Quotes about loneliness
loneliness being-alone bears
What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear. Dag Hammarskjold
loneliness dark differences
I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools... Claude McKay
loneliness done hardest
It's the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one's done. Claude Monet
loneliness block voice
Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to make wonderful worlds better than this one, comforters, companions in loneliness. Keepers of secrets, speakers of the truth...all those glorious words. Cornelia Funke
loneliness heart sadness
Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression that affect our hearts, minds and souls and remind us of who we are as human beings, the fragility of our human status and the inevitability of death. Cornel West
loneliness sadness sacrifice
I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and sadness.
loneliness trying world
No shame in saying that I felt a loneliness drifting through me. Funny how it was, everyone perched in their own little world with the deep need to talk, each person with their own tale, beginning in some strange middle point, then trying so hard to tell it all, to have it all make sense, logical and final. Colum McCann
loneliness odds world
Corrigan told me once that Christ was quite easy to understand. He went where He was supposed to go. He stayed where He was needed. He took little or nothing along, a pair of sandals, a bit of a shirt, a few odds and ends to stave off the loneliness. He never rejected the world. If He had rejected it, He would have been rejecting mystery. And if He rejected mystery, He would have been rejecting faith.
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 mind earth
Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
loneliness exercise night
Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They are the enemies of our loneliness, our doubt, our anxiety, our tendencies to abdicate. To continue to be in good conversation over our enormous and terrifying problems is to be calling out to each other in the night. If we attend with imagination and devotion to our conversations, we will find what we need; and someone among us will act—it does not matter whom—and we will survive. Barry Lopez
loneliness needs conscious
We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves. C. S. Lewis
loneliness conscious born
We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness...
loneliness way underestimate
You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was the way out of loneliness. Carrie Brownstein
loneliness self uniting
Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self. Carl Rogers
loneliness boredom despair
My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness. Anthony Swofford
loneliness struggling
Loneliness - If you find yourself struggling with loneliness, you're not alone. And yet you are alone. So very alone.
loneliness ocean sky
I never really understood the word ‘loneliness’. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature. Bjork
loneliness dark different
We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them. Maurice Maeterlinck
loneliness speak should
In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that. Bertrand Russell
loneliness expression community
Online communities are an expression of loneliness. Joanne Harris
loneliness people trying
Music has always carried me through times of loneliness. So when I make music, I like it to make people who listen to it feel like they have a friend who reveals something personal to them, rather than trying to be like a god up on a pedestal John Frusciante
loneliness empathy support
One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place. John Ortberg
loneliness thinking people
Someone once wrote that musicians are touched on the shoulder by God, and I think it's true. You can make other people happy with music, but you can make yourself happy too. Because of my music, I have never known loneliness and never been depressed. John Berendt
loneliness lying clouds
And behind their frail partitions Business women lie and soak, Seeing through the draughty skylight Flying clouds and railway smoke. Rest you there, poor unbelov'd ones, Lap your loneliness in heat, All too soon the tiny breakfast, Trolley-bus and windy street! John Betjeman
loneliness writing men
A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness. Francois Mauriac