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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 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 bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound.

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

Loneliness is holding the one you love When you know you might never hold him again. Even lost in the darkness My heart will find you The soul die at the hand of the one who carries it. If I could find a place to run away Hidden safely, I would be there today. The darkest daylight finds me.

Loneliness is more likely to lead to fussy housekeeping than to grand views of the Universe.

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry. When someone intrudes into the poet's life (and any sudden personal contact, whether in the bed or in the heart, is an intrusion) the poet loses his or her balance for a moment, slips into being what he or she is, uses his or her poetry as one would use money or sympathy. The person who writes the poetry emerges, tentatively, like a hermit crab from a conch shell. The poet, for that instant, ceases to be a dead person.

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

Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.

Loneliness is something we [all people] go through. We go through mourning and longing. We make some bad choices sometimes because we're desperate for something, and that's okay. That's part of life.

Loneliness is the inability to share your story, your Unique Self story. For most people, the move beyond loneliness requires us to share our story with a significant other. For the spiritual elite, the receiving of our own story - and the knowing that it is an integral part of the larger story of All-That-Is - is enough. But for most human beings, loneliness is transcended through contact with another person.

Loneliness comes over us sometimes as a sudden tide. It is one of the terms of our humanness, and, in a sense, therefore, incurable. Yet I have found peace in my loneliest times not only through acceptance of the situation, but through making it an offering to God, who can transfigure it into something for the good of others.

Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.

Loneliness is a drug, a narcotic; it grows through veins, through nerves and muscles; it assumes some right of possession over your body and mind; it feeds itself, and creates its own requirement. Loneliness and solitude are walls.

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

Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self.

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.