Quotes about lone
lonely stars fall
The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone. Shadows of evening fall around us, and the world seems but a dim reflection - itself a broader shadow. We look forward into the coming lonely night. The soul withdraws into itself. Then stars arise, and the night is holy. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
lonely remember oppressed
O, though oft oppressed and lonely, All my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only Such as these have lived and died!
lonely strong
The strong must learn to be lonely. Henrik Ibsen
loneliness might existential
It is precisely when you are loved a lot that you might realize a second loneliness which is not to be solved but lived. This second loneliness is an existential loneliness that belongs to the basis of our being. It's where we are unfulfilled because only God can fill us. Henri Nouwen
lonely ministry ministers
Too many of us are lonely ministers practicing a lonely ministry.
loneliness giving community
The best of community does give one a deep sense of belonging and well-being; and in that sense community takes away loneliness.
lonely quiet gifts-of-life
A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.
lonely compassion broken
Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it.
lonely hurt pain
Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.
loneliness insomnia thinking
I think the most common cause of insomnia is simple; its loneliness. Heath Ledger
lonely hate heart
Don't let ignorance blind you. Open your eyes, heart and your mind. And if you're feeling alone, know that the world can be a lonely place, but it would be lonelier without you in it. Hayley Williams
lonely children school
People who are exceptionally intelligent are often lonely because there are few people as intelligent as them. I have two little children, and everyone says: 'I hope they're doing well in school. I hope they're bright.' And I think: 'Why would anyone want their children to be the brightest?' Academia is a lonely world. Helen McCrory
loneliness mistake love-is
Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward. Helen Rowland
lonely snow silence
A pine tree standeth lonely In the North on an upland bare; It standeth whitely shrouded With snow, and sleepeth there. It dreameth of a Palm tree Which far in the East alone, In the mournful silence standeth On its ridge of burning stone. Heinrich Heine
lonely sleep ice
A lonely fir-tree is standing On a northern barren height; It sleeps, and the ice and snow-drift Cast round it a garment of white.
lonely children love-you
If you want to get a child to love you, then you should just go hide in the closet for three or for hours. They get down on their knees and pray for you to return. That child will turn you into God. Lonely children probably wrote the Bible. Heather O'Neill
lonely children lonely-child
Lonely children probably wrote the Bible.
loneliness being-alone men
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly. Hilaire Belloc
lonely loneliness men
The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness. Henryk Sienkiewicz
lonely fun weekend
Oh, God, I'm so lonely. An entire weekend streching ahead with no one to love or have fun with. Anyway, I don't care. I've got a lovely steamed ginger pudding from M&S to put in the microwave. Helen Fielding
loneliness inspiration being-alone
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
lonely heart winter
Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up sudden and solitary from the heart of the great black forests of Northern California Joaquin Miller
lonely holiday rejected
Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected. Jimmy Cannon
lonely book reading
I never feel lonely if I've got a book - they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they're part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life. Emilia Fox
lonely jobs writing
Writing is a lonely job, unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach. Emilio Estevez
lonely loneliness night
It's a lonely ol' night. Can I put my arms around you? John Mellencamp
loneliness comforting combat
Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness. John Irving
loneliness self hatred
Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
lonely loneliness heart
In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their most familiar surroundings, those people who either are foreigners or who suffer a singular point of view that makes them feel as if they’re foreigners - even in their native lands. In our hearts... there also abides a certain suspicion that such people need to feel set apart from their society. But people who initiate loneliness are no less lonely than those who are suddenly surprised by loneliness, nor are they undeserving of our pity.
loneliness together world
The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. John Huston
loneliness pinnacle
Every loneliness is a pinnacle Ayn Rand
lonely hero recovery
Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach.
loneliness world expected
She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.