Loneliness Quotes - Page 23

• There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity. All young people should be taught now to put up with loneliness ... because the less man is compelled to come into contact with others, the better off he is.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, People, Choices

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• Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self.

  Carl Rogers

  Self, Uniting, Barriers

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• Yes, you who must leave everything that you cannot control, It begins with your family, and soon it comes round to your soul. Well I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned: When you're not feeling holy your loneliness says that you've sinned.

  Leonard Cohen

  Thinking, Soul, Feelings

  Leonard Cohen (2001). “Leonard Cohen Anthology (Songbook)”, p.85, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression that affect our hearts, minds and souls and remind us of who we are as human beings, the fragility of our human status and the inevitability of death.

  Cornel West

  Heart, Sadness, Wrestling

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Lost in loneliness and pain. Black and unendurable, Thinking of you with every Corpuscle of my flesh, in Every instant of night And day.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Thinking Of You, Pain, Night

  Kenneth Rexroth (1967). “The Collected Shorter Poems”, p.230, New Directions Publishing

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• We have forgotten love, and Sat lonely beside each other. We have eaten together, Lonely behind our plates, we Have hidden behind children, We have slept together in A lonely bed. Now my heart Turns toward you, awake at last, Penitent, lost in the last Loneliness. Speak to me. Talk To me. Break the black silence.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Lonely, Children, Heart

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• 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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• For me, filmmaking is an ongoing self-reflection process. I kind of push everything to the edge. I feel very exposed and fragile when I make a film. It's a process of dealing with loneliness. And it's also very dramatic - because while you are working on a film, you just realize how incapable you are of dealing with all these things. And you open yourself up, and it's like your heart is utterly exposed. And it's very tiring on a daily basis.

  Tamer El Said

  Heart, Kind, Film

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too. Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev'rybody loves you now.

  Billy Joel

  Mistake, Love You, Cake

  Song: Everybody Loves You Now

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return! whose poetry is too finely spun, whose philosophy is too and mystified for popular demand: perhaps we have experienced feeling which Mr. Wordsworth alludes to, in a poem worthy of simplicity and loneliness of the sentiment "Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure; Sighed to think I read a book Only read perhaps by me!

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Lonely, Philosophy, Book

  "Sketches from Life" by Laman Blanchard. "Quotations", 1846.

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• I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and sadness.

  Cornel West

  Sadness, Sacrifice, Artist

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness.

  John D. Voelker

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

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• I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him.

  Jose Saramago

  Men, Doors, House

  "The Cave" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costa, Vintage, (p. 29), 2003.

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• When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness.

  Brian Swimme

  Response, Humans, Objects

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• Although the warrior's life is dedicated to helping others, he realizes that he will never be able to completely share his experience with others...Yet he is more and more in love with the world. That combination of love affair and loneliness is what enables the warrior to constantly reach out to help others. By renouncing his private world, the warrior discovers a greater universe and a fuller and fuller broken heart. This is not something to feel bad about; it is a cause for rejoicing.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Heart, Warrior, Helping Others

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• Just the absence of loneliness. That's love enough.

  John Rechy

  Absence, Enough

  John Rechy (2011). “City of Night”, p.329, Souvenir Press

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• The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, "I shall be unhappy without loneliness," shows that he made loneliness his master.

  Matsuo Basho

  Unhappy, Facts, Made

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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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• 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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• Travel is in sad case. It is uncomfortable, it is expensive; it is a source of annoyance to our friends, and of loneliness to ourselves.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Travel, Source, Cases

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• Oh! death will find me, long before I tire
  Of watching for you; and swing me suddenly
  Into the shade and loneliness and mire
  Of the last land!

  Rupert Brooke

  Death, Swings, Land

  Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics

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