Quotes about loneliness
loneliness world expected
She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected. Ayn Rand
loneliness people church
Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
loneliness tombstone dark
Thy soul shall find itself alone ’Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone— Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into thine hour of secrecy. Be silent in that solitude, Which is not loneliness—for then The spirits of the dead who stood In life before thee are again In death around thee—and their will Shall overshadow thee: be still. [...] Edgar Allan Poe
loneliness unbroken
Leave my loneliness unbroken
loneliness remember forget
Loneliness remembers what happiness forgets Hal David
loneliness solitude different
Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different. Gretchen Rubin
loneliness happy-life play
Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they're big, flashing signs that something needs to change.
loneliness men thinking
You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and, nymph-like, shall ere long burst forth a more perfect creature, fitted for a higher society. Henry David Thoreau
loneliness home up-north
The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake. Jessica Lange
loneliness wells
I have a life that's just been a well of loneliness.
loneliness moveable-feast ends
I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life. Ernest Hemingway
loneliness writing organization
Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.
loneliness insanity suffering
I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me all the time. It's not getting easier; if anything, it's always right on the edge of my skin. Erwin McManus
loneliness
Words are loneliness. Henry Miller
loneliness being-alone imagination
Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have. James Dean
loneliness men differences
I am Manuel. I have lived in the loneliness which is common to all men, but the difference is that I have known it. Now it is necessary for me, as it is necessary for all men, to die in this same loneliness, and I know that there is no help for it. James Branch Cabell
loneliness passion being-alone
I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness. Jim Harrison
loneliness people mourning
Loneliness is something we [all people] go through. We go through mourning and longing. We make some bad choices sometimes because we're desperate for something, and that's okay. That's part of life. Jennifer Lee
loneliness love-you
Since I love you, my loneliness begins to throw you. Jean Giraudoux
loneliness self bucks
The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up. Christopher Hitchens
loneliness reflection ability
Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone. Gao Xingjian
loneliness men ongoing
You can have everything in the world and still be the loneliest man. And that is the most bitter type of loneliness, success has brought me world idolisation and millions of pounds. But it's prevented me from having the one thing we all need: A loving, ongoing relationship. Freddie Mercury
loneliness cities people
Loneliness... has very little to do with location. It's a state of mind. In the centre of every city are some of the loneliest people in the world... because our whole planet was just outside the window, I felt even more... connected to the seven billion other people... Chris Hadfield
loneliness eye night
Under the ground seep the toxins of the population that lives above. If you have to, you will eat roots and earthworms. It is always night. Candles burn in lanterns made from tin cans. When it is nighttime up above, you can crawl out, but only for a little while. You feel ashamed of your matted hair, your torn clothes, the dirt on your face. Who would want to speak to you? They are all shiny and pretty. They have parents and house with gardens. What do you have? The earth. Whole handfuls of it. The lizard people with their slit eyes and scaly skin. Your loneliness. Your longing. Francesca Lia Block
loneliness mean worry
Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness. George Orwell
loneliness
I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody. Fyodor Dostoevsky
loneliness believe men
Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness.
loneliness solitude delight
He who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. Friedrich Nietzsche
loneliness solitude one-thing
Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.
loneliness excellence property
Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals. Franz Grillparzer
loneliness talking secret
The best antidote for loneliness, hopelessness, and fear is vulnerability: sharing your secrets and talking about what shames you, what you fear. Jewel
loneliness being-alone gathering
Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life. Jerzy Kosinski
loneliness married
married was the loneliest I got - being without the one you're with. Jennifer Stone