Loneliness Quotes - Page 21

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

  Carol Shields

  Feeling Lonely, Feels, Frightening

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• Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat in a flock By the embers in hearth-side ease. We pictured the meek mild creatures where They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few would weave In these years! yet, I feel If someone said on Christmas Eve, "Come; see the oxen kneel, In the lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used to know," I should go with him in the gloom, Hoping it might be so.

  Thomas Hardy

  Lonely, Oxen, Years

  Thomas Hardy (2009). “Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.77, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• That's what Jamie didn't understand: it was never just sex. Even the fastest, dirtiest, most impersonal screw was about more than sex. It was about connection. It was about looking at another human being and seeing your own loneliness and neediness reflected back. It was recognising that together you had the power to temporarily banish that sense of isolation. It was about experiencing what it was to be human at the basest, most instinctive level. How could that be described as just anything?

  Emily Maguire

  Sex, Together, Connections

  Emily Maguire (2009). “Taming the Beast”, p.85, Picador Australia

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• Any business or enterprise that shaves away loneliness is going to last forever. And like it or not but we've got a lonely society.

  Anita Roddick

  Lonely, Forever, Lasts

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people; which is one reason why I'm not subject to what is known as loneliness. I have plenty of company.

  William S. Burroughs

  Real, Character, People

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• Loneliness is the teacher of giving.

  Hyemeyohsts Storm

  Teacher, Giving

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• What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself's the beginning of all love.

  Fritz Leiber

  People, Care, Like You

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “The Wanderer”, p.345, Open Road Media

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• My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.

  William Sharp

  Lonely, Heart, Hunters

  "The Lonely Hunter" l. 24 (1896) See McCullers 1

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• I almost never get lonely. I love being alone. I'm glad I'm married, and I love my wife. But there's never been a situation in my life where my unhappiness was based on loneliness.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Lonely, Love Is, Wife

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• Jesus never tried to hide his loneliness and dependence on other people. He chose his disciples not as servants but as friends. He shared moments of joy and grief with them, and asked for them in times of need. They became his family, his substitute mother and brothers and sisters. They gave up everything for him, as he had given up everything for them. He loved them, plain and simple.

  Philip Yancey

  Mother, Brother, Jesus

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• People don't acknowledge loneliness in themselves, and don't appreciate its benefits, the reflection and attentiveness that come with it, the deepened acquaintance with oneself.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Reflection, People, Appreciate

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• What wants to live in you may be waiting...at the end of a long loneliness.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Long, Waiting, May

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• Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity.

  Mason Cooley

  Lonely, Self, People

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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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• The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise.

  Jack London

  Hate, Men, Doe

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.570, Delphi Classics

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• The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy is its prime virtue. ... The letter, written in absorbed solitude, is an act of faith: it assumes the presence of humanity: world and self are generated from within: loneliness is courted, not feared. To write a letter is to be alone with my thoughts in the conjured presence of another person. I keep myself imaginative company. I occupy the empty room.

  Vivian Gornick

  Writing, Empty Rooms, Self

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• Yea, I have looked, and seen November there; The changeless seal of change it seemed to be, Fair death of things that, living once, were fair; Bright sign of loneliness too great for me, Strange image of the dread eternity, In whose void patience how can these have part, These outstretched feverish hands, this restless heart?

  William Morris

  Heart, Hands, Living Once

  William Morris, Peter Faulkner (2002). “Selected Poems”, p.96, Taylor & Francis

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