Quotes about lone
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
lonely people unhappy
We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.
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.
lonely suffering-of-others feelings
A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet 'for sale', who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence - briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing - cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society.
loneliness being-alone needs
The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.
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.
lonely writing order
What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
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 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
lonesome felt lonesomeness
I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead. J. D. Salinger
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
lonely way
The writer works in a lonely way. Irwin Shaw
loneliness kind prison
Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh] Irving Stone
lonely loneliness thinking
There have been times in my life when I have felt I was lonely, but I don't think you want to live your life in order to mitigate against loneliness. Harrison Ford
lonely ravens lambs
So lonely I make friends with the ravens that prey on lambs. Hannah Kent
lonely teenager men
Let's be clear about what people never say about Playboy on television. It was nothing more than an instrument for onanism. That's what it was. And the Internet co-opted that industry of self- gratification. There is no necessity for lonely men or teenagers to use Playboy. It turns out no one bought that magazine for the articles ever; it was used for only one thing. Greg Gutfeld
lonely tired men
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion. Clarence Darrow
loneliness believe reality
Believe me, I know what it's like to feel all alone...the worst kind of loneliness in the world is isolation that comes from being misunderstood, it can make people lose their grasp on reality. - Sienna Brooks Dan Brown
loneliness heart eye
She cried for the life she could not control. She cried for the mentor who had died before her eyes. She cried for the profound loneliness that filled her heart. But, above all, she cried for the future ... which suddenly felt so uncertain.
lonely mean order
It’s a very American illness, the idea of giving yourself away entirely to the idea of working in order to achieve some sort of brass ring that usually involves people feeling some way about you – I mean, people wonder why we walk around feeling alienated and lonely and stressed out. David Foster Wallace
lonely pain loneliness
Is it possible really to love other people? If I’m lonely and in pain, everyone outside me is potential relief—I need them. But can you really love what you need so badly? Isn’t a big part of love caring more about what the other person needs? How am I supposed to subordinate my own overwhelming need to somebody else’s needs that I can’t even feel directly? And yet if I can’t do this, I’m damned to loneliness, which I definitely don’t want … so I’m back at trying to overcome my selfishness for self-interested reasons.
loneliness solitude function
...loneliness is not a function of solitude.
loneliness interesting being-lonely
The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.
lonely pain selfish
But if I decide to decide there’s a different, less selfish, less lonely point to my life, won’t the reason for this decision be my desire to be less lonely, meaning to suffer less overall pain? Can the decision to be less selfish ever be anything other than a selfish decision?
lonely self order
Progressive liberals seem incapable of stating the obvious truth: that we who are well off should be willing to share more of what we have with poor people not for the poor people's sake but for our own; i.e., we should share what we have in order to become less narrow and frightened and lonely and self-centered people.
loneliness book combat
The point of books is to combat loneliness.
loneliness fiction relieved
Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved.
lonely art real
An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. This is dishonest, but what's sinister is the cumulative effect that such dishonesty has on us: since it offers a perfect facsimile or simulacrum of goodwill without goodwill's real spirit, it messes with our heads and eventually starts upping our defenses even in cases of genuine smiles and real art and true goodwill. It makes us feel confused and lonely and impotent and angry and scared. It causes despair.
lonely loneliness being-alone
We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?
loneliness fiction treated
Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.
lonely loneliness psychics
Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.