Best 2736 quotes in «loneliness quotes» category

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Letting go, it's so hard The way it's hurting now To get this love untied So tough to stay with this thing 'cos if I follow through I face what I denied I'll get those hooks out of me And I'll take out the hooks that I sunk deep in your side Kill that fear of emptiness, that loneliness I hide.

Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.

Lights come and go in the night sky. Men, troubled at last by the things they build, may toss in their sleep and dream bad dreams, or lie awake while the meteors whisper greenly overhead. But nowhere in all space or on a thousand worlds will there be men to share our loneliness.

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.

Lisa: 'Do we have any food that wasn't brutally slaughtered?' Homer: 'Well, I think the veal died of loneliness.'

Linda seemed to recognize loneliness. Possibly she could see it sitting opposite her, sipping lager and trying not to lose its temper. It was an illness, loneliness-it made you weak, gullible, feebleminded.

Living in a rural town really compelled me to start tweeting so much. Mostly, my Twitter usage is fueled by loneliness. I can go days without talking to another human being unless it's my mother, especially when I'm not teaching or on break.

Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.

Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound.

loneliness has its roots in words,in internal conversation that nodbody answers,solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity.

Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Loneliness is a very special place, Silently silently you touch my face

Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be.

Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.

Loneliness is random; solitude is ritual.

Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.

Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow.

Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world.

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

Loneliness itself is material for sacrifice. The very longings themselves can be offered to Him who understands perfectly. The transformation into something He can use for the good of others takes place only when the offering is put into his hands.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

Loneliness feels like prison.

Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book.

Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.

Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity.

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

Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.

Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.

Loneliness is failed solitude.

Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.

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

loneliness is not a longing for company, it is a longing for kind. And kind means people who can see you who you are, and that means they have enough intelligence and sensitivity and patience to do that.

Loneliness isn't about being by yourself. That's fine, right and good, desirable in many ways. Loneliness is about finding a landing-place, or not, and knowing that, whatever you do, you can go back there. The opposite of loneliness isn't company, it's return. A place to return.

Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

Loneliness is the worst pain in this world. It constantly eats away the person's heart, and can cause the person to hate, to feel enraged. It is like a wound of the heart; the type of wounds that cannot go away with a kiss or a hug. The only thing that can make this great pain go away is love and compassion, another human heart to pull them out of this hell.

Loneliness surrounds me without your arms around me.

Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all.

Look, it's a monster. He's walking alone. Look, he's pulling something out of his pocket. He threw it on the ground. Let's go see what it is. It's a black box. You open it... ok... Look, it's sorrow, misery and pain. It's loneliness and longing. Boy, he'll be sorry he lost these.

love all the people you can. The sufferings from love are not to be compared to the sorrows of loneliness.

Love is a balance between independence and interdependence. In love, you want to be independent and interdependent. You want to be a little bit selfish and a little bit selfless. Love can be an antidote to loneliness, as long as there is some aloneness in it.

Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

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.

Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists, heterosexual or homosexual. Loneliness has to do with the sudden clefts we experience in every human relation, the gaps that open up with such stomach-turning unexpectedness. In a brief moment, I and my brother or sister have moved away into different worlds, and there is no language we can share.... It is in the middle of intimacy that the reality of loneliness most dramatically appears.

Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self.

Loneliness is a darkness of the soul

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