Loneliness Quotes - Page 27

• Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone.

  Gao Xingjian

  Reflection, Ability, Depends

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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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• Green makes me think of silence, or maybe it's loneliness. I get the feeling of a terribly distant star.

  Kobo Abe

  Stars, Thinking, Color

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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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• There's a romance to danger. There's a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of those things can be used to make the story of our lives better.

  Joey Comeau

  Drinking, Romance, Drug

  Interview with Adrian Comeau, "I Am Other People" series, www.asofterworld.com.

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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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• 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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• 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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• But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.

  Buffalo Bill

  Strong, Character, Mind

  Buffalo Bill, W. F. Cody (2012). “Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

  Tom Hanks

  Lonely, Cinema, Feels

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• If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Heart, World, Isolation

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• As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.

  Jason Schwartzman

  Lonely, Cities, Listening

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.

  Vin Scully

  Baseball, Hate, Games

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• Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Realizing, Hungry, Starvation

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “Faithless: Tales of Transgression”, p.36, Harper Collins

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• Then when dusk began to settle he would retrace his steps, back to his own world. And on the way home, a loneliness would always claim his heart. He could never quite get a grip on what it was. It just seemed that whatever lay waiting "out there" was all too vast, too overwhelming for him to possibly ever make a dent in.

  Haruki Murakami

  Home, Heart, Waiting

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• Wounding and healing are not opposites. They're part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate with the wounds of others. It is our limitations that make us kind to the limitations of other people. It is our loneliness that helps us to to find other people or to even know they're alone with an illness. I think I have served people perfectly with parts of myself I used to be ashamed of.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Healing, Thinking, Opposites

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• In our opposed forms of loneliness and self-recognition and recognition of the other, we touched each other often as we spoke; and on shore in explorations of the past, we strolled with our arms linked.

  Harold Brodkey

  Past, Self, Arms

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• There is no holy life. There is no war between good and evil. There is no sin and no redemption. None of these things matter to the real you. But they all matter hugely to the false you, the one who believes in the separate self. You have tried to take your separate self, with all its loneliness and anxiety and pride, to the door of enlightenment. But it will never go through, because it is a ghost.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Real, War

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• When I left you, you were already more beautiful than anything I dared to dream. In our years apart, my imaginings did their best to improve on your perfection. At night, your face was forever behind my eyes. And now I see that that vision who kept me company in my loneliness was a hag compared to the beauty now before me.

  William Goldman

  Beautiful, Dream, Eye

  "The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure".

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  I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Inspirational, Heart, Giving

  Jorge Luis Borges (2011). “Poesía completa”, p.140, DEBOLS!LLO

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• Divinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in the falling snow; Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued Elations when the forest blooms; gusty Emotions on wet roads on autumn nights; All pleasures and all pains, remembering The boughs of summer and the winter branch. These are the measures destined for her soul.

  Wallace Stevens

  Summer, Pain, Rain

  Wallace Stevens (2002). “Harmonium”, p.105, Icaria Editorial

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• Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Happy Life, Play, Envy

  "Balanced Life — 6 Tips for Battling Loneliness" by Gretchen Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2011.

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• We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life.

  Marina Keegan

  Love, Women, Opposites

  Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Loneliness doesn’t exist on any single plane of consciousness. It’s generally a low throb, barely audible, like the hum of a Mercedes engine in park, but every so often the demands of the highway call for a burst of acceleration, and the hum becomes a thunderous, elemental roar, and once again you’re reminded of what this baby’s carrying under the hood.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Baby, Demand, Parks

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• Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to help. We are probably those referred to as "our brother's keepers," possessed of one of the oldest and possible one of the most futile and certainly one of the most haunting instincts. It will not let us go.

  Norman Maclean

  Brother, Haunting, Helping

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