Loneliness Quotes - Page 25

• I believe that dialogue is the key to breaking through our tendency to separate and isolate. Dialogue changes isolation and loneliness into connection and interdependence. This, I believe, is the essence of Buddhism.

  Vinessa Shaw

  Believe, Buddhism, Keys

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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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• ...Summer nights held a special kind of loneliness that gave rise to strange imaginings. One walked the beach alone and thought too much.

  Robert Ludlum

  Summer, Beach, Night

  Robert Ludlum (2012). “The Aquitaine Progression: A Novel”, p.64, Bantam

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

  Mark Corrigan

  Hate, Pay

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• When I'm writing, I like to travel alone. If you really want to find out about a place, you need to be as free as possible to be spontaneous. You also need to be lonely, because loneliness is a great teacher, too.

  Paul Theroux

  Lonely, Teacher, Writing

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Loneliness in travel directs you and tells you about yourself. You don't become lonely unless you're alone.

  Paul Theroux

  Lonely, About Yourself

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Krys Lee has written a book of unforgettable stories, each one building on the other to create a complex, moving portrait of contemporary Korea and its diaspora. She guides us surely through the fallout of war, immigration, and financial crisis, always alert to the possibility of tenderness, transcendence, and even humor along the way. Lee is a writer who really understands loneliness, but her voice is so appealing, and her perceptions so wise, that we feel all the less lonely for knowing her characters and experiencing their lives.

  Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

  Wise, Lonely, War

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• I drink out of desperation. Life is too dreary to endure. The misery, loneliness, crampedness - they're heartbreaking.[...] What feelings do you suppose a man has when he realizes that he will never know happiness or glory as long as he lives? Hard work. All that amounts to is food for the wild beasts of hunger.

  Osamu Dazai

  Hard Work, Men, Long

  Osamu Dazai (1968). “The Setting Sun”, p.150, New Directions Publishing

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• I dont fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.

  Mary Roach

  Beach, Pain, Holiday

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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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• My children's favorite, and it's funny because they've seen it but they have a difficult time watching it because it's their dad and they make that connection, but Edward Scissorhands is by far my kids' favorite. They just connect with the character, and they see their dad feeling that isolation, that loneliness. He's a tragic character, so I think it's hard for them. They bawl.

  Johnny Depp

  Children, Dad, Character

  "Tim Burton & Johnny Depp In Step With Alice in Wonderland". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2010.

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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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• There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for others as well as for himself, for a nation as well as for individuals. That privacy no man can intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit for the right perhaps no man can assist.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Lonely, Destiny, Men

  Woodrow Wilson (2015). “Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917”, p.96, Princeton University Press

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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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• There are degrees of loneliness, ways in which the experience of loneliness deepens, becomes something like what we might call a way of life. This way of life is both what is most damaging to us as a culture, and, paradoxically, contributes to its richness. It may in the end be our lasting contribution to the life of our planet.

  Thomas L. Dumm

  Degrees, Culture, May

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, believermag.com. January 1, 2009.

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• Saturday night is the loneliest night in the week.

  Sammy Cahn

  Night, Week, Saturday

  Sammy Cahn (2002). “Sammy Cahn's Rhyming Dictionary”, p.39, Hal Leonard Corporation

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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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• Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Plato, Complacency, Companion

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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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• Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.

  Andrew Stanton

  Thinking, People, Conscious

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• 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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• Death is loneliness in its purest form.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Form

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.490, Atlantic Monthly Press

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