Quotes about loneliness
loneliness people guilt
That's the strangest thing about this life, about being in the ministry. People change the subject when they see you coming. And then sometimes those very same people come into your study and tell you the most remarkable things. There's a lot under the surface of life, everyone knows that. A lot of malice and dread and guilt, and so much loneliness, where you wouldn't really expect to find it, either. Marilynne Robinson
loneliness reflection appreciate
People don't acknowledge loneliness in themselves, and don't appreciate its benefits, the reflection and attentiveness that come with it, the deepened acquaintance with oneself.
loneliness unhappy facts
The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, "I shall be unhappy without loneliness," shows that he made loneliness his master. Matsuo Basho
loneliness diaries journal
Fundamentally, diaries are about loneliness. Kenneth Williams
loneliness writing world
I am learning to see loneliness as a seed that, when planted deep enough, can grow into writing that goes back out into the world. Kathleen Norris
loneliness people solitude
And for this you must have quiet and solitude. But society does not allow you to have them. You must be with people, outwardly active at all costs. If you are alone you are considered antisocial or peculiar, or you are afraid of your own loneliness. Jiddu Krishnamurti
loneliness struggle evil
Fear is the process of the mind in the struggle of becoming. In becoming good there is the fear of evil; in becoming complete, there is the fear of loneliness.
loneliness eagles liberty
The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness. Gilbert K. Chesterton
loneliness grief special
We are not alone in our loneliness, others have been here and known griefs we thought our special own... Patrick Kavanagh
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 car people
People were buying milk, or filling their cars with petrol, or even posting letters. And what no one else knew was the appalling weight of the thing they were carrying inside. The superhuman effort it took sometimes to be normal, and a part of things that appeared both easy and everyday. The loneliness of that. Rachel Joyce
loneliness self hands
I hold my face in my two hands. No, I am not crying. I hold my face in my two hands to keep the loneliness warm - two hands protecting, two hands nourishing, two hands preventing my soul from leaving me in anger. Nhat Hanh
loneliness mirrors
Loneliness is a mirror, and recognizes itself. Jodi Picoult
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 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 sadness soul
I must confess that I am usually drawn to sadness, and loneliness has never been a stranger to me. But love tried to welcome me, but my soul drew back, guilty of lust and sin. Madonna Ciccone
loneliness eye bird
We need new words for what this is, this hunger entering our loneliness like birds, stunning our eyes into rays of hope. we need the flutter that can save us, something that will swirl across the face of what we have become and bring us grace. Lucille Clifton
loneliness littles crime
She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime. Lorrie Moore
loneliness being-alone swimming
Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool. Liv Ullmann
loneliness thinking people
Success definitely brings on loneliness. People think you're lucky, that you have everything. They think you can go anywhere and do anything, but that's not the point. One hungers for the basic stuff. Michael Jackson
loneliness heart mind
How dear to the mind of the sage are the thoughts that are bred in loneliness; for there is as it were music at his heart, and he talketh within him as with friends. Martin Farquhar Tupper
loneliness perfect parent
It didn't take a trauma to make you wear a mask. It didn't take your parents getting shot...or cosmic rays or a power ring...Just the perfect combination of loneliness and despair. Mark Millar
loneliness moving cells
I'm just a believer in keeping all of the creative brain cells moving and working even when you're not working because the inevitable loneliness and boring drought in the actor's world, it can eat you alive. Nikki Reed
loneliness dark past
I left the library. Crossing the street, I was hit head-on by a brutal loneliness. I felt dark and hollow. Abandoned, unnoticed, forgotten, I stood on the sidewalk, a nothing, a gatherer of dust. People hurried past me. and everyone who walked by was happier than I. I felt the old envy. I would have given anything to be one of them. Nicole Krauss
loneliness solitude understanding
He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated mind, one that is capable of reason and poetry but which grasps at straws when it comes to understanding another, a mind aware of the impossibility of absolute understanding. The difficulty of having a mind that understands that it will always be misunderstood.
loneliness thinking self
I am quite surprised and rather disappointed by the loneliness, isolation and indeed demonisation the sadly misunderstood CO2 is experiencing. Thus, upon leaving the parliament, I am contemplating the foundation of an organisation called 'The Friends of Carbon Dioxide'. Membership will of course be open to all, including the plants whose very existence depends on CO2. I think this organisation's slogan, 'CO2 is not pollution', self-selects. It has both accuracy and melody to commend it. Nick Minchin
loneliness opposites trying
Linda seemed to recognize loneliness. Possibly she could see it sitting opposite her, sipping lager and trying not to lose its temper. It was an illness, loneliness-it made you weak, gullible, feebleminded. Nick Hornby
loneliness labor
Labor in loneliness is irksome. Mark Twain
loneliness waiting want
I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did. John Green
loneliness coffee drunk
Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime...
loneliness space understood
I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust. Patti Smith
loneliness more-time needed
Most of my life I have needed more time to be on my own. P. D. James