Quotes about loneliness
loneliness grief done
She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well. F. Scott Fitzgerald
loneliness men survival
The survival of the fittest is going to make some man very lonesome some day. Evan Esar
loneliness moveable-feast ends
I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life. Ernest Hemingway
loneliness writing organization
Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.
loneliness insanity suffering
I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me all the time. It's not getting easier; if anything, it's always right on the edge of my skin. Erwin McManus
loneliness new-day giving
Youth gives a sense of new days dawning bright, going on for ever, and a kind of tamped-down excitement which keeps breaking through even the worst days of poverty, depression and loneliness. But then youth is something which only exists in retrospect; you are barely conscious of it while you have it. Fay Weldon
loneliness heart solitude
To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived. Fanny Burney
loneliness eye night
Under the ground seep the toxins of the population that lives above. If you have to, you will eat roots and earthworms. It is always night. Candles burn in lanterns made from tin cans. When it is nighttime up above, you can crawl out, but only for a little while. You feel ashamed of your matted hair, your torn clothes, the dirt on your face. Who would want to speak to you? They are all shiny and pretty. They have parents and house with gardens. What do you have? The earth. Whole handfuls of it. The lizard people with their slit eyes and scaly skin. Your loneliness. Your longing. Francesca Lia Block
loneliness mean worry
Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness. George Orwell
loneliness
I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody. Fyodor Dostoevsky
loneliness believe men
Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness.
loneliness fighting against-love
I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.
loneliness people ego
It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves. There was some element of loneliness involved--so easy to be loved--so hard to love.
loneliness people used
People living alone get used to loneliness.
loneliness memorable two
For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live.
loneliness people age
To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people to whom your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasphemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs.
loneliness artist creating
The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of God creating from a primal loneliness. Garry Wills
loneliness causes baldness
The worst thing baldness causes is loneliness. Gail Porter
loneliness grief book
Gail Godwin has written a book about the heaviest matters of loss, grief, and loneliness with a touch so light that I was as often deeply amused by it as I was deeply moved. Frederick Buechner
loneliness leader acting
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone. Ferdinand Marcos
loneliness
Words are loneliness. Henry Miller
loneliness book winning
A book is not an end in itself; it is only a way to touch someone - a bridge extended across a space of loneliness and obscurity - and sometimes it is a way of winning other people to our causes. Isabel Allende
loneliness stones
And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.
loneliness yoga being-alone
Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness. Indra Devi
loneliness solitude delight
He who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. Friedrich Nietzsche
loneliness solitude one-thing
Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.
loneliness excellence property
Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals. Franz Grillparzer
loneliness talking secret
The best antidote for loneliness, hopelessness, and fear is vulnerability: sharing your secrets and talking about what shames you, what you fear. Jewel
loneliness being-alone gathering
Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life. Jerzy Kosinski
loneliness married
married was the loneliest I got - being without the one you're with. Jennifer Stone
loneliness thinking france
Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength. George Bernard Shaw
loneliness too-much sometimes
Sometimes, the loneliness probably got to be too much and anyone seemed better than no one. Gena Showalter
loneliness vegetarianism alcohol
I, however, cannot force myself to use "meat drugs" to cheat on my loneliness. Franz Kafka