Quotes about loneliness
loneliness architect originals
You are the architect of your own loneliness. Adam Shankman
loneliness feelings being-free
The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped. Adam Gopnik
loneliness past thinking
In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it. Alberto Giacometti
loneliness liars lying
The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness. Adrienne Rich
loneliness loss people
It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted. Adrien Brody
loneliness first-love worry
Maybe a first love exists to reaffirm the best parts of yourself, the choices you made when you didn't worry about the consequences. Maybe a first love exists to remind you to be brave in the moment, to stand up for your feelings, instead of shrinking back in the face of potential loneliness. Adriana Trigiani
loneliness stupid ignorance
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse. Janet Malcolm
loneliness unique views
I inhabited a territory of loneliness which resembles the place where the dying spend their time before death, and from where those who do return, living, to the world bring, inevitably, a unique point of view that is a nightmare, a treasure, and a lifelong possession.[It is] equal in its rapture and chilling exposure [to] the neighbourhood of the ancient gods and goddesses. Janet Frame
loneliness roots silence
loneliness has its roots in words,in internal conversation that nodbody answers,solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity. Miley Cyrus
loneliness men rocks
It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?'...If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time-the stuff of life Carl Sandburg
loneliness heart waiting
We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong. Carson McCullers
loneliness way bears
the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear. Carson McCullers
loneliness people essentials
I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen. Carson McCullers
loneliness independent weather
A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him. I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen. Carson McCullers
loneliness lying future
In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final. In a world without future, each laugh is the last laugh. In a world without future, beyond the present lies nothingness, and people cling to the present as if hanging from a cliff. Alan Lightman
loneliness being-alone past
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Alan Lightman
loneliness europe sky
There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold. Ajay Naidu
loneliness men people
There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity. All young people should be taught now to put up with loneliness ... because the less man is compelled to come into contact with others, the better off he is. Arthur Schopenhauer
loneliness eye giving
What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from him, this is obviously more essential for him than everything that he possesses or what he may be in the eyes of others... Arthur Schopenhauer
loneliness philosophical being-alone
To live alone is the fate of all great souls. Arthur Schopenhauer
loneliness cutting opportunity
Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone. Bruce Lee
loneliness break-through bridges
We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.' Someone answers, 'I'm alone too.' There's a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses. Elie Wiesel
loneliness being-lonely fame
Fame doesn't end loneliness. Claire Danes
loneliness emotional people
People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being. Daniel Kahneman
loneliness filled-in waiting
It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them. D. H. Lawrence
loneliness being-alone known
Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know. Conrad Aiken
loneliness sleep thinking
And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for. In polaroids you were dressed in women's clothes Were you made ashamed, why'd you lock them in a drawer? Well, I don't think that I ever loved you more Well let the poets cry themselves to sleep And all their tearful words will turn back into steam The sound of loneliness makes me happier Conor Oberst
loneliness sound
The sound of loneliness makes me happier. Conor Oberst
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. Dan Brown
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. David Foster Wallace
loneliness book combat
The point of books is to combat loneliness. David Foster Wallace