Quotes about loneliness
loneliness fighting against-love
I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death. F. Scott Fitzgerald
loneliness people ego
It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves. There was some element of loneliness involved--so easy to be loved--so hard to love.
loneliness people used
People living alone get used to loneliness.
loneliness memorable two
For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live. George Orwell
loneliness people age
To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people to whom your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasphemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs.
loneliness artist creating
The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of God creating from a primal loneliness. Garry Wills
loneliness causes baldness
The worst thing baldness causes is loneliness. Gail Porter
loneliness grief book
Gail Godwin has written a book about the heaviest matters of loss, grief, and loneliness with a touch so light that I was as often deeply amused by it as I was deeply moved. Frederick Buechner
loneliness leader acting
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone. Ferdinand Marcos
loneliness new-day giving
Youth gives a sense of new days dawning bright, going on for ever, and a kind of tamped-down excitement which keeps breaking through even the worst days of poverty, depression and loneliness. But then youth is something which only exists in retrospect; you are barely conscious of it while you have it. Fay Weldon
loneliness heart solitude
To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived. Fanny Burney
loneliness fleeing way
[...] We have to realize that this wound [of loneliness] is inherent in the human condition and that what we have to do is walk with it instead of fleeing from it. We cannot accept it until we discover that we are loved by God just as we are, and that the Holy Spirit in a mysterious way is living at the centre of the wound. Jean Vanier
loneliness desire fundamentals
Loneliness is the fundamental force that urgees mystics to a deeper union with God... An experience of God quenches this thirst for the absolute but at the same time, paradoxiacally, whets it, because this is an experience that can never be total; by necessity, the knowledge of God is always partial. So loneliness opens up mystics to a desire to love each other and every human being as God loves them.
loneliness people community
People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition.
loneliness knowing thought-provoking
The numbing mind-ream of knowing you're alone not because people won't accept you but because you find so little worth accepting. An imposed solitude is better than simply tolerating your company in waiting for something better. So loneliness is not such a terrible thing when you consider that the alternative to thought provoking solace is to be surrounded only by remindings of why that solitude is preferable. Jhonen Vasquez
loneliness bereavement bitter
It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new. Gregory Maguire
loneliness fate reality
Men who no longer can make sure of the reality which they feel and experience through talking about it and sharing it with their fellow-men, live in the same nightmare of loneliness and uncertainty which, in a normal world, is the terrible fate of insanity. Hannah Arendt
loneliness two solitude
Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company.
loneliness thinking france
Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength. George Bernard Shaw
loneliness too-much sometimes
Sometimes, the loneliness probably got to be too much and anyone seemed better than no one. Gena Showalter
loneliness vegetarianism alcohol
I, however, cannot force myself to use "meat drugs" to cheat on my loneliness. Franz Kafka
loneliness writing creativity
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
loneliness may patterns
The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone. Erich Fromm
loneliness boredom greed
Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome.
loneliness next being-lonely
I would have to say loneliness is next to uncleanliness. Janeane Garofalo
loneliness pennies
My loneliness tasted like pennies. Janet Fitch
loneliness men order
Loneliness is the penalty of leadership, but the man who has to make the decisions is assisted greatly if he feels that there is no uncertainty in the minds of those who follow him, and that his orders will be carried out confidently and in the expectation of success. Ernest Shackleton
loneliness eagles liberty
The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness. Gilbert K. Chesterton
loneliness past self
In our opposed forms of loneliness and self-recognition and recognition of the other, we touched each other often as we spoke; and on shore in explorations of the past, we strolled with our arms linked... Harold Brodkey
loneliness light fire
We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these poets bring us fire and light. Harold Bloom
loneliness home waiting
Here had lived someone else who knew that the only thing waiting at home was a sense of loneliness. Sometimes it is comforting. Most often, it isn't. Jim Butcher
loneliness spring being-alone
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. Jean de la Bruyere
loneliness hunger creation
Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation. Mo Yan