Quotes about lone
loneliness wells
I have a life that's just been a well of loneliness. Jessica Lange
loneliness fleeing way
[...] We have to realize that this wound [of loneliness] is inherent in the human condition and that what we have to do is walk with it instead of fleeing from it. We cannot accept it until we discover that we are loved by God just as we are, and that the Holy Spirit in a mysterious way is living at the centre of the wound. Jean Vanier
loneliness desire fundamentals
Loneliness is the fundamental force that urgees mystics to a deeper union with God... An experience of God quenches this thirst for the absolute but at the same time, paradoxiacally, whets it, because this is an experience that can never be total; by necessity, the knowledge of God is always partial. So loneliness opens up mystics to a desire to love each other and every human being as God loves them.
loneliness people community
People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition.
lonely pain loneliness
To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately lonely lose themselves in mental illness or violence to forget the inner pain.
loneliness knowing thought-provoking
The numbing mind-ream of knowing you're alone not because people won't accept you but because you find so little worth accepting. An imposed solitude is better than simply tolerating your company in waiting for something better. So loneliness is not such a terrible thing when you consider that the alternative to thought provoking solace is to be surrounded only by remindings of why that solitude is preferable. Jhonen Vasquez
lonely lying deserted
Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends. Graham Greene
lonely memories comfort
To comfort me is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort.
lonely self knows
Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others. Harriet Lerner
lonely sorry people
Human beings, in point of fact, are lonely by nature, and one should feel sorry for them and love them and mourn with them. It is certain that people would understand one another better and love one another more if they would admit to one another how lonely they were, how sad they were in their tormented, anxious longings and feeble hopes. Halldor Laxness
lonely night artist
I never put myself in that box of you're an Oscar winner so you can only do this or that. That's one award, one night, and it does not define my career or it does not define me as an artist. I never wanted to get put in that Oscar box because that's a lonely place to be. Halle Berry
loneliness bereavement bitter
It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new. Gregory Maguire
lonely plato new-beginnings
When has the world seen a phenomenon like this? a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of Galilee, even more distinct from His age, and from every thing around Him, than a Plato would be rising up in some wild tribe in Oregon, assuming thus a position at the head of the world and maintaining it, for eighteen centuries, by the pure self-evidence of His life and doctrine. Horace Bushnell
lonely voice people
I try to beat back the producers and engineers so they - there's not an excess of stuff used to squeeze my voice to make it artificial. There's a person in there, and people will listen; if they hear another person speak to them, they'll listen because it's lonely out here. Iggy Pop
lonely night car
Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It was a conventional opening, the equivalent of straying off the path in the wild woods in one age, or a car breaking down at night on a lonely road in another. Iain Banks
lonely children only-child
I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely.
loner
I'm not a loner at all. Hugh Jackman
lonely supposed
was a very lonely experience, but it was supposed to be. Heath Ledger
lonely steps sound
And it feels strange, almost sad, to walk through ther empty halls. Each step I take sounds so lonely. Jay Asher
loneliness causes baldness
The worst thing baldness causes is loneliness. Gail Porter
lonely adventure men
The last of the lonely places is the sky, a trackless void where nothing lives or grows, and above it, space itself. Man may have been destined to walk upon ice or sand, or climb the mountains or take craft upon the sea. But surely he was never meant to fly? But he does, and finding out how to do it was his last great adventure. Frederick Forsyth
loneliness grief book
Gail Godwin has written a book about the heaviest matters of loss, grief, and loneliness with a touch so light that I was as often deeply amused by it as I was deeply moved. Frederick Buechner
lonely believe long
The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been. George F. Kennan
loneliness leader acting
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone. Ferdinand Marcos
loneliness new-day giving
Youth gives a sense of new days dawning bright, going on for ever, and a kind of tamped-down excitement which keeps breaking through even the worst days of poverty, depression and loneliness. But then youth is something which only exists in retrospect; you are barely conscious of it while you have it. Fay Weldon
lonely withered withered-leaves
Death, lonely death, Beneath the withered leaves. Federico Garcia Lorca
lonely sky joy
We have often had this particular exchange about climate and landscape and why we both feel so lonely here uprooted. It was what each of us had wanted of course.Besides wanting to experience a place we hated, we wanted to be insomniacs and loners, losers and drop-outs. To know the sky was the only location of meaning and joy left to us. Fanny Howe
loneliness heart solitude
To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived. Fanny Burney
lonely loneliness being-alone
Man's loneliness is but his fear of life. Eugene O'Neill
lonely sex heart
Prom night can be a special night, if you let it be. I know you think it's for losers and something that popular kids do because they are boring people with porcelain hearts who don't know what it means to be lonely. But you're wrong. Prom is a chance for everyone to try oral sex. Go for it. Eugene Mirman
lonely sure
It's a lonely job. I'm sure they appreciated the other one's situation.
lonesome lovely summer
It was a soft, reposeful summer landscape, as lovely as a dream, and as lonesome as Sunday. Mark Twain
lonely loneliness being-alone
What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be. Ellen Burstyn