Loneliness Quotes - Page 19

• Python carries his loneliness in him as if he had eaten clay.

  Barbara Chase-Riboud

  Python, Clay, Carrie

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• Always in the short story there is this sense of outlawed figures wandering about the fringes of society.... As a result there is in the short story at its most characteristic something we do not often find in the novel--an intense awareness of human loneliness.

  Frank O'Connor

  Stories, Awareness, Intense

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• Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.

  Adrienne Rich

  Art, Sex, People

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

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• y feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Religious, Fighting

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• It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties - that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains a roomful of people and then goes home to a lonely bedsit was unbelievably poignant for me because that was exactly what I was doing. I had periods of real loneliness.

  Paul Merton

  Lonely, Real, Home

  "Paul Merton interview: fears of a clown". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2000.

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• i suppose doing things you hate is the price you pay to avoid loneliness.

  Mark Corrigan

  Hate, Pay

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• You really come to life on stage but outside - this is a bit of a sad clown cliché - there is that element of loneliness you get from travelling and being on the road. Stand-ups can bring a lot of that to a dramatic role and make it work for them.

  Doc Brown

  Roles, Elements, Dramatic

  Source: www.gigglebeats.co.uk

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• I think that part of being human is being alone, and being lonely. I think one of the stresses on a lot of our friendships is that we require the people we love to take away that loneliness. and they really can't. And so, when we still feel lonely, even in the company of people we love, we become angry with them because they don't do what we think they're supposed to. Which is really something that they can't do for us.

  Rich Mullins

  Lonely, Stress, Thinking

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• Touch is... one of the most ancient transactions, a defiance of the plasma membrane and the loneliness it brought.

  Natalie

  Ancient, Membranes, Defiance

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• And loneliness. I should say something of loneliness. The panic, the sweeping hysteria that comes not when you are without others, but when you are without yourself, adrift. I should describe the filthy province of mind, the blighted district inside, the place so crowded you cannot raise the eyelids of your eyes. Your shoulders are drawn and your head has fallen and your chest is bruised by the constant assault of your heart.

  Hilary Thayer Hamann

  Eye, Heart, Hysteria

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• In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lonely, Men, Solitude

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• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Education, Culture, Strive

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• ... as lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on.

  Charles Dickens

  House, Kitten, Lonesome

  Charles Dickens (1850). “Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People ; with a Frontispiece by George Cruikshank”, p.16

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• We live a pleasant life shopping at the Food Shoppe . . . taking the kids to the Weinery-Beanery, . . . and eating bran flakes . .. and then, with no warning, we wake up one morning stricken with middle age, full of loneliness, dumb, in pain. Our work is useless, our vocation is lost, and nobody cares about us at all. This is not bearable. In despair, we go do something spectacularly dumb, like run away with Amber the cocktail waitress, and suddenly all the women in our life look at us with unmitigated disgust.

  Garrison Keillor

  Running, Morning, Pain

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• Sometimes I dread loneliness more than bores. Other times, the reverse.

  Mason Cooley

  Boredom, Sometimes, Dread

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• Loneliness is more likely to lead to fussy housekeeping than to grand views of the Universe.

  Mason Cooley

  Views, Housekeeping, Fussy

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• Fitzgerald describes the social disillusionments and ballroom romanticism of the young people of the upper classes and the loneliness of Gatsby, who gives large parties and has an extensive social life; yet he is lonely, and his guests scarcely know him.... Hemingway's characters live in a tourist world, and one of their major problems is that of consuming time itself. It is interesting to observe that his works are written from the stand point of the spectator. His characters are usually people who are looking--looking at bullfights, scenery, and at one another across cafe tables.

  James T. Farrell

  Lonely, Party, Character

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• Tragedy is always a mistake; and the loneliness of the deepest thinker, the widest lover, ceases to be pathetic to us so soon as the sun is high enough above the mountains.

  Margaret Fuller

  Mistake, Mountain, Tragedy

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.173

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• Until the day when, your endurance gone, in this world for you without arms, you catch up in yours the first mangy cur you meet, carry it for the time needed for it to love it and you it, then throw it away.

  Samuel Beckett

  Love, Despair, Endurance

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I think it must be lonely to be God.
  Nobody loves a master. No.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  God, Lonely, Thinking

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.30, Library of America

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• Goodbye,
  you who are, for me, the postmarks again
  of shattered towns--Xenia, Burnt Cabins,
  Hornell--
  their loneliness
  given away in poems, only their solitude kept.

  Galway Kinnell

  Goodbye, War, Poetry

  Galway Kinnell, “The Correspondence School Instructor Says Goodbye To His Poetry Students”

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• Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Plato, Complacency, Companion

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• Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Excellence, Property, Mortals

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• Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Solitude, Different, Remember

  "Balanced Life — 6 Tips for Battling Loneliness" by Gretchen Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2011.

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• Shall I let in the stranger,
  Shall I welcome the sailor,
  Or stay till the day I die?
  Hands of the stranger and holds of the ships,
  Hold you poison or grapes?

  Dylan Thomas

  Hands, Ships, Sailor

  Dylan Thomas (2010). “The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: The Original Edition”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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