From this haunting feeling of being not wanted, which remained a recurrent haunt through life, I found two … - Anna Louise Strong

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.

Anna Louise Strong

From this haunting feeling of being not wanted, which remained a recurrent haunt through life, I found two ways of escape, both of which in changing form also persisted. One was the invention of gods, the other was personal efficiency in work.

Feelings, Haunting, Recurrent, Remained, Two

Same Author Quotes

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Cause, Dream, Loneliness, Love, Missing Someone, Worth

Strong I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.

Direction, Journey, Strong, Travel

They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet.

Dropped, Pharaoh, Pharaohs, Pyramids, Sweat, Thinking

It was as if I had worked for years on the wrong side of a tapestry, learning accurately all its lines and figures, yet always missing its color and sheen.

Color, Learning, Lines, Missing, Sheen, Years

What the Spanish War began the World War accomplished: America became the world's banker and ceased to be the world's pioneer!

Accomplished, America, Bankers, Spanish, War, World

Similar Quotes

Ava Gardner

Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

Floating, Perfect, Water

David Finch

I naturally gravitate to darker characters. Gotham. Batman's suit. It's all dark; he's very interesting. It all comes from his builds and guts.

Builds, Character, Dark, Darker, Gotham, Interesting

Andre Simon

Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.

Art, Artists, Cooking, Unselfish

Lake Bell

I always tried to make people laugh. I attribute that to - I come from a family of divorce. It was a way to distract myself from stuff. I always thought it was interesting that my brother and I existed in this really tight bond, and we would just take the piss out of pretty much everything. I knew I wanted to be an actor so it would be great if I could make people laugh while I was doing this, because I could be other characters and other people, and I could hide behind things. It was a great out for me, and a mode of expression.

Brother, Character, Divorce, Expression, Interesting, Make

Pete Seeger

Get people to sing together and they'll act together too.

Act, People, Sing, Together