Loneliness Quotes - Page 17

• It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.

  Edward Hopper

  Communication, Reflection, People

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• And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for. In polaroids you were dressed in women's clothes Were you made ashamed, why'd you lock them in a drawer? Well, I don't think that I ever loved you more Well let the poets cry themselves to sleep And all their tearful words will turn back into steam The sound of loneliness makes me happier.

  Conor Oberst

  Sleep, Thinking, Yellow

  "Song: "Poison Oak" ("I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning ")". January 25, 2005.

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• The first cup caresses my dry lips and throat, The second shatters the walls of my loneliness, The third explores the dry rivulets of my soul Searching for legends of five thousand scrolls. With the fourth the pain of past injustice vanishes through my pores. The fifth purifies my flesh and bone. With the sixth I commune with the immortals. The seventh conveys such pleasure I am overcome. The fresh wind blows through my wings As I make my way to Penglai.

  Lu Tong

  Wall, Pain, Blow

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• Green makes me think of silence, or maybe it's loneliness. I get the feeling of a terribly distant star.

  Kobo Abe

  Stars, Thinking, Color

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• There was nothing lonelier than a man with a million friends.

  William Shatner

  Men, Millions

  William Shatner, Judith Reeves-Stevens, Garfield Reeves-Stevens (1996). “The Ashes of Eden”, Pocket Books/Star Trek

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• There's a romance to danger. There's a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of those things can be used to make the story of our lives better.

  Joey Comeau

  Drinking, Romance, Drug

  Interview with Adrian Comeau, "I Am Other People" series, www.asofterworld.com.

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• Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.

  B. W. Powe

  Consciousness, Rebellion, Plant

  "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by B. W. Powe, 2006.

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• that pathetic short-cut suggested by Nature the supreme joker as a remedy for our loneliness, that ephemeral communion which we persuade ourselves to be of the spirit when it is in fact only of the body - durable not even in memory!

  Vita Sackville-West

  Sex, Memories, Cutting

  Victoria Sackville-West, Vita Sackville-West (1985). “No Signposts in the Sea”, Penguin Group USA

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• the sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Grief, Loss, Grew

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2015). “The Last Man”, p.564, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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• No technological achievements can mitigate the disappointment of modern man, his loneliness, his feeling of inferiority, and his fear of war, revolution and terror. Not only has our generation lost faith in Providence but also in man himself, in his institutions and often in those who are nearest to him.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Disappointment, War, Our Generation

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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• There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.

  Erica Jong

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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• Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Art, Infinite, Works Of Art

  'Briefe an einem jungen Dichter' (Letters to a Young Poet, 1929) 23 April 1903 (translation by Reginald Snell)

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• When I allow myself to feel all my feelings instead of numbing myself to them, they pass more quickly. I spent my entire life telling everyone I was "OK, damn it." But when you surrender to the [uncomfortable] feelings, there are gifts on the other side: Allowing yourself to feel loneliness forces you to reach out. Letting yourself get angry gives you strength, energy and motivation.

  Ashley Judd

  Motivation, Uncomfortable Feeling, Giving

  "Ashley's Secret Life". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. July 9, 2006.

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• A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him. I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

  Carson McCullers

  Independent, Weather, People

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• A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Lonely, Cat, Needs

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1993). “The frightened wife, and other murder stories”, Thorndike Pr

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• as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness. You are in the country where you make up the rules, the laws. You are both dictator and obedient populace. It is a country nobody has ever explored before. It is up to you to make the maps, to build the cities. Nobody else in the world can do it, or ever could do it, or ever will be able to do it again.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Country, Law, Cities

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• Such a nice day - out all day up in the Carter Notch direction, trout-fishing, with the long drive there and the long drive home again in time for supper. It was a lovely brook and I caught seven good trout and one small one - which eight trout-persons you should have for your breakfast if only you were near enough. It was not alone the fishing, but the delightful loneliness and being out of doors.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Nice, Home, Should Have

  Sarah Orne Jewett (1911). “Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett”

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• Smell remembers and tells the future. ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers.

  Cherrie Moraga

  Betrayal, Home, Smell

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• I believe that it is sometimes less difficult to wake up and feel that I am alone when I really am, than to wake up with someone else and be lonely.

  Liv Ullmann

  Lonely, Believe, Wake Up

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• To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Mean, Doe, Charity

  Stanley Hauerwas (2015). “The Work of Theology”, p.214, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• If same-sex relationships are really sinful, then why do they so often produce good fruit-loving families, open homes, self-sacrifice, commitment, faithfulness, joy? And if conservative Christians are really right in their response to same-sex relationships, then why does that response often produce bad fruit-secrets, shame, depression, loneliness, broken families, and fear?

  Rachel Held Evans

  Christian, Sex, Commitment

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• Scary is time passing and sickness and dying and regret and isolation and loneliness and relationship problems - as opposed to a guy in a hockey mask, which didn't seem that scary.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Regret, Hockey, Guy

  "Charlie Kaufman" by Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2008.

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• I get an audience personally involved in a song - because I'm involved myself. It's not something I do deliberately: I can't help myself. If the song is a lament at the loss of love, I get an ache in my gut. I feel the loss myself and I cry out the loneliness, the hurt and the pain that I feel.

  Frank Sinatra

  Song, Hurt, Pain

  Source: www.slate.com

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• The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.

  Dorothy Day

  Community, Answers, This Life

  Dorothy Day (2011). “The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day”, p.184, Image

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• for many people, loneliness was an experience of time. 'Not knowing what to do with yourself' was the way it was usually put.

  Louise Bernikow

  Knowing, People, Way

  Louise Bernikow (1986). “Alone in America: the search for companionship”, Harpercollins

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