Quotes about loneliness
loneliness diaries journal
Fundamentally, diaries are about loneliness. Kenneth Williams
loneliness writing world
I am learning to see loneliness as a seed that, when planted deep enough, can grow into writing that goes back out into the world. Kathleen Norris
loneliness hate men
The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise. Jack London
loneliness people solitude
And for this you must have quiet and solitude. But society does not allow you to have them. You must be with people, outwardly active at all costs. If you are alone you are considered antisocial or peculiar, or you are afraid of your own loneliness. Jiddu Krishnamurti
loneliness struggle evil
Fear is the process of the mind in the struggle of becoming. In becoming good there is the fear of evil; in becoming complete, there is the fear of loneliness.
loneliness thinking yesterday
Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Hunter S. Thompson
loneliness solitude lovers
Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin. Ian Fleming
loneliness where-you-are playboy
Loneliness doesn't have much to do with where you are. Hugh Hefner
loneliness being-alone needs
The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness. Erich Fromm
loneliness birth
Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry... Erica Jong
loneliness
There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
loneliness father sadness
I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men. Eric Clapton
loneliness inspiration
My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness. Enrique Iglesias
loneliness good-man priceless
Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And anyone can have them. Elsa Maxwell
loneliness being-alone thinking
I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness. Jason Schwartzman
loneliness self expression
There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil at his desk. It was a self-absorption with no comfort, a demand for expression with no outlet, a sense of time rushing by, ceaselessly and wastefully - assuaged only by that conviction that there was nothing to waste, because all efforts and attainments were equally valueless. F. Scott Fitzgerald
loneliness night feeling-lonely
I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.
loneliness twilight night
At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner -- young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.
loneliness party sleep
His youth seemed never so vanished as now in the contrast between the utter loneliness of this visit and that riotous, joyful party of four years before. Things that had been the merest commonplaces of his life then, deep sleep, the sense of beauty around him, all desire, had flown away and the gaps they left were filled only with the great listlessness of his disillusion.
loneliness grief done
She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.
loneliness men survival
The survival of the fittest is going to make some man very lonesome some day. Evan Esar
loneliness kind prison
Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh] Irving Stone
loneliness book winning
A book is not an end in itself; it is only a way to touch someone - a bridge extended across a space of loneliness and obscurity - and sometimes it is a way of winning other people to our causes. Isabel Allende
loneliness stones
And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.
loneliness yoga being-alone
Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness. Indra Devi
loneliness space perspective
Nonetheless, Scranton had travelled in space. He had known the loneliness of separation from all other human beings, he had gazed at the empty perspectives that I myself had seen. J. G. Ballard
loneliness self life-and-death
What, after all, are the world's deepest problems? They are what they always have been, the individual's problems—the meaning of life and death, the mastery of self, the quest for value and worth-whileness and freedom within, the transcending of loneliness, the longing for love and a sense of significance, and for peace. Society's problems are deep, but the individual's problems go deeper; Solzhenitsyn, Dostoyevsky, or Shakespeare will show us that, if we hesitate to take it from the Bible. J. I. Packer
loneliness home coming-home
I've come home in love with loneliness Lucy Maud Montgomery
loneliness grief
…nothing remained but loneliness and grief… Louisa May Alcott
loneliness resentment companion
To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions. Jonathan Lethem
loneliness writing years
Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come to the joint conclusion that the purpose of writing fiction was “a way out of loneliness.” (NY Times article on the memorial service of David Foster Wallace.) Jonathan Franzen
loneliness solitude needs
Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in their reach inward, via print, for a way out of loneliness.
loneliness self devil
Loneliness is dangerous ... because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self. Joyce Carol Oates