's a tautology - a country schoolteacher.

Saying that you spend Christmas alone is, to most middle-class Americans, akin to confessing a terminal illness.

Lately he'd been seen going out less and less, becoming that strangest of animals in a small town: a loner.

The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.

I spend a lot of time alone and my wife understands that I need to be alone. I enjoy being alone. But I'm never lonely.

The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.

We are all really alone. We're isolated in our own mind.

Ever since I've had any political awareness, I've felt either alone or part of a tiny minority.

...all I have to do is stay in between the lines and make sure that no one is too close to me and I am not too close to anyone and keep leaving. Maybe it felt like this for her, too, but I could never feel like this alone.

Nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street.

A bottle of wine was good company.

Alone is a fact, a condition where no one else is around. Lonely is how you feel about that.

When you're all alone, love one another.

In this world, where we find ourselves, we need compassion more than anything, I think, or we are all alone.

Befriending provides a valuable lifeline to many people who feel isolated in their communities often as a result of ill health or poverty. I would like to thank all those who volunteer as befrienders and I hope that your numbers will increase in coming years. Your kindness and hard work is, I know, very much appreciated by those you help.

I'm beginning to believe that Killer Illiteracy ought to rank near heart disease and cancer as one of the leading causes of deathamong Americans. What you don't know can indeed hurt you, and so those who can neither read nor write lead miserable lives, like Richard Wright's character, Bigger Thomas, born dead with no past or future.

I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

alone, adj. In bad company.

Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.

The wretched have no friends.