Quotes about loneliness
loneliness optimism healthy
Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brains cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age. Sherwin B. Nuland
loneliness emotional self
Terrified of being alone, yet afraid of intimacy, we experience widespread feelings of emptiness, of disconnection, of the unreality of self. And here the computer, a companion without emotional demands, offers a compromise. You can be a loner, but never alone. You can interact, but need never feel vulnerable to another person. Sherry Turkle
loneliness solitude introvert
Loneliness is failed solitude.
loneliness rooms always-alone
We’re always alone. You can be in a crowded room and still feel the bite of loneliness. Personally, I find that it bites deepest whenever others are around. Sherrilyn Kenyon
loneliness my-friends left
Of my friends I am the only one left. Terence
loneliness father sadness
I won't waste your time with the injuries of my childhood, with my loneliness, or the fear and sadness of the years I spent inside my parents' marriage, under the reign of my father's rage, afer all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood? Nicole Krauss
loneliness wish history-of-love
After all who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness
loneliness organs
Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all.
loneliness emotional suffering
Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
loneliness land aspect
Loneliness is an aspect of the land. N. Scott Momaday
loneliness affection absence
Loneliness Is Not The Absence Of Affection, But The Absence Of Direction. Mike Murdock
loneliness insomnia reality
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality. Mignon McLaughlin
loneliness sadness thinking
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. The remarkable thing is that the cessation of the inner dialogue marks also the end of our concern with the world around us. It is as if we noted the world and think about it only when we have to report it to ourselves. Eric Hoffer
loneliness eye joy
Join with those who sing, tell stories, talk pleasure in life, and have joy in their eyes, because joy is contagious, and can prevent others from becoming paralysed by depression, loneliness and difficulties. Paulo Coelho
loneliness comfort enough
to comfort any mortal against loneliness, one other is enough. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
loneliness giving arms
Don't let loneliness drive you back into the arms of someone who doesn't give a damn about you. Megan Fox
loneliness solitude one-thing
Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another. May Sarton
loneliness thinking like-love
Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts. Sam Harris
loneliness men thinking
Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others. Romain Rolland
loneliness heart men
Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart. Sam Rayburn
loneliness ideas might
I would argue that it might be easier to endure loneliness than to endure the idea that you might disappear. Susan Orlean
loneliness hunger-for-love hunger-and-poverty
The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God. Mother Teresa
loneliness love-you hunger-for-love
We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love....
loneliness space cinema
Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness. Pedro Almodovar
loneliness moving alive
It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is a part of being alive, something we all share. We react against the possibility of loneliness, of death, of not having anything to hold on to. Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth. Pema Chodron
loneliness thinking compassion
Cool loneliness allows us to look honestly and without aggressionat our own minds. We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think weought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other peoplethink we want to be or ought to be. We give it up and just look directlywith compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat andheartache, no punishment.
loneliness humanity
Better to join in with humanity than to set ourselves apart.
loneliness forever sorrow
We're afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever... Instead, acting it out is what makes it last.
loneliness heartache justice
Usually we regard loneliness as an enemy. Heartache is not something we choose to invite in. It's restless and pregnant and hot with the desire to escape and find something or someone to keep us company. When we can rest in the middle, we begin to have a nonthreatening relationship with loneliness, a relaxing and cooling loneliness that completely turns our usual fearful patterns upside down.
loneliness compassion punishment
We give it up and just look directly with compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat and heartache, no punishment.
loneliness warrior journey
So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even one, that's the journey of the warrior. (68)
loneliness rain kids
Sitting up all night would be pointless if somebody you loved wasn't sitting up with you, picking out music to play and helping you kill the bourbon. Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets. Peter S. Beagle
loneliness rain kids
Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.