Quotes about loneliness
loneliness past self
In our opposed forms of loneliness and self-recognition and recognition of the other, we touched each other often as we spoke; and on shore in explorations of the past, we strolled with our arms linked... Harold Brodkey
loneliness light fire
We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these poets bring us fire and light. Harold Bloom
loneliness home waiting
Here had lived someone else who knew that the only thing waiting at home was a sense of loneliness. Sometimes it is comforting. Most often, it isn't. Jim Butcher
loneliness farewell men
It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness. Isak Dinesen
loneliness games soul
The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules of the game forbid assuagement. Iris Murdoch
loneliness two effort
in love, gallantry is necessary. Even when the first wild desire is gone, especially then, there is an inherent need for good manners and consideration, for the putting forth of effort. Two courteous and civilized human beings out of the loneliness of their souls owe that to each other. Ilka Chase
loneliness names sorrow
Sorrow has a name, and its name is loneliness. Sorrow has a shape, and its shape is absence. Sorrow is a sickness like any other. Gregory Maguire
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 dark other-worlds
You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to take the unknown road blindly, stubbornly, and to search for words rooted like the knotted olive tree- let them laugh. And to yearn for the other world to inhabit today's suffocating loneliness, this ravaged present- let them be. Giorgos Seferis
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 thinking yesterday
Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Hunter S. Thompson
loneliness being-alone poverty
Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.
loneliness failed-marriage
There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage. Alexander Theroux
loneliness liars lying
The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness. Adrienne Rich
loneliness loss people
It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted. Adrien Brody
loneliness first-love worry
Maybe a first love exists to reaffirm the best parts of yourself, the choices you made when you didn't worry about the consequences. Maybe a first love exists to remind you to be brave in the moment, to stand up for your feelings, instead of shrinking back in the face of potential loneliness. Adriana Trigiani
loneliness architect originals
You are the architect of your own loneliness. Adam Shankman
loneliness feelings being-free
The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped. Adam Gopnik
loneliness dark different
We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them. Maurice Maeterlinck
loneliness solitude haste
Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness. Dallas Willard
loneliness believe boys
..and I thought how liking a boy was just the same as believing you wanted to know a secret - everything was better when you were denied and could feel tormented by curiousity or loneliness. But the moment of something happening was treacherous. It was just so tiring to have to worry about whether your face was peeling, or to have to laugh at stories that weren’t funny. Curtis Sittenfeld
loneliness writing
Loneliness is just a thing that I'm not personally interested in. So far, it hasn't been on my docket of things to write about. Dave Eggers
loneliness damage moments
Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Or is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else? David Levithan
loneliness knowing missing
We remember what it was like to meet someone new. We remember what it was like to grant someone possibility. You look out from your own world and then you step into his, not really knowing what you’ll find there, but hoping it will be something good. Both Ryan and Avery are doing this. You step into his world and you don’t even realize your loneliness is missing. You’ve left it behind, and you don’t notice because you have no desire to turn back.
loneliness bad-relationship profound
She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship.
loneliness love-is maturity
Perhaps a great love is never returned. Had it been given warmth and shelter by its counterpart in the Other, perhaps it would have been hindered from ever growing to maturity. It "gives" us nothing. But in its world of loneliness it leads us up to the summits with wide vistas - of great insights. Dag Hammarskjold
loneliness being-alone bears
What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
loneliness dark differences
I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools... Claude McKay
loneliness done hardest
It's the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one's done. Claude Monet
loneliness block voice
Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to make wonderful worlds better than this one, comforters, companions in loneliness. Keepers of secrets, speakers of the truth...all those glorious words. Cornelia Funke
loneliness heart sadness
Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression that affect our hearts, minds and souls and remind us of who we are as human beings, the fragility of our human status and the inevitability of death. Cornel West
loneliness sadness sacrifice
I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and sadness.