Loneliness Quotes - Page 13

• It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

  Bruce Barton

  Lonely, Being Alone, Men

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• Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

  Joan Collins

  Lonely, Being Alone, People

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• When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

  Walter Scott

  Lonely, Thinking, Gone

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• Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Life, Lonely, Equality

  "Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the Twenty-First Century". Book by Michio Kaku, 1997.

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• Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Inspirational, Life, Lonely

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• I need someone. I need to hold somebody close. And I need more than this holding. I need someone to understand how I feel at a time like now. And the understanding must be part of the holding.

  Betty Smith

  Being Alone, Understanding, Feelings

  BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”

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• Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

  T. S. Eliot

  Mean, Way, Communion

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.405, Faber & Faber

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• The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his desert through the marketplace and deploys his talents as a smiling leper, a mountebank of the irreparable.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Men, Suffering, Desert

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• A great many wise sayings have been uttered about the effects of solitary retirement; but the motives which impel men to seek it are not more various than the effects which it produces on different individuals. One thing is certain, that those who can with truth affirm that they are "never less alone than when alone," might generally add that they never feel more lonely than when not alone.

  Arthur Helps

  Wise, Lonely, Retirement

  Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

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• I am not without an object in life, but I feel lonely and deserted.

  Johanna van Gogh-Bonger

  Lonely, Feels, Objects

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• Leave my loneliness unbroken

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Unbroken

  Edgar Allan Poe, Brod Bagert (1995). “Edgar Allan Poe”, p.18, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• We are not alone in our loneliness, others have been here and known griefs we thought our special own.

  Patrick Kavanagh

  Grief, Special, Has Beens

  Patrick Kavanagh (2000). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Classics

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• In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their most familiar surroundings, those people who either are foreigners or who suffer a singular point of view that makes them feel as if they’re foreigners - even in their native lands. In our hearts... there also abides a certain suspicion that such people need to feel set apart from their society. But people who initiate loneliness are no less lonely than those who are suddenly surprised by loneliness, nor are they undeserving of our pity.

  John Irving

  Lonely, Heart, Views

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• We must relearn to be alone.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone-that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born.

  Nikola Tesla

  Being Alone, Creativity, Ideas

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• Remember that hate is not the opposite of love as people think.  Hate is love standing upside down; it is not the opposite of love.  The real opposite of love is fear.  In love one expands, in fear one shrinks.  In fear one becomes closed, in love one opens.  In fear one doubts, in love one trusts.  In fear one is left lonely.  In love one disappears; hence there is no question of loneliness at all.  Love is when you have known your inner sky.  There is no higher religion than love

  Rajneesh

  Lonely, Hate, Real

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• ...the pain of the constant, bone-chilling loneliness she'd accustomed herself to. And learned to live with it.

  Christina Dodd

  Pain, Chill, Bones

  Christina Dodd (2009). “A Well Pleasured Lady: Well Pleasured #1”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• 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

  Long, Generosity, Benefits

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• If Christians cannot communicate as thinking beings, they are reduced to encountering one another only at the shallow level of gossip and small talk. Hence the perhaps peculiarly modern problem - the loneliness of the thinking Christian.

  Harry Blamires

  Christian, Thinking, Gossip

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• I'm lonely. What kind of loneliness? Every kind. I feel disconnected. Abandoned. As always. Repetition. So what, my love? So what? At first, I just wanted to run away. Now I have no where else to run to, nothing to run from. I don't belong anywhere, I don't want to go anywhere, I just want to be happy.

  Daul Kim

  Running, Lonely, Want

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• No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness.

  Robert Breault

  Love, Complaining, Prisoner

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• 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

  Good Day, Bad Day, Anxiety

  Beauty and Lace Interview, entertainment.beautyandlace.net. September 4, 2009.

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• We want to know that we're not alone with our loneliness or loss.

  Michael Helm

  Loss, Want, Knows

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The best talk is artless, the talk of people trying to reassure or comfort themselves, women in the sun, grouped around baby carriages, talking about their weeks in the hospital or the way meat has gone up, or men in saloons, talking to combat the loneliness everyone feels.

  Joseph Mitchell

  Baby, Men, Talking

  Joseph Mitchell (2010). “My Ears Are Bent”, p.11, Vintage

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