Loneliness And Solitude Quotes - Page 4

• Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.

  Dan Brown

  Lonely, Loneliness, Technology

  Dan Brown (2005). “Angels & Demons”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won't soothe his soul.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Love, Soulmate, Regret

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• Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

  William Powell

  Inspirational, Friendship, Real Friends

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• Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

  Alan Watts

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Freedom

  Alan W. Watts (2011). “The Way of Zen”, p.157, Vintage

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• I want to be left alone.

  Greta Garbo

  Lonely, Fear, Loneliness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Personality

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• People often expect the other person to respond first in a positive way, instead of taking the initiative to create that possibility. I feel that's wrong; it can act as a barrier that just promotes a feeling of isolation from others. To overcome feelings of isolation and loneliness, your underlying attitude makes a tremendous difference - approaching others with the thought of compassion in your mind is the best way.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Loneliness, Compassion

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• Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.

  Oswald Chambers

  Solitude, Done, World

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.406, Discovery House

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• Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Love, Being Alone, Men

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 40, 1799.

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• Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.

  Samuel Beckett

  Use It Or Lose It, Solitude, Three Things

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.389, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I will fill myself with the desert and the sky. I will be stone and stars, unchanging and strong and safe. The desert is complete; it is spare and alone, but perfect in its soltitude. I will be the desert.

  Kiersten White

  Strong, Stars, Sky

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• If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public.

  Timothy Keller

  Grace, Solitude, Way

  Timothy Keller (2015). “Preaching: Communicating Faith in an Age of Skepticism”, p.168, Penguin

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• The Christian life was never meant to be lived alone. Together we're a body. A family. The people of God.

  Matthew West

  Christian, People, Together

  FaceBook post by Matthew West from Mar 04, 2015

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• Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

  Martin Luther

  Death, Faith, Loneliness

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• The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

  Mark Twain

  Lonely, Self Esteem, Loneliness

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• All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!

  Dr. Seuss

  Depressing, Being Alone, You Like It

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• When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core is.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Oneself

  "Wisdom from Gift from the Sea".

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• Not everyone knows how to be alone with others, how to share solitude. We have to help each other to understand how to be in our solitude, so that we can relate to each other without grabbing on to each other. We can be interdependent but not dependent. Loneliness is rejected despondency. Solitude is shared interdependence.

  David Spangler

  Loneliness, Solitude, Helping

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• What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

  George Eliot

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.935, Xist Publishing

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• Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

  Germaine Greer

  Wisdom, Lonely, Loneliness

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

  Oscar Wilde

  Bores You, Boredom, Solitude

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• Loneliness is a drug, a narcotic; it grows through veins, through nerves and muscles; it assumes some right of possession over your body and mind; it feeds itself, and creates its own requirement. Loneliness and solitude are walls.

  R.J. Ellory

  Wall, Loneliness, Drug

  R. J. Ellory (2010). “A Quiet Belief in Angels: A Novel”, p.100, The Overlook Press

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• Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Inspirational, Dream, Children

  Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House

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• By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.

  George Herbert

  Mean, Meditation, Soul

  "The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel".

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• Theres a difference between solitude and loneliness

  Maggie Smith

  Loneliness, Differences, Solitude

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