Loneliness Quotes - Page 32

• I am no good without you, Ginesse,” he said. “I spent a lifetime alone, but I never understood loneliness until I was away from you. I never understood happiness until I saw you again.

  Connie Brockway

  Saws, Lifetime, Said

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• A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.

  Truman Capote

  Salt, Hunger, Breakfast At Tiffanys

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.28, Vintage

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• Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Land, Dying, Humans

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “V.”, p.11, Penguin

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• There was just one moon. That familiar, yellow, solitary moon. The same moon that silently floated over fields of pampas grass, the moon that rose--a gleaming, round saucer--over the calm surface of lakes, that tranquilly beamed down on the rooftops of fast-asleep houses. The same moon that brought the high tide to shore, that softly shone on the fur of animals and enveloped and protected travelers at night. The moon that, as a crescent, shaved slivers from the soul--or, as a new moon, silently bathed the earth in its own loneliness. THAT moon.

  Haruki Murakami

  Animal, Moon, Night

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• There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Alone With God, World

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• Don't you understand? Listen carefully to what I'm saying. If you do, you'll get it. you can grasp this easily. In short...in short, I shut myself in because I'm lonely. Because I don't want to face any more loneliness, I shut myself away.

  Tatsuhiko Takimoto

  Lonely, Want, Faces

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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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• Someone once wrote that musicians are touched on the shoulder by God, and I think it's true. You can make other people happy with music, but you can make yourself happy too. Because of my music, I have never known loneliness and never been depressed.

  John Berendt

  Thinking, People, Musician

  John Berendt (2010). “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil”, p.106, Vintage

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• Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Listening, Remedy

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• We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.

  Andy Rooney

  Desire, Privacy, Away From Each Other

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.129, PublicAffairs

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• Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence mid the worlds loud din.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Men, Silence

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.16

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• Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.

  George Orwell

  Mean, Worry, Poverty

  George Orwell (1954). “Keep the aspidistra flying”

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• I (God) will leave man to make the fateful guess, Will leave him torn between the no and yes, Leave him unresting till he rests in me, Drawn upward by the choice that makes him free, Leave him in tragic loneliness to choose, With all in life to win or all to lose.

  Edwin Markham

  Winning, Men, Choices

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• Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Art, Criticism, Littles

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• If one's object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York; there is practically no extreme of heat or cold, physical risk, loneliness, hunger or thirst that cannot, with a little ingenuity, be conveniently achieved in the centres of civilization.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Travel, New York, Civilization

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Pain, Work, Overcoming

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• One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

  Karl Kraus

  Solitude, Needs, Tables

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules of the game forbid assuagement.

  Iris Murdoch

  Games, Soul, Framed

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.89, Penguin

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• A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.

  Francois Mauriac

  Writing, Men, Doe

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• Wouldn't it be nice if all the people who are lonesome could live in one big dormitory, sleep in beds next to each other, talk, laugh, and keep the lights on as long as they want to?

  Lenny Bruce

  Nice, Sleep, Light

  Lenny Bruce (1992). “How to Talk Dirty and Influence People”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days.

  Edward Hoagland

  Avid, Columns, These Days

  Edward Hoagland (1983). “The tugman's passage”, Viking Pr

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• ... we are all terribly alone no matter what people say.

  Bernard Malamud

  People, Matter, No Matter What

  Bernard Malamud (1967). “A Malamud Reader”, p.46, Macmillan

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• That many-faceted thing called love succeeds in building bridges from the loneliness on this shore to the loneliness on the other one. These bridges can be of great beauty, but they are rarely built for eternity, and frequently they cannot tolerate too heavy a burden without collapsing.

  Karen Horney

  Love, Bridges, Succeed

  Karen Horney (1967). “Feminine Psychology”

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• I've been so lonely for long periods of my life that if a rat walked in I would have welcomed it.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Lonely, Long, Rats

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