Quotes about loneliness
loneliness cat house
One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness. Edward Dahlberg
loneliness self soul
We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being. Hermann Hesse
loneliness men doors
I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him. Jose Saramago
loneliness worry doe
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits. Jorge Luis Borges
loneliness writing dreamer
A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer - to be living a kind of double life.
loneliness symphony play
Loneliness is the theme, and I play it like a symphony, in endless variations. Jonathan Tropper
loneliness sadness simple
The sadness, the silence, the darkness, the loneliness... all of it held in a simple little moment. It was just so... I don't know. Just so much. Kevin Brooks
loneliness sea feelings
The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea. Khalil Gibran
loneliness essentials make-things-happen
Spells of acute loneliness are an essential part of travel. Loneliness makes things happen. Jonathan Raban
loneliness hate writing
I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write. Louise Penny
loneliness solitude feelings
Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone. Lord Byron
loneliness solitude should
If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
loneliness night years
For the first time in four billion years a living creature had contemplated himself and heard with a sudden, unaccountable loneliness, the whisper of the wind in the night reeds. Loren Eiseley
loneliness dark unique
Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like the mysterious universe itself, the unique, the strange, the unexpected. Numerous observers have testified upon the loneliness of the process.
loneliness solitude trying
I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do. It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem. Maggie Nelson
loneliness blue solitude
It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem. Can blue solve the problem, or can it at least keep me company within it?-No, not exactly. It cannot love me that way; it has no arms. But sometimes I do feel its presence to be a sort of wink-Here you are again, it says, and so am I.
loneliness differences solitude
Theres a difference between solitude and loneliness Maggie Smith
loneliness i-realized knows
...I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away. Octavia Butler
loneliness being-alone men
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. Octavio Paz
loneliness men suffering
The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his desert through the marketplace and deploys his talents as a smiling leper, a mountebank of the irreparable. Emile M. Cioran
loneliness political world
You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming. Emily Carr
loneliness flower angel
I HIDE myself within my flower That wearing on your breast, You, unsuspecting, wear me too— And angels know the rest. I hide myself within my flower, That, fading from your vase, You, unsuspecting, feel for me Almost a loneliness... Emily Dickinson
loneliness dark soul
The Loneliness One dare not sound -- And would as soon surmise AS in its Grave go plumbing To ascertain the size -- The Loneliness whose worst alarm Is lest itself should see -- And perish from before itself For just a scrutiny -- The Horror not to be surveyed -- But skirted in the Dark -- With Consciousness suspended -- And Being under Lock -- I fear me this -- is Loneliness -- The Maker of the soul Its Caverns and its Corridors Illuminate -- or seal
loneliness might existential
It is precisely when you are loved a lot that you might realize a second loneliness which is not to be solved but lived. This second loneliness is an existential loneliness that belongs to the basis of our being. It's where we are unfulfilled because only God can fill us. Henri Nouwen
loneliness giving community
The best of community does give one a deep sense of belonging and well-being; and in that sense community takes away loneliness.
loneliness insomnia thinking
I think the most common cause of insomnia is simple; its loneliness. Heath Ledger
loneliness mistake love-is
Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward. Helen Rowland
loneliness being-alone men
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly. Hilaire Belloc
loneliness inspiration being-alone
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
loneliness comforting combat
Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness. John Irving
loneliness self hatred
Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
loneliness together world
The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. John Huston
loneliness pinnacle
Every loneliness is a pinnacle Ayn Rand