Quotes about loneliness
loneliness moving horizon
And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness Sylvia Plath
loneliness soul needs
How we need another soul to cling to. Sylvia Plath
loneliness dark long
And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Sylvia Plath
loneliness i-have-learned impulsive
I have learned to be steady in my course of love, or fear, or loneliness, rather than impulsive in its wasting, either lyrically or emotionally. Rosanne Cash
loneliness age arctic
The arctic loneliness of age. Silas Weir Mitchell
loneliness darkness
Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables. Sigmund Freud
loneliness being-alone writing
Writing is an antidote for loneliness. Steven Berkoff
loneliness people feelings
One of the things that people complain about is loneliness, disconnectedness. If you live in a society where your life is rarely threatened and most of your relationships are more on an economic exchange basis, then this could leave people feeling less connected. Steven Pinker
loneliness agreement solitude
There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for any kind of sociability, however trivial or cheap, for the tiniest outward agreement with the first person who comes along.... Rainer Maria Rilke
loneliness being-alone solitude
I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone. Rainer Maria Rilke
loneliness solitude ache
Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache. Sidney Sheldon
loneliness littles dinner
I know of nobody that is coming, I am sure, unless Charlotte Lucas should happen to call in- and I am sure my dinners are good enough for her, since she is an unmarried woman of seven-and-twenty, and as such should expect little more than a crust of bread washed down with a cup of loneliness. Seth Grahame-Smith
loneliness long generosity
We long to connect, all of us. We long to be noticed, to be cared for, to matter. Generosity is the invisible salve on our wound of loneliness, one that benefits both sides, over and over again. Seth Godin
loneliness thinking bitterness
I think cruelty is just loneliness disguised as bitterness. Tom Hiddleston
loneliness alive persons
Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the universe, except that everyone else is still here. Simon Van Booy
loneliness eye men
It is not good for man to be alone. Hitherto all things [in Genesis] that have been named, were approved of God to be very good: loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good. John Milton
loneliness embrace
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness. Mitch Albom
loneliness people paper
As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself. John Steinbeck
loneliness trying literature
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. John Steinbeck
loneliness animal trying
We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — "Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought. John Steinbeck
loneliness world body
Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other. John Steinbeck
loneliness soul literature
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ. John Steinbeck
loneliness sadness cat
[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness. Theophile Gautier
loneliness soul quality
There is in certain living souls a quality of loneliness unspeakable, so great it must be shared as company is shared by lesser beings. Such a loneliness is mine; so know by this that in immensity there is one lonelier than you. Theodore Sturgeon
loneliness being-alone writing
You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one. Theodore Sturgeon
loneliness admiring persons
No person loving or admiring himself is alone. Theodor Reik
loneliness choices world
Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world.” “Then you’ve made the only choice. But there’s a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It’s loneliness. Margaret Mitchell
loneliness giving arms
Don't let loneliness drive you back into the arms of someone who doesn't give a damn about you. Megan Fox
loneliness solitude one-thing
Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another. May Sarton
loneliness real self
Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self. Maxwell Maltz
loneliness solitude faces
At any moment solitude may put on the face of loneliness. May Sarton
loneliness vision faces
Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. But this is truest of the face of an infant. I consider that to be one kind of vision, as mystical as any. Marilynne Robinson
loneliness writing passion
Somebody who had read Lila asked me, ‘Why do you write about the problem of loneliness?’ I said: ‘It’s not a problem. It’s a condition. It’s a passion of a kind. It’s not a problem. I think that people make it a problem by interpreting it that way.’ Marilynne Robinson