Quotes about loneliness
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.
loneliness trying world
No shame in saying that I felt a loneliness drifting through me. Funny how it was, everyone perched in their own little world with the deep need to talk, each person with their own tale, beginning in some strange middle point, then trying so hard to tell it all, to have it all make sense, logical and final. Colum McCann
loneliness odds world
Corrigan told me once that Christ was quite easy to understand. He went where He was supposed to go. He stayed where He was needed. He took little or nothing along, a pair of sandals, a bit of a shirt, a few odds and ends to stave off the loneliness. He never rejected the world. If He had rejected it, He would have been rejecting mystery. And if He rejected mystery, He would have been rejecting faith.