Best 2736 quotes in «loneliness quotes» category

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 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.

loneliness is a twilight moment by feelings, longing after something or someone you can not reach

Loneliness is equal to the radius of one's awareness.

Loneliness is lessened when you're lonely by choice.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

...loneliness is not a function of solitude.

Loneliness is the penalty of leadership, but the man who has to make the decisions is assisted greatly if he feels that there is no uncertainty in the minds of those who follow him, and that his orders will be carried out confidently and in the expectation of success.

Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egotistical selves.

Loneliness is the theme, and I play it like a symphony, in endless variations.

Loneliness was tough, the toughest role you ever played. Hollywood created a superstar, and pain was the price you paid.

Lonely? Give it to Jesus. The loneliness itself is material for sacrifice.

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

Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.

Loneliness cannot be alleviated just by the coming together of two bodies, unless there is also good communication, understanding, and loving kindness.

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 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.