Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nathaniel Branden

When we bury our feelings, we also bury ourselves. It means we exist in a state of alienation. We rarely know it, but we are lonely for ourselves.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The traveller knows not who may be concealed by the innumerable trunks and the thick boughs overhead; so that with lonely footsteps he may yet be passing through an unseen multitude.

Mother Teresa

Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty.

Mother Teresa

Of all the diseases I have known, loneliness is the worst.

Mother Teresa

If our poor die of hunger, it is not because God does not care for them. Rather, it is because neither you nor I are generous enough. It is because we are not instruments of love in the hands of God. We do not recognize Christ when once again He appears to us in the hungry man, in the lonely woman, in the child who is looking for a place to get warm.

Mother Teresa

If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation, it is not that God didn't care for them, but because you and I didn't give, were not an instrument of love in the hands of God, to give them that bread, to give them that clothing; because we did not recognize him, when once more Christ came in distressing disguise, in the hungry man, in the lonely man, in the homeless child, and seeking for shelter.

Mother Teresa

Jesus taught us how to forgive out of love, how to forget out of humility. So let us examine our hearts and see if there is any unforgiven hurt -- any unforgotten bitterness! It is easy to love those who are far away. It isn't always easy to love those who are right next to us. It is easier to offer food to the hungry than to answer the lonely suffering of someone who lacks love right in one

Mother Teresa

I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

Mother Teresa

Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world.

Jimmy Buffett

Be good & you will be lonesome. Be lonesome & you will be free.

Jim Lovell

The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth.

Jim Lovell

Well, Frank, my thoughts are very similar. The vast loneliness up here at the moon is awe-inspiring, and it makes you realize what you have back there on earth. The earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.

Joanna Noelle Levesque

I'd like to hope you end up a miserable, lonely woman. But actually, I hope you have children one day, Ellie Haworth. Then you'll know how it feels to be vulnerable. And to have to fight, to be constantly vigilant, just to make sure your children get to grow up with a father.

George Lopez

I spend a lot of time alone and my wife understands that I need to be alone. I enjoy being alone. But I'm never lonely.

George Jones

Loneliness is lessened when you're lonely by choice.

Elvis Presley

I'm lonely like Adam and you're evil like Eve.

Ellen Willis

Individuals bearing witness do not change history; only movements that understand their social world can do that. Movements encourage solidarity; the moral individual is likely, all unwittingly, to do the opposite, for bearing witness is lonely: it breeds feelings of superiority and moralistic anger against those who are not doing the same.

Elizabeth Gilbert

But he [Depression] just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on my table and lights a cigar, filling the place with his awful smoke. Loneliness watches and sighs, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He's going to make me sleep with him again tonight, I just know it.

Elizabeth Gilbert

But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

Elizabeth Gilbert

When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.

Elizabeth Gilbert

The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash. We get seduced by our own mantras (I'm a failure I'm lonely I'm a failure I'm lonely) and we become monuments to them. To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to stop choking ourselves with words, to liberate ourselves from our suffocating mantras.

Elisabeth Shue

It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today.

Joel Osteen

You see somebody down, that's lonely, take them to lunch. Encourage them.

Joel Osteen

It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.

Joan Collins

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

Jim Steinman

Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night I can see paradise by the dashboard light.

John D. Voelker

Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness.

Lisa Kleypas

What are you thinking?" he asks. I know Gage hates it when I cry - he is completely undone by the sight of tears - so I blink hard against the sting. "I'm thinking how thankful I am for everything," I say, "even the bad stuff. Every sleepless night, every second of being lonely, every time the car broke down, every wad of gum on my shoe, every late bill and losing lottery ticket and bruise and broken dish and piece of burnt toast." His voice is soft. "Why, darlin'?" "Because it all led me here to you.

Lilith Saintcrow

The only place their voices were left was in my head. It was better than being alone but it was so, so lonely.

Lilith Saintcrow

Besides, the normal people here wouldn’t see it. That was what “different” meant. It’s just another word for lonely.

Leo Buscaglia

If you don't like the scene you're in, if you're unhappy, if you're lonely, if you don't feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.