Quotes about loneliness
loneliness thinking like-love
Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts. Sam Harris
loneliness men thinking
Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others. Romain Rolland
loneliness heart men
Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart. Sam Rayburn
loneliness ideas might
I would argue that it might be easier to endure loneliness than to endure the idea that you might disappear. Susan Orlean
loneliness heart world
If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness. Sharon Salzberg
loneliness forgotten worst
I've decided that the worst part of loneliness isn't being alone. It's being forgotten. Tawni O'Dell
loneliness cutting skills
loneliness can fly a helicopter through a cut-out shape of a helicopter the same size as the helicopter and that's it's only skill and it isn't good enough but it's still amazing. Tao Lin
loneliness being-alone profound
Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity. Thomas Merton
loneliness solitude soul
I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul.
loneliness crazy togetherness
If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness. Stephen King
loneliness reality people
He began to cry, not hysterically or screaming as people cry when concealed rage with tears, but with continuous sobs who has just discovered that he's alone and will be for long. He cried because safety and reason seemed to have left the world. Loneliness was a reality, but in this situation madness was also remotely a possibility.
loneliness age arctic
The arctic loneliness of age. Silas Weir Mitchell
loneliness darkness
Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables. Sigmund Freud
loneliness hate i-hate
I hate loneliness, but it loves me. Tite Kubo
loneliness winning hands
If we don't accept loneliness, then capitalism wins hands down. Because capitalism is all about trying to convince people that you can distract yourself, that you can make it better. And it ain't true. Tilda Swinton
loneliness profound silence
There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning. Toni Morrison
loneliness feet skins
There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths and contains the rocker. It's an inside kind--wrapped tight like skin. Then there is the loneliness that roams. No rocking can hold it down. It is alive. On its own. A dry and spreading thing that makes the sound of one's own feet going seem to come from a far-off place.
loneliness lying color
She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
loneliness self confusion
Happiness is yours in the here and now. The painful states of anxiety and loneliness are abolished permanently. Financial affairs are not financial problems. You are at ease with yourself. You are not at the mercy of unfulfilled cravings. Confusion is replaced with clarity. There is a relieving answer to every tormenting question. You possess a True Self. Something can be done about every unhappy condition. While living in the world you can be inwardly detached from its sorrows to live with personal peace and sanity. Vernon Howard
loneliness independence alliances
Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love. Richard Bach
loneliness being-alone writing
Writing is an antidote for loneliness. Steven Berkoff
loneliness people feelings
One of the things that people complain about is loneliness, disconnectedness. If you live in a society where your life is rarely threatened and most of your relationships are more on an economic exchange basis, then this could leave people feeling less connected. Steven Pinker
loneliness philosophy solitude
When we begin to look around us, to observe individuals and societies, and to study philosophies and religions, we realize that our loneliness is shared. Our solitude is plural, and our singularity is the similarity between us. Tariq Ramadan
loneliness taken men
I had dropped one form and not taken on the other, and was become like Mohammed's coffin in our legend, with a resultant feeling of intense loneliness in life, and a contempt, not for other men, but for all they do. T. E. Lawrence
loneliness night men
…Forgive us, O Lord, we acknowledge ourselves as type of the common man, Of the men and women who shut the door and sit by the fire; Who fear the blessing of God, the loneliness of the night of God, the surrender required, the deprivation inflicted; Who fear the injustice of men less than the justice of God; Who fear the hand at the window, the fire in the thatch, the fist in the tavern, the push into the canal, Less than we fear the love of God. T. S. Eliot
loneliness mean way
Each way means loneliness -- and communion.
loneliness thinking talking
Everyone's alone - or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make faces, and think they understand each other. And I'm sure they don't. Is that a delusion?
loneliness thinking poetry
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
loneliness real communication
Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible. Sydney J. Harris
loneliness mold excess
It's so effortless to let my loneliness defeat me, make me mold myself to whatever would (in some way - but not wholly) relieve it. I must never forget it... I want sensuality and sensitivity, both... Let me never deny that... I want to err on the side of violence and excess, rather than to underfill my moments. Susan Sontag
loneliness salt hunger
A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet. Truman Capote
loneliness heart essence
The impulse to perfection cannot exist where the definition of perfection is the arbitrary decision of authority. That which is born in loneliness and from the heart cannot be defended against the judgment of a committee of sycophants. The volatile essences which make literature cannot survive the clichés of a long series of story conferences. Raymond Chandler
loneliness real opposites
I thought I knew what loneliness was before he found me, but I had no clue. You don't know what real loneliness is until you've known the opposite. Rick Yancey