Quotes about loneliness
loneliness emotional self
Terrified of being alone, yet afraid of intimacy, we experience widespread feelings of emptiness, of disconnection, of the unreality of self. And here the computer, a companion without emotional demands, offers a compromise. You can be a loner, but never alone. You can interact, but need never feel vulnerable to another person. Sherry Turkle
loneliness solitude introvert
Loneliness is failed solitude.
loneliness rooms always-alone
We’re always alone. You can be in a crowded room and still feel the bite of loneliness. Personally, I find that it bites deepest whenever others are around. Sherrilyn Kenyon
loneliness my-friends left
Of my friends I am the only one left. Terence
loneliness father sadness
I won't waste your time with the injuries of my childhood, with my loneliness, or the fear and sadness of the years I spent inside my parents' marriage, under the reign of my father's rage, afer all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood? Nicole Krauss
loneliness wish history-of-love
After all who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness
loneliness organs
Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all.
loneliness emotional suffering
Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
loneliness land aspect
Loneliness is an aspect of the land. N. Scott Momaday
loneliness affection absence
Loneliness Is Not The Absence Of Affection, But The Absence Of Direction. Mike Murdock
loneliness insomnia reality
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality. Mignon McLaughlin
loneliness thinking people
Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only what they had to and never what they could have done. I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day. I knew I could do better. Mark Twain
loneliness curiosity
Curiosity makes loneliness. Mason Cooley
loneliness views housekeeping
Loneliness is more likely to lead to fussy housekeeping than to grand views of the Universe.
loneliness boredom sometimes
Sometimes I dread loneliness more than bores. Other times, the reverse.
loneliness journey way
Life is a journey one that much better traveled with a companion by our side. Sometimes, we lose our companions along the way and then the journey becomes unbearable. You see, human beings are designed for many things, but loneliness isn't one of them. Mary Alice
loneliness sadness soul
I must confess that I am usually drawn to sadness, and loneliness has never been a stranger to me. But love tried to welcome me, but my soul drew back, guilty of lust and sin. Madonna Ciccone
loneliness eye bird
We need new words for what this is, this hunger entering our loneliness like birds, stunning our eyes into rays of hope. we need the flutter that can save us, something that will swirl across the face of what we have become and bring us grace. Lucille Clifton
loneliness littles crime
She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime. Lorrie Moore
loneliness being-alone swimming
Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool. Liv Ullmann
loneliness thinking people
Success definitely brings on loneliness. People think you're lucky, that you have everything. They think you can go anywhere and do anything, but that's not the point. One hungers for the basic stuff. Michael Jackson
loneliness fall ocean
Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else. Mehmet Oz
loneliness love-you loss
Jealousy is a terrible thing. I know all the psychological triggers. The fear of losing control, the fear of loss, the fear of abandonment, neglect and loneliness...But the most destructive thing about jealousy is that it kills what it values-the love you want to save won't survive the constraints of jealousy. There is no entitlement. Love is either equal or a tragedy. Michael Robotham
loneliness thinking salad
I think she ate a salad and some soup. And loneliness. She ate that, too. Markus Zusak
loneliness angel laughing
She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.
loneliness passion being-alone
I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness. Jim Harrison
loneliness people mourning
Loneliness is something we [all people] go through. We go through mourning and longing. We make some bad choices sometimes because we're desperate for something, and that's okay. That's part of life. Jennifer Lee
loneliness love-you
Since I love you, my loneliness begins to throw you. Jean Giraudoux
loneliness self bucks
The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up. Christopher Hitchens
loneliness self expression
There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil at his desk. It was a self-absorption with no comfort, a demand for expression with no outlet, a sense of time rushing by, ceaselessly and wastefully - assuaged only by that conviction that there was nothing to waste, because all efforts and attainments were equally valueless. F. Scott Fitzgerald
loneliness night feeling-lonely
I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.
loneliness twilight night
At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner -- young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.
loneliness party sleep
His youth seemed never so vanished as now in the contrast between the utter loneliness of this visit and that riotous, joyful party of four years before. Things that had been the merest commonplaces of his life then, deep sleep, the sense of beauty around him, all desire, had flown away and the gaps they left were filled only with the great listlessness of his disillusion.