Loneliness Quotes
We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?
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.
The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her.
If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more prevalent than the fear of one another.
The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds.
The best of community does give one a deep sense of belonging and well-being; and in that sense community takes away loneliness.
Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art.
Isolation and loneliness create the conditions for rapid aging. The key is to stay connected and open to new relationships throughout your life.
There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.
The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.
Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.
Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome.
If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.
Alone, alone, about the dreadful wood / Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, / Dreading to find its Father.
Like falling stars from the universe we are hurled Down through the long loneliness of the world Until we behold the pain, become the pearl
It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today.
The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.
I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.
We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock.
The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.
Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.
Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.
Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.
When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.
I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
When Christ said: "I was hungry and you fed me," he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness.
Lisa: 'Do we have any food that wasn't brutally slaughtered?' Homer: 'Well, I think the veal died of loneliness.'
Every time I stepped into madness of the crowds, I longed for the wisdom of the loneliness.
Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in their reach inward, via print, for a way out of loneliness.
Each man lives love in his limited fashion and does not seem to relate the resultant confusion and loneliness to his lack of knowledge about love.
The Seasons Difference is a suave and urbane comedy about several immense abstractions - faith, innocence, loneliness, and love.
The definition of the word nerd has changed. It's now any attractive person with a hobby. The loneliness component is no longer included.
What is it that we call loneliness. It can’t simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely, and you can be among people and yet be lonely. So what is it?
Loneliness is dangerous ... because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self.
My plight has given me a strange kind of wealth, the most important kind. I value each moment that is not spent in pain, desperation, hunger, thirst, or loneliness.
We give it up and just look directly with compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat and heartache, no punishment.