Quotes about loneliness
loneliness killing
My loneliness ain't killing me no more. Britney Spears
loneliness drinking bars
I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories. Charles Bukowski
loneliness hands movement
there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock
loneliness simple despair
she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty
loneliness pride men
I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.
loneliness people church
Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
loneliness tombstone dark
Thy soul shall find itself alone ’Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone— Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into thine hour of secrecy. Be silent in that solitude, Which is not loneliness—for then The spirits of the dead who stood In life before thee are again In death around thee—and their will Shall overshadow thee: be still. [...] Edgar Allan Poe
loneliness solitude beast
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. Aristotle
loneliness home long
I felt more than ever the necessity of my mission. But I went home out of spirits, I hardly know why. I must work by myself all life long. Elizabeth Blackwell
loneliness new-relationship aging
Isolation and loneliness create the conditions for rapid aging. The key is to stay connected and open to new relationships throughout your life. Deepak Chopra
loneliness people spirit
Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship. Doris Lessing
loneliness interesting people
It'd be preposterous for me to propose a universal cure to loneliness but I will say that people who do the things they find interesting, either creatively or vocationally, tend to become unlonely very quickly. Douglas Coupland
loneliness book being-alone
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.
loneliness beer years
Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsing at bookstores until closing time, and of having one, two, three beers while watching crime shows and CNN. I completely forgot the hateful sensation of loneliness, like thirst and hunger together pressing on my stomach.
loneliness school thinking
I am going to give you a piece of advice... advice I wish I'd been told in guidance class back in high school, in between the don't-do-acid and don't-drink-and-drive films. I wish our counselors had told us, 'When you grow older a dreadful, horrible sensation will come over you. It's called loneliness, and you think you know what it is now, but you don't. Here is the list of the symptoms, and don't worry—loneliness is the most universal sensation on the planet. Just remember one fact—loneliness will pass. You will survive and you will be a better human for it.
loneliness moon pity
Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me,and drench me in loneliness. Amy Lowell
loneliness intelligent cosmos
We may be living at that moment, on the cusp, when we go from being a species that feels a kind of loneliness in the cosmos to actually one sometime in the not too distant future being able to confirm the existence of other intelligent life. Ann Druyan
loneliness hitting bruises
But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back. There is no bruise like the bruise loneliness kicks into your spine. Andrea Gibson
loneliness past thinking
In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it. Alberto Giacometti
loneliness devil adam
There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private. Alexander Pope
loneliness adoption heritage
In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness. Alex Haley
loneliness dust hands
He stretched out his hands as he sang, sadly, because all beauty is sad…The poem had done no ‘good’ to anyone, but it was a passing reminder, a breath from the divine lips of beauty, a nightingale between two worlds of dust. Less explicit than the call to Krishna, it voiced our loneliness nevertheless, our isolation, our need for the Friend who never comes yet is not entirely disproved. E. M. Forster
loneliness hands ships
Shall I let in the stranger, Shall I welcome the sailor, Or stay till the day I die? Hands of the stranger and holds of the ships, Hold you poison or grapes? Dylan Thomas
loneliness community answers
The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community. Dorothy Day
loneliness being-alone community-living
We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.
loneliness
Define loneliness? Yes. It's what we can't do for each other. Claudia Rankine
loneliness broken life-is
Life is loneliness, broken only by the gods taunting us with friendship and the odd bonk Christopher Moore
loneliness self hands
… that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and writers out of their rooms to seek each other out, to rub shoulders with one another, bully, joke, condescend, feel each other, lay a hand on a shoulder or an arm round a waist, to chat and argue with little nudges, to spy a little, sniff out what is cooking in other pots, flatter, disagree, collude, be right, take offence, apologise, make amends, avoid each other, and seek each other’s company again. Amos Oz
loneliness wind glowing
Bare heights of loneliness...a wilderness whose burning winds sweep over glowing sands, what are they to HIM? Even there He can refresh us, even there He can renew us. Amy Carmichael
loneliness inspiration sadness
...to the glory of His name let me witness that in far away lands, in loneliness (deepest sometimes when it seems least so), in times of downheartedness and tiredness and sadness, always always He is near. He does comfort, if we let Him. Perhaps someone as weak and good-for-nothing as even I am may read this. Don't be afraid! Through all circumstances, outside, inside, He can keep me close.
loneliness reality contact
Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality. Anthony de Mello
loneliness being-alone people
The secret to overcoming a feeling of loneliness is not going outside to meet people. That will only keep you from being alone. The secret is going inside yourself, to realize your true kinship with God and with all the human beings that he created. Amy Grant
loneliness kissing sea
There is a horrifying loneliness at work in this time. No, listen to me. We lived six and seven to a room in those days, when I was still among the living. The city streets were seas of humanity; and now in these high buildings dim-witted souls hover in luxurious privacy, gazing through the television window at a faraway world of kissing and touching. It is bound to produce some great fund of common knowledge, some new level of human awareness, a curious skepticism, to be so alone. Anne Rice