quotes about Lonely Heart

last updated: November 28, 2023

But who can count the beatings of the lonely heart?
-- Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

Source : Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1841). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author”, p.434

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“BDS represents three words that will help bring about the defeat of Zionist Israel and victory for Palestine.”

Source : "Destructive 'Agnosticism'" by Yitzhak Santis, www.haaretz.com. November 26, 2010.
“Confessionalism relates to writers of color. I think confessional poetry is in its way very Catholic, capital C. One of the formative ideas of Confessionalism, beyond psychoanalysis, is a very actual fall from grace. And, at least in America, people of color never occupy that position of grace the way that white people do. So I think that in some very actual ways the confessional mode, strictly speaking, is not possible for non-white writers.”
“You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.”
“George Jessel’s newest pick-me-up which is receiving attention from the town’s paragraphers is called a Bloody Mary: half tomato juice, half vodka.”
“The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.”
“Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing when he's finished saying it.”
“There never was a false god, nor was there ever really a false religion, unless you call a child a false man.”
“The more pride we have, the more other peopleâ€™s pride irritates us”
“The sort of public sex aspects of gay male sexuality did not appeal to me. And it wasn't just a matter of being afraid of them or being too nervous to try them. I did try them and they didn't work for me, they didn't feed me spiritually, they didn't leave me gratified.”
“ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee”

Source : John Donne, “No Man Is An Island”