Quotes about loneliness
loneliness believe reality
Believe me, I know what it's like to feel all alone...the worst kind of loneliness in the world is isolation that comes from being misunderstood, it can make people lose their grasp on reality. - Sienna Brooks Dan Brown
loneliness heart eye
She cried for the life she could not control. She cried for the mentor who had died before her eyes. She cried for the profound loneliness that filled her heart. But, above all, she cried for the future ... which suddenly felt so uncertain.
loneliness solitude function
...loneliness is not a function of solitude. David Foster Wallace
loneliness interesting being-lonely
The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.
loneliness book combat
The point of books is to combat loneliness.
loneliness fiction relieved
Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved.
loneliness fiction treated
Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.
loneliness writing thinking
You don't have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness ... has to do with angst about death, the recognition that I'm going to die, and die very much alone, and the rest of the world is going to go merrily on without me.
loneliness solitude haste
Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness. Dallas Willard
loneliness believe boys
..and I thought how liking a boy was just the same as believing you wanted to know a secret - everything was better when you were denied and could feel tormented by curiousity or loneliness. But the moment of something happening was treacherous. It was just so tiring to have to worry about whether your face was peeling, or to have to laugh at stories that weren’t funny. Curtis Sittenfeld
loneliness writing
Loneliness is just a thing that I'm not personally interested in. So far, it hasn't been on my docket of things to write about. Dave Eggers
loneliness damage moments
Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Or is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else? David Levithan
loneliness knowing missing
We remember what it was like to meet someone new. We remember what it was like to grant someone possibility. You look out from your own world and then you step into his, not really knowing what you’ll find there, but hoping it will be something good. Both Ryan and Avery are doing this. You step into his world and you don’t even realize your loneliness is missing. You’ve left it behind, and you don’t notice because you have no desire to turn back.
loneliness bad-relationship profound
She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship.
loneliness solitude being-lonely
Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not. Anna Neagle
loneliness desire privacy
We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness. Andy Rooney
loneliness fighting names
Your melancholy. Or depression. Along with nine-tenths of the afflictions I've studied, diagnosed, attempted to treat. Call them whatever you like, but they're just different names for loneliness. That's what lets the darkness in. That's what you have to fight. Andrew Pyper
loneliness home dark
My solo travels in Paris have brought many perfect hours of being alone but not a moment of loneliness. People who depend on other people are often in hiding from themselves. Two and a quarter million people live in the City of Light: you will see many of them and you will pass them in the street, but when you see Notre Dame after dark and walk home and perhaps stop to have a drink in the Marais, you can feel that the only thing that is missing from your experience is the common dependence on someone to distract your attention. You are living without it: you are on vacation. Andrew O'Hagan
loneliness kissing air
There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in so much loneliness was like a hand pulling you up out of the water, scooping you up from a place of drowning and into the reckless abundance of air. A kiss, another kiss. Ann Patchett
loneliness being-alone giving
Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet today the institutions on which community depends are crumbling in all the techno-societies. The result is a spreading plague of loneliness. Alvin Toffler
loneliness rain two
Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other. Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth for the other. Now there will be no loneliness, for each of you will be companion to the other. Now you are two persons, but there are three lives before you: His life, Her Life, and Your life together. Ann Aguirre
loneliness broken life-is
Life is loneliness, broken only by the gods taunting us with friendship and the odd bonk Christopher Moore
loneliness self hands
… that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and writers out of their rooms to seek each other out, to rub shoulders with one another, bully, joke, condescend, feel each other, lay a hand on a shoulder or an arm round a waist, to chat and argue with little nudges, to spy a little, sniff out what is cooking in other pots, flatter, disagree, collude, be right, take offence, apologise, make amends, avoid each other, and seek each other’s company again. Amos Oz
loneliness wind glowing
Bare heights of loneliness...a wilderness whose burning winds sweep over glowing sands, what are they to HIM? Even there He can refresh us, even there He can renew us. Amy Carmichael
loneliness inspiration sadness
...to the glory of His name let me witness that in far away lands, in loneliness (deepest sometimes when it seems least so), in times of downheartedness and tiredness and sadness, always always He is near. He does comfort, if we let Him. Perhaps someone as weak and good-for-nothing as even I am may read this. Don't be afraid! Through all circumstances, outside, inside, He can keep me close.
loneliness reality contact
Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality. Anthony de Mello
loneliness being-alone people
The secret to overcoming a feeling of loneliness is not going outside to meet people. That will only keep you from being alone. The secret is going inside yourself, to realize your true kinship with God and with all the human beings that he created. Amy Grant
loneliness kissing sea
There is a horrifying loneliness at work in this time. No, listen to me. We lived six and seven to a room in those days, when I was still among the living. The city streets were seas of humanity; and now in these high buildings dim-witted souls hover in luxurious privacy, gazing through the television window at a faraway world of kissing and touching. It is bound to produce some great fund of common knowledge, some new level of human awareness, a curious skepticism, to be so alone. Anne Rice
loneliness irritation needs
I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me. Anita Brookner
loneliness thinking people
Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not. Andrew Stanton
loneliness moon pity
Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me,and drench me in loneliness. Amy Lowell
loneliness intelligent cosmos
We may be living at that moment, on the cusp, when we go from being a species that feels a kind of loneliness in the cosmos to actually one sometime in the not too distant future being able to confirm the existence of other intelligent life. Ann Druyan
loneliness hitting bruises
But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back. There is no bruise like the bruise loneliness kicks into your spine. Andrea Gibson