Quotes about lone
loneliness disease worst
Of all the diseases I have known, loneliness is the worst. Mother Teresa
lonely children men
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
lonely children men
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
lonely hurt jesus
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
lonely thinking feelings
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 leprosy world
Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world. Mother Teresa
loneliness hunger-for-love hunger-and-poverty
The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God. Mother Teresa
lonely women loneliness
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work. Mother Teresa
lonely sick suffering
Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are. Mother Teresa
loneliness love-you hunger-for-love
We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.... Mother Teresa
loneliness self devil
Loneliness is dangerous ... because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self. Joyce Carol Oates
loneliness writing hazards
Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom. Joyce Carol Oates
loneliness realizing hungry
Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat. Joyce Carol Oates
lonely kids mia
Experiencing those moments of being alone... is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to be in when you're just not used to it... But I've never been lonely. And with my kids Mia and Joe that remains the case. Kate Winslet
loneliness solitude conundrums
Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve. Kate Atkinson
lonely emo kids
No matter how much you care about a person, you have to be able to know that you can sit down at night and be happy with who you are without that person. That's really hard when you're a lonely emo kid. Justin Vernon
lonely character writing
I'm never lonely when I'm writing, because you live with the characters that are so alive in your mind. And you really see them and know them and get to be friends with them. Julie Andrews
loneliness form
Death is loneliness in its purest form ... Katherine Anne Porter
lonely people way
It's only lonely at the top if you forget all the people you met along the way and fail to acknowledge their contributions to your success. Harvey Mackay
loneliness heart wind
Desire, loneliness, wind in the flowering almond— surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjects to which my predecessors apprenticed themselves. I hear them echo in my own heart, disguised as convention. Louise Gluck
lonely loneliness artist
The twentieth-century artist who uses symbols is alienated because the system of symbols is a private one. After you have dealt with the symbols you are still private, you are still lonely, because you are not sure anyone will understand it except yourself. The ransom of privacy is that you are alone. Louise Bourgeois
lonely believe world
If I want to believe that life is lonely and that nobody loves me, then that is what I will find in my world. Louise Hay
lonely sweet men
Ah, many a one has started forth with hope and purpose high; Has fought throughout a weary life, and passed all pleasure by; Has burst all flowery chains by which men aye have been enthralled; Has been stone-deaf to voices sweet, that softly, sadly called; Has scorned the flashing goblet with the bubbles on its brim; Has turned his back on jewelled hands that madly beckoned him; Has, in a word, condemned himself to follow out his plan By stern and lonely labor--and has died, a conquered man! George Arnold
lonely strong believe
...I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward. Susan Cain
lonely needs miserable
Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable. Stevie Smith
lonely wicked goodness
And Goodness knows The Wicked's lives are lonely Goodness knows The Wicked die alone Stephen Schwartz
lonely school people
I had [at school] my own little posse of people that all felt weird together so it wasn't so lonely. John C. Reilly
loneliness years two
Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings. Paulo Coelho
lonely jobs writing
Writing is an incredibly lonely job. R. A. Salvatore
lonely morning rain
It's 2 o'clock in the morning and I just can't sleep Outside the rain is pourin', I'm lonely as can be Maybe 2night'll be different than the nights before I need 2 feel someone beside me, I can't be alone no more Prince
lonely believe land
I learned something then, and I believe it still. There is a value in taking a stand whether or not anyone may be noticing and whether or not it is a risky thing to do. And if even those who are in danger can raise their lonely voices, isn't more required of all of us, in this land where liberty had her birth? In America, the true patriots are those who dare speak truth to power. Teresa Heinz
loneliness writing night
My greatest affliction... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a very ponderous shadow too heavy to drag after me all of my days and nights. Tennessee Williams
lonely loneliness being-alone
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. Tennessee Williams