Loneliness Quotes - Page 20

• The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all.

  Beryl Markham

  Natural, Deck Of Cards, Abhorrence

  Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

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• It is hard going to the door
  cut so small in the wall where
  the vision which echoes loneliness
  brings a scent of wild flowers in the wood.

  Robert Creeley

  Wall, Flower, Cutting

  Robert Creeley (1982). “The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975”, p.199, Univ of California Press

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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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• I felt more than ever the necessity of my mission. But I went home out of spirits, I hardly know why. I must work by myself all life long.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Home, Long, Physicians

  Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches”, p.61, Library of Alexandria

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• The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the poem already here, at its inception, in the encounter, in the mystery of encounter?

  Paul Celan

  Lonely, Poetry, Doe

  Paul Celan (2005). “Paul Celan: Selections”, p.164, Univ of California Press

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• The twentieth-century artist who uses symbols is alienated because the system of symbols is a private one. After you have dealt with the symbols you are still private, you are still lonely, because you are not sure anyone will understand it except yourself. The ransom of privacy is that you are alone.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Lonely, Artist, Symbolism

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• Terrified of being alone, yet afraid of intimacy, we experience widespread feelings of emptiness, of disconnection, of the unreality of self. And here the computer, a companion without emotional demands, offers a compromise. You can be a loner, but never alone. You can interact, but need never feel vulnerable to another person.

  Sherry Turkle

  Emotional, Self, Feelings

  Sherry Turkle (1985). “The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit”, Touchstone Books

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• Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved.

  David Foster Wallace

  Fiction, Relieved

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.

  Richard Powers

  Writing, Stranger

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• Marriage is supposed to do everything, like Duz, which is more than half its problem. It is said to save us, define us, give us purpose, keep us from loneliness, and incidentally balance our diet and wash our socks, and when it doesn't, we get divorced.

  Merle Shain

  Marriage, Giving, Balance

  Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”

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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

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• These are frightening times...when she feels herself annointed by loneliness.

  Carol Shields

  Feeling Lonely, Feels, Frightening

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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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• Oh, whoever has been himself alone can never find another’s loneliness strange.

  Robert Walser

  Strange, Has Beens

  Robert Walser (2012). “Berlin Stories”, p.119, New York Review of Books

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