Loneliness Quotes - Page 20

• The Seasons Difference is a suave and urbane comedy about several immense abstractions - faith, innocence, loneliness, and love.

  Orville Prescott

  Differences, And Love, Suave

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• Once we have a firm practice of compassion our state of mind becomes stronger which leads to inner peace, giving rise to self-confidence, which reduces fear. This makes for constructive members of the community. Self-centredness on the other hand leads to distance, suspicion, mistrust and loneliness, with unhappiness as the result.

  Dalai Lama

  Distance, Self Confidence, Compassion

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• I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Moveable Feast, Ends, Felt

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• Fear is the process of the mind in the struggle of becoming. In becoming good there is the fear of evil; in becoming complete, there is the fear of loneliness.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Struggle, Evil, Mind

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living 2”, p.170, M-y books ltd

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• Loneliness cannot be alleviated just by the coming together of two bodies, unless there is also good communication, understanding, and loving kindness.

  Nhat Hanh

  Kindness, Communication, Two

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.95, Harmony

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• If you fear loneliness, then don't get married.

  Anton Chekhov

  Marriage, Fear, Married

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• One ought to love society, if he wishes to enjoy solitude. It is a social nature that solitude works upon with the most various power. If one is misanthropic, and betakes himself to loneliness that he may get away from hateful things, solitude is a silent emptiness to him.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Solitude, Wish, May

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• Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Thinking, Yesterday, Tomorrow

  Hunter S. Thompson (2014). “The Proud Highway: Rejacketed”, p.51, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• in darkness and in hedges
  I sang my sour tone
  and all my love was howling
  conspicuously alone.

  W. D. Snodgrass

  Darkness, Tone, Sour

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• I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn't love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I felt without roots, like a man without a country.

  Sarah-Patton Boyle

  Country, Men, Roots

  Sarah Patton Boyle (2016). “The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition”, p.115, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Loneliness is a good education. You learn the things no crowds can teach and you discover the things no crowds can give.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Education, Giving, Crowds

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• You can do beautiful things with your friends; you can do beautiful things when you are all alone! In togetherness, listen to the music of the crowds; in solitude, listen to the music of the silence! Be neither afraid of the crowds, nor of the loneliness, because both are blessings!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Music, Beautiful, Blessing

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• Courage looks you straight in the eye. She is not impressed with power trippers, and she knows first aid. Courage is not afraid to weep, and she is not afraid to pray, even when she is not sure who she is praying to. When she walks it is clear she has made the journey from loneliness to solitude. The people who told me she was stern were not lying. they just forgot to mention she was kind.

  J. Ruth Gendler

  Lying, Eye, Journey

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• Writing can be a lonely business. But gradually your characters, or the scenes and peopl from your past, begin to rise up around you, and you find yourself writing your way out of loneliness, writing into your own company.

  Barbara Abercrombie

  Lonely, Writing, Character

  Barbara Abercrombie (2012). “A Year of Writing Dangerously: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement”, p.117, New World Library

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• There is a core of loneliness. It's partly existential. Secondly, I was raised a loner. My parents were not there. My father was asked to leave because he couldn't metabolize ethanol. Actually, my mother ran away with us when I was 2 months old and my brother was 5. Real dramatic stuff: down the fire escape, through backyards. So, I sort of raised myself. I was alone a lot and I invented myself - I lived through the radio and through my imagination.

  George Carlin

  Mother, Brother, Father

  Interview with Ricky Young, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1997.

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• I didn't really get the chance to talk to girls. I was a straight boy with hormones kicking in, and I wanted to talk to girls, but they weren't interested in talking back to me, so there was a real sense of loneliness.

  Andy Biersack

  Girl, Real, Boys

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• One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. I mean it's one of the things that goes way back; loneliness is not good for the world. And so, whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural, and healthy to want somebody to go through life with. It's central to our humanity.

  Rob Bell

  Mean, Gay, Healthy

  Source: capro.info

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• I diagnosed my loneliness as premature empty nest syndrome.

  Kristen Schaal

  Funny, Humor, Nests

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• As an artist, the most important feeling is loneliness. So when I say artists need to isolate themselves from society this is what I mean: You have to look for that feeling of loneliness again. Only this way can you have something that is purely your own.

  Zhang Xiaogang

  Mean, Artist, Feelings

  Source: www.thebeijinger.com

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• I enjoy the fact that, as a gay man, there's relatively little pressure on me to act like a grown-up, but also I see the pitfalls that we're susceptible to, addiction, isolation, loneliness, mental illness, not to mention the embarrassing fashion choices.

  Vestal McIntyre

  Fashion, Gay, Men

  Source: roosterweathervane.tumblr.com

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• The best of community does give one a deep sense of belonging and well-being; and in that sense community takes away loneliness.

  Henri Nouwen

  Giving, Community, Doe

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• It is precisely when you are loved a lot that you might realize a second loneliness which is not to be solved but lived. This second loneliness is an existential loneliness that belongs to the basis of our being. It's where we are unfulfilled because only God can fill us.

  Henri Nouwen

  Might, Realizing, Existential

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• In community, where you have all the affection you could ever dream of, you feel that there is a place where even community cannot reach. That's a very important experience. In that loneliness, which is like a dark night of the soul, you learn that God is greater than community.

  Henri Nouwen

  Dream, Dark, Night

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• Nonetheless, Scranton had travelled in space. He had known the loneliness of separation from all other human beings, he had gazed at the empty perspectives that I myself had seen.

  J. G. Ballard

  Space, Perspective, Separation

  J. G. Ballard (1962). “Memories of the space age”, Arkham House Pub

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• Of my friends I am the only one left.

  Terence

  Lonely, My Friends, Left

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