Quotes about loneliness
loneliness firsts virtuous
Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular. Charles Caleb Colton
loneliness house kitten
... as lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on. Charles Dickens
loneliness heart wish
Sometimes I feel... that my cross is heavy beyond endurance... My heart seems worn out and bruised beyond repair, and in my deep loneliness I often wish to be gone, but God knows best, and I want to do every ounce of work He wants me to do. Charles Studd
loneliness cracked
Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be. Alan Alda
loneliness heart warrior
Although the warrior's life is dedicated to helping others, he realizes that he will never be able to completely share his experience with others...Yet he is more and more in love with the world. That combination of love affair and loneliness is what enables the warrior to constantly reach out to help others. By renouncing his private world, the warrior discovers a greater universe and a fuller and fuller broken heart. This is not something to feel bad about; it is a cause for rejoicing. Chogyam Trungpa
loneliness men gone
What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit Chief Seattle
loneliness son animal
If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.
loneliness world rejects
You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves. Darren Shan
loneliness thinking used
Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced. David Mitchell
loneliness believe sadness
If your beliefs are stressful and you question them, you come to see that they aren't true - whereas prior to questioning, you absolutely believe them. How can you live in joy when you're believing thoughts that bring on sadness, frustration, anger, alienation, and loneliness? Byron Katie
loneliness break-out problem
The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others. Cesare Pavese
loneliness going-away
Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
loneliness sleep feelings
Even in the depths of sleep, in which he had to satisfy his need for protection and love by curling himself up into a trembling ball, he could not rid himself of the feeling of loneliness and homelessness. Bruno Schulz
loneliness men thinking
In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in his cosmic loneliness. And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done." And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close to mud as man sat, looked around, and spoke. "What is the purpose of all this?" he asked politely. "Everything must have a purpose?" asked God. "Certainly," said man. "Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this," said God. And He went away. Kurt Vonnegut
loneliness oneself
It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another. Aimee Carter
loneliness expression drink
They are sharing a drink called loneliness. Billy Joel
loneliness communication reflection
It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition. Edward Hopper
loneliness avid columns
Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days. Edward Hoagland
loneliness sky light
She felt a stealing sense of fatigue as she walked; the sparkle had died out of her, and the taste of life was stale on her lips. She hardly knew what she had been seeking, or why the failure to find it had so blotted the light from her sky: she was only aware of a vague sense of failure, of an inner isolation deeper than the loneliness about her. Edith Wharton
loneliness winter profound
He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of it's frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface; but there was nothing nothing unfriendly in his silence. I simply felt that he lived in a depth of moral isolation too remote for casual access, and I had the sense that his loneliness was not merely the result of his personal plight, tragic as I guessed that to be, but had in it, as Harmon Gow had hinted, the profound accumulated cold of many Starkfield winters.
loneliness real people
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
loneliness married ifs
if you are afraid of loneliness, don't get married August Strindberg
loneliness chips bother
When the chips are down, you are alone, and loneliness can be terrifying. Fortunately, I've always had a chum I could call. And I love to be alone. It doesn't bother me one bit. I’m my own company. Audrey Hepburn
loneliness mask disguise
No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love. Arthur Schnitzler
loneliness home missing
I have a lot of friends, but my biggest fear is loneliness. I miss my family in Mumbai, and my biggest nightmare every day is to go back home alone. Deepika Padukone
loneliness warning shocking
The loneliness of another can be shocking when it lays itself bare without warning. Dennis Lehane
loneliness being-alone feeling-alone
I was never less alone than when by myself. Edward Gibbon
loneliness men winning
I (God) will leave man to make the fateful guess, Will leave him torn between the no and yes, Leave him unresting till he rests in me, Drawn upward by the choice that makes him free, Leave him in tragic loneliness to choose, With all in life to win or all to lose. Edwin Markham
loneliness feelings reason
Usually there's no specific reason for loneliness - it's a broad feeling. Cass McCombs
loneliness universe
Loneliness is the most compelling force in the universe.
loneliness feels frightening
These are frightening times...when she feels herself annointed by loneliness. Carol Shields
loneliness weather rehearsal
The larger loneliness of our lives evolves from our unwillingness to spend ourselves, stir ourselves. We are always damping down our inner weather, permitting ourselves the comforts of postponement, of rehearsals
loneliness envy hatred
And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that it contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the joy that is felt by the least in Heaven, would have no weight that could be registered at all. Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good. C. S. Lewis