Quotes about loneliness
loneliness exercise night
Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They are the enemies of our loneliness, our doubt, our anxiety, our tendencies to abdicate. To continue to be in good conversation over our enormous and terrifying problems is to be calling out to each other in the night. If we attend with imagination and devotion to our conversations, we will find what we need; and someone among us will act—it does not matter whom—and we will survive. Barry Lopez
loneliness needs conscious
We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves. C. S. Lewis
loneliness conscious born
We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness...
loneliness way underestimate
You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was the way out of loneliness. Carrie Brownstein
loneliness self uniting
Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self. Carl Rogers
loneliness boredom despair
My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness. Anthony Swofford
loneliness speak should
In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that. Bertrand Russell
loneliness struggling
Loneliness - If you find yourself struggling with loneliness, you're not alone. And yet you are alone. So very alone.
loneliness spring being-alone
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. Jean de la Bruyere
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 reflection ability
Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone. Gao Xingjian
loneliness men ongoing
You can have everything in the world and still be the loneliest man. And that is the most bitter type of loneliness, success has brought me world idolisation and millions of pounds. But it's prevented me from having the one thing we all need: A loving, ongoing relationship. Freddie Mercury
loneliness cities people
Loneliness... has very little to do with location. It's a state of mind. In the centre of every city are some of the loneliest people in the world... because our whole planet was just outside the window, I felt even more... connected to the seven billion other people... Chris Hadfield
loneliness remember forget
Loneliness remembers what happiness forgets Hal David
loneliness solitude different
Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different. Gretchen Rubin
loneliness happy-life play
Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they're big, flashing signs that something needs to change.
loneliness men thinking
You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and, nymph-like, shall ere long burst forth a more perfect creature, fitted for a higher society. Henry David Thoreau
loneliness home up-north
The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake. Jessica Lange
loneliness wells
I have a life that's just been a well of loneliness.
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 being-alone imagination
Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have. James Dean
loneliness men differences
I am Manuel. I have lived in the loneliness which is common to all men, but the difference is that I have known it. Now it is necessary for me, as it is necessary for all men, to die in this same loneliness, and I know that there is no help for it. James Branch Cabell
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 eagles liberty
The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness. Gilbert K. Chesterton