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God's Lonely Man by Thomas Wolfe | Goodreads. Jump to ratings and reviews. Want to read. Buy on Amazon. Rate this book. God's Lonely Man. Thomas Wolfe. 3.63. 16 ratings2 reviews. Anatomy of Loneliness (a.k.a. God's Lonely Man) is a short story by Thomas Wolfe printed in American mercury Vol. 53, no. 214 in October 1941. Genres EssaysShort Stories.
The phrase "God's lonely man" is the title of an essay by Thomas Wolfe, an American writer from the South who lived at the beginning of the twentieth century. Schrader uses a quote from this essay as the epigraph to the screenplay: "The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious ...
God’s Lonely Man, privately printed, 1947. Mannerhouse: A Play in a Prologue and Three Acts, Harper, 1948. To Rupert Brooke, privately printed, 1948. . . . “The Years of Wandering in Many Lands and Cities,” Charles S. Boesen, 1949. A Western Journal, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1951.
- “Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.” ― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again.
- “I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.” ― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again.
- “There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.” ― Thomas Wolfe.
- “Child, child, have patience and belief, for life is many days, and each present hour will pass away. Son, son, you have been mad and drunken, furious and wild, filled with hatred and despair, and all the dark confusions of the soul - but so have we.
In "God's Lonely Man" Wolfe has much to say about the Old. Testament as the chronicle of loneliness and the New Testament as. an answer to loneliness through love, but although he says that "the. way and meaning of Christ's life is a far, far better way and meaning.
Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938) was an American writer. The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction states that "Wolfe was a major American novelist of the first half of the twentieth century, whose longterm reputation rests largely on the impact of his first novel, Look Homeward, Angel (1929), and on the short fiction that appeared during the last years of his ...
