Quotes about lone
lonely men air
For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him incapable of relationship, an atmosphere against which neither will nor longing availed. This was one of the significant earmarks of his life. Hermann Hesse
lonely dark green
Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons. Henry Timrod
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
lonely voice talking
The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely. Khalil Gibran
lonely brother strong
I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.
loneliness sea feelings
The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.
loneliness essentials make-things-happen
Spells of acute loneliness are an essential part of travel. Loneliness makes things happen. Jonathan Raban
lonely people wonder
It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong? Jonathan Safran Foer
lonely gone boots
My boots were so heavy that I was glad there was a column beneath us. How could such a lonely person have been living so close to me my whole life? If I had known, I would have gone up to keep him company.
lonely kings book
Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such store I might sit by thy dear side in some lonely place, I should deem myself happier than a king in his kingdom. Omar Khayyam
lonely writing research
Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
lonely future play
I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.
lonely memories life-and-love
To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life--there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death.
lonely kids wife
Life was good to me. I had a great wife, good kids, money, my own health -- and I'm lonely and bored. O. J. Simpson