Super-Toys Last All Summer Long (1969)
“The world will be such a lonely place whenever I decide to leave it.”
“The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.”
Source: The Uses of Literature
“I thought the only lonely place was on the moon.”
"Jet" from Band on the Run (1974)
Lyrics, Wings
“It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.”
"The God in the Bowl" (1952)
Context: Arus the watchman grasped his crossbow with shaky hands, and he felt beads of clammy perspiration on his skin as he stared at the unlovely corpse sprawling on the polished floor before him. It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.
“I have gone into the waste lonely places
Behind the eye.”
"Meditations of an Old Woman: First Meditation," ll. 76-77
Words for the Wind (1958)
The Curves of Time: The Memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer (2000), p. 176.
