Loneliness Quotes - Page 8

• Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

  Paul Tillich

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Lonely

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• The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Life, Bullying, Being Yourself

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• Alone, alone, about the dreadful wood / Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, / Dreading to find its Father.

  W. H. Auden

  Running, Father, Evil

  W. H. Auden (2013). “For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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• When Christ said: "I was hungry and you fed me," he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Mean, Bread

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.

  Abraham ibn Ezra

  Lonely, Being Alone, Men

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• Become aware of your aloneness - which is a reality. And it is so beautiful to experience it, to feel it, because it is your freedom from the crowd, from the other. It is your freedom from the fear of being lonely.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Lonely, Reality

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• If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

  Jules Renard

  Lonely, Funny Inspirational, Being Alone

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• No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.

  Georges Bernanos

  Lonely, Depth, Being Lonely

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.223, Da Capo Press

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• One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.

  Robert Frost

  Lonely, Men, House

  Robert Frost, Thomas Fasano (2008). “Selected Early Poems of Robert Frost”, p.145, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.

  Mother Teresa

  Real, Hunger, Christ

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by.

  Mother Teresa

  Hurt, Hunger, Accepted

  Teresa (Mother), Roger (frère) (1986). “Meditations on the Way of the Cross”, Burns & Oates

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• I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

  Walt Whitman

  Sad, Appreciation, Inspirational Life

  "Song of Myself " l. 1 (written 1855)

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• Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Lonely, Being Alone, Men

  Thomas Wolfe (2016). “You Can't Go Home Again”, p.511, Thomas Wolfe

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• Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lonely, Men, Isolation

  Thomas Carlyle (1870). “Past and Present”, p.381

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• The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Sad, House, Tears

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.96, Cooper Square Press

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• Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.

  Conrad Aiken

  Being Alone, Knows, Known

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• They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

  Philip Sidney

  Single, Lonely, Being Alone

  Philip Sidney (1901). “The Sidneys of Penshurst”

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• When Christ said: I was hungry and you fed me, he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness. He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by. Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Sad, Hurt

  Teresa (Mother), Roger (frère) (1986). “Meditations on the Way of the Cross”, Burns & Oates

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• On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

  Janis Joplin

  Fake People, Lonely, Home

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• We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

  Dorothy Day

  Being Alone, Community Living, Long

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• Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

  John Steinbeck

  People, World, Body

  John Steinbeck (2013). “Of Mice and Men: Teacher's Deluxe Edition”, p.38, Penguin

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• Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Being Alone, Feeling Lonely, Poverty

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• A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

  John Cheever

  Lonely, Being Alone, Autumn

  1966 Collected in The Journals,'The Sixties'.

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• So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Lonely, Being Alone, Albatross

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1858). “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, p.50

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• Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

  Lillian Hellman

  Lonely, Being Alone, Talking

  Lillian Hellman (1952). “The Autumn Garden: Play in Three Acts”, p.35, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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