Quotes about lone
lonely promise love-and-friendship
The culture of drink endures because it offers so many rewards: confidence for the shy, clarity for the uncertain, solace to the wounded and lonely, and above all, the elusive promises of friendship and love. Pete Hamill
loneliness coffee being-alone
Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Pearl Cleage
loneliness solitude ritual
Loneliness is random; solitude is ritual. Pearl Cleage
loneliness coffee unique
Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices. Pearl Cleage
lonely loneliness being-alone
I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness. Pedro Almodovar
lonely mean bears
Lonely? I don't know. They tell me this is cold. I don't know what cold is, because I don't freeze. So I don't know what lonely means either. Bears are made to be solitary. Philip Pullman
lonely children reading
You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children. Rachel Cusk
lonely heart home
The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart. Josiah Royce
loneliness being-alone becoming-one
Solitude is a condition of peace that stands in direct opposition to loneliness. Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a condition of separateness. Solitude is becoming one with the space around you. It is a condition of union. loneliness is small, solitude is large. loneliness closes in around you; solitude expands toward the infinite. loneliness has its roots in words, in an internal conversation that nodbody answers; solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity. Kent Nerburn
lonely adventure night
I'm on this extraordinary adventure, and if I have no one to talk to at the end of the night, I feel lonely. Katy Perry
loneliness party sky
They had stopped now and he gave a glance up at the sky, through the trees, as though to see how much time was left. Amber, watching him, was suddenly struck with panic. Now he was going--out again into that great world with its bustle and noise and excitement--and she must stay here. She had a terrible new feeling of loneliness, as if she stood in some solitary corner at a party where she was the only stranger. Those places he had seen, she would never see; those fine things he had done, she would never do. But worst of all she would never see him again. Kathleen Winsor
lonely loneliness greed
There is much suffering in the world - physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of others. The material and physical suffering is suffering from hunger, from homelessness, from all kinds of diseases. But the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, having no one. I have come more and more to realize that it is being unwanted that is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience. Mother Teresa
loneliness space cinema
Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness. Pedro Almodovar
lonely loneliness heart
A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart. Pearl S. Buck
lonely tired effort
I am never lonely or discouraged or tired. When you live in constant communion with God, you cannot be lonely. When you perceive the working of God's wonderful plan and know that all good effort bears good fruit, you cannot be discouraged. When you have found inner peace, you are in contact with the source of universal energy and cannot be tired. Peace Pilgrim
lonely lineage remember
If you remember your lineage, you will never feel lonely. Philip Glass
lonely cat feelings
I spend so much time living by myself - mostly in hotels - and I pick up cats when I'm feeling particularly lonely. Penelope Cruz
loneliness moving alive
It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is a part of being alive, something we all share. We react against the possibility of loneliness, of death, of not having anything to hold on to. Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth. Pema Chodron
loneliness thinking compassion
Cool loneliness allows us to look honestly and without aggressionat our own minds. We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think weought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other peoplethink we want to be or ought to be. We give it up and just look directlywith compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat andheartache, no punishment. Pema Chodron
loneliness humanity
Better to join in with humanity than to set ourselves apart. Pema Chodron
lonely warrior perspective
When we feel left out, inadequate, or lonely, can we take a warrior’s perspective and contact bodhichitta? Pema Chodron
loneliness forever sorrow
We're afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever... Instead, acting it out is what makes it last. Pema Chodron
loneliness heartache justice
Usually we regard loneliness as an enemy. Heartache is not something we choose to invite in. It's restless and pregnant and hot with the desire to escape and find something or someone to keep us company. When we can rest in the middle, we begin to have a nonthreatening relationship with loneliness, a relaxing and cooling loneliness that completely turns our usual fearful patterns upside down. Pema Chodron
loneliness compassion punishment
We give it up and just look directly with compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat and heartache, no punishment. Pema Chodron
loneliness warrior journey
So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even one, that's the journey of the warrior. (68) Pema Chodron
loneliness rain kids
Sitting up all night would be pointless if somebody you loved wasn't sitting up with you, picking out music to play and helping you kill the bourbon. Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets. Peter S. Beagle
loneliness rain kids
Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets. Peter S. Beagle
loneliness sadness arms
Loneliness surrounds me without your arms around me. Tammy Wynette
loneliness party grief
God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering. Sylvia Plath
loneliness self joy
Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering. Sylvia Plath
loneliness moving horizon
And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness Sylvia Plath
loneliness soul needs
How we need another soul to cling to. Sylvia Plath
loneliness dark long
And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Sylvia Plath