Quotes about loneliness
loneliness thinking people
Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only what they had to and never what they could have done. I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day. I knew I could do better. Mark Twain
loneliness islands water
Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering? Margaret Atwood
loneliness solitude
I am never less alone than when alone. Marcus Tullius Cicero
loneliness half behavior
While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior. Leonardo da Vinci
loneliness heart wicked
It's so kind of you to want to visit me in my loneliness. - The Wicked Witch of the West. Now I know I have a heart, because it's breaking. - The Tin Woodsman Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable. L. Frank Baum
loneliness farewell men
It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness. Isak Dinesen
loneliness games soul
The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules of the game forbid assuagement. Iris Murdoch
loneliness two effort
in love, gallantry is necessary. Even when the first wild desire is gone, especially then, there is an inherent need for good manners and consideration, for the putting forth of effort. Two courteous and civilized human beings out of the loneliness of their souls owe that to each other. Ilka Chase
loneliness names sorrow
Sorrow has a name, and its name is loneliness. Sorrow has a shape, and its shape is absence. Sorrow is a sickness like any other. Gregory Maguire
loneliness dark other-worlds
You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to take the unknown road blindly, stubbornly, and to search for words rooted like the knotted olive tree- let them laugh. And to yearn for the other world to inhabit today's suffocating loneliness, this ravaged present- let them be. Giorgos Seferis
loneliness ducks mates
Mandarin ducks mate for life and will die of loneliness if separated from their chosen mate. Katherine Paterson
loneliness agreement solitude
There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for any kind of sociability, however trivial or cheap, for the tiniest outward agreement with the first person who comes along.... Rainer Maria Rilke
loneliness being-alone solitude
I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
loneliness solitude ache
Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache. Sidney Sheldon
loneliness littles dinner
I know of nobody that is coming, I am sure, unless Charlotte Lucas should happen to call in- and I am sure my dinners are good enough for her, since she is an unmarried woman of seven-and-twenty, and as such should expect little more than a crust of bread washed down with a cup of loneliness. Seth Grahame-Smith
loneliness long generosity
We long to connect, all of us. We long to be noticed, to be cared for, to matter. Generosity is the invisible salve on our wound of loneliness, one that benefits both sides, over and over again. Seth Godin
loneliness thinking bitterness
I think cruelty is just loneliness disguised as bitterness. Tom Hiddleston
loneliness alive persons
Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the universe, except that everyone else is still here. Simon Van Booy
loneliness eye men
It is not good for man to be alone. Hitherto all things [in Genesis] that have been named, were approved of God to be very good: loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good. John Milton
loneliness embrace
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness. Mitch Albom
loneliness people paper
As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself. John Steinbeck
loneliness trying literature
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
loneliness animal trying
We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — "Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought.
loneliness world body
Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
loneliness soul literature
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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
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. Sherry Turkle
loneliness solitude introvert
Loneliness is failed solitude.
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. Sherrilyn Kenyon
loneliness my-friends left
Of my friends I am the only one left. Terence
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? Nicole Krauss
loneliness wish history-of-love
After all who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness
loneliness organs
Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all.