Loneliness Quotes - Page 26

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

  David Foster Wallace

  Fiction, Relieved

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• Loneliness has been following me my whole life.

  Robert De Niro

  Whole Life, Following, Has Beens

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• The Seasons Difference is a suave and urbane comedy about several immense abstractions - faith, innocence, loneliness, and love.

  Orville Prescott

  Differences, And Love, Suave

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• Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And anyone can have them.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Good Man, Priceless, Manners

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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

  Source: roosterweathervane.tumblr.com

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• One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. I mean it's one of the things that goes way back; loneliness is not good for the world. And so, whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural, and healthy to want somebody to go through life with. It's central to our humanity.

  Rob Bell

  Mean, Gay, Healthy

  Source: capro.info

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• Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Thinking, Yesterday, Tomorrow

  Hunter S. Thompson (2014). “The Proud Highway: Rejacketed”, p.51, Bloomsbury 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• in love, gallantry is necessary. Even when the first wild desire is gone, especially then, there is an inherent need for good manners and consideration, for the putting forth of effort. Two courteous and civilized human beings out of the loneliness of their souls owe that to each other.

  Ilka Chase

  Two, Effort, Soul

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• Instead of hiding your loneliness, bring it into the light. Honor it. Treat it. Heal it. You'll find that it returns the favor.

  Martha Beck

  Light, Honor, Favors

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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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• The association between failure, loneliness, and solitude is so strong in our culture that people often find it difficult to believe that there are some who like being by themselves.

  Suzanne Gordon

  Strong, Believe, People

  Suzanne Gordon (1976). “Lonely in America”, Touchstone

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• The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.

  Adrienne Rich

  Liars, Lying, Existence

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I never had a dog that showed a human fear of death. Death, to a dog, is the final unavoidable compulsion, the least ineluctable scent on a fearsome trail, but they like to face it alone, going out into the woods, among the leaves, if there are any leaves when their time comes, enduring without sentimental human distraction the Last Loneliness, which they are wise enough to know cannot be shared by anyone.

  James Thurber

  Death, Wise, Dog

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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 am learning to see loneliness as a seed that, when planted deep enough, can grow into writing that goes back out into the world.

  Kathleen Norris

  Writing, World, Enough

  Kathleen Norris (2001). “Dakota: A Spiritual Geography”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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