Quotes about loneliness
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 wings brooding
Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings. Bram Stoker
loneliness people mind
Loneliness Got a mind of its own The more people around The more you feel alone Bob Dylan
loneliness journey evil
Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever. Brennan Manning
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...
loneliness philosophical being-alone
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
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 expression drink
They are sharing a drink called loneliness. Billy Joel
loneliness communication reflection
It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition. Edward Hopper
loneliness avid columns
Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days. Edward Hoagland
loneliness sky light
She felt a stealing sense of fatigue as she walked; the sparkle had died out of her, and the taste of life was stale on her lips. She hardly knew what she had been seeking, or why the failure to find it had so blotted the light from her sky: she was only aware of a vague sense of failure, of an inner isolation deeper than the loneliness about her. Edith Wharton
loneliness winter profound
He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of it's frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface; but there was nothing nothing unfriendly in his silence. I simply felt that he lived in a depth of moral isolation too remote for casual access, and I had the sense that his loneliness was not merely the result of his personal plight, tragic as I guessed that to be, but had in it, as Harmon Gow had hinted, the profound accumulated cold of many Starkfield winters.
loneliness real people
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
loneliness married ifs
if you are afraid of loneliness, don't get married August Strindberg
loneliness chips bother
When the chips are down, you are alone, and loneliness can be terrifying. Fortunately, I've always had a chum I could call. And I love to be alone. It doesn't bother me one bit. I’m my own company. Audrey Hepburn
loneliness mask disguise
No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love. Arthur Schnitzler
loneliness men winning
I (God) will leave man to make the fateful guess, Will leave him torn between the no and yes, Leave him unresting till he rests in me, Drawn upward by the choice that makes him free, Leave him in tragic loneliness to choose, With all in life to win or all to lose. Edwin Markham
loneliness despair causes
Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair. bell hooks
loneliness fall choices
Everything is freedom and everything is loneliness. Make your choice and let the rest fall away. Ariel Gore
loneliness differences people
So often loneliness comes from being out of touch with parts of oneself. We go searching for those parts in other people, but there's a difference between feeling separate from others and separate from oneself. Diane Ackerman
loneliness two doors
Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused. Dean Koontz
loneliness grief loss
But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.
loneliness reflection doors
Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom. Once you were thus convinced, you were foolish to open the door and let anyone in, not all the way in. You risked the hard-won equilibrium, that tranquility that you called peace
loneliness quality life-is
The most evident quality of human life is its loneliness.
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 drinking bars
I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories. Charles Bukowski
loneliness hands movement
there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock
loneliness simple despair
she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty
loneliness pride men
I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.
loneliness joy anxiety
Your incredible brain can take you from rags to riches, from loneliness to popularity, and from depression to happiness and joy - if you use it properly. Brian Tracy