Quotes about loneliness
loneliness age arctic
The arctic loneliness of age. Silas Weir Mitchell
loneliness darkness
Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables. Sigmund Freud
loneliness being-alone writing
Writing is an antidote for loneliness. Steven Berkoff
loneliness people feelings
One of the things that people complain about is loneliness, disconnectedness. If you live in a society where your life is rarely threatened and most of your relationships are more on an economic exchange basis, then this could leave people feeling less connected. Steven Pinker
loneliness philosophy solitude
When we begin to look around us, to observe individuals and societies, and to study philosophies and religions, we realize that our loneliness is shared. Our solitude is plural, and our singularity is the similarity between us. Tariq Ramadan
loneliness taken men
I had dropped one form and not taken on the other, and was become like Mohammed's coffin in our legend, with a resultant feeling of intense loneliness in life, and a contempt, not for other men, but for all they do. T. E. Lawrence
loneliness night men
…Forgive us, O Lord, we acknowledge ourselves as type of the common man, Of the men and women who shut the door and sit by the fire; Who fear the blessing of God, the loneliness of the night of God, the surrender required, the deprivation inflicted; Who fear the injustice of men less than the justice of God; Who fear the hand at the window, the fire in the thatch, the fist in the tavern, the push into the canal, Less than we fear the love of God. T. S. Eliot
loneliness mean way
Each way means loneliness -- and communion.
loneliness thinking talking
Everyone's alone - or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make faces, and think they understand each other. And I'm sure they don't. Is that a delusion?
loneliness thinking poetry
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
loneliness real communication
Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible. Sydney J. Harris
loneliness mold excess
It's so effortless to let my loneliness defeat me, make me mold myself to whatever would (in some way - but not wholly) relieve it. I must never forget it... I want sensuality and sensitivity, both... Let me never deny that... I want to err on the side of violence and excess, rather than to underfill my moments. Susan Sontag
loneliness being-alone becoming-one
Solitude is a condition of peace that stands in direct opposition to loneliness. Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a condition of separateness. Solitude is becoming one with the space around you. It is a condition of union. loneliness is small, solitude is large. loneliness closes in around you; solitude expands toward the infinite. loneliness has its roots in words, in an internal conversation that nodbody answers; solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity. Kent Nerburn
loneliness party sky
They had stopped now and he gave a glance up at the sky, through the trees, as though to see how much time was left. Amber, watching him, was suddenly struck with panic. Now he was going--out again into that great world with its bustle and noise and excitement--and she must stay here. She had a terrible new feeling of loneliness, as if she stood in some solitary corner at a party where she was the only stranger. Those places he had seen, she would never see; those fine things he had done, she would never do. But worst of all she would never see him again. Kathleen Winsor
loneliness being-alone feeling-lonely
Remember we're all in this alone. Lily Tomlin
loneliness salt hunger
A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet. Truman Capote
loneliness heart essence
The impulse to perfection cannot exist where the definition of perfection is the arbitrary decision of authority. That which is born in loneliness and from the heart cannot be defended against the judgment of a committee of sycophants. The volatile essences which make literature cannot survive the clichés of a long series of story conferences. Raymond Chandler
loneliness real opposites
I thought I knew what loneliness was before he found me, but I had no clue. You don't know what real loneliness is until you've known the opposite. Rick Yancey
loneliness leave-me-alone leaving-me
This loneliness won't leave me alone. Otis Redding
loneliness eye dark
Sylvia's dark eyes widened. "You are more than you appear to be" "Yes. I am a monster of Darkness, a beast," he agreed with her. Her lips tilted up. "Can a beast weep in sorrow? Does darkness have the capacity to feel loneliness? I think not. P. C. Cast
loneliness lucky world
We walk alone through this world, but if we're lucky, we have a moment of belonging to something, to someone, that sustains us through a lifetime of loneliness. Paullina Simons
loneliness women solitude
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. Paul Valery
loneliness orderliness fields
When loneliness comes stalking, go into the fields, consider the orderliness of the world. Mary Oliver
loneliness fall sick
At this time of crisis we cannot be concerned solely with ourselves, withdrawing into loneliness, discouragement and a sense of powerlessness in the face of problems. Please do not withdraw into yourselves! This is a danger: we shut ourselves up in the parish, with our friends, within the movement, with the like-minded... but do you know what happens? When the Church becomes closed, she becomes an ailing Church, she falls ill! That is a danger. . . .A Church closed in on herself is the same, a sick Church. Pope Francis
loneliness love-you two
I must conquer my loneliness alone. I must be happy with myself or I have nothing to offer you. Two halves have little choice but to join; and yes, they do make a whole. But two wholes when they coincide... that is beauty. That is love.... Peter McWilliams
loneliness darkness tears
We are called to love even in the loneliness, worship even in the tears and follow even in the darkness. Pete Wilson
loneliness anxiety doubt
You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith. Paulo Coelho
loneliness stronger trying
I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.
loneliness selfishness torture
And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness.
loneliness lying sky
And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.
loneliness purpose purpose-of-life
Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.
loneliness years two
Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.
loneliness feelings poverty
Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty. Mother Teresa