Quotes about lonely
lonely loneliness world
No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience. Ellen Glasgow
lonely inspire dreamer
Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now? Emily Bronte
lonely house looks
I know some lonely houses off the road A robber'd like the look of,-- Wooden barred, And windows hanging low Emily Dickinson
lonely men awful
I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-.
lonely stars fall
The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone. Shadows of evening fall around us, and the world seems but a dim reflection - itself a broader shadow. We look forward into the coming lonely night. The soul withdraws into itself. Then stars arise, and the night is holy. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
lonely remember oppressed
O, though oft oppressed and lonely, All my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only Such as these have lived and died!
lonely strong
The strong must learn to be lonely. Henrik Ibsen
lonely ministry ministers
Too many of us are lonely ministers practicing a lonely ministry. Henri Nouwen
lonely quiet gifts-of-life
A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.
lonely compassion broken
Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it.
lonely hurt pain
Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.
lonely hate heart
Don't let ignorance blind you. Open your eyes, heart and your mind. And if you're feeling alone, know that the world can be a lonely place, but it would be lonelier without you in it. Hayley Williams
lonely children school
People who are exceptionally intelligent are often lonely because there are few people as intelligent as them. I have two little children, and everyone says: 'I hope they're doing well in school. I hope they're bright.' And I think: 'Why would anyone want their children to be the brightest?' Academia is a lonely world. Helen McCrory
lonely snow silence
A pine tree standeth lonely In the North on an upland bare; It standeth whitely shrouded With snow, and sleepeth there. It dreameth of a Palm tree Which far in the East alone, In the mournful silence standeth On its ridge of burning stone. Heinrich Heine
lonely sleep ice
A lonely fir-tree is standing On a northern barren height; It sleeps, and the ice and snow-drift Cast round it a garment of white.
lonely children love-you
If you want to get a child to love you, then you should just go hide in the closet for three or for hours. They get down on their knees and pray for you to return. That child will turn you into God. Lonely children probably wrote the Bible. Heather O'Neill
lonely children lonely-child
Lonely children probably wrote the Bible.
lonely loneliness men
The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness. Henryk Sienkiewicz
lonely fun weekend
Oh, God, I'm so lonely. An entire weekend streching ahead with no one to love or have fun with. Anyway, I don't care. I've got a lovely steamed ginger pudding from M&S to put in the microwave. Helen Fielding
lonely holiday rejected
Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected. Jimmy Cannon
lonely book reading
I never feel lonely if I've got a book - they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they're part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life. Emilia Fox
lonely jobs writing
Writing is a lonely job, unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach. Emilio Estevez
lonely loneliness night
It's a lonely ol' night. Can I put my arms around you? John Mellencamp
lonely loneliness heart
In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their most familiar surroundings, those people who either are foreigners or who suffer a singular point of view that makes them feel as if they’re foreigners - even in their native lands. In our hearts... there also abides a certain suspicion that such people need to feel set apart from their society. But people who initiate loneliness are no less lonely than those who are suddenly surprised by loneliness, nor are they undeserving of our pity. John Irving
lonely hero recovery
Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. Ayn Rand
lonely men age
[The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history. Benito Mussolini
lonely wall fall
He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.
lonely jesus heart
In me there is darkness, But with You there is light; I am lonely, but You do not leave me; I am feeble in heart, but with You there is help; I am restless, but with You there is peace. In me there is bitterness, but with You there is patience; I do not understand Your ways, But You know the way for me.” “Lord Jesus Christ, You were poor And in distress, a captive and forsaken as I am. You know all man’s troubles; You abide with me When all men fail me; You remember and seek me; It is Your will that I should know You And turn to You. Lord, I hear Your call and follow; Help me. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
lonely angel night
By a route obscure and lonely Haunted by ill angels only, Where an eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached these lands but newly From an ultimate dim Thule -- From a wild, weird clime that lieth, sublime, Out of SPACE, out of TIME. Edgar Allan Poe
lonely brave individual
It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all. Eleanor Roosevelt
lonely
Often have I sighed to measureBy myself a lonely pleasure,Sighed to think, I read a bookOnly read, perhaps, by me. William Wordsworth
lonely universe
The universe will be a very lonely place to look at.
lonely long-ago sky
Where the vast cloudless sky was broken by one crow I sat upon a hill - all alone - long ago; But I never felt so lonely and so out of God's way, As here, where I brush elbows with a thousand every day. Harry Kemp