Loneliness Quotes - Page 4

• Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Love, Life, Relationship

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• When we sat down to eat I took inventory of the people in the room, and the remnants of my good mood evaporated when I realized how very little I had in common with them – the career dads, the responsible and diligent moms – and I was soon filled with dread and loneliness. I locked in on the smug feeling of superiority that married couples give off and that permeated the air – the shared assumptions, the sweet and contented apathy, it all lingered everywhere – despite the absence in the room of anyone single at which to aim this.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Mom, Sweet, Couple

  Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “Lunar Park”, p.158, Pan Macmillan

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• Join with those who sing, tell stories, talk pleasure in life, and have joy in their eyes, because joy is contagious, and can prevent others from becoming paralysed by depression, loneliness and difficulties.

  Paulo Coelho

  Eye, Joy, Stories

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• Loneliness is not being alone, It's loving others to no avail.

  John Berendt

  Love, Loving Others

  John Berendt (2005). “The City of Falling Angels”, Penguin Group USA

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• Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Jealousy, Envy, Feeling Alone

  House in Paris (1935) pt. 2, ch. 8

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• Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

  Haruki Murakami

  Friendship, Lonely, Disappointment

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 09, 2015

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• Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

  Thomas Harris

  Lonely, Being Alone, Greed

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.319, Macmillan

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• The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

  Cyril Connolly

  Love, Dream, Lonely

  "Phil Spector: What I've Learned", www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?

  Epictetus

  Being Alone, Light, Doors

  Epictetus (1967). “The Discourses as Reported by Arrian: The Manual, and Fragments”

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• I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Being Single, Being Alone

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.29, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• On a societal level, what happens to community when people don't have time to gather or connect, in person, not just over social media? Not having time off becomes a public-interest issue. It means the erosion of social bonds, less civic contribution and participation. Loneliness is on the rise in North America; we find ourselves too busy for true connection, prioritizing work over life.

  Katrina Onstad

  Mean, People, Community

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Stretch a hand to one unfriended And thy loneliness is ended.

  William Arthur Dunkerley

  Hands

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• The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sea, Feelings, Tides

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• I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Change, Lonely, Believe

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  Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

  Henry Rollins

  Life, Lonely, Depressing

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• I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.

  Charles Bukowski

  Pride, Men, Water

  "Factotum". Book by Charles Bukowski, Ch. 17, 1975.

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• From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home, America. From the entrenchment of special privileges in tax favoritism; from the waste of idle lands to the joy of useful labor; from the prejudice based on race and sex; from the loneliness of the aging poor and the despair of the neglected sick - come home, America.

  George McGovern

  Sex, Military, War

  George McGovern (2004). “The Essential America: Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

  Joseph Conrad

  Lonely, Memories, Being Alone

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Under Western Eyes”, p.39, Joseph Conrad

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• It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Life, Hope

  "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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• It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

  Thomas Reed

  Lonely, Men, Political

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• I am never less alone than when alone.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Solitude

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1899). “M. Tullii Ciceronis”

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• Loneliness doesn't have much to do with where you are.

  Hugh Hefner

  Where You Are, Playboy

  "Hugh Hefner: What I've Learned" by Wil S.Hylton, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Loneliness is something you can't walk away from.

  William Feather

  Walks

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• The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress.

  Renata Adler

  Sex, Ambition, Feeling Lonely

  Renata Adler (1970). “Toward a radical middle: fourteen pieces of reporting and criticism”

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• In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Past, Thinking, People

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