Quotes about lone
loneliness soul way
For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable. Laini Taylor
loneliness lying heartache
This, she thought, isn’t just for today. It’s for everything. For the heartache that still felt like a punch in the gut each time it struck, fresh as new, at unpredictable moments; for the smiling lies and the mental images she couldn’t shake; for the shame of having been so naive. For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.
lonely feelings low-self-esteem
Too much to ask for may leave me feeling lonely. Too little leaves me nothing. Lisa Loeb
loneliness people good-times
I felt the kind of loneliness that can happen in a roomful of people when everyone but you seems to be in on the good time. Lisa Kleypas
loneliness feet forever
When the pace of our feet matched perfectly, I felt a deep inner pang of satisfaction. I could have gone on walking like that forever, side by side with him. There had been few times in my life I had ever inhabited a moment so fully, with no loneliness lurking at the edges.
loneliness choices trying
If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?
loneliness cynical vulnerable
She had always maintained a cynical facade, using it as a defence against embarrassment, fear, loneliness… but at the moment she felt unusually vulnerable.
lonely queens kingdoms
Be careful dear that you don’t end up as the queen of a lonely kingdom
lonely men divine
Man is lonely mainly because he has been disconnected from the Divine presence. James Johnson
loneliness heart men
Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence mid the worlds loud din. James Russell Lowell
lonely drama thinking
I often think that drama helps people feel less lonely about things. James Purefoy
lonely sleep wind
When the fiddle had stopped singing Laura called out softly, "What are days of auld lang syne, Pa?" "They are the days of a long time ago, Laura," Pa said. "Go to sleep, now." But Laura lay awake a little while, listening to Pa's fiddle softly playing and to the lonely sound of the wind in the Big Woods,… She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago. Laura Ingalls Wilder
lonely needs path
And for a moment, I understand that I have friends on this lonely path; that sometimes your place is not something you find, but something you have when you need it. Libba Bray
loneliness fall ties
Physician Albert Scheweitzer said. " We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness." Professor Leo Buscaglia notes, "There seems to be accumulating evidence that there is actually an inborn need for this togetherness, this human interaction, this love. It seems that without these close ties with other human beings, a new born infant, for example, can regress developmentally, lose consciousness, fall into idiocy and die. Gary Chapman
lonely differences loner
There's a big difference between being a loner and being lonely. I'm far from lonely. My day is full of things I enjoy, starting with my show. Any time my work is going well and I have a relationship with a woman that's pretty solid, that does it for me. Johnny Carson
lonely hurt men
No, he wasn't a pig. He was a lonely, hurt man who didn't know how to cope in a world that had turned its back on him. [Astrid] Sherrilyn Kenyon
loneliness optimism healthy
Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brains cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age. Sherwin B. Nuland
lonely children able
If we're not able to be alone, we're going to be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be alone, they're only going to know how to be lonely. Sherry Turkle
loneliness emotional self
Terrified of being alone, yet afraid of intimacy, we experience widespread feelings of emptiness, of disconnection, of the unreality of self. And here the computer, a companion without emotional demands, offers a compromise. You can be a loner, but never alone. You can interact, but need never feel vulnerable to another person.
lonely intimacy
We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy
loneliness solitude introvert
Loneliness is failed solitude.
lonely technology giving
We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will give us the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.
lonely technology seductive
Technology is seductive when what it offers meets our human vulnerabilities. And as it turns out, we are very vulnerable indeed. We are lonely but fearful of intimacy. Digital connections and the sociable robot may offer the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship. Our networked life allows us to hide from each other, even as we are tethered to each other. We’d rather text than talk.
lonely people seductive
People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.
lonely two darkness
In that high place in the darkness the two oddly sensitive human atoms held each other tightly and waited. In the mind of each was the same thought. "I have come to this lonely place and here is this other," was the substance of the thing felt. Sherwood Anderson
loneliness rooms always-alone
We’re always alone. You can be in a crowded room and still feel the bite of loneliness. Personally, I find that it bites deepest whenever others are around.
loneliness my-friends left
Of my friends I am the only one left. Terence
lonely hate loneliness
It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night. Nicolas Chamfort
lonely teenager thinking
I think bullies are very lonely people. I always tell teenagers not to bully others because it's unacceptable. We need to teach students to value themselves and to not put others down. Nick Vujicic
lonely problem used
That was the biggest problem with getting used to someone, she thought. You were lonely when they weren't there. Nora Roberts
lonely roots ruts
Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone... Alone and lonely have the same root.
lonely night people
lonely people are always up in the middle of the night. Nicole Krauss
loneliness father sadness
I won't waste your time with the injuries of my childhood, with my loneliness, or the fear and sadness of the years I spent inside my parents' marriage, under the reign of my father's rage, afer all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?