Loneliness Quotes - Page 36

• 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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• Of those that are drawn away, each is drawn elsewhere toward another: once more a man and a woman, in a loneliness they are not liable at that time to notice, are tightened together upon a bed: and another family has begun.

  James Agee

  Family, Men, Together

  James Agee, Walker Evans (2001). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Loneliness is dangerous ... because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Self, Devil, Doe

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• I hold my face in my two hands. No, I am not crying. I hold my face in my two hands to keep the loneliness warm - two hands protecting, two hands nourishing, two hands preventing my soul from leaving me in anger.

  Nhat Hanh

  Self, Hands, Two

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2013). “Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems”, p.15, Parallax Press

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• It brings spiritual warfare and suffering for the priest as he identifies with those who suffer, and shares the frustrations, anger, and incomprehensibility of that suffering in what it does to those who suffer. The priest shares in these struggles of his suffering people, the uncertainties it brings, the sense of divine abandonment it induces, and the loneliness caused.

  Arthur Middleton

  Spiritual, Struggle, Frustration

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• In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. I want to ask you to keep this great wonder of nature as it now is. I hope you will not have a building of any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel or anything else, to mar the wonderful grandeur, the sublimity, the great loneliness and beauty of the canyon. Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Summer, Men, Age

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• Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart.

  Sam Rayburn

  Heart, Men, Soul

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• Happy children should not try to be artists. You have to be born with a broken heart and a sense of loneliness inside. I never had a happy moment as a child myself.

  Stella Adler

  Children, Heart, Artist

  Stella Adler (2012). “Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee”, p.87, Vintage

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• Further in Summer than the Birds Pathetic from the Grass A minor Nation celebrates Its unobtrusive Mass. No Ordinance be seen So gradual the Grace A pensive Custom it becomes Enlarging Loneliness. Antiquest felt at Noon When August burning low Arise this spectral Canticle Repose to typify Remit as yet no Grace No Furrow on the Glow Yet a Druidic Difference Enhances Nature now.

  Emily Dickinson

  Summer, Differences, August

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1346, Delphi Classics

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• Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all one way, the way home. Telegraph poles ahead looked like half-used pencils; the small cross on the steeple glittered with a sharp and shapely permanence.

  A. E. Coppard

  Home, Wind, Bird

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• Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.

  Bob Dylan

  Work, Fighting, Thrones

  Song: No Time to Think, Album: Street Legal, 1978

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• They are sharing a drink called loneliness.

  Billy Joel

  Expression, Drink

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• I've never been without a dog. I've made trips across the country with a dog. I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.

  William Shatner

  Country, Dog, Made

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• When I think about popular culture, I can't help but think that we're living in the age of loneliness. There's this illusion that we all have instant access to each other, but we actually have no real connection.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Real, Thinking, Age

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, Emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up the batteries of spiritual energy. Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Spiritual, People, Water

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