Quotes about loneliness
loneliness irritation needs
I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me. Anita Brookner
loneliness thinking people
Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not. Andrew Stanton
loneliness being-lonely fame
Fame doesn't end loneliness. Claire Danes
loneliness emotional people
People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being. Daniel Kahneman
loneliness filled-in waiting
It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them. D. H. Lawrence
loneliness being-alone known
Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know. Conrad Aiken
loneliness sleep thinking
And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for. In polaroids you were dressed in women's clothes Were you made ashamed, why'd you lock them in a drawer? Well, I don't think that I ever loved you more Well let the poets cry themselves to sleep And all their tearful words will turn back into steam The sound of loneliness makes me happier Conor Oberst
loneliness sound
The sound of loneliness makes me happier.
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.
loneliness solitude function
...loneliness is not a function of solitude. David Foster Wallace
loneliness interesting being-lonely
The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.
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.
loneliness fiction treated
Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.
loneliness writing thinking
You don't have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness ... has to do with angst about death, the recognition that I'm going to die, and die very much alone, and the rest of the world is going to go merrily on without me.
loneliness ocean sea
But, visiting Sea, your love doth press / And reach in further than you know, / And fills all these; and, when you go, / There's loneliness in loneliness. Alice Meynell
loneliness eye crowds
If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.
loneliness
We must relearn to be alone. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
loneliness solitude being-lonely
Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not. Anna Neagle
loneliness desire privacy
We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness. Andy Rooney
loneliness fighting names
Your melancholy. Or depression. Along with nine-tenths of the afflictions I've studied, diagnosed, attempted to treat. Call them whatever you like, but they're just different names for loneliness. That's what lets the darkness in. That's what you have to fight. Andrew Pyper
loneliness home dark
My solo travels in Paris have brought many perfect hours of being alone but not a moment of loneliness. People who depend on other people are often in hiding from themselves. Two and a quarter million people live in the City of Light: you will see many of them and you will pass them in the street, but when you see Notre Dame after dark and walk home and perhaps stop to have a drink in the Marais, you can feel that the only thing that is missing from your experience is the common dependence on someone to distract your attention. You are living without it: you are on vacation. Andrew O'Hagan
loneliness kissing air
There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in so much loneliness was like a hand pulling you up out of the water, scooping you up from a place of drowning and into the reckless abundance of air. A kiss, another kiss. Ann Patchett
loneliness being-alone giving
Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet today the institutions on which community depends are crumbling in all the techno-societies. The result is a spreading plague of loneliness. Alvin Toffler
loneliness rain two
Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other. Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth for the other. Now there will be no loneliness, for each of you will be companion to the other. Now you are two persons, but there are three lives before you: His life, Her Life, and Your life together. Ann Aguirre
loneliness independence alliances
Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love. Richard Bach
loneliness heart losing-a-loved-one
Through tears and trials, through fears and sorrows, through the heartache and loneliness of losing loved ones, there is assurance that life is everlasting. Our Lord and Savior is the living witness that such is so. Thomas S. Monson
loneliness good-day bad-day
I get inspired by so many things every single day. Things I see every day, conversations, arguments, day to day occurrences, good days, bad days, loneliness, happiness, anger, anxiety, pressure, relationships......EVERYTHING. Ricki-Lee Coulter
loneliness philosophy solitude
When we begin to look around us, to observe individuals and societies, and to study philosophies and religions, we realize that our loneliness is shared. Our solitude is plural, and our singularity is the similarity between us. Tariq Ramadan
loneliness taken men
I had dropped one form and not taken on the other, and was become like Mohammed's coffin in our legend, with a resultant feeling of intense loneliness in life, and a contempt, not for other men, but for all they do. T. E. Lawrence
loneliness night men
…Forgive us, O Lord, we acknowledge ourselves as type of the common man, Of the men and women who shut the door and sit by the fire; Who fear the blessing of God, the loneliness of the night of God, the surrender required, the deprivation inflicted; Who fear the injustice of men less than the justice of God; Who fear the hand at the window, the fire in the thatch, the fist in the tavern, the push into the canal, Less than we fear the love of God. T. S. Eliot
loneliness mean way
Each way means loneliness -- and communion.