This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground.
– Walker Percy
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- There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America – there’s the United States of America. – Barack Obama
- America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- It is true that I am a person with black pockets of evil and hatred in my heart. There are underground places inside of me – Lynda Barry
- People who are ordinarily understood to dislike each other or at least to be indifferent toward each other discover that they have much in common. – Walker Percy
- As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair. – Walker Percy
- Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart? – Walker Percy
- Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know. – Walker Percy
- Just because Jimmy Swaggart believes in God doesn’t mean that God does not exist. – Walker Percy
- …this miserable trick the romantic plays upon himself: of setting just beyond his reach the very thing he prizes. – Walker Percy
- If people elsewhere want to do everything possible to make it to America, people in America must do all things possible to make it to heaven! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Most people are dependent on legal drugs but this is somehow not an obstacle to seeing an enemy in every underground addict. – Plamen Chetelyazov
- Hanging with people who make you feel unappreciated, for the mere sake of appearing to be popular, is the loneliest place to be. – Ellen J Barrier
- This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies. – Calvin Coolidge
- To fall in love twice, with the same person, you need to grow another heart. That’s all I do in my secret underground laboratory at night… – Will Advise
- If there’s a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love who’s trapped underground, I don’t know it. – Suzanne Collins
- I have found truly jubilant Christians only in the Bible, in the Underground Church and in prison. – Richard Wurmbrand
- How shall a society remember its miners underground while it cannot even remember its homeless above ground? – Mehmet Murat ildan
- We be light, we be life, we be fire! We sing electric flame, we rumble underground wind, we dance heaven! Come be we and be free! – Kate Griffin
- When you said we were clandestine I didn’t realize you meant literally underground, you could have warned me. – Mark A McCormick
- Stay away from the underground lake I implore,The Siren will see you are heard of no more. – EA Bucchianeri
- We are not meant to spend the rest of our lives underground. We need to go home and tell a strange story that no one will believe. – Courtney M Privett
- Underground, the stars are legend. – Catherine Fisher
- Hell is a conspiracy, and the first requirement of a conspiracy is that it remain underground. – Richard F Lovelace
- All this time I thought you were reading to escape the world, but now I know, you didn’t read to escape it; you read to discover it. – Brittainy C Cherry
- The one thing that we need to escape is our minds, but our minds are the one thing that we cannot escape from. – Anonymous
- if the count of monte cristo could escape the chateau d’if, william smithback could escape from river oaks – Douglas Preston
- To survive was to escape fate. But if you escape your fate, whose life do you then step into? – Anne Michaels
- You’re trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought. – Enid Blyton
- If only we could crawl inside our dreams and live there. Why can’t I live inside my dream? – Meg Howrey
- The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all. – Deb Caletti
- Maddie: Now it’s just me against the world, and it’s the loneliest feeling ever. – Dixon
- It’s funny to think that Christmas -” a time known for its joyful togetherness -” can be the loneliest time of the year for some. – Giovanna Fletcher
- When the loneliest place on earth is in your mind, move out! – Benny Bellamacina
- I know what it’s like to have a power no other cat understands. It’s the loneliest feeling in the world. – Erin Hunter
- Even the loneliest and most solitary in the universe… the very cold space dust… will eventually come together to form a star. – GC Huxley
- Tennis is the loneliest sport – Andre Agassi
- Sometimes being surronded by everyone is the loneliest, because you’ll realise you have no one to turn to. – Soraya
- The loneliest days are the ones where you keep company with someone you love who can’t hear you. – Holly Robinson
- The moment when you think that you are the loneliest person in the world, you close your eyes and feel ,it is much better this way. – MF Moonzajer