Quotes about lone
loneliness solitude different
Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different. Gretchen Rubin
lonely loneliness attachment
Keep in mind that to avoid loneliness, many people need both a social circle and an intimate attachment. Having just one of two may still leave you feeling lonely. Gretchen Rubin
lonely men differences
The most reliable predictor of not being lonely is the amount of contact with women. Time spent with men doesn't make a difference. Gretchen Rubin
loneliness happy-life play
Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they're big, flashing signs that something needs to change. Gretchen Rubin
lonely joy may
Pray for the strength to walk the high road, which at times may be lonely but which will lead to peace and happiness and joy supernal. Gordon B. Hinckley
lonely three bags
I'm never getting too lonely because it's the kind of disease where you might sit in front of the TV with three bags of biscuits, rather than communicate with the world. Geri Halliwell
lonely stars memories
The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of their absent conquering Earls, the golden helmeted suns! Herman Melville
lonely loneliness being-alone
We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. Henry David Thoreau
lonely lakes laughing
I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company has that lonely lake,I pray? Henry David Thoreau
loneliness people mourning
Loneliness is something we [all people] go through. We go through mourning and longing. We make some bad choices sometimes because we're desperate for something, and that's okay. That's part of life. Jennifer Lee
loneliness love-you
Since I love you, my loneliness begins to throw you. Jean Giraudoux
lonely sea yield
Wherever a ship ploughs the sea, or a plough furrows the field; wherever a mine yields its treasure; wherever a ship or a railroad train carries freight to market; wherever the smoke of the furnace rises, or the clang of the loom resounds; even in the lonely garret where the seamstress plies her busy needle--there is industry. James A. Garfield
loneliness self bucks
The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up. Christopher Hitchens
lonely men firsts
The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place. Gary Zukav
loneliness reflection ability
Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone. Gao Xingjian
loneliness men ongoing
You can have everything in the world and still be the loneliest man. And that is the most bitter type of loneliness, success has brought me world idolisation and millions of pounds. But it's prevented me from having the one thing we all need: A loving, ongoing relationship. Freddie Mercury
lonely awful imagine
Can you imagine how terrible it is when you've got everything and you're still desperately lonely? That is awful beyond words. Freddie Mercury
lonely sarcasm self
By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
loneliness fate reality
Men who no longer can make sure of the reality which they feel and experience through talking about it and sharing it with their fellow-men, live in the same nightmare of loneliness and uncertainty which, in a normal world, is the terrible fate of insanity. Hannah Arendt
loneliness two solitude
Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company. Hannah Arendt
lonely integrity heart
Without being bound to the fulfillment of promises, we would never be able to keep our identities; we would be condemned to wanderhelplessly and without direction in the darkness of each man's lonely heart, caught in its contradictions and equivocalities--a darkness which only the light shed over the public realm through the presence of others, who confirm the identity between the one who promises and the one who fulfills, can dispel. Hannah Arendt
lonely children book
Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination. Gore Vidal
loneliness being-alone imagination
Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have. James Dean
lonely dying hollywood
I have a film called 'A Lonely Place For Dying,' which is the most watched film on the Internet, over 3 million hits, more than any of Hollywood's films. James Cromwell
lonely kids hands
If I had been married earlier in life, I wouldn't have seen the double helix. I would have been taking care of the kids on Saturday. On the other hand, I was lonely a lot of the time. James D. Watson
lonely fun loss
I recently went to my staircase at Clare College, Cambridge and there were women there! There have been a lot of convincing studies recently about the loss of productivity in the Western male. It may be that entertainment culture now is so engaging that it keeps people satisfied. We didn't have that. Science was much more fun than listening to the radio. When you are 16 or 17 and in that inherently semi-lonely period when you are deciding whether to be an intellectual, many now don't bother. James D. Watson
loneliness men differences
I am Manuel. I have lived in the loneliness which is common to all men, but the difference is that I have known it. Now it is necessary for me, as it is necessary for all men, to die in this same loneliness, and I know that there is no help for it. James Branch Cabell
lonely loneliness reading
One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person. Jamaica Kincaid
lonely sweet fall
To the sea, to the sea! The white gulls are crying, The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying. West, west away, the round sun is falling, Grey ship, grey ship, do you hear them calling, The voices of my people that have gone before me? I will leave, I will leave the woods that bore me; For our days are ending and our years failing. I will pass the wide waters lonely sailing. Long are the waves on the Last Shore falling, Sweet are the voices in the Lost Isle calling, In Eressea, in Elvenhome that no man can discover, Where the leaves fall not: land of my people forever! J. R. R. Tolkien
lonely jobs real
Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is he and his type writer or word processor. No one else is or can be involved in the matter. Isaac Asimov
lonely men mind
There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save. Isaac Asimov
loner melancholy sexuality
As a bit of loner, prone to melancholy, with a questionable sexuality, I found great solace in the words of-Dylan, Joni, John Prine and Leonard Cohen. The darker the better. Jill Sobule
loneliness home up-north
The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake. Jessica Lange