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loneliness ::: n. --> The condition of being lonely; solitude; seclusion.
The state of being unfrequented by human beings; as, the loneliness of a road.
Love of retirement; disposition to solitude.
A feeling of depression resulting from being alone.
LONELINESS. ::: The inner loneliness can only be cured by the inner experience of union with the Divine ; no human asso- ciation can fill the void.
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aching ::: 1. Having the sensation of continuous or ever-recurring pain, throbbing painfully. 2. Full of or precipitating nostalgia, grief, loneliness, etc.
elengeness ::: n. --> Loneliness; misery.
isolation ::: n. --> The act of isolating, or the state of being isolated; insulation; separation; loneliness.
khalwat ::: privacy, loneliness, solitude, seclusion
loneliness ::: n. --> The condition of being lonely; solitude; seclusion.
The state of being unfrequented by human beings; as, the loneliness of a road.
Love of retirement; disposition to solitude.
A feeling of depression resulting from being alone.
LONELINESS. ::: The inner loneliness can only be cured by the inner experience of union with the Divine ; no human asso- ciation can fill the void.
Nanda. (T. Dga' bo; C. Nantuo; J. Nanda; K. Nanda 難陀). In Sanskrit and Pāli, "Joyful"; an ARHAT declared by the Buddha to be foremost among his monk disciples in self-control. Nanda was the son of sUDDHODANA and MAHĀPRĀJĀPATĪ and half brother of the Buddha. He was a few days younger than the Buddha, and Mahāprajāpatī handed him over to a wet nurse so that she could raise the bodhisattva as her own son when the latter's mother, MAHĀMĀYĀ, died. Nanda was extremely handsome (he is also known as Sundara Nanda, or "Handsome Nanda") and was said to have been vain about his looks. During the Buddha's sojourn at the sĀKYA capital of KAPILAVASTU after his enlightenment, he visited Nanda on the day his half-brother was to be married to a beautiful maiden named JANAPADAKALYĀnĪ NANDĀ (also called Sundarī Nandā). Having wished his half brother well, the Buddha handed him his alms bowl (PĀTRA) to carry back to the monastery; the scene of Nanda holding the bowl, standing between the departing Buddha and his beckoning bride-to-be, is often depicted in Buddhist art. Once Nanda arrived at the monastery with the alms bowl, the Buddha asked Nanda to join the order, and only reluctantly, and out of deference to the Buddha, did he agree. But he longed for his fiancée and soon fell ill from his loneliness and depression, drawing pictures of her on rocks. Knowing Nanda's mind, the Buddha then flew with him to the TRĀYASTRIMsA heaven. Enroute, he pointed out an injured female monkey and asked Nanda whether Janapadakalyānī Nandā was more beautiful than the monkey; Nanda replied that she was. When they arrived in the heaven, the Buddha showed Nanda the celestial maidens attending the gods. Nanda was entranced with their loveliness, which far exceeded the beauty of Janapadakalyānī, saying that, compared to the celestial maidens, the beauty of his bride-to-be was like that of the monkey. The Buddha promised him one of these maidens as his consort in his next lifetime if he would only practice the religious life earnestly. Nanda enthusiastically agreed. Upon returning to the human world at JETAVANA grove, Nanda was criticized by ĀNANDA for his base motivation for remaining a monk. Feeling great shame at his lust, he resolved to overcome this weakness, practiced assiduously, and in due course became an ARHAT. In another version of the story, Nanda only overcomes his lust after a second journey: after going to heaven, the Buddha takes Nanda on a journey to hell, where he shows him the empty cauldron that awaits him after his lifetime in heaven. After his enlightenment, Nanda came to the Buddha to inform him of his achievement and to release the Buddha from his promise of celestial maidens. It was because of his great will to control his passions that Nanda was deemed foremost in self-control. Due to his previous attachment to women, however, it is said that even after he became an arhat, Nanda would stare at the beautiful women who attended the Buddha's discourses. The story of Nanda appears in a number of versions, including the poem SAUNDARANANDA by AsVAGHOsA.
solitude ::: a. --> state of being alone, or withdrawn from society; a lonely life; loneliness.
Remoteness from society; destitution of company; seclusion; -- said of places; as, the solitude of a wood.
solitary or lonely place; a desert or wilderness.
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1 Friedrich Nietzsche
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1 awful beyond all
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21 Haruki Murakami
16 Paulo Coelho
14 Anonymous
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9 Bryant McGill
8 Friedrich Nietzsche
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8 Charles Bukowski
7 Rupi Kaur
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1:Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche,#KEYS
2:The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
~ Mother Teresa,#KEYS
3:rain dripping
from the roof
sound of loneliness
~ Ikkyu, @BashoSociety#KEYS
4:red blossoms
spread over the loneliness
of my bed
~ Shiki, @BashoSociety#KEYS
5:a strange morning
for falling leaves
loneliness
~ Ogawa, @BashoSociety#KEYS
6:Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #KEYS
7:The source of My suffering and loneliness is deep in my heart.
This is a desease no doctor can cure. Only union with a friend can cure it. ~ Rabia al-Adawiyya,#KEYS
8:From little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear The sound of wings." ~ Amelia Earhart, (1897 - 1937?), Wikipedia, #KEYS
9:What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #KEYS
10: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. ~ Carl Jung, #KEYS
11:The knowing with which a feeling of loneliness or sorrow is known is the same knowing with which the thought of a friend, the sight of a sunset or the taste of ice cream is known." ~ Rupert Spira, "The Nature of Consciousness, (2017), #KEYS
12:The inner loneliness can only be cured by the inner experience of union with the Divine; no human association can fill the void. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Human Relations and the Spiritual Life, #KEYS
13:On the white summit of eternity
A single Soul of bare infinities,
Guarded he keeps by a fire-screen of peace
His mystic loneliness of nude ecstasy. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Shiva,#KEYS
14:I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #KEYS
15:You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing. Permit yourself to flow and overflow, allow for the rise in temperature, all the expansions and intensifications. Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them. If it seems to you that I move in a world of certitudes, you, par contre, must benefit from the great privilege of youth, which is that you move in a world of mysteries. But both must be ruled by faith. ~ Anais Nin, #KEYS
16:None is travelling :::
None is travelling
Here along this way but I,
This autumn evening.
The first day of the year:
thoughts come - and there is loneliness;
the autumn dusk is here.
An old pond
A frog jumps in -
Splash!
Lightening -
Heron's cry
Stabs the darkness
Clouds come from time to time -
and bring to men a chance to rest
from looking at the moon.
In the cicada's cry
There's no sign that can foretell
How soon it must die.
Poverty's child -
he starts to grind the rice,
and gazes at the moon.
Won't you come and see
loneliness? Just one leaf
from the kiri tree.
Temple bells die out.
The fragrant blossoms remain.
A perfect evening! ~ Matsuo Basho,#KEYS
17:Truth is one, unique, single; it is
indivisibly One.
And its Oneness, and the knowledge of
that oneness belongs to him; is
placed in him.
Impossible, impossible; it is aloofness,
estrangement, separation; he is known only
by them.
Knowledge of One is abstract; single,
indivisible.
To say one, and to say single is to reach
the attribute; but he, who is one, is beyond
attribute.
If I say "I," he sends back "I," in answer
to my "I". So, "he" is for you and not for
me.
And if I say Unity is Oneness for his
loneliness, for his being alone, then I
placed him in
creation; among things created.
And if I say single One, as number one; how
can he come
within
number?
And if I say, he is One for as the
result of being considered one, being proved
One-then I
placed limit on him; delimited
him. ~ Mansur al Hallaj,#KEYS
18:The hell I won't talk that way! Peter, an eternity here without her is not an eternity of bliss; it is an eternity of boredom and loneliness and grief. You think this damned gaudy halo means anything to me when I know--yes, you've convinced me!--that my beloved is burning in the Pit? I didn't ask much. Just to be allowed to live with her. I was willing to wash dishes forever if only I could see her smile, hear her voice, touch her hand! She's been shipped on a technicality and you know it! Snobbish, bad-tempered angels get to live here without ever doing one lick to deserve it. But my Marga, who is a real angel if one ever lived, gets turned down and sent to Hell to everlasting torture on a childish twist in the rules. You can tell the Father and His sweet-talking Son and that sneaky Ghost that they can take their gaudy Holy City and shove it! If Margrethe has to be in Hell, that's where I want to be!
~ Robert Heinlein, Alexander Hergensheimer in Job: A Comedy of Justice, (1984).,#KEYS
19:I've never been lonely. I've been in a room ~ I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful ~ awful beyond all ~ but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude. It's being at a party, or at a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel loneliness. I'll quote Ibsen, The strongest men are the most alone. I've never thought, Well, some beautiful blonde will come in here and give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I'll feel good. No, that won't help. You know the typical crowd, Wow, it's Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there? Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I've never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories. That's all. Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine! ~ Charles Bukowski, #KEYS
20:The Tower. Somewhere ahead, it waited for him - the nexus of Time, the nexus of Size. He began west again, his back set against the sunrise, heading toward the ocean, realizing that a great passage of his life had come and gone. 'I loved you Jake,' he said aloud. The stiffness wore out of his body and he began to walk more rapidly. By that evening he had come to the end of the land. He sat in a beach which stretched left and right forever, deserted. The waves beat endlessly against the shore, pounding and pounding. The setting sun painted the water in a wide strip of fool's gold.
There the gunslinger sat, his face turned up into the fading light. He dreamed his dreams and watched as the stars came out; his purpose did not flag, nor did his heart falter; his hair, finer now and gray at the temples, blew around his head, and the sandalwood-inlaid guns of his father lay smooth and deadly against his hips, and he was lonely but did not find loneliness in any way a bad or ignoble thing. The dark came down and the world moved on. The gunslinger waited for the time of the drawing and dreamed his long dreams of the Dark Tower, to which he would someday come at dusk and approach, winding his horn, to do some unimaginable final battle. ~ Stephen King,#KEYS
21:At first, needing the companionship of the human voice, he had listened to classical plays especially the works of Shaw, Ibsen, and Shakespeare - or poetry readings from Discovery's enormous library of recorded sounds. The problems they dealt with, however, seemed so remote, or so easily resolved with a little common sense, that after a while he lost patience with them.
So he switched to opera - usually in Italian or German, so that he was not distracted even by the minimal intellectual content that most operas contained. This phase lasted for two weeks before he realized that the sound of all these superbly trained voices was only exacerbating his loneliness. But what finally ended this cycle was Verdi's Requiem Mass, which he had never heard performed on Earth. The "Dies Irae," roaring with ominous appropriateness through the empty ship, left him completely shattered; and when the trumpets of Doomsday echoed from the heavens, he could endure no more.
Thereafter, he played only instrumental music. He started with the romantic composers, but shed them one by one as their emotional outpourings became too oppressive. Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Berlioz, lasted a few weeks, Beethoven rather longer. He finally found peace, as so many others had done, in the abstract architecture of Bach, occasionally ornamented with Mozart. And so Discovery drove on toward Saturn, as often as not pulsating with the cool music of the harpsichord, the frozen thoughts of a brain that had been dust for twice a hundred years. ~ Arthur C Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey,#KEYS
22:Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.
I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what--at last--I have found.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me. ~ Bertrand Russell,#KEYS
23:The Song Of Food And Dwelling :::
I bow down at the feet of the wish-fulfilling Guru.
Pray vouchsafe me your grace in bestowing beneficial food,
Pray make me realize my own body as the house of Buddha,
Pray grant me this knowledge.
I built the house through fear,
The house of Sunyata, the void nature of being;
Now I have no fear of its collapsing.
I, the Yogi with the wish-fulfilling gem,
Feel happiness and joy where'er I stay.
Because of the fear of cold, I sought for clothes;
The clothing I found is the Ah Shea Vital Heat.
Now I have no fear of coldness.
Because of the fear of poverty, I sought for riches;
The riches I found are the inexhaustible Seven Holy Jewels.
Now I have no fear of poverty.
Because of the fear of hunger, I sought for food;
The food I found is the Samadhi of Suchness.
Now I have no fear of hunger.
Because of the fear of thirst, I sought for drink;
The heavenly drink I found is the wine of mindfulness.
Now I have no fear of thirst.
Because of the fear of loneliness, I searched for a friend;
The friend I found is the bliss of perpetual Sunyata.
Now I have no fear of loneliness.
Because of the fear of going astray,
I sought for the right path to follow.
The wide path I found is the Path of Two-in-One.
Now I do not fear to lose my way.
I am a yogi with all desirable possessions,
A man always happy where'er he stays.
Here at Yolmo Tagpu Senge Tson,
The tigress howling with a pathetic, trembling cry,
Reminds me that her helpless cubs are innocently playing.
I cannot help but feel a great compassion for them,
I cannot help but practice more diligently,
I cannot help but augment thus my Bodhi-Mind.
The touching cry of the monkey,
So impressive and so moving,
Cannot help but raise in me deep pity.
The little monkey's chattering is amusing and pathetic;
As I hear it, I cannot but think of it with compassion.
The voice of the cuckoo is so moving,
And so tuneful is the lark's sweet singing,
That when I hear them I cannot help but listen
When I listen to them,
I cannot help but shed tears.
The varied cries and cawings of the crow,
Are a good and helpful friend unto the yogi.
Even without a single friend,
To remain here is a pleasure.
With joy flowing from my heart, I sing this happy song;
May the dark shadow of all men's sorrows
Be dispelled by my joyful singing. ~ Jetsun Milarepa,#KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:Words are loneliness. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 2:Every loneliness is a pinnacle ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 3:Labor in loneliness is irksome. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 4:Leave my loneliness unbroken ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 5:Each way means loneliness - and communion. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 6:Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 7:People living alone get used to loneliness. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 8:Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove 9:The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 10:Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 11:Of all the diseases I have known, loneliness is the worst. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 12:Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 13:Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove 14:The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove 15:In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 16:Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove 17:Loneliness is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings. ~ paulo-coelho, @wisdomtrove 18:Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 19:We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove 20:Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 21:Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self. ~ carl-rogers, @wisdomtrove 22:Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 23:Loneliness Got a mind of its own The more people around The more you feel alone ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 24:We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 25:I, however, cannot force myself to use "meat drugs" to cheat on my loneliness. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove 26:The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. ~ norman-cousins, @wisdomtrove 27:Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 28:Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing. ~ fred-rogers, @wisdomtrove 29:An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 30:When loneliness comes stalking, go into the fields, consider the orderliness of the world. ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove 31:Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 32:I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 33:Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 34:she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 35:She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 36:I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 37:If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 38:In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that. ~ bertrand-russell, @wisdomtrove 39:There is a strain of loneliness infecting many Christians, which only the presence of God can cure. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 40:I am never lonely when I am reading the Bible. Nothing dissolves loneliness like a session with God's Word. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 41:There is nothing like the silence and loneliness of night to bring dark shadows over the brightest mind. ~ washington-irving, @wisdomtrove 42:Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits. ~ jorge-luis-borges, @wisdomtrove 43:People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition. ~ jean-vanier, @wisdomtrove 44:She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 45:Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 46:there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 47:I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 48:Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 49:But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 50:Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 51:Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair. ~ leo-buscaglia, @wisdomtrove 52:Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 53:I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 54:The best of community does give one a deep sense of belonging and well-being; and in that sense community takes away loneliness. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 55:The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account. ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove 56:Celebrate your humanness, celebrate your craziness, celebrate your inadequacies, celebrate your loneliness ... but celebrate YOU! ~ leo-buscaglia, @wisdomtrove 57:Who can really distinguish between the sea and what's reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness? ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 58:Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 59:Real love is not an escape from loneliness, real love is an overflowing aloneness. One is so happy in being alone that one would like to share. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove 60:I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat. ~ jorge-luis-borges, @wisdomtrove 61:Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant. ~ washington-irving, @wisdomtrove 62:Each man lives love in his limited fashion and does not seem to relate the resultant confusion and loneliness to his lack of knowledge about love. ~ leo-buscaglia, @wisdomtrove 63:Thirty& 64:Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them. ~ anais-nin, @wisdomtrove 65:On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 66:I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others& 67:Your incredible brain can take you from rags to riches, from loneliness to popularity, and from depression to happiness and joy - if you use it properly. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 68:Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove 69:Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 70:Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 71:Fear is the process of the mind in the struggle of becoming. In becoming good there is the fear of evil; in becoming complete, there is the fear of loneliness. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 72:I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove 73:See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 74:To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 75:In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 76:Tragedy is always a mistake; and the loneliness of the deepest thinker, the widest lover, ceases to be pathetic to us so soon as the sun is high enough above the mountains. ~ margaret-fuller, @wisdomtrove 77:The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty‚ it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 78:We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where there is no more shadow, darkness, loneliness, isolation, or pain. They are home. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove 79:There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is blink. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 80:As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 81: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, @wisdomtrove 82:Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 83:Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again breeds isolation, loneliness. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 84:For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 85:We long to connect, all of us. We long to be noticed, to be cared for, to matter. Generosity is the invisible salve on our wound of loneliness, one that benefits both sides, over and over again. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 86:What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 87:We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 88:We all know how important love is, yet how often is it really emoted or exhibited? What so many sick people in this world suffer from-loneliness, boredom and fear-can't be cured with a pill. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove 89: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. ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove 90:Closer of lovely eyes to lovely dreams, Lover of loneliness, and wandering, Of upcast eye, and tender pondering! Thee must I praise above all other glories That smile us on to tell delightful stories. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 91:Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove 92:When the chips are down, you are alone, and loneliness can be terrifying. Fortunately, I've always had a chum I could call. And I love to be alone. It doesn't bother me one bit. I’m my own company. ~ audrey-hepburn, @wisdomtrove 93:Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. ~ bertrand-russell, @wisdomtrove 94:If there is one person on the planet who still is suffering from loneliness and from pain or despair, and we don't know about it, or we don't want to know about it, then something is wrong with the world. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 95:Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 96:I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality, those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my idea of them. ~ anais-nin, @wisdomtrove 97:There is no loneliness when you meditate, you feel eternity. How could you ever be lonely? You just feel God's love for you and that sustains you. It's totally clear; it's part of every aspect of your being. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 98:There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 99:I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn't such a bad feeling. It was like the stillness of the pin oak after the little birds had flown off. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 100: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, @wisdomtrove 101:Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing... . For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 102:To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately lonely lose themselves in mental illness or violence to forget the inner pain. ~ jean-vanier, @wisdomtrove 103:There are those who worship loneliness, I'm not one of them In this age of fiberglass I'm searching for a gem The crystal ball up on the wall hasn't shown me nothing yet I've paid the price of solitude, but at last I'm out of debt ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 104:We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 105:When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows for the arising of all things: sorrows, loneliness, shame, desire, regret, frustration, happiness. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove 106:Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 107:I HIDE myself within my flower That wearing on your breast, You, unsuspecting, wear me too - And angels know the rest. I hide myself within my flower, That, fading from your vase, You, unsuspecting, feel for me Almost a loneliness. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 108:Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 109:In 1970 I felt so lonely that I could not give; now I feel so joyful that giving seems easy. I hope that the day will come when the memory of my present joy will give me the strength to keep giving even when loneliness gnaws at my heart. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 110:Start announcing freedom from anything that’s holding you back. Freedom from addictions, freedom from loneliness, freedom from lack, freedom from struggle. You are prophesying your future. Your words are setting the direction for your life. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 111:Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 112:And for this you must have quiet and solitude. But society does not allow you to have them. You must be with people, outwardly active at all costs. If you are alone you are considered antisocial or peculiar, or you are afraid of your own loneliness. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 113:I think he is condemned by himself to loneliness. God is One: he was, he is, he will be always One. One is so lonely. Maybe that is why he created human beings& 114:Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own& 115:Men who no longer can make sure of the reality which they feel and experience through talking about it and sharing it with their fellow-men, live in the same nightmare of loneliness and uncertainty which, in a normal world, is the terrible fate of insanity. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove 116:I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 117:Through prayer we can carry in our heart all human pain and sorrow, all conflicts and agonies, all torture and war, all hunger, loneliness and misery, not because of some great psychological or emotional capacity, but because God's heart has become one with ours. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 118:To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people to whom your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasphemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 119:It made her think of Laika, the dog. The man-made satellite streaking soundlessly across the blackness of outer space. The dark, lustrous eyes of the dog gazing out the tiny window. In the infinite loneliness of space, what could the dog possibly be looking at? ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 120:We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, & 121:It is precisely when you are loved a lot that you might realize a second loneliness which is not to be solved but lived. This second loneliness is an existential loneliness that belongs to the basis of our being. It's where we are unfulfilled because only God can fill us. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 122:My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove 123:In community, where you have all the affection you could ever dream of, you feel that there is a place where even community cannot reach. That's a very important experience. In that loneliness, which is like a dark night of the soul, you learn that God is greater than community. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 124:They flank me - Depression on my left, loneliness on my right. They don’t need to show their badges. I know these guys very well. …then they frisk me. They empty my pockets of any joy I had been carrying there. Depression even confiscates my identity; but he always does that. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 125:A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling or teaching or ordering. Rather he seeks to establish a relationship of meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 126:They flank me - depression on my left, loneliness on my right. They don't need to show their badges. I know these guys very well. ... Then they frisk me. They empty my pockets of any joy I had been carrying there. Depression even confiscates my identity; but he always does that. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 127:When traveling is made too easy and comfortable, its spiritual meaning is lost. This may be called sentimentalism, but a certain sense of loneliness engendered by traveling leads one to reflect upon the meaning of life, for life is after all a travelling from one unknown to another unknown. ~ d-t-suzuki, @wisdomtrove 128:It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves. There was some element of loneliness involved& 129:When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 130:It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 131:Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove 132:The pains that you suffer, the loneliness that you encounter, the experiences that are disappointing or distressing, the addictions and seeming pitfalls of your life are each doorways to awareness. Each offers you an opportunity to see beyond the illusion that serves as the balancing and growth of your soul. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 133:Aging has its own beauty. It is a beautiful stage for doing inner work. You have a chance to not be so dependent on social approval. You can be a little more eccentric. You can be more alone. And you can examine loneliness and boredom instead of being afraid of them. There is such an art and a possibility of aging. ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove 134:At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others - poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner - young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 135:Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet to become tender and imaginative in the loneliness of confinement. He banquets upon the honey of his own thoughts, and, like the captive bird, pours forth his soul in melody. ~ washington-irving, @wisdomtrove 136:Then when dusk began to settle he would retrace his steps, back to his own world. And on the way home, a loneliness would always claim his heart. He could never quite get a grip on what it was. It just seemed that whatever lay waiting "out there" was all too vast, too overwhelming for him to possibly ever make a dent in. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 137:[... ] We have to realize that this wound [of loneliness] is inherent in the human condition and that what we have to do is walk with it instead of fleeing from it. We cannot accept it until we discover that we are loved by God just as we are, and that the Holy Spirit in a mysterious way is living at the centre of the wound. ~ jean-vanier, @wisdomtrove 138:And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that it contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the joy that is felt by the least in Heaven, would have no weight that could be registered at all. Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 139:My goal was not to have huge luxuries. As a child, I wanted a house with a garden, which I have today. This is what I dreamed of. I’d never worry about age if I knew I could go on being loved and having the possibility to love... So it isn’t age or even death that one fears, as much as loneliness and the lack of affection. ~ audrey-hepburn, @wisdomtrove 140:I'm here. I love you. I don't care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There's nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 141:I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 142:He began to cry, not hysterically or screaming as people cry when concealed rage with tears, but with continuous sobs who has just discovered that he's alone and will be for long. He cried because safety and reason seemed to have left the world. Loneliness was a reality, but in this situation madness was also remotely a possibility. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 143:In his or her own way, everyone I saw before me looked happy. Whether they were really happy or just looked it, I couldn't tell. But they did look happy on this pleasant early afternoon in late September, and because of that I felt a kind of loneliness new to me, as if I were the only one here who was not truly part of the scene. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 144:I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you... There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 145:I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 146:Thy soul shall find itself alone ‘Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone‚ Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into thine hour of secrecy. Be silent in that solitude, Which is not loneliness‚for then The spirits of the dead who stood In life before thee are again In death around thee‚and their will Shall overshadow thee: be still. [... ] ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 147:Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 148:Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom. Once you were thus convinced, you were foolish to open the door and let anyone in, not all the way in. You risked the hard-won equilibrium, that tranquility that you called peace ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 149:He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the open, like some old stone lying on the sand; he looked as if he had become physically what was always at the back of both of their minds-that loneliness which was for both of them the truth about things. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 150:... there seemed some necessity of taking all or nothing; it was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves. There was some element of loneliness involved& 151:How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and rightfully represented as oneself. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 152:But he [Depression] just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on my table and lights a cigar, filling the place with his awful smoke. Loneliness watches and sighs, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He's going to make me sleep with him again tonight, I just know it. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 153:But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 154:Too many dogs continue to be abused and abandond - one is too many - and people continue to kill people for money and envy and no reason at all. Bad people succeed and good people fail, but that's not the end of the story. Miracles happen that nobody sees, and among us walk heroes who are never recognised, and people live in loneliness because they cannot believe they are loved ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 155:His youth seemed never so vanished as now in the contrast between the utter loneliness of this visit and that riotous, joyful party of four years before. Things that had been the merest commonplaces of his life then, deep sleep, the sense of beauty around him, all desire, had flown away and the gaps they left were filled only with the great listlessness of his disillusion. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 156:Further in Summer than the Birds Pathetic from the Grass A minor Nation celebrates Its unobtrusive Mass. No Ordinance be seen So gradual the Grace A pensive Custom it becomes Enlarging Loneliness. Antiquest felt at Noon When August burning low Arise this spectral Canticle Repose to typify Remit as yet no Grace No Furrow on the Glow Yet a Druidic Difference Enhances Nature now. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 157:He stretched out his hands as he sang, sadly, because all beauty is sad‚ĶThe poem had done no ‚Äògood’ to anyone, but it was a passing reminder, a breath from the divine lips of beauty, a nightingale between two worlds of dust. Less explicit than the call to Krishna, it voiced our loneliness nevertheless, our isolation, our need for the Friend who never comes yet is not entirely disproved. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove 158:Only in Relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness; this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 159:Loneliness is the fundamental force that urgees mystics to a deeper union with God... An experience of God quenches this thirst for the absolute but at the same time, paradoxiacally, whets it, because this is an experience that can never be total; by necessity, the knowledge of God is always partial. So loneliness opens up mystics to a desire to love each other and every human being as God loves them. ~ jean-vanier, @wisdomtrove 160:There is no holy life. There is no war between good and evil. There is no sin and no redemption. None of these things matter to the real you. But they all matter hugely to the false you, the one who believes in the separate self. You have tried to take your separate self, with all its loneliness and anxiety and pride, to the door of enlightenment. But it will never go through, because it is a ghost. ~ deepak-chopra, @wisdomtrove 161:I've never been lonely. I've been in a room... I've felt suicidal, I've been depressed. I've felt awful ... awful beyond all , but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me... or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 162:The Law of Attraction is most understood when you see yourself as a magnet getting more and more of the way you feel. When you feel lonely, you attract more loneliness. When you feel poor, you attract more poverty. When you feel sick, you attract more sickness. When you feel unhappy, you attract more unhappiness. When you feel healthy and vital and alive and prosperous—you attract more of all of those things. ~ esther-hicks, @wisdomtrove 163:Most of the world's great souls have been lonely. Loneliness seems to be one price the saint must pay for his saintliness... Always remember: you cannot carry a cross in company. Though a man were surrounded by a vast crowd, his cross is his alone and his carrying of it marks him as a man apart. Society has turned against him; otherwise he would have no cross. No one is a friend to the man with a cross. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 164:A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic idea of what blindness is; only the formerly sighted have a real grip on the thing. Ben Hanscom had no sense of being lonely because he had never been anything but. If the condition had been new, or more localized, he might have understood, but loneliness both encompassed his life and overreached it. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 165:Wounding and healing are not opposites. They're part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate with the wounds of others. It is our limitations that make us kind to the limitations of other people. It is our loneliness that helps us to to find other people or to even know they're alone with an illness. I think I have served people perfectly with parts of myself I used to be ashamed of. ~ rachel-naomi-remen, @wisdomtrove 166:How on earth can religious people believe in so much arbitrary, clearly invented balderdash?... .The acceptance of a creed, any creed, entitles the acceptor to membership in the sort of artificial extended family we call a congregation. It is a way to fight loneliness. Any time I see a person fleeing from reason and into religion, I think to myself, There goes a person who simply cannot stand being so goddamned lonely anymore. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 167:It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness - I‚Äôm so accustomed to my Fate - Perhaps the Other - Peace - Would interrupt the Dark - And crowd the little Room - Too scant - by Cubits - to contain The Sacrament - of Him - I am not used to Hope - It might intrude upon - Its sweet parade - blaspheme the place - Ordained to Suffering - It might be easier To fail - with Land in Sight - Than gain - My Blue Peninsula - To perish - of Delight - ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 168:…Forgive us, O Lord, we acknowledge ourselves as type of the common man, Of the men and women who shut the door and sit by the fire; Who fear the blessing of God, the loneliness of the night of God, the surrender required, the deprivation inflicted; Who fear the injustice of men less than the justice of God; Who fear the hand at the window, the fire in the thatch, the fist in the tavern, the push into the canal, Less than we fear the love of God. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 169:as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness. You are in the country where you make up the rules, the laws. You are both dictator and obedient populace. It is a country nobody has ever explored before. It is up to you to make the maps, to build the cities. Nobody else in the world can do it, or ever could do it, or ever will be able to do it again. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 170:To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude. The movement from loneliness to solitude, however, is the beginning of any spiritual life because it it is the movement from the restless senses to the restful spirit,l from the outward-reaching cravings to the inward-reaching search, from the fearful clinging to the fearless play. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 171:He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself. But the street ran on: catlike, one place was the same as another to him. But in none of them could he be quiet. But the street ran on in its moods and phases, always empty: he might have seen himself as in numberless avatars, in silence, doomed with motion, driven by the courage of flagged and spurred despair; by the despair of courage whose opportunities had to be flagged and spurred. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove 172:It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like spring water. He breathes deep and slow, feeling with each breath himself diffuse in the natural grayness, becoming one with loneliness and quiet that has never known fury or despair. "That was all I wanted," he thinks, in a quiet and slow amazement. "That was all, for thirty years. That didn't seem to be a whole lot to ask in thirty years. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove 173:In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. I want to ask you to keep this great wonder of nature as it now is. I hope you will not have a building of any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel or anything else, to mar the wonderful grandeur, the sublimity, the great loneliness and beauty of the canyon. Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 174:The Loneliness One dare not sound - And would as soon surmise AS in its Grave go plumbing To ascertain the size - The Loneliness whose worst alarm Is lest itself should see - And perish from before itself For just a scrutiny - The Horror not to be surveyed - But skirted in the Dark - With Consciousness suspended - And Being under Lock - I fear me this - is Loneliness - The Maker of the soul Its Caverns and its Corridors Illuminate - or seal ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 175: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, @wisdomtrove 176:The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty - it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 177:The Lord is near! You're not alone. You may feel alone. You may think you're alone. But there's never a moment in which you face life without help. God is near. God repeatedly pledges his proverbial presence to his people. Don't assume God is watching from a distance. Avoid the quicksand that bears the marker "God has left you!" Don't indulge this lie. If you do, your problem will be amplified by a sense of loneliness. It's one thing to face a challenge, but to face it all alone? Isolation creates a downward cycle of fret. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 178:We are complex beings who wake up every day and fight against being labeled and diminished with stereotypes and characterizations that don’t reflect our fullness. Yet when we don’t risk standing on our own and speaking out, when the options laid before us force us into the very categories we resist, we perpetuate our own disconnection and loneliness. When we are willing to risk venturing into the wilderness, and even becoming our own wilderness, we feel the deepest connection to our true self and to what matters the most. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 179:There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives& 180:I have come to think that life is a far more limited thing than those in the midst of its maelstorm realize. That light shines into the act of life for only the briefest moment - perhaps only a matter of seconds. Once it is gone and failed to grasp its offered revelation, there is no second chance. One may have to live the rest of one's life in hopeless depth of loneliness and remorse. In that twilight world, one can no longer look forward to anything. All that such a person holds in his hands is the withered corpse of what should have been. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 181:In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in his cosmic loneliness. And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done." And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close to mud as man sat, looked around, and spoke. "What is the purpose of all this?" he asked politely. "Everything must have a purpose?" asked God. "Certainly," said man. "Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this," said God. And He went away. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 182:There was just one moon. That familiar, yellow, solitary moon. The same moon that silently floated over fields of pampas grass, the moon that rose& 183:The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the man who learns, in solitude and recollection, to be at peace with his own loneliness, and to prefer its reality to the illusion of merely natural companionship, comes to know the invisible companionship of God. Such a one is alone with God in all places, and he alone truly enjoys the companionship of other men, because he loves them in God in Whom their presence is not tiresome, and because of Whom his own love for them can never know satiety. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 184:You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing. Permit yourself to flow and overflow, allow for the rise in temperature, all the expansions and intensifications. Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them. If it seems to you that I move in a world of certitudes, you, par contre, must benefit from the great privilege of youth, which is that you move in a world of mysteries. But both must be ruled by faith. ~ anais-nin, @wisdomtrove 185:I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye. I like to walk up Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove. Sometimes, in my mind, I followed them to their apartments on the corners of hidden streets, and they turned and smiled back at me before they faded through a door into warm darkness. At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others—poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner—young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:Don't let loneliness ~ Megan Fox, #NFDB
2:That and loneliness. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
3:Words are loneliness. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
4:Define loneliness? ~ Claudia Rankine, #NFDB
5:Loneliness is an art form ~ Jeff Lindsay, #NFDB
6:Every loneliness is a pinnacle ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
7:Curiosity makes loneliness. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
8:Loneliness is a crowded room? ~ John Bowen, #NFDB
9:Fame doesn't end loneliness. ~ Claire Danes, #NFDB
10:The loneliness of power. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
11:Labor in loneliness is irksome. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
12:Loneliness feels like prison. ~ Naz m Hikmet, #NFDB
13:All liberation is loneliness ~ Tananarive Due, #NFDB
14:Loneliness comes with life. ~ Whitney Houston, #NFDB
15:Leave my loneliness unbroken ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
16:Loneliness is failed solitude. ~ Sherry Turkle, #NFDB
17:loneliness that will probably ~ Katherine Owen, #NFDB
18:I felt caged with loneliness. ~ Rosamund Lupton, #NFDB
19:I hate loneliness, but it loves me. ~ Tite Kubo, #NFDB
20:Sometimes loneliness is a choice. ~ Sabaa Tahir, #NFDB
21:My loneliness tasted like pennies. ~ Janet Fitch, #NFDB
22:fear and loneliness and despair. ~ Jillian Cantor, #NFDB
23:Loneliness turned into depression ~ Nicole Krauss, #NFDB
24:Aloneness isn't loneliness. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB
25:Loneliness has a compass of its own. ~ Delia Owens, #NFDB
26:loneliness has its own needs! ~ Eric Jerome Dickey, #NFDB
27:Loneliness is a darkness of the soul ~ N K Jemisin, #NFDB
28:Loneliness is not the worst emotion ~ Paula H Deen, #NFDB
29:Loneliness is a darkness of the soul. ~ N K Jemisin, #NFDB
30:Self-hatred is worse than loneliness. ~ John Irving, #NFDB
31:The arctic loneliness of age. ~ Silas Weir Mitchell, #NFDB
32:What makes loneliness an anguish ~ Dag Hammarskjold, #NFDB
33:Children are no antidote to loneliness. ~ Erica Jong, #NFDB
34:In solitude, we lose our loneliness. ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
35:Novelty is a new kind of loneliness. ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
36:This loneliness won't leave me alone. ~ Otis Redding, #NFDB
37:The cure for loneliness is solitude. ~ Marianne Moore, #NFDB
38:The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. ~ Tom Wolfe, #NFDB
39:The surest sign of age is loneliness. ~ Annie Dillard, #NFDB
40:Loneliness is solitude with a problem. ~ Maggie Nelson, #NFDB
41:Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not. ~ Anna Neagle, #NFDB
42:The cure for loneliness is solitude. ~ Helen Macdonald, #NFDB
43:Each way means loneliness -- and communion. ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB
44:Loneliness is a hell of a drug. ~ Jeremy Robert Johnson, #NFDB
45:Loneliness is the fare that you pay to be free. ~ Dessa, #NFDB
46:Loneliness makes us men weak. - Wilhelm Barli ~ Jo Nesb, #NFDB
47:Loneliness remembers what happiness forgets ~ Hal David, #NFDB
48:What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? ~ Jo Nesb, #NFDB
49:Loneliness is good practice for eternity. ~ Sheridan Hay, #NFDB
50:Loneliness is random; solitude is ritual. ~ Pearl Cleage, #NFDB
51:Loneliness is the teacher of giving. ~ Hyemeyohsts Storm, #NFDB
52:loneliness was a heavy cloud to wake up in ~ Sonja Yoerg, #NFDB
53:These days, loneliness is the new cancer ~ Gail Honeyman, #NFDB
54:They are sharing a drink called loneliness. ~ Billy Joel, #NFDB
55:Don't accept my being alone for loneliness ~ H A L Wagner, #NFDB
56:How much do you trade to defeat loneliness? ~ Delia Owens, #NFDB
57:Instead, he lived inside his loneliness ~ James Lee Burke, #NFDB
58:Loneliness is more painful than being hurt ~ Eiichiro Oda, #NFDB
59:loneliness is the worst kind of poverty, ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
60:The loneliness is the mother of wisdom. ~ Laurence Sterne, #NFDB
61:Thirsty for attention is a cry of loneliness. ~ Toba Beta, #NFDB
62:Man's loneliness is but his fear of life. ~ Eugene O Neill, #NFDB
63:The point of books was to combat loneliness ~ David Lipsky, #NFDB
64:Ignore the loneliness, enjoy your presence. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
65:When does the loneliness of old age begin? ~ Janusz Korczak, #NFDB
66:It is hard for loneliness to gaze on happiness. ~ Robin Hobb, #NFDB
67:Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation. ~ Mo Yan, #NFDB
68:Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you. ~ Johnny Cash, #NFDB
69:Loneliness was an unsatisfied thirst for illusion. ~ K b Abe, #NFDB
70:Sometimes loneliness is an emergency situation ~ Kim Edwards, #NFDB
71:What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
72:If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. ~ Anton Chekhov, #NFDB
73:I've come home in love with loneliness ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery, #NFDB
74:Loneliness is a mirror, and recognizes itself. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
75:One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness. ~ Edward Dahlberg, #NFDB
76:There is a terrible loneliness in the spring. ~ Ellen Glasgow, #NFDB
77:Will and loneliness are at bottom the same. ~ Oswald Spengler, #NFDB
78:You are the architect of your own loneliness. ~ Adam Shankman, #NFDB
79:A picture postcard is a symptom of loneliness. ~ Graham Greene, #NFDB
80:If anyone understood loneliness, the moon would. ~ Delia Owens, #NFDB
81:If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. ~ Anton Chekhov, #NFDB
82:Loneliness cannot be reassured by proportion. ~ Eleanor Catton, #NFDB
83:Loneliness is a mirror and it recognizes itself ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
84:Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
85:loneliness was a razor that cut a heart to shreds, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
86:Nothing remained but loneliness and grief. ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB
87:One should have the courage of one's loneliness. ~ Ngaio Marsh, #NFDB
88:The frost of loneliness makes me shiver. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
89:Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness ~ Billy Joel, #NFDB
90:Addiction,” he said, “is a disease of loneliness. ~ Johann Hari, #NFDB
91:Fundamentally, diaries are about loneliness. ~ Kenneth Williams, #NFDB
92:Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool. ~ Liv Ullmann, #NFDB
93:If you fear loneliness, then don't get married. ~ Anton Chekhov, #NFDB
94:, ~ Jalaluddin Rumi,#silence,#loneliness,#distance,#wind,#dream, #NFDB
95:Just the absence of loneliness. Thats love enough. ~ John Rechy, #NFDB
96:Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there. ~ Joss Whedon, #NFDB
97:Loneliness resides at the bottom of a KFC bucket. ~ Lola St Vil, #NFDB
98:…nothing remained but loneliness and grief… ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB
99:The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness. ~ Henry A Kissinger, #NFDB
100:Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness ~ Kate Atkinson, #NFDB
101:At our age, loneliness can seem so permanent. ~ Jonathan Tropper, #NFDB
102:...companionship refused is worse than loneliness. ~ Mark Haddon, #NFDB
103:Home is the place where loneliness disappears. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
104:It is the loneliness, the not belonging anywhere ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
105:, ~ Jalaluddin Rumi,#silence,#loneliness,#distance,#wind,#dream, #NFDB
106:Just the absence of loneliness. That's love enough. ~ John Rechy, #NFDB
107:Loneliness has been following me my whole life. ~ Robert De Niro, #NFDB
108:Loneliness is better than bad company. ~ Abd Al Qadir al Jilani, #NFDB
109:Loneliness is equal to the radius of one's awareness. ~ Yoko Ono, #NFDB
110:Loneliness is one thing, solitude another. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
111:Loneliness is the most terrible form of poverty. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
112:Love and loneliness, they are both coincidences. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
113:Now I see the mystery of your loneliness . ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
114:People living alone get used to loneliness. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
115:Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness. ~ John Irving, #NFDB
116:Strife is better than loneliness.” — Irish proverb ~ Sue Johnson, #NFDB
117:Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
118:Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin. ~ Ian Fleming, #NFDB
119:Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh] ~ Irving Stone, #NFDB
120:...the sense of my utter loneliness had been agony... ~ H G Wells, #NFDB
121:The worst aspect of loneliness was the silence. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
122:Will I really be able to accept my mental loneliness? ~ Ana s Nin, #NFDB
123:Loneliness is an aspect of natural human egotism. ~ Roberto Bola o, #NFDB
124:Loneliness is a required course for leadership. ~ Elisabeth Elliot, #NFDB
125:Loneliness is not a problem, it is a passion. ~ Marilynne Robinson, #NFDB
126:Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people. ~ Joan Collins, #NFDB
127:Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. ~ Lawrence Durrell, #NFDB
128:The point of books is to combat loneliness. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
129:Theres a difference between solitude and loneliness ~ Maggie Smith, #NFDB
130:The trap is loneliness, and none of us escapes it. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
131:Aloneness is not always the same thing as loneliness. ~ Mary Balogh, #NFDB
132:If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure. ~ Richard Ford, #NFDB
133:I love my loneliness as you do love your virginity. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
134:Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
135:Loneliness is lessened when you're lonely by choice. ~ George Jones, #NFDB
136:...loneliness is not a function of solitude. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
137:Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche,#NFDB
138:Loneliness is one thing, solitude is another. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
139:Loneliness is something you can't walk away from. ~ William Feather, #NFDB
140:Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all. ~ Nicole Krauss, #NFDB
141:Online communities are an expression of loneliness. ~ Joanne Harris, #NFDB
142:The loneliness of a one night stand is hard to take. ~ Stevie Nicks, #NFDB
143:A feeling of unfathomable loneliness settled upon her. ~ O E R lvaag, #NFDB
144:felt loneliness so vivid that he swore it had a taste. ~ Pepper Pace, #NFDB
145:He felt misery, loneliness, a terrible need for love. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
146:If anyone would understand loneliness, the moon would. ~ Delia Owens, #NFDB
147:I have a life that's just been a well of loneliness. ~ Jessica Lange, #NFDB
148:Loneliness doesn't have much to do with where you are. ~ Hugh Hefner, #NFDB
149:Loneliness is a kind of prison.
[Vincent Van Gogh] ~ Irving Stone,#NFDB
150:Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; ~ Pearl Cleage, #NFDB
151:Loneliness surrounds me without your arms around me. ~ Tammy Wynette, #NFDB
152:She had around her a burning aura of loneliness. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
153:the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear. ~ Carson McCullers, #NFDB
154:Well, we are equals, in our fear as in our loneliness. ~ Ruskin Bond, #NFDB
155:Loneliness burns in towers of fire around us ~ Christopher Poindexter, #NFDB
156:Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings. ~ Bram Stoker, #NFDB
157:Luck and loneliness, it would seem, are very compatible. ~ Roxane Gay, #NFDB
158:My tears were for my own loneliness, my own blindness. ~ Lucia Berlin, #NFDB
159:Since I love you, my loneliness begins to throw you. ~ Jean Giraudoux, #NFDB
160:The chilly blue of loneliness was a shadow on snow. The ~ Susan Wiggs, #NFDB
161:the worst decisions are made under the shade of loneliness. ~ R H Sin, #NFDB
162:Without the musician, all life would be loneliness. ~ Madeleine Thien, #NFDB
163:if you are afraid of loneliness, don't get married ~ August Strindberg, #NFDB
164:loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself ~ Rupi Kaur, #NFDB
165:The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness. ~ Adrienne Rich, #NFDB
166:The toughest detail to deal with was the loneliness. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
167:Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness. ~ Henry Rollins, #NFDB
168:Immortality is the ultimate state of loneliness.” Gaspar ~ Vernon Baker, #NFDB
169:Loneliness descends like helm clouds over a Brontë moor. ~ Stacey Keith, #NFDB
170:Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself. ~ Rupi Kaur, #NFDB
171:Loneliness is the most compelling force in the universe. ~ Cass McCombs, #NFDB
172:The cure for loneliness is solitude. And the solitude ~ Helen Macdonald, #NFDB
173:The touch of her hand filled me with a wild loneliness. ~ Angela Carter, #NFDB
174:Who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of his loneliness? ~ Nicole Krauss, #NFDB
175:Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness. ~ Bill W, #NFDB
176:But with great responsibility, one finds great loneliness.” ~ Sara King, #NFDB
177:I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work. ~ Orhan Pamuk, #NFDB
178:It is necessary to like loneliness to be photographer ~ Raymond Depardon, #NFDB
179:Loneliness hangs over our culture today like a thick smog. ~ Johann Hari, #NFDB
180:Loneliness was like an ogre hovering over those activities ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
181:Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness. ~ Franz Grillparzer, #NFDB
182:The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB
183:There's a difference between loneliness and solitude. ~ Jennifer E Smith, #NFDB
184:Was this what it meant to grow up, this vast loneliness? ~ Claire Messud, #NFDB
185:Characters who love loneliness walk on lonely roads! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
186:I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness. ~ Tom Cochrane, #NFDB
187:I did not feel lonely, but I felt the memory of loneliness. ~ Jan Ellison, #NFDB
188:It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another. ~ Aimee Carter, #NFDB
189:Loneliness chosen is always preferable to loneliness imposed ~ bell hooks, #NFDB
190:loneliness was something felt more powerfully in a crowd. ~ Megan Miranda, #NFDB
191:Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days. ~ Edward Hoagland, #NFDB
192:The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
193:The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
194:A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life. ~ R K Narayan, #NFDB
195:Loneliness is accretive, extending and perpetuating itself. ~ Olivia Laing, #NFDB
196:Loneliness is the side effect of solitude starving the soul. ~ Jewel E Ann, #NFDB
197:Man loneliness was much bigger than boy loneliness. ~ Benjamin Alire S enz, #NFDB
198:No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness. ~ Georges Bernanos, #NFDB
199:Of all the diseases I have known, loneliness is the worst. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
200:She was browned as if she was pickled in her own loneliness ~ Lauren Groff, #NFDB
201:The price of freedom is loneliness. To be happy is to be tied. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
202:There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage. ~ Alexander Theroux, #NFDB
203:Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
204:When we front a fiction, we are destined for loneliness. ~ Craig Groeschel, #NFDB
205:I entered my small loft with its chronic undertow of loneliness ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
206:I would have to say loneliness is next to uncleanliness. ~ Janeane Garofalo, #NFDB
207:Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the ~ Simon Van Booy, #NFDB
208:Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
209:There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage. ~ Erica Jong, #NFDB
210:
If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
~ Richard Ford,#NFDB
211:
If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
~ Richard Ford,#NFDB
212:dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness, gentlemen. ~ Max Hastings, #NFDB
213:I think cruelty is just loneliness disguised as bitterness. ~ Tom Hiddleston, #NFDB
214:Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache. ~ Sidney Sheldon, #NFDB
215:Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above my door! ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
216:Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables. ~ Sigmund Freud, #NFDB
217:Loneliness is stronger than resolve, willpower, or discipline. ~ Henry Cloud, #NFDB
218:My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness. ~ Enrique Iglesias, #NFDB
219:takes away the loneliness. When I’m with her I’m not lonely. ~ Jude Deveraux, #NFDB
220:The trick to loneliness is to spend a lot of time inside one’s head. ~ Pat R, #NFDB
221:I would like to be with you, but I do love my loneliness too. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
222:Loneliness is not being alone, It's loving others to no avail. ~ John Berendt, #NFDB
223:loneliness is the inevitable cost of looking after ourselves. ~ Adam Phillips, #NFDB
224:Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self. ~ May Sarton, #NFDB
225:The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy ~ Richard Bach, #NFDB
226:When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness. ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
227:When we are most alone is when we embrace another’s loneliness. ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
228:A morning of awkwardness is far better then a night of loneliness ~ Hank Moody, #NFDB
229:Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed. ~ Thomas Harris, #NFDB
230:Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
231:Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon, #NFDB
232:She sits there and feels the loneliness and the lack of him ~ Maggie O Farrell, #NFDB
233:The irony of loneliness is that everybody shares it from time to time. ~ Lil B, #NFDB
234:The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy. ~ Richard Bach, #NFDB
235:I have always photographed loneliness because that is my life. ~ Bob Richardson, #NFDB
236:Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude. ~ Paul Tillich, #NFDB
237:Loneliness, maybe. Or aloneness. The way I don’t fit here or there. ~ Yaa Gyasi, #NFDB
238:Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. ~ Hunter S Thompson, #NFDB
239:The trap is loneliness, and none of us escapes it. Not even me. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
240:Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found. ~ Claire Danes, #NFDB
241:& remember, / loneliness is still time spent / with the world. ~ Ocean Vuong, #NFDB
242:And loneliness, well, that’s where your imagination comes in. ~ Jane Kirkpatrick, #NFDB
243:as long as he could remember, loneliness had been his companion. ~ Gregg Hurwitz, #NFDB
244:Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth ~ Alan Ladd, #NFDB
245:Both times it was loneliness, and the night, and panic afterwards. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
246:In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
247:Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
248:Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment. ~ Richard J Foster, #NFDB
249:Reading is itself a state of artificially enhanced loneliness. ~ Nicholson Baker, #NFDB
250:That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love. ~ Samuel Beckett, #NFDB
251:The fear inside of loneliness: That only what others have is real. ~ Liv Ullmann, #NFDB
252:the irony of loneliness is we all feel it at the same time -together ~ Rupi Kaur, #NFDB
253:There comes a time when loneliness is stronger than fear. ~ Christopher Buehlman, #NFDB
254:We could build entire cities out of the stories of loneliness. ~ Hannah Brencher, #NFDB
255:We want to know that we're not alone with our loneliness or loss. ~ Michael Helm, #NFDB
256:Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry. ~ Erica Jong, #NFDB
257:In utter loneliness, a writer tries to explain the unexplicable. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
258:Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay. ~ William Styron, #NFDB
259:Sometimes I think evil is just loneliness with nowhere else to go. ~ Richard Long, #NFDB
260:The fallow soil of loneliness is fertile ground for self-deception. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
261:the irony of loneliness is we all feel it at the same time - together ~ Rupi Kaur, #NFDB
262:The pleasure of nostalgia is never without its companion, loneliness. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
263:There can be no final solution to our loneliness in this life. ~ Ronald Rolheiser, #NFDB
264:There is a distinction to be made between aloneness and loneliness. ~ Ruskin Bond, #NFDB
265:There seemed to be no cure for loneliness save only being alone. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
266:The secret to overcoming a feeling of loneliness is not going outside ~ Amy Grant, #NFDB
267:After all who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness ~ Nicole Krauss, #NFDB
268:Beauty is wishing for loneliness without any regret and complains. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
269:If you were left alone, you'd hate it. Loneliness gets old in a hurry ~ Dia Reeves, #NFDB
270:It kept the loneliness of crushlessness from being entirely crushing. ~ John Green, #NFDB
271:Loneliness, maybe. Or aloneness. The way I don’t fit here or there. My ~ Yaa Gyasi, #NFDB
272:At some point, loneliness becomes less a condition than a habit. ~ Jonathan Tropper, #NFDB
273:I have found no other cure for loneliness than to befriend it. ~ Charlotte Eriksson, #NFDB
274:Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair. ~ Bell Hooks, #NFDB
275:Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair. ~ bell hooks, #NFDB
276:I think the most common cause of insomnia is simple; its loneliness. ~ Heath Ledger, #NFDB
277:Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound. ~ Antoine de Saint Exupery, #NFDB
278:The fallow soil of loneliness is fertile ground for self-deception. ~ Dean R Koontz, #NFDB
279:The only way we can overcome the loneliness within us is together. ~ Benedict Wells, #NFDB
280:You left , and my heart is a ceaseless sermon of loneliness. ~ Jesse Tyler Ferguson, #NFDB
281:A life lived in loneliness is no life at all." -"Mail-Order Annie ~ Gary A Braunbeck, #NFDB
282:and i've learned to love loneliness because unlike you it never leaves ~ Beau Taplin, #NFDB
283:He felt very lonely, yet there was a kind of pride in his loneliness. ~ Michael Ende, #NFDB
284:Humans were not meant for isolation. WE were not meant for loneliness. ~ S Jae Jones, #NFDB
285:Loneliness is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
286:Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me,and drench me in loneliness. ~ Amy Lowell, #NFDB
287:Python carries his loneliness in him as if he had eaten clay. ~ Barbara Chase Riboud, #NFDB
288:Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
289:There may be cures to loneliness but marriage is not one of them, ~ Christine Schutt, #NFDB
290:We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. ~ Albert Schweitzer, #NFDB
291:Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness. ~ B W Powe, #NFDB
292:I wonder if I might be lonelier
if I didn't have loneliness ~ Kelli Russell Agodon,#NFDB
293:loneliness is a great teacher and a master test of character ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, #NFDB
294:The new delight of independence soon made his loneliness bearable. ~ Gustave Flaubert, #NFDB
295:Tranquility, allied to loneliness, possessed no charms. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, #NFDB
296:Twilight whippoorwill... Whistle on, sweet deepener Of dark loneliness ~ Matsuo Basho, #NFDB
297:You don’t know what real loneliness is until you’ve known the opposite. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
298:You grieve in loneliness, and if I understand you fuck in loneliness. ~ Adrienne Rich, #NFDB
299:His voice ached with a loneliness that contradicted his words. Sandstorm ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
300:I guess even with the color ,their loneliness still shines through, ~ Banana Yoshimoto, #NFDB
301:Love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness. ~ Nadeem Aslam, #NFDB
302:One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with. ~ Phyllis Rose, #NFDB
303:Sometimes I dread loneliness more than bores. Other times, the reverse. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
304:The liar has many friends, and leads an existence of great loneliness. ~ Adrienne Rich, #NFDB
305:When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned. ~ Leonard Cohen, #NFDB
306:Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness. ~ Pedro Almodovar, #NFDB
307:I believe in loneliness so deep and profound it has a physical presence ~ Tarryn Fisher, #NFDB
308:Loneliness is not intolerable when enthusiasm for a quest fills the mind. ~ David Grann, #NFDB
309:Loneliness is the wa by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself. ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
310:There can be no doubt that loneliness is dangerous to active minds. ~ Guy de Maupassant, #NFDB
311:This need for recognition and glory must have its roots in human loneliness. ~ Yiyun Li, #NFDB
312:Ah, the loneliness, the unspeakable loneliness, how it presses on the heart. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
313:At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
314:A world without pain, loss, betrayal, hate, death, loneliness? Impossible! ~ Darren Shan, #NFDB
315:I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented. ~ Sarah Dessen, #NFDB
316:I think she ate a salad and some soup. And loneliness. She ate that, too. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
317:It seems to be that loneliness is a small price to pay for peace and quiet. ~ Bart Yates, #NFDB
318:Loneliness is holding in a joke because you have no one to share it with. ~ Neil Strauss, #NFDB
319:Loneliness Is Not The Absence Of Affection, But The Absence Of Direction. ~ Mike Murdock, #NFDB
320:Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself. ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
321:Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper. ~ Tom Clancy, #NFDB
322:Usually there's no specific reason for loneliness - it's a broad feeling. ~ Cass McCombs, #NFDB
323:In short, [photography] is a matter of turning loneliness into thoughts. ~ Shomei Tomatsu, #NFDB
324:I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness. ~ Wilbur Smith, #NFDB
325:Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self. ~ Carl Rogers, #NFDB
326:Loneliness is a bitter, wretched companion. Sometimes it just won't let go ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
327:Loneliness is Europe's malaria," Rae said. "No one can really be immune. ~ Leila Aboulela, #NFDB
328:Loneliness opens the door for wisdom and wisdom opens all the doors! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
329:The perfection of loneliness is you can do whatever you want by yourself. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
330:I love your loneliness. It is brave. It makes the universe want to protect you. ~ Ben Okri, #NFDB
331:Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
332:loneliness is a bitter, wretched companion. sometimes it just won't let go. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
333:The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved. ~ Misty Griffin, #NFDB
334:The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
335:There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a stranger in a strange city. ~ Helon Habila, #NFDB
336:A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness. ~ Francois Mauriac, #NFDB
337:Humans were not meant for isolation. We were not meant for loneliness" -Liesl ~ S Jae Jones, #NFDB
338:It was not knowing that was the seed of madness, loneliness, suspicion, fear. ~ Dave Eggers, #NFDB
339:Loneliness Got a mind of its own The more people around The more you feel alone ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
340:loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself you are in the habit ~ Rupi Kaur, #NFDB
341:Loneliness is not intolerable when enthusiasm for a quest fills the mind,” he ~ David Grann, #NFDB
342:Loneliness. Sometimes that awful feeling causes you to do something stupid. ~ Natsuo Kirino, #NFDB
343:Man will do away with anything that threatens him with loneliness—even himself. ~ Ken Kesey, #NFDB
344:The cost of loneliness is high, she knows, but the cost of loss is higher. ~ Chloe Benjamin, #NFDB
345:Utter loneliness was planted in me then, and sent its deep roots down into me. ~ Robin Hobb, #NFDB
346:We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
347:We can all fight against loneliness by engaging in random acts of kindness. ~ Gail Honeyman, #NFDB
348:What's a rainy day
without some delicious
coffee-flavoured loneliness? ~ Sanober Khan,#NFDB
349:But loneliness is a thing that has weight, and it gets heavier over time. ~ Michelle Falkoff, #NFDB
350:I have only ever been truly frightened of boredom and loneliness,” she says. It ~ Eowyn Ivey, #NFDB
351:I, however, cannot force myself to use "meat drugs" to cheat on my loneliness. ~ Franz Kafka, #NFDB
352:It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs. ~ Eric Hoffer, #NFDB
353:Loneliness is an opportunity to find yourself. In solitude, you are least alone. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
354:Loneliness it seemed was the constant companion of those who kept secrets. ~ Sylvain Reynard, #NFDB
355:Some philosophers believe that loneliness is the only true feeling there is ~ Michael Finkel, #NFDB
356:The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
~ Mother Teresa,#NFDB
357:The only antidote to the loneliness of the streets was the streets themselves. ~ Orhan Pamuk, #NFDB
358:Ellie closed her eyes and felt the aching loneliness well up inside her chest. ~ Jill Mansell, #NFDB
359:He distrusted her affection; and what loneliness is more lonely than distrust. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
360:He distrusted her affection; and what loneliness is more lonely than distrust? ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
361:Life was a trade-off between loneliness and inevitable peaks of joy or agony. ~ Karen Traviss, #NFDB
362:loneliness has little to do with reality and more to do with state of mind. ~ Alyssa Rose Ivy, #NFDB
363:Lonely? Give it to Jesus. The loneliness itself is material for sacrifice. ~ Elisabeth Elliot, #NFDB
364:That you know who you are when you’re with me? That I take your loneliness away? ~ Jaden Skye, #NFDB
365:Champagne for happiness. Whiskey for loneliness. And vodka for anything else, ~ Lauren Blakely, #NFDB
366:Forget men and romance. The answer to my aching loneliness would be all the cats. ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB
367:I think she ate a salad and some soup.
And loneliness.
She ate that, too. ~ Markus Zusak,#NFDB
368:Sorry for all the pain and loneliness and disappointment. But there is this, too. ~ Libba Bray, #NFDB
369:The essential reason for my loneliness is that I don't even know where I belong. ~ Orhan Pamuk, #NFDB
370:The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. ~ Norman Cousins, #NFDB
371:The gun was just the go-between. It was the loneliness that got me in the end. ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
372:the irony of loneliness
is we all feel it
at the same time
- together ~ Rupi Kaur,#NFDB
373:The loneliness of command had made Eisenhower emotionally self-sufficient. ~ Jean Edward Smith, #NFDB
374:Three Plagues of nursing home existence: boredom, loneliness, and helplessness. ~ Atul Gawande, #NFDB
375:We can never leave loneliness behind completely - it is part of what forms us. ~ Thomas L Dumm, #NFDB
376:What wants to live in you may be waiting...at the end of a long loneliness. ~ Elizabeth Lesser, #NFDB
377:You build walls to fortify your heart,
and blame on others for your loneliness. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
378:His heart writhed in a swamp of loneliness. He lived in his own special hell. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
379:It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs." - ~ Eric Hoffer, #NFDB
380:Just as a fever makes cold feel colder, love can make loneliness feel lonelier. ~ Andrea Cremer, #NFDB
381:Loneliness is a heavy burden, but i'd rather be alone than make compromises. ~ Federico Fellini, #NFDB
382:Loneliness, longing, does not mean one has failed, but simply that one is alive. ~ Olivia Laing, #NFDB
383:Loneliness, mother said, is like a hammer blow that shatters glass but hardens steel. ~ Amos Oz, #NFDB
384:No matter how elaborate its charade, she recognized loneliness when she saw it. ~ Arundhati Roy, #NFDB
385:Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness. ~ Poppy Z Brite, #NFDB
386:The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself. ~ Mary Balogh, #NFDB
387:This road is a winding one.
We left the west flooded
with new loneliness. ~ Donika Kelly,#NFDB
388:Time brought along its secretary, memory, and space brought its brat, loneliness. ~ Tom Robbins, #NFDB
389:Unchecked loneliness fuels continued loneliness by keeping us afraid to reach out. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
390:All I know is that loneliness is a slow and painful death.’ Marion paused. ~ Arnaldur Indri ason, #NFDB
391:Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering—and it's all over much too soon. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
392:Life?” I suggested. She shrugged. “Desire. Loneliness. Joy. Pain.” “Life,” I said. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
393:Loneliness is the most severe punishment. We are not built to handle it. I ~ Jan Philipp Sendker, #NFDB
394:She wondered if there was a word for loneliness that wasn’t quite so general. ~ Jennifer E Smith, #NFDB
395:Sometimes I think the loneliness inside of me is going to explode through my skin ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
396:The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. ~ Cyril Connolly, #NFDB
397:The end of loneliness is when someone needs you. And the world is so full of need. ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
398:the irony of loneliness
is we all feel it
at the same time
- together ~ Rupi Kaur,#NFDB
399:[...] what
doesn't begin with love and death and end
in loneliness? ~ Olena Kalytiak Davis,#NFDB
400:All the hungers will kill, but hunger of loneliness turns you into a philosopher. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
401:Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life ~ Jerzy Kosi ski, #NFDB
402:Loneliness had been the trash can fire he huddled around for most of his life. ~ Michael Connelly, #NFDB
403:...does it seem strange in the loneliness of the present time, that I run to you?... ~ John Geddes, #NFDB
404:Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life. ~ Jerzy Kosinski, #NFDB
405:I'm supposed to be, I am an artist. Yes, I'm lonely. But I'm married to my loneliness. ~ Lady Gaga, #NFDB
406:In the infinite loneliness of
space, what could Laika possibly be looking at? ~ Haruki Murakami,#NFDB
407:Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
408:Loneliness isn't a disease, it is only a moment to learn something better ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, #NFDB
409:That’s what loneliness is—living in world where no one really sees you.” Wow. ~ Brittainy C Cherry, #NFDB
410:Your loneliness can end at any moment because the world is full lonely souls! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
411:Forgiveness enables me to walk away from that pain, the loneliness and suffering. ~ Sharon E Rainey, #NFDB
412:Just as a fever makes a cold feeler colder, love can make loneliness feel lonelier. ~ Andrea Cremer, #NFDB
413:Loneliness could sometimes wrap itself around you so tightly you could barely breathe. ~ Jamie Beck, #NFDB
414:No deeper loneliness than the Samurai's. None but the tiger's in the jungle perhaps. ~ Jack Higgins, #NFDB
415:The loneliness of another can be shocking when it lays itself bare without warning. ~ Dennis Lehane, #NFDB
416:At the same time sorting is on the rise, so is loneliness. According to Bishop, in 1976 ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
417:He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world. ~ Richard Preston, #NFDB
418:If you try you would never be alone; because the whole world is tired of loneliness. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
419:I think it was Mother Teresa who said that loneliness is the worst kind of poverty, ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
420:Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
421:Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. ~ Thomas Wolfe, #NFDB
422:Loneliness is holding the one you love / When you know you might never hold him again. ~ Kami Garcia, #NFDB
423:Loneliness is one thing, solitude another: you have learned that - now! ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
424:My loneliness turned itself inside out and I grew myself a kind of perverse pride. ~ Phyllis Gotlieb, #NFDB
425:We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community. ~ Dorothy Day, #NFDB
426:At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes... ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
427:Even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough. ~ Theodore Sturgeon, #NFDB
428:...I was crying for having been left behind in the night, paralyzed by loneliness. ~ Banana Yoshimoto, #NFDB
429:Loneliness comes from being unable to communicate things that are important to you ~ Carl Jung #depth, #NFDB
430:Loneliness even when you’re surrounded by others is something I understand well. I’m ~ Mariana Zapata, #NFDB
431:Loneliness is God’s imprint in us, constantly telling us where we should be going. ~ Ronald Rolheiser, #NFDB
432:Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
433:Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
434:People who can't be alone have a problem. Loneliness is a luxury for people like me. ~ Karl Lagerfeld, #NFDB
435:Real loneliness comes when we have lost all sense of having things in common. When ~ Henri J M Nouwen, #NFDB
436:She was an only child, and loneliness was one of the earliest conditions of her life. ~ John Williams, #NFDB
437:The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all. ~ Deb Caletti, #NFDB
438:The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community. ~ Dorothy Day, #NFDB
439:We have, each of us, known loneliness and been forced to turn it into independence, ~ Paula Brackston, #NFDB
440:dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
441:He seems sad, and it occurs to me that we have a certain kind of loneliness in common. ~ Kenny Porpora, #NFDB
442:I had learned even loneliness could leave an absence if it had lived in you long enough. ~ Beau Taplin, #NFDB
443:It's in the spirit of male loneliness to imagine that someone has to suffer for it. ~ Hanif Abdurraqib, #NFDB
444:I've decided that the worst part of loneliness isn't being alone. It's being forgotten. ~ Tawni O Dell, #NFDB
445:No deeper loneliness than the Samurai's. None but the tiger's in the jungle perhaps. He ~ Jack Higgins, #NFDB
446:Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing. ~ Fred Rogers, #NFDB
447:The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! ~ Edith Wharton, #NFDB
448:The worst kind of loneliness gripped him. The kind you feel alongside another person. ~ Louise Erdrich, #NFDB
449:Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets. ~ Peter S Beagle, #NFDB
450:An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
451:Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. ~ Dag Hammarskj ld, #NFDB
452:Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. ~ Dag Hammarskjold, #NFDB
453:He knew that loneliness was poisoning him, so that he grew viler as well as more unhappy. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
454:I better be honest about my feelings, even those involving loneliness, jealousy, and fear. ~ Andy Cohen, #NFDB
455:Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, #NFDB
456:she wondered what she had done to deserve the loneliness that seemed to surround her. ~ Carolyne Aarsen, #NFDB
457:The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself. ~ Neal A Maxwell, #NFDB
458:At the simplicity of the gesture, he felt a pang: the raw nerve of his loneliness exposed. ~ Maile Meloy, #NFDB
459:felt alone. The loneliness you felt when you were surrounded by people was the worst kind. ~ Cora Reilly, #NFDB
460:How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, #NFDB
461:Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self. ~ Maxwell Maltz, #NFDB
462:Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not. ~ Andrew Stanton, #NFDB
463:Loneliness was a full-body sensation, an anti-exhilaration, from his core outward. ~ Charlie Jane Anders, #NFDB
464:Love and compassion open our own inner life, reducing stress, distrust, and loneliness. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
465:Nothing so reminds you like the sea that the enemy of life is not death but loneliness. ~ Wayne Johnston, #NFDB
466:The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up. ~ Christopher Hitchens, #NFDB
467:What I had always loved most about literature was the way it eased my own loneliness. Even ~ Rufi Thorpe, #NFDB
468:When loneliness comes stalking, go into the fields, consider the orderliness of the world. ~ Mary Oliver, #NFDB
469:You taught me the meaning of loneliness, because when I don’t see you, I feel alone. You ~ Ilona Andrews, #NFDB
470:and it is only in loneliness, as Goethe says, that your perceptions put forth their flowers. ~ E F Benson, #NFDB
471:Loneliness in a crowd of people was the worst kind of loneliness, but she couldn't help it. ~ Lauren Kate, #NFDB
472:Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality. ~ Anthony de Mello, #NFDB
473:Memories and loneliness look backward, fear looks around, but faith always looks forward. ~ E Lynn Harris, #NFDB
474:My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB
475:The world had to be sliced into hours to fill; otherwise you could go mad with loneliness. ~ Hisham Matar, #NFDB
476:Have you ever considered another type of loneliness; a good and healthy, happy loneliness? ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
477:I understand now that loneliness is worse if there are people about than if there are not. ~ Anne Youngson, #NFDB
478:Loneliness means when you have no one to celebrate your success with and share your pains. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
479:Only writing could soak up his loneliness and pain. Written words could tell him who he was. ~ Don DeLillo, #NFDB
480:The fourteen conscious robots contemplated their cosmic loneliness for several milliseconds. ~ Ken MacLeod, #NFDB
481:This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul. ~ Waylon Jennings, #NFDB
482:To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions. ~ Jonathan Lethem, #NFDB
483:...across the snowy field the barn light gleams - it's the loneliness of November twilight... ~ John Geddes, #NFDB
484:Addiction is in my soul and so I have withdrawn from love. Now loneliness is my only drug. ~ Zachary Koukol, #NFDB
485:Have I experienced happiness with sufficient gratitude? Have I endured loneliness with grace? ~ Mary Oliver, #NFDB
486:If listened to correctly, loneliness keeps telling us the purpose for which God made us. ~ Ronald Rolheiser, #NFDB
487:If you don't learn how to be alone, you'll always be lonely, loneliness is failed solitude. ~ Sherry Turkle, #NFDB
488:In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
489:Like dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
490:Loneliness is more likely to lead to fussy housekeeping than to grand views of the Universe. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
491:Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone. ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
492:Loneliness was tricky: a cup filled at one moment with freedom, and the next, with emptiness. ~ Laura Resau, #NFDB
493:Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else. ~ Lillian Hellman, #NFDB
494:Oh, there is a loneliness which befalls me now and then and it is something more than death. ~ Pearl S Buck, #NFDB
495:Once in a while, people enter our lives and lessen the loneliness of being away from Home. ~ Yasmin Mogahed, #NFDB
496:There are kinds of solitude that provide a respite from loneliness, a holiday if not a cure. ~ Olivia Laing, #NFDB
497:True loneliness, I learned that day, isn’t the lack of others. It’s the lack of others quickly. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
498:You got your glory and you paid for it all, you take your pension in loneliness and alcohol. ~ Billy Squier, #NFDB
499:And she had discovered him, discovered in him a rare potentiality, discovered his loneliness. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
500:Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness. ~ Martha Gellhorn, #NFDB
501:I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen. ~ Carson McCullers, #NFDB
502:Life is loneliness, broken only by the gods taunting us with friendship and the odd bonk ~ Christopher Moore, #NFDB
503:Loneliness and desperation are only possible when we have lost touch with our beauty within. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
504:Physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance. ~ Robert M Pirsig, #NFDB
505:Sometimes, the loneliness probably got to be too much and anyone seemed better than no one. ~ Gena Showalter, #NFDB
506:The loneliness within him was like slow decay, and with time it would rot its way into his soul. ~ R J Lewis, #NFDB
507:unfair. I was fighting with some core, self-fulfilling loneliness that made me push people away. ~ C D Reiss, #NFDB
508:At times, when loneliness seems to crush all beauty, the only way to resist is to remain open. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
509:Everything is freedom and everything is loneliness. Make your choice and let the rest fall away. ~ Ariel Gore, #NFDB
510:I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
511:I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did. ~ John Green, #NFDB
512:I'm so hugely tired of carrying all of this inside me, all my guilt and anger and loneliness. ~ Katie Cotugno, #NFDB
513:Loneliness is not so much where you are, but instead is your state of mind - Commander Hadfield ~ Nick Bilton, #NFDB
514:The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers. ~ Richard Powers, #NFDB
515:The loneliness that can never be filled by anyone except the one whose loss created the absence; ~ Robin Hobb, #NFDB
516:Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness. ~ Eric Metaxas, #NFDB
517:Beauty is meaningless until it is shared. If he had one person, just one, to halve his loneliness! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
518:Being alone is much better than being around negative people out of loneliness or desperation. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
519:I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
520:Indigos often feel misunderstood by others, which can lead to feelings of loneliness. Charles: ~ Doreen Virtue, #NFDB
521:I no longer ask for all the loneliness of love or the tranquility of love or for the mirrors. ~ Roberto Bola o, #NFDB
522:I seek the city because there is nothing sweeter than not being alone in your loneliness. ~ Charlotte Eriksson, #NFDB
523:Loneliness is not so much where you are, but instead is your state of mind" - Commander Hadfield ~ Nick Bilton, #NFDB
524:Nothing is more painful than the loneliness of being with someone who is never completely there. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
525:People who work alone know the beauty of solitude. The perhaps greater beauty of loneliness ~ Marlena de Blasi, #NFDB
526:The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
527:There's grief and then there's the loneliness of grief. The way it's just yours and yours alone. ~ Deb Caletti, #NFDB
528:[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness. ~ Theophile Gautier, #NFDB
529:Anyone out without the excuse of a dog
should be handcuffed
and searched for loneliness. ~ Stephen Dunn,#NFDB
530:Being alone in body & spirit begets loneliness, and loneliness begets more loneliness. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
531:Every drop of wine would have tasted like tears and loneliness, and I’ve had enough of that. It’s ~ S G Redling, #NFDB
532:Have I experienced happiness with sufficient gratitude?
Have I endured loneliness with grace? ~ Mary Oliver,#NFDB
533:Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat. ~ Joyce Carol Oates, #NFDB
534:Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
535:Loneliness is really a wonderful companion that can show us so much about ourselves and others. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
536:Poverty and loneliness could be seen as a liberation from strivings to become rich and popular. ~ Donald Richie, #NFDB
537:Shyness is a condition foreign to the heart - a category, a dimension which leads to loneliness. ~ Pablo Neruda, #NFDB
538:The loneliness of certain American states is enough to kill a person if you look too closely. ~ Catherine Lacey, #NFDB
539:The night was crisp and the stars shone with a cold blue light like loneliness or infinity. ~ Christopher Moore, #NFDB
540:you got him alone tonight--there'll be a beautiful moon to fill him with poetry and loneliness ~ Eugene O Neill, #NFDB
541:But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness. ~ Megan Whalen Turner, #NFDB
542:I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature. ~ Rachel Hartman, #NFDB
543:I think Id like to be able to heal peoples pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever. ~ Brandi Chastain, #NFDB
544:Ojii-san’s wen has been his only confidant, and he’s conscious of a certain loneliness without it. ~ Osamu Dazai, #NFDB
545:She knows that loneliness can kill people - in different ways can actually make you die. (68) ~ Elizabeth Strout, #NFDB
546:she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
547:The cure for loneliness is solitude. —Marianne Moore, from the essay “If I Were Sixteen Today ~ Rabih Alameddine, #NFDB
548:and I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
549:Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness. ~ John D Voelker, #NFDB
550:I don't want to die, I want to live and annoy everyone, hence I was doomed to an absolute loneliness. ~ O uz Atay, #NFDB
551:It is better to be alone than to become a person that loses his soul to the fear of loneliness. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
552:Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness. ~ Vladimir Nabokov, #NFDB
553:Mandarin ducks mate for life and will die of loneliness if separated from their chosen mate. ~ Katherine Paterson, #NFDB
554:Most love songs were inspired, not by love, but by loneliness, regretfulness, or horniness. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
555:She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
556:Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
557:It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one’s solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem. ~ Maggie Nelson, #NFDB
558:Loneliness is watching the only girl you’ve ever loved find happiness in the arms of another man. ~ Winter Renshaw, #NFDB
559:Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
560:She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
561:she was consumed by 2 simple things:
despair, loneliness; and oh 2 more:
youth and beauty ~ Charles Bukowski,#NFDB
562:There's a special quality to the loneliness of dusk, a melancholy more brooding even than the night's. ~ Ed Gorman, #NFDB
563:The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth. ~ Jim Lovell, #NFDB
564:I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
565:I avoided my own friends and acquaintances, yet the loneliness of my existence was insupportable. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
566:If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
567:I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does. ~ Henry Rollins, #NFDB
568:Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. ~ Henry Rollins, #NFDB
569:Loneliness is imposed by society, it kills you and solitude
is self inflicted. I enjoy my solitude ~ Dixy Gandhi,#NFDB
570:Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
571:Their isolation was communal,” he wrote. “They could escape neither their loneliness nor each other. ~ Wayne Curtis, #NFDB
572:Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve. ~ Kate Atkinson, #NFDB
573:We are not defined by our individual loneliness, but by the web of relationships in which we’re enmeshed. ~ Ken Liu, #NFDB
574:Where a people prays, there is the hurch; and where the church is; there is never loneliness. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, #NFDB
575:..and I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
576:Commander Hadfield wrote. “Loneliness is not so much where you are, but instead is your state of mind. ~ Nick Bilton, #NFDB
577:I can’t help but think about the concept of loneliness, of having no one – how tangible melancholy is. ~ Carol Mason, #NFDB
578:Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
579:The desperate loneliness is nothing compared to the torture of falling in love and then being abandoned. ~ A J Nuest, #NFDB
580:The problem with the loneliness I suffer is that the company of others has never been a cure for it. ~ Joseph Heller, #NFDB
581:... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
582:Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, #NFDB
583:Didst thou give me this inescapable loneliness so that it would be easier for me to give thee all? ~ Dag Hammarskj ld, #NFDB
584:Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime. ~ John Green, #NFDB
585:Loneliness, he concluded, is causing a significant amount of the depression and anxiety in our society. ~ Johann Hari, #NFDB
586:People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this world’s worst kind of pain. ~ Masashi Kishimoto, #NFDB
587:The party was very painful to me, as parties usually were, and I felt the familiar loneliness of crowds. ~ Pat Conroy, #NFDB
588:For the briefest moment, Ulla despised Signy, as we can only hate those who rescue us from loneliness. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
589:In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
590:Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. ~ Dag Hammarskj ld, #NFDB
591:Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. ~ Dag Hammarskjold, #NFDB
592:pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to love for, great enough to die for. ~ Dag Hammarskj ld, #NFDB
593:she was consumed by 3 simple things:
drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more:
youth and beauty ~ Charles Bukowski,#NFDB
594:We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock. ~ Leonard Cohen, #NFDB
595:We are called to love even in the loneliness, worship even in the tears and follow even in the darkness. ~ Pete Wilson, #NFDB
596:We have to live with our loneliness and the destiny that drives each person to the order of things. ~ Cecile de France, #NFDB
597:You are a pastel-colored Persian carpet, and loneliness is a Bordeaux wine stain that won’t come out ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
598:Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime... ~ John Green, #NFDB
599:Loneliness is a state of feeling that can be changed.
People may still feel lonely even among the crowd. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
600:Love is not an antidote of depression or loneliness, but it itself is a cause of depression and loneliness. ~ Raj Singh, #NFDB
601:...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing. ~ Emma Donoghue, #NFDB
602:Sometimes, when loneliness seems about to crush everything, the only way to resist is to keep on loving. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
603:That having a little bit of happiness, even for just a while, was better than a lifetime of loneliness. ~ Juliana Stone, #NFDB
604:When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness. ~ Brian Swimme, #NFDB
605:If I can teach myself the art of loneliness, then perhaps the art of writing will come more easily to me. ~ Nell Stevens, #NFDB
606:Solitude is much preferred to the more disturbing isolation of sharing loneliness with a stranger. I ~ Randy Wayne White, #NFDB
607:There was a marvelous, dark lyricism in his voice, the kind of defiance that is rooted in deep loneliness. ~ Tom Robbins, #NFDB
608:You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one. ~ Theodore Sturgeon, #NFDB
609:...and my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me. ~ Tabitha Suzuma, #NFDB
610:Every book is a revolution. Books are our ticket out of boredom, despair, loneliness—but also ignorance. ~ Heidi Cullinan, #NFDB
611:I suddenly encountered the face of loneliness, and decided that it was a merciless and ugly face indeed. ~ William Styron, #NFDB
612:I think that in the darkness beneath the stars the desert evokes even more loneliness than the sea. ~ Howard Andrew Jones, #NFDB
613:It is a sound like loneliness—enough to let you know you’re there, but not enough to fill you with life. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
614:It was a weird kind of loneliness, feeling that some of my closest friends didn’t actually know I existed. ~ Sarah Dessen, #NFDB
615:Loneliness is designed to help you discover who you are…and to stop looking outside yourself for your worth. ~ Mandy Hale, #NFDB
616:Loneliness is like a big, empty room inside you that echoes with the sounds of the life you're not living. ~ Leisa Rayven, #NFDB
617:Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. ~ Janet Fitch, #NFDB
618:Loneliness will give you the greatest chance of ever having a beautiful relationship with another person. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
619:Now that I’ve known a life with you by my side, I’m not sure I could bear that kind of loneliness again. ~ Claire Legrand, #NFDB
620:One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well. ~ Karl Kraus, #NFDB
621:...savoring the sense of loneliness and freedom that comes only from solitary sojourns in strange lands... ~ Barry Eisler, #NFDB
622:The central idea of the great part of the Old Testament may be called the idea of the loneliness of God. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
623:There is no loneliness like the loneliness of crowds, especially to those who are unaccustomed to them. ~ H Rider Haggard, #NFDB
624:There is no loneliness more profound, in my experience, than being ignored by one's sole companion in life. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
625:We are not alone in our loneliness, others have been here and known griefs we thought our special own. ~ Patrick Kavanagh, #NFDB
626:Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness. ~ Indra Devi, #NFDB
627:Entwined in his heart-wrenching story was such a sense of acute loneliness, it nearly doubled her over. Nicole ~ T S Joyce, #NFDB
628:He’s lonely and afraid, even if he’s in a trance and doesn’t realize it. One can’t hide loneliness like that. ~ A G Howard, #NFDB
629:..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask. ~ Ry nosuke Akutagawa, #NFDB
630:..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask. ~ Ryunosuke Akutagawa, #NFDB
631:I am never lonely when I am reading the Bible. Nothing dissolves loneliness like a session with God's Word. ~ Billy Graham, #NFDB
632:Loneliness in travel directs you and tells you about yourself. You don't become lonely unless you're alone. ~ Paul Theroux, #NFDB
633:She raised her head and stared at the birds with him, caught in a web of awe and loneliness. ~ Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, #NFDB
634:The deepest loneliness came from not knowing whom to call to share the mundane details of her life. ~ Patti Callahan Henry, #NFDB
635:There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. ~ Eric Hoffer, #NFDB
636:I would argue that it might be easier to endure loneliness than to endure the idea that you might disappear. ~ Susan Orlean, #NFDB
637:Loneliness does not come from being alone, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
638:Maybe loneliness was imprinted in my genes, lying dormant for years but now coming into full bloom. ~ Karen Thompson Walker, #NFDB
639:My chin trembled, and my chest was burdened with swells of loneliness as my doubts began to consume me. ~ Lindsey Fairleigh, #NFDB
640:There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while. ~ Tom Hanks, #NFDB
641:The worse part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared. ~ Lois Lowry, #NFDB
642:The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared. ~ Lois Lowry, #NFDB
643:The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared. ~ Lois Lowry, #NFDB
644:We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life. ~ Marina Keegan, #NFDB
645:Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
646:At such hours there was a democracy of loneliness; one felt the smog of it to be equitably distributed. Lucy ~ Victor Lodato, #NFDB
647:His mind was horrifyingly empty and still; and he felt the loneliness and the stillness of the rooms completely. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
648:John Cacioppo argues in his 2008 book, Loneliness, that we have an innate biological need for this connection. ~ Jo Marchant, #NFDB
649:Loneliness is a hell of a drug. A week prior I’d misted up when a grocery clerk told me, “Take care. ~ Jeremy Robert Johnson, #NFDB
650:That’s what happens when you discover you have a soulmate. The fear of a lifetime of loneliness evaporates. ~ Laura Thalassa, #NFDB
651:There is nothing like the silence and loneliness of night to bring dark shadows over the brightest mind. ~ Washington Irving, #NFDB
652:All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess. ~ Kate DiCamillo, #NFDB
653:Give a man a choice between reality and loneliness or fantasy and community, he’ll pick having friends every time. ~ Joe Hill, #NFDB
654:Home is the place where loneliness disappears. When we’re home, we feel warm, comfortable, safe, fulfilled. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
655:I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do. ~ Maggie Nelson, #NFDB
656:Please, God. Help me. Take this pain away. Please fill this loneliness with your love. Help me, God, please, help me. ~ David, #NFDB
657:Turn your loneliness into singing and praying, and you shall realize that you are never alone at all ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, #NFDB
658:Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, #NFDB
659:When you get to be my age, you’ll understand how I feel. How much loneliness the truth can cause sometimes. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
660:Won't you come and see
loneliness? Just one leaf
from the kiri tree.
~ Matsuo Basho, wont you come and see
,#NFDB
661:A Seeing Eye bitch is not only for blind people but for people who pine for the negative of loneliness. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB
662:buckled under the weight of a loneliness so terrible I would have chosen death then if only I’d had such a choice. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
663:For Quoyle was a failure at loneliness, yearned to be gregarious, to know his company was a pleasure to others. ~ Annie Proulx, #NFDB
664:Her divorced friends had made a pact not to leave each other alone on nights when loneliness had extra strength. ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
665:Her voice was like loneliness. It was regret. She sang about a past you couldn't get out of and didn't want. ~ Brenna Yovanoff, #NFDB
666:Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it. ~ Robin Hobb, #NFDB
667:Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits. ~ Jorge Luis Borges, #NFDB
668:loneliness was the reason
i held on to you
and holding on to you
was the loneliest thing
i had ever done ~ R H Sin,#NFDB
669:One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person. ~ Jamaica Kincaid, #NFDB
670:People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition. ~ Jean Vanier, #NFDB
671:She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
672:the symptoms of depression cause depression. Loneliness is depressing, but depression also causes loneliness. ~ Andrew Solomon, #NFDB
673:And loneliness tells us that we need social connection--something as critical to our well-being as food and water. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
674:And with that thought came a loneliness so sharp and cruel, it felt like an axe cleaving her heart in two. ~ Kristen Ciccarelli, #NFDB
675:Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness. ~ Criss Jami, #NFDB
676:If you have never found yourself, the best place to look is in your loneliness, and rock-bottom is even better. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
677:In the night, your loneliness crushes you, as if the sky itself has swooped down to smother you in its cold arms. ~ Sabaa Tahir, #NFDB
678:Love and Loneliness inversely proportional to each other. Love increases then loneliness decreases from this world. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
679:No better school invented yet than the school of loneliness in the matters of understanding our deep-self! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
680:She felt a budding loneliness, and with it came the familiar emptiness that once threatened to swallow her whole. ~ Sarah McCoy, #NFDB
681:Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them. ~ Brock Clarke, #NFDB
682:Art has the power to render sorrow beautiful, make loneliness a shared experience, and transform despair into hope. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
683:Interesting, the idea that loneliness might be taking you towards an otherwise unreachable experience of reality. ~ Olivia Laing, #NFDB
684:I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
685:Locked into loneliness were we two, and looking at one another every evening, we each saw the one we blamed for it. ~ Robin Hobb, #NFDB
686:People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in. ~ Margaret Cho, #NFDB
687:Rosina suspects there is a place between these extremes, something besides loneliness and hating everyone around you. ~ Amy Reed, #NFDB
688:Smell remembers and tells the future. ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers. ~ Cherrie Moraga, #NFDB
689:...the pain of the constant, bone-chilling loneliness she'd accustomed herself to. And learned to live with it. ~ Christina Dodd, #NFDB
690:there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
691:The song is languid and speaks of love and loneliness and loss. Why does love seem to go with the sad things? ~ Lisa Ann Sandell, #NFDB
692:Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness. ~ Mandy Hale, #NFDB
693:A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory. ~ Pablo Neruda, #NFDB
694:A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone. ~ Mandy Hale, #NFDB
695:Because, even though love created wrecks of us all, it had to beat the barren wastelands that was utter loneliness. ~ Tillie Cole, #NFDB
696:Goodbye London, Ava thought, as the carriage trundled through the streets of the capital, and goodbye loneliness. ~ Claudia Stone, #NFDB
697:I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do. 72. ~ Maggie Nelson, #NFDB
698:It's a funny thing in my job: you remain perpetually lonely in a world where loneliness is the rarest commodity. ~ Brian W Aldiss, #NFDB
699:Lisa: 'Do we have any food that wasn't brutally slaughtered?' Homer: 'Well, I think the veal died of loneliness.' ~ Matt Groening, #NFDB
700:Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the
universe, except that everyone else is still here. ~ Simon Van Booy,#NFDB
701:She’d said she hated being alone. When a god forced people to worship it, perhaps it was only out of loneliness. ~ Isuna Hasekura, #NFDB
702:There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
703:The traits of our sexual culture are still speechlessness, loneliness, violence and not enough desire and love. ~ Volkmar Sigusch, #NFDB
704:What you notice is the loneliness. Daniel started to isolate himself, because it hurt less than being pushed away. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
705:When you jump onto the emptiness of the loneliness, the best parachute to land you safely will be the books! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
706:From my novel Seaside Daisies:
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted
is the most terrible poverty ~ Mother Teresa,#NFDB
707:I'd like to walk there again. It was so lonely - a nice kind of loneliness, and all grass and clover and soft sea air. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
708:I don’t know why solitude would be a balm for loneliness, but that is how it always was for me in those days, ~ Marilynne Robinson, #NFDB
709:I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
710:I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust. ~ Patti Smith, #NFDB
711:Solitude isn’t loneliness. Solitude is when the entire serene universe seems to surround and hold you quietly. ~ Victoria Erickson, #NFDB
712:There is no protest to be lodged against loneliness—not all the bombing campaigns in history have made a dent in it. ~ Philip Roth, #NFDB
713:Don’t be afraid of loneliness, because everything is a door; even loneliness is a door, it opens to somewhere! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
714:I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. ~ Ana s Nin, #NFDB
715:I could tell you it's his heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
716:I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
717:I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon, #NFDB
718:It's about isolation and loneliness, but it's also about friendship. Being exactly what the other person needs. ~ Stephanie Perkins, #NFDB
719:Then, between the heartbreak and the loneliness, there was love. So open and intense it stole Levana’s breath away. ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
720:There is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock ~ Charles Bukowski,#NFDB
721:The very fine line between loneliness and solitude, reflection; being alone, always appealed to me when I was a kid. ~ Brad Mehldau, #NFDB
722:Touch is... one of the most ancient transactions, a defiance of the plasma membrane and the loneliness it brought. ~ Natalie Angier, #NFDB
723:You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
724:Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness. ~ Naomi Campbell, #NFDB
725:Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
726:Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
727:One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world. ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
728:She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime. ~ Lorrie Moore, #NFDB
729:The moon distresses you by silently reminding you of your solitude; you open your eyes wide to escape your loneliness. ~ Yann Martel, #NFDB
730:To break the silence the old man said the first thing that came to his mind: "Loneliness is a type of violence. ~ Jonathan Messinger, #NFDB
731:A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that the next time you feel alone. ~ Mandy Hale, #NFDB
732:Even worse: she had known a father’s true love, and because she once had, she felt her loneliness all the more keenly. ~ Layton Green, #NFDB
733:I didn't feel lonely until there was something to yearn for. Loneliness and longing are two sides of the same coin. ~ Jostein Gaarder, #NFDB
734:I felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of the living ~ John Fante, #NFDB
735:It was the first time she had ever felt the kind of loneliness that couldn't be cured with just any available company. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
736:Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. ~ Germaine Greer, #NFDB
737:Loneliness was tough, the toughest role you ever played. Hollywood created a superstar, and pain was the price you paid. ~ Elton John, #NFDB
738:One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world. ~ Emile M Cioran, #NFDB
739:These days, loneliness is the new cancer – a shameful, embarrassing thing, brought upon yourself in some obscure way. ~ Gail Honeyman, #NFDB
740:Words are loneliness. I left a couple of words for you on the tablecloth last night—you covered them with your elbows. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
741:You Stole my loneliness. I may have given you wings, but you've become my gravity. I'll never be free of your force. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
742:You stole my loneliness. I may have given you wings, but you've become my gravity. I’ll never be free of your force. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
743:if we don’t have experience with solitude—and this is often the case today—we start to equate loneliness and solitude. ~ Sherry Turkle, #NFDB
744:I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools. ~ Claude McKay, #NFDB
745:She was not in the least afraid of loneliness, because she was not afraid of devils. I think they were afraid of her. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
746: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, #NFDB
747:This showed that loneliness isn’t just some inevitable human sadness, like death. It’s a product of the way we live now. ~ Johann Hari, #NFDB
748:We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence. ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
749:And not out of fear or loneliness, but only to find myself again... for we have come too far my Life, to turn back now. ~ John J Geddes, #NFDB
750:But one can acquire a taste for love as for loneliness or ugliness as for saintliness. Each a special way of going down. ~ Jack Gilbert, #NFDB
751:Loneliness is dangerous ... because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self. ~ Joyce Carol Oates, #NFDB
752:Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds. ~ John Joseph Powell, #NFDB
753:My loneliness began to be filled with ghosts. That is the worst thing about loneliness, how easily it becomes filled. ~ Jeff VanderMeer, #NFDB
754:The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care. ~ Hugh MacLeod, #NFDB
755:There’s a loneliness to him that makes me ache. He’s dying. He knows it. Perhaps life does not get more lonely than that. ~ Sabaa Tahir, #NFDB
756:We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence. ~ Emile M Cioran, #NFDB
757:What was the point in such loneliness among people. At least if you were by yourself, you had a good reason to be lonely. ~ Janet Fitch, #NFDB
758:You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
759:And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
760:But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
761:Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
762:For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear. ~ Vincent Van Gogh, #NFDB
763:Having someone else in the house, a large, clever, overbearing yet indifferent presence, mitigates loneliness not at all. ~ Barbara Vine, #NFDB
764:Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else. ~ Mehmet Oz, #NFDB
765:If you are not capable of being alone, your relationship is false. It is just a trick to avoid your loneliness, nothing else. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
766:If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness. ~ Sharon Salzberg, #NFDB
767:I wanted him to fill the loneliness, to ease the ache of being awkward, of being the girl always on the outside looking in. ~ Roxane Gay, #NFDB
768:Loneliness is not a problem. Loneliness is nothing to be solved. The same is true for any other experience we might have. ~ Pema Ch dr n, #NFDB
769:Photography is a very lonely medium. There’s a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that’s why I’m a photographer. ~ Alec Soth, #NFDB
770:Since then my loneliness does not pain me, because I know my redeemer lives and he will finally rise above the dust. ~ Jorge Luis Borges, #NFDB
771:Ancient fame carries a whiff of notoriety. People forget,or no longer care. One grows into another version of loneliness. ~ Carrie Snyder, #NFDB
772:I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and sadness. ~ Cornel West, #NFDB
773:I want to explain to her that loneliness isn’t remedied by people around me, that my loneliness is an integral part of me. ~ Sejal Badani, #NFDB
774:She'd given love a chance; now she wanted simply to fill the empty spaces. Ease the loneliness while walling off her heart. ~ Delia Owens, #NFDB
775:The stunning thing was that loneliness is not merely the result of depression,” he told me. “Indeed—it leads to depression. ~ Johann Hari, #NFDB
776:The thing that makes a man go crazy isn't loneliness or suffering after all--it's being kept in a state of perpetual dread. ~ Steve Toltz, #NFDB
777:When the work was done, and the day's punishments, the night waited as an arena for their true loneliness and despair. ~ Colson Whitehead, #NFDB
778:...and they undoubtedly think that will last, the way new couples do. They think they're finished with loneliness, too. ~ Elizabeth Strout, #NFDB
779:I felt the kind of loneliness that can happen in a roomful of people when everyone but you seems to be in on the good time. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
780:"If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness." ~ Sharon Salzberg, #NFDB
781:...I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away. ~ Octavia E Butler, #NFDB
782:Marriage breeds its own special brand of loneliness, and it’s far more cruel. You miss more, because you’ve known more. ~ Melanie Benjamin, #NFDB
783:No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love. ~ Arthur Schnitzler, #NFDB
784:There was a coldness and loneliness in the world, and I felt that I had lost something without getting anything in return... ~ Bram Stoker, #NFDB
785:We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community. ~ Dorothy Day, #NFDB
786:When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life. ~ Whitney Houston, #NFDB
787:I said that all the damaging excesses of Americans in the past were motivated by loneliness rather than a fondness for sin. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
788:Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone. ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
789:Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It's loneliness. ~ Margaret Mitchell, #NFDB
790:When he was this close to me, I could feel his palpable yearning. I could sense that gut-wrenching loneliness he'd suffered. ~ Kresley Cole, #NFDB
791:You can deal with the loneliness one night at a time. But what you can't deal with is the idea of loneliness, the fear of it. ~ Geneen Roth, #NFDB
792:You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves. ~ Darren Shan, #NFDB
793:Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art. ~ Robert Redford, #NFDB
794:It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today. ~ Elisabeth Shue, #NFDB
795:Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
796:Selfish people also tend to have victim mindsets… Their actions plant seeds of loneliness; then they cry upon the blooming. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
797:The world’s plan always leads us to places of pain, loneliness, and a deep ache for belonging that seems just out of reach. ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
798:Among the many things it meant was that even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough. ~ Theodore Sturgeon, #NFDB
799:......and not out of fear or loneliness, but only to find myself again... for we have come too far my Life, to turn back now... ~ John Geddes, #NFDB
800:Arrogance and selfishness are not the only reasons behind our loneliness, but most often we used to be alone because of them. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
801:But the solitude in Ohio is different from that of most other places. There is a certain silence to it, a certain loneliness. ~ Pittacus Lore, #NFDB
802:I inhale loneliness like it is the sweet smell of virgin earth conquered by fiery rain drops. Within me, I'm a thousand others. ~ Faraaz Kazi, #NFDB
803:In one sense, (Duchamp's) “The Large Glass” is a glimpse into Hell; a peculiarly modernist Hell of repetition and loneliness. ~ Robert Hughes, #NFDB
804:Loneliness grows around them, like mould or fur, a prophylactic that inhibits contact, no matter how badly contact is desired. ~ Olivia Laing, #NFDB
805:Loneliness is a good education. You learn the things no crowds can teach and you discover the things no crowds can give. ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
806:Loneliness is just a thing that I'm not personally interested in. So far, it hasn't been on my docket of things to write about. ~ Dave Eggers, #NFDB
807:The price of being a sheep is boredom,
the price of being a wolf is loneliness,
choose one or the other with great care. ~ Hugh MacLeod,#NFDB
808:We're afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever... Instead, acting it out is what makes it last. ~ Pema Chodron, #NFDB
809:You can use your time to build bridges or walls.The latter is not only unChristlike, it limits impact & creates loneliness. ~ Rick Warren, #NFDB
810:I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
811:Loneliness comes up to him like a sniffing dog. It circles him insistently. He waves it away, but it refuses to leave him alone. ~ Yann Martel, #NFDB
812:Now and then, especially at night, solitude loses its soft power and loneliness takes over. I am grateful when solitude returns. ~ Donald Hall, #NFDB
813:The most terrifying specter that haunts the modern psyche is not death or disease or nuclear annihilation. It is loneliness. ~ Terryl L Givens, #NFDB
814:What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear. ~ Dag Hammarskj ld, #NFDB
815:You ache with loneliness one night so much you weep and I say 'here is a rope tie it around me Hafiz will be your companion for life'. ~ Hafez, #NFDB
816:You can use your time to build bridges or walls. The latter is not only unChristlike, it limits impact & creates loneliness. ~ Rick Warren, #NFDB
817:As the Irish poet John O’Donohue puts it, “There is a huge and leaden loneliness settling like a frozen winter on so many humans. ~ Sue Johnson, #NFDB
818:I knew no way other than eating to alleviate the loneliness, to fill in the spaces where comfort and security could have been. ~ Andie Mitchell, #NFDB
819:It was very relaxing to be away from civilization, and this bothered me. I should not have found the loneliness so welcoming. ~ Stephenie Meyer, #NFDB
820:The best of community does give one a deep sense of belonging and well-being; and in that sense community takes away loneliness. ~ Henri Nouwen, #NFDB
821:The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account. ~ Alice Walker, #NFDB
822:There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I used to always cry from loneliness. ~ Michael Jackson, #NFDB
823:I believe that individuals nowadays are probably more aware of their inner loneliness than has ever been true before in history. ~ Carl R Rogers, #NFDB
824:If you remain alone for a long time, you will decide loneliness is a fact of life and pass up opportunities to hang out with people. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
825:Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close proximity to someone who has ceased to communicate. — Germaine Greer ~ Harry Browne, #NFDB
826:My grandfather lived alone in this room with no one to love for twenty-six years. That kind of loneliness takes real strength. ~ Uzodinma Iweala, #NFDB
827:Real loneliness was a smeary red: the color of the taillights of the car ahead of you reflected on wet hot-top in a driving rain. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
828:So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves. ~ Pico Iyer, #NFDB
829:Sometimes, when the light starts to fade, I get a terrible feeling of loneliness, like maybe I am the only person in the world. ~ Kate DiCamillo, #NFDB
830:The closing of the center city is loneliness for everyone. The abandonment of the body is isolation, the triumph of pure fantasy. ~ Olivia Laing, #NFDB
831:The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness ~ Edward Gibbon, #NFDB
832:The most beautiful part of your body
is where it’s headed. & remember,
loneliness is still time spent
with the world. ~ Ocean Vuong,#NFDB
833:Will I ever meet someone
That will take the bitter taste from my mouth?
I am loneliness
I wish I had someone to miss ~ Henry Rollins,#NFDB
834:I never really understood the word ‘loneliness’. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature. ~ Bjork, #NFDB
835:I never really understood the word ‘loneliness’. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature. ~ Bj rk, #NFDB
836:It’s terrible to be civilized, because when you come to the end of the world you have nothing to support the terror of loneliness. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
837:Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
838:Love has failed us. We are essentially, irrevocably alone. Anything that seems to combat that loneliness is a trap-Love is a trap: ~ Shelby Foote, #NFDB
839:She wanted to bottle how safe she felt in this moment, so she could drink of it later when loneliness and fear left her parched. ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
840:The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. ~ Edward Gibbon, #NFDB
841:the place of peace, the relief from the emotion, the fear, the loneliness. Sleep was what they all craved at the end of the day. ~ Angela Marsons, #NFDB
842:There were two immediate results of my forced loneliness: I began to find company in books, and greater pleasure in music. ~ James Weldon Johnson, #NFDB
843:Whenever I'm around people it causes me to feel nostalgic for the loneliness that drove me into their presence in the first place. ~ Dov Davidoff, #NFDB
844:When no one can see who you are, no one really knows you. The loneliness must be like an ulcer that’s always gnawing at your gut. ~ Andrea Cremer, #NFDB
845:Better to suffer the loneliness of the cold throne room than endure the isolation to be found within the crowds of facile courtiers. ~ Stuart Hill, #NFDB
846:Can you imagine how astonished the Italians would be if they knew that what they were exporting in 1971 was really loneliness? — ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
847:For one of us at least, we knew, we were certain - this is how we saw the world - there would never again be loneliness in life. ~ Alice McDermott, #NFDB
848:I needed someone to talk to, but there was no one in particular I wanted to talk to. That's the best definition of loneliness I know. ~ Nick Dybek, #NFDB
849:I was finished with assuming the best intentions of those who abandoned me, done trying to assuage my loneliness in barren places. ~ Saleem Haddad, #NFDB
850:Loneliness had made the Queen bitter, bitterness had made her selfish, and selfishness had made her suspicious.
--The Changeling ~ Kate Morton,#NFDB
851:Loneliness is an old friend standing beside you in the mirror, looking you in the eye, challenging you to live your life without it ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
852:What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself's the beginning of all love. ~ Fritz Leiber, #NFDB
853:When I thought about it, I understood. Sometimes the loneliness probably got to be too much and anyone seemed better than no one. ~ Gena Showalter, #NFDB
854:...a brutal sense of loneliness, eased only by a place like the library, where lonely people can feel slightly less lonely together. ~ Susan Orlean, #NFDB
855:Alienation and loneliness became a cable that stretched hundreds of miles long, pulled to the breaking point by a gigantic winch. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
856:Ari: Dad? Why are you saying these things?
Dad: Because i can't stand watching all that loneliness that lives inside you. ~ Benjamin Alire S enz,#NFDB
857:Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery. ~ Marilynne Robinson, #NFDB
858:Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB
859:Her chatter had set her free from a long week of loneliness, of doing what she was told and saying nothing. She was all cheered up. ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
860:once the mind has known and wrestled with happiness, it has secured as good a shield as may be found against the loneliness of time— ~ Kate O Brien, #NFDB
861:Sorrow has a name, and its name is loneliness. Sorrow has a shape, and its shape is absence. Sorrow is a sickness like any other. ~ Gregory Maguire, #NFDB
862:The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, "I shall be unhappy without loneliness," shows that he made loneliness his master. ~ Matsuo Basho, #NFDB
863:There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact. ~ Marie Louise von Franz, #NFDB
864:You never realise what loneliness is until it creeps up on you - like a disease, it is, something that happens to you gradually. ~ Elizabeth Haynes, #NFDB
865:and simple loneliness all but destroyed me, yet I felt swamped by the belief that life must mean something – otherwise why was it there? ~ Morrissey, #NFDB
866:a noone who,till their and your returning,
spends the forever of his loneliness
dreaming their eyes have opened to your morning ~ E E Cummings,#NFDB
867:Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book. ~ Eva Ibbotson, #NFDB
868:Loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the absence of objective meaning from the universe. ~ Neel Burton, #NFDB
869:The rhythm of solitude, once so intimidating, began to feel comfortable. Aloneness, I was learning, does not have to equal loneliness. ~ John Grogan, #NFDB
870:A particular variety of loneliness, like peering deep into the darkness.
It's only natural, when two separate universes touch. ~ Banana Yoshimoto,#NFDB
871:Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible. ~ Andrea Dworkin, #NFDB
872:Horrible world events, difficult choices, illnesses and periodic feelings of abject loneliness are common examples of existential pain. ~ Pete Walker, #NFDB
873:If love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness, then he had loved Mikal since they were both ten years old. ~ Nadeem Aslam, #NFDB
874:If love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another’s loneliness, then he had loved Mikal since they were both ten years old. ~ Nadeem Aslam, #NFDB
875:It’s not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB
876:My loneliness was an important part of my own little universe, not some pathological disease that needs to be gotten [sic] rid of. ~ Banana Yoshimoto, #NFDB
877:The antidote to loneliness isn’t just being around random people indiscriminately, the antidote to loneliness is emotional security. ~ Benedict Wells, #NFDB
878:There are two kinds of people in this world, young fella. Those who can sit in the loneliness of existence and those who turn away. ~ Matt de la Pena, #NFDB
879:There were words on our lips that in our loneliness alone wanted utterance, and the need by itself virtually created the feeling. ~ Alexander Theroux, #NFDB
880:a momentary gain in one’s own sense of shared despair, shared nullity, shared rapture, shared loneliness, shared broken-hearted glee; ~ Michael Chabon, #NFDB
881:Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness. When I see you, the room swallows me. I find myself at the bottom of the pool. ~ Henry Rollins, #NFDB
882:I can’t afford to take responsibilities for others’ lives. It’s all I can do to bear the weight of my own life and my own loneliness ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
883:If only I had something to take the edge off the loneliness. If only lonely were a more accurate word. It should sound much less pretty. ~ Nina LaCour, #NFDB
884:It wasn’t the loneliness of command that was bothering him. It was the being-fried-alive of command that was giving him problems. He ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
885:Not sure how anyone could love me if I didn’t love myself, but the heart can only take so much loneliness before it wilts up and dies. ~ Marilyn Grey, #NFDB
886:now believe that loneliness of an intimate nature warps the mind and has us seeing phantom qualities in a man, not the truth about him. ~ Jodi Daynard, #NFDB
887:the sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, #NFDB
888:A wish for a future no longer tainted by the past. A future that held joy, not regret. A future that offered love instead of loneliness. ~ Irene Hannon, #NFDB
889:He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion. ~ Dag Hammarskj ld, #NFDB
890:He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion. ~ Dag Hammarskjold, #NFDB
891:I can't afford to take responsibilities for others' lives. It's all I can do to bear the weight of my own life and my own loneliness. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
892:I hate my loneliness and I love it and long to leave and long to stay, so I do not truly leave and do not truly stay and am become more than my body. ~, #NFDB
893:Is this how it is for a species that senses it is going extinct? Is there a feeling of loneliness, or unease, each morning, upon awakening? ~ Rick Bass, #NFDB
894:loneliness has its roots in words,in internal conversation that nodbody answers,solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity. ~ Miley Cyrus, #NFDB
895:Loneliness is not lack of companion; it is the absence of the right people in our life. That is why we are alone even among the people. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
896:Once again, I felt that peculiar stab of loneliness that only an exile truly knows: the sense that I did not belong and never would again. ~ S J Parris, #NFDB
897:She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still. ~ Toni Morrison, #NFDB
898:Sometimes the rain
falls
just for you and me
to be the violin
playing
in the background
of our loneliness's song. ~ Sanober Khan,#NFDB
899:The definition of the word nerd has changed. It's now any attractive person with a hobby. The loneliness component is no longer included. ~ Gary Gulman, #NFDB
900:There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning. ~ Toni Morrison, #NFDB
901:There is a kind of echo in the bright air, a yearning for other places in the blood, a loneliness in the heart that sings like the wind. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
902:We give it up and just look directly with compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat and heartache, no punishment. ~ Pema Chodron, #NFDB
903:What troubled Father Henri was that Arn’s apparently unwarranted worries might actually be expressing something else, a great loneliness. ~ Jan Guillou, #NFDB
904:A definition of loneliness surfaced in his mind: when you suddenly understand that the story of your life isn’t what you thought it was. ~ Rachel Kadish, #NFDB
905:Aloneness is a state of being, whereas loneliness is a state of feeling. It's like the difference between being broke and being poor. ~ Townes Van Zandt, #NFDB
906:Anfering sex for money is not a profession that glorifies women; it is a profession born of desperation, poverty, alieatioin, and loneliness. ~ Ann Rule, #NFDB
907:I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness. ~ Alessandro Baricco, #NFDB
908:I learned the strange art of loneliness, the weathered yearning that swells and passes, and swells and passes, when you walk a trail alone. ~ Anna Carey, #NFDB
909:Not to succeed in one thing is to fail in all.’ Far more frightening than any poltergeist is the spectre of loneliness in old age. ~ Penelope Fitzgerald, #NFDB
910:Offering sex for money is not a profession that glorifies women; it is a profession born of desperation, poverty, alienation, and loneliness. ~ Ann Rule, #NFDB
911:People were infected with the concept that happiness was something outside themselves, and a new and powerful form of loneliness was born. ~ Ry Murakami, #NFDB
912:Real love is not an escape from loneliness, real love is an overflowing aloneness. One is so happy in being alone that one wud like to share. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
913:The loneliness of flight is not entirely overwhelmed by cabin movies, the drinks, the Gemütlichkeit of shoulder-to-shoulder life. ~ William F Buckley Jr, #NFDB
914:There is no loneliness like that of one who can only give and no anger like that of those who only receive and hate the weight of debt. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
915:The world has become lovelier. I am alone, and I don’t suffer from my loneliness. I don’t want life to be anything other than what it is ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
916:Who can really distinguish between the sea and what's reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness? ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
917:Who can really distinguish between the sea and what’s reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness? ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
918:Because we both knew that sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them. ~ Brock Clarke, #NFDB
919:Despite my fears and my aching loneliness, I believed without a doubt in a better world, which was adulthood or New York or Paris or love. ~ Edmund White, #NFDB
920:Eccentrics with unseeing eyes glided through, savouring amid so much society their own particular loneliness and private sins and sorrows. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
921:I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely. ~ Amy Tan, #NFDB
922:it was impossible to imagine where in this crowded domestic arrangement you might find the happier twin sister of loneliness: privacy ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
923:I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain. ~ Henry Rollins, #NFDB
924:Of so divine a Loss
Of so divine a Loss
We enter but the Gain,
Indemnity for Loneliness
That such a Bliss has been.
~ Emily Dickinson,#NFDB
925:pet owners have higher self-esteem, fewer feelings of loneliness, and are more physically fit and socially outgoing than people without pets. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
926:Romanticism in loneliness is a true romanticism; but romanticism when others are around is suspicious because you may be pretending! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
927:Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB
928:...Summer nights held a special kind of loneliness that gave rise to strange imaginings. One walked the beach alone and thought too much. ~ Robert Ludlum, #NFDB
929:The best antidote for loneliness, hopelessness, and fear is vulnerability: sharing your secrets and talking about what shames you, what you fear. ~ Jewel, #NFDB
930:There is no loneliness more lonely than to be alone in a crowd. No awkwardness more unsettling than the inside joke you do not comprehend. ~ Claire North, #NFDB
931:They come upon me all silent and menacing like Pinkerton Detectives, and they flank me—Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
932:Why were we so far apart, even when we were together? It was a nice loneliness, like the sensation of washing your face in cold water. ~ Banana Yoshimoto, #NFDB
933:American loneliness is a completely different creature from anything we experience in this country, and it made me glad I was born japanese. ~ Ry Murakami, #NFDB
934:and the boy's eyes are searching hers with something like loneliness, like the very last thing he wants is to be left behind right now. ~ Jennifer E Smith, #NFDB
935:Loneliness comes suddenly like waves and recedes just as fast. That continues on forever. It’s the same for you. It’s the same for everyone. ~ Chica Umino, #NFDB
936:Lost in loneliness and pain. Black and unendurable, Thinking of you with every Corpuscle of my flesh, in Every instant of night And day. ~ Kenneth Rexroth, #NFDB
937:That was bliss. Being cared for. Wanted. Feeling so necessary to someone’s existence that there was no place for the loneliness inside her. ~ Julie Miller, #NFDB
938:The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped. ~ Adam Gopnik, #NFDB
939:The thing you did to alleviate the loneliness was to take off your clothes and touch someone, even if you didn’t really know the person well. ~ Rick Moody, #NFDB
940:we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness. ~ Bill McKibben, #NFDB
941:Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
942:I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat. ~ Jorge Luis Borges, #NFDB
943:I finally started realizing that the pain of loneliness is much worse than the pain of betrayal and heartbreak that I was trying to avoid. ~ Sawyer Bennett, #NFDB
944:I suddenly realized that all these women were spending months of loneliness and womanliness together, chatting about the madness of the men. ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
945:I was afraid of my loneliness. And how I'd been tricked. And the way I'd convinced myself of so much: that I wasn't sad, that I wasn't alone. ~ Nina LaCour, #NFDB
946:Loneliness isn’t the physical absence of other people, he said—it’s the sense that you’re not sharing anything that matters with anyone else. ~ Johann Hari, #NFDB
947:Loneliness was just like winter, he decided. Cold and pervasive, trapping you inside your own head because what was outside was so inhospitable. ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
948:She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
949:The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. ~ John Huston, #NFDB
950:After a time, her smile faded, then finally reappeared as she sighed. The pleasure of nostalgia is never without its companion, loneliness. ~ Isuna Hasekura, #NFDB
951:And if one’s goal is self-recovery, to be well in one’s soul, honesty and realistically confronting loneliness is party of the healing process. ~ bell hooks, #NFDB
952:Because I know more and more that this glass here is so very dark, that this really is a long loneliness, that it is both lonely and long. ~ Lauren F Winner, #NFDB
953:Even in this world where you’re getting everything you need and having this nice life, there’s still loneliness and longing and disconnection. ~ Spike Jonze, #NFDB
954:Friendship is what really resolves and mitigates loneliness while not compromising the self in the way that love does, romantic love does. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
955:He’d been single for so long, and the more I knew him, the more I saw the loneliness at his core. I felt like I brought him to life. He ~ Augusten Burroughs, #NFDB
956:Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. ~ Hunter S Thompson, #NFDB
957:Like falling stars from the universe we are hurled Down through the long loneliness of the world Until we behold the pain, become the pearl ~ Emmylou Harris, #NFDB
958: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. ~ Soseki Natsume, #NFDB
959:Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant. ~ Washington Irving, #NFDB
960:She wanted to protect us from worry, from sadness, from loneliness--things her parents had not been able to protect her from. (About Alice) ~ Calvin Trillin, #NFDB
961:so long as there is loneliness, shallowness, emptiness, insufficiency, which in its outer expression is dependence, there must be pain. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB
962:The most devastating form of loneliness is not to be without friends; rather, it is to be surrounded by friends and never to be truly known. ~ Matthew Kelly, #NFDB
963:Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning briefcase of enthusiasm, thinning hair. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
964:Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom. ~ Joyce Carol Oates, #NFDB
965:Although he had through the memories learned about the pain of loss and loneliness, now he gained too, an understanding of solitude and its joy. ~ Lois Lowry, #NFDB
966:"I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat." ~ Jorge Luis Borges, #NFDB
967:I can’t take the anger, the loneliness, the pain any longer. I sink to my knees. Everything wrong with my life swells in a rush of emotion. ~ Holly S Roberts, #NFDB
968:loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable. And ~ Laini Taylor, #NFDB
969:No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work, and when you can experience a physical loneliness for the tools of your trade, ~ Beryl Markham, #NFDB
970:The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh, #NFDB
971:Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
972:An awareness had come over him that he wasn’t going to die. Loneliness in itself could not destroy him. Neglect was insufficient. And so he slept. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
973:Does no one want to know the truth here, Mr. Archer? The real loneliness is living among all these kind of people who only ask one to pretend! ~ Edith Wharton, #NFDB
974:Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
975:Perhaps loneliness is the real proof that we belong to something greater than ourselves, the way absence is proof of what was once a presence. ~ Anne Michaels, #NFDB
976:Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
977:Travel is in sad case. It is uncomfortable, it is expensive; it is a source of annoyance to our friends, and of loneliness to ourselves. ~ Vita Sackville West, #NFDB
978:And Aedan discovered that it only takes a single friend to put loneliness to flight. He would be able to face the next day. They both would. ~ Jonathan Renshaw, #NFDB
979:At first it upset me to realize how many people are, at heart, selfish. Now I take that in stride, but people's loneliness still gets to me. ~ Janette Rallison, #NFDB
980:Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
981:I have learned to be steady in my course of love, or fear, or loneliness, rather than impulsive in its wasting, either lyrically or emotionally. ~ Rosanne Cash, #NFDB
982:I think I'd tell her about the loneliness of being misunderstood. Or is it the loneliness of being afraid to allow ourselves to be understood? ~ William Gibson, #NFDB
983:It is odd that a thing which I have been taught to regard with disfavour and as idolatrous should in a time of loneliness and trouble be of help. ~ Bram Stoker, #NFDB
984:Modernity is a busy place, spinning with silicon speed that goes ever faster but never forward, people pressed into cities full of loneliness. ~ Douglas Wilson, #NFDB
985:So be lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
986:There comes a point where you become tired of the loneliness and need a human touch, a caress to make you realize you still exist as a person. ~ Felice Stevens, #NFDB
987:What's wrong with him?"
"I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n,#NFDB
988:And maybe that’s all love ever was—just something you hung over loneliness, like a photograph put up just to cover a square of faded paint on a wall. ~ J A Rock, #NFDB
989:He was hungry without yet knowing that hunger could be slaked by food; he was lonely without yet knowing that loneliness could be slaked, too. ~ Gregory Maguire, #NFDB
990:Isolation and loneliness create the conditions for rapid aging. The key is to stay connected and open to new relationships throughout your life. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
991:Loneliness is a funny disease. You don’t realize how badly you’re infected until someone gives you a shot of contentment—and then it wears off ~ Brigid Kemmerer, #NFDB
992:The alienation born of the failure to connect was the worst sort of loneliness there was, much uglier than simply lamenting a person's absence. ~ Kemper Donovan, #NFDB
993:The evening wasn’t cold yet... But the air was turning sharp, with a fall feeling of loneliness coming. Something unaccountable pending in the air. ~ Kent Haruf, #NFDB
994:Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering. ~ Sylvia Plath, #NFDB
995:I thought I knew what loneliness was before he found me, but I had no clue. You don't know what real loneliness is until you've known the opposite. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
996:I thought I knew what loneliness was before he found me, but I had no clue. You don’t know what real loneliness is until you’ve known the opposite. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
997:Nothing can penetrate the loneliness of the human heart except the highest intensity of the sort of love the religious teachers have preached. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
998:Bad habits are demons that often push us into isolation because they know that in our loneliness they stand little chance of being overcome. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
999:DeWitt: Loneliness leads to nothing good, only detachment. And sometimes the people who most need to reach out are the people least capable of it. ~ Jane Espenson, #NFDB
1000:Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome. ~ Erich Fromm, #NFDB
1001:He did not often think of people as individuals, but rather as antidotes for the poison of his loneliness, as escapes from the imprisoned ghosts. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
1002:Hell is only loneliness, a place without play for the soul, a place without God. How could there be God in loneliness when God is presence? ~ Hilary Thayer Hamann, #NFDB
1003:I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
1004:I like to make a distinction between solitude and being alone. Alone signifies loneliness, whereas solitude means really connecting with yourself. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
1005:I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to live in. ~ Anzia Yezierska, #NFDB
1006:I was leading, and already I missed not working and I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
1007:Loneliness is painful. But suffering is not wrong in and of itself. It's part of the human experience, and in a way brings us closer to all people. ~ Juliette Fay, #NFDB
1008:Shouldering your loneliness like a gun that you will not learn to aim, you stumble into this movie house then you climb, you climb into the frame. ~ Leonard Cohen, #NFDB
1009:You can be lonely anywhere, but there is a particular flavour to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, surrounded by millions of people. ~ Olivia Laing, #NFDB
1010:you should view each new travel frustration—sickness, fear, loneliness, boredom, conflict—as just another curious facet in the vagabonding adventure. ~ Rolf Potts, #NFDB
1011:And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness ~ Sylvia Plath, #NFDB
1012:Everybody in the world wants to be understood and to have others appreciate them.
Being different is scary. Solitude is pain and loneliness. ~ Mizuki Nomura,#NFDB
1013:Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And anyone can have them. ~ Elsa Maxwell, #NFDB
1014:Here had lived someone else who knew that the only thing waiting at home was a sense of loneliness. Sometimes it is comforting. Most often, it isn't. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
1015:I think there is a difference between aloneness and loneliness. Aloneness is necessary for the soul to thrive - even to come alive. Not loneliness. ~ Steve Goodier, #NFDB
1016:Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone. ~ Ferdinand Marcos, #NFDB
1017:Loneliness cannot be alleviated just by the coming together of two bodies, unless there is also good communication, understanding, and loving kindness. ~ Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
1018:No wonder that, to a writer—to readers, to so many beset people now—solitude suggests not loneliness, but serenity, that kissing cousin of sanity. ~ Patricia Hampl, #NFDB
1019:The General Public is a statistical fiction created by a few exceptional men to make the loneliness of being exceptional a little easier to bear. ~ Samuel R Delany, #NFDB
1020:we sometimes fail to recognize the signs of poverty, loneliness, grief, fear, and desolation in our own city, our own village, or our own family. ~ Karen Armstrong, #NFDB
1021:Would being completely alone in a universe bring a sensation of closing limitations or infinitely expanding horizons with associated loneliness? ~ Peter F Hamilton, #NFDB
1022:Another piano falls, but this time it's me— or my lascivious loneliness, or my grab bag of mental instabilities and emotional shortcomings, or whatever. ~ Kris Kidd, #NFDB
1023:Another piano falls, but this time it’s me— or my lascivious loneliness, or my grab bag of mental instabilities and emotional shortcomings, or whatever. ~ Kris Kidd, #NFDB
1024:For was that all, she thought bleakly, that love ever was? Something that saved one from loneliness? A sort of insurance policy against not counting? ~ Sarah Waters, #NFDB
1025:[R]eligion arises not out of sacerdotal invention or chicanery, but out of the persistent wonder, fear, insecurity, hopefulness and loneliness of man. ~ Will Durant, #NFDB
1026:Silence and loneliness cannot last for ever. It may be a hundred or a thousand years, but the sea lasts longer, and she shall come out of it and sing. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
1027:Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them. ~ Anais Nin, #NFDB
1028:Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them. ~ Ana s Nin, #NFDB
1029:For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable. ~ Laini Taylor, #NFDB
1030:Furthermore, I now believe that loneliness of an intimate nature warps the mind and has us seeing phantom qualities in a man, not the truth about him. ~ Jodi Daynard, #NFDB
1031:if we stimulate the affiliative system it puts them in touch with a loneliness, linked to the kindness they wanted (e.g. as a child) but didn’t get. ~ Paul B Gilbert, #NFDB
1032:It's as if she understood completely the condition of loneliness and how it undermines us all, forcing us to make choices that we know are wrong for us. ~ John Boyne, #NFDB
1033:Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself. ~ Thomas Pynchon, #NFDB
1034:There have been times in my life when I have felt I was lonely, but I don't think you want to live your life in order to mitigate against loneliness. ~ Harrison Ford, #NFDB
1035:Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB
1036:Fight loneliness with hunger, smash anger with deprivation, combat heart-sinking pain with the swoosh of the stupid fucking elliptical. Count calories ~ Hannah Howard, #NFDB
1037:It is not difficult to be alone if you are poor and a failure. An artist is always alone – if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
1038:On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
1039:. . . some children begin to feel very different from others . . . brings a certain sadness . . . part of the loneliness of many youngsters. P. 168 ~ Carl Gustav Jung, #NFDB
1040:The sadness, the silence, the darkness, the loneliness... all of it held in a simple little moment. It was just so...
I don't know.
Just so much. ~ Kevin Brooks,#NFDB
1041:What did Mr. Wren said? words are loneliness. I left a couple of words for you on the tablecloth last night - you covered them with your elbows. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
1042:Why did people get married seeking a way out of loneliness? There was nothing more lonelier than two married people in a room together.
- p.126 ~ Jean Thompson,#NFDB
1043:A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out. ~ Douglas Coupland, #NFDB
1044:He lived on, miserable and misunderstood, as before, and increasingly lonely. One cannot write those words too often: Maurice’s loneliness: it increased. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
1045:Her solitary nature means she needs a family to keep her from loneliness my gregarious nature means I will never have to worry about being alone... ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
1046:I am interested in the loneliness and isolation that we can feel when we hide feelings we are ashamed of, especially if they concern people that we love. ~ Torill Kove, #NFDB
1047:I’d do it all over again, knowing that you were going to be there at the end. I’d walk through the sadness and the loneliness all over again for you. ~ Kimberly Lauren, #NFDB
1048:I have a lot of friends, but my biggest fear is loneliness. I miss my family in Mumbai, and my biggest nightmare every day is to go back home alone. ~ Deepika Padukone, #NFDB
1049:Isolate her, and however abundant the food or favourable the temperature, she will expire in a few days not of hunger or cold, but of loneliness. ~ Maurice Maeterlinck, #NFDB
1050:Loneliness is not only positively characterized by a certain degree of isolation, but is negatively characterized by a deficiency of participation. ~ Stephen Batchelor, #NFDB
1051:Loneliness is only sweet to a man if it rids him of presences irksome and unwanted, and it is no longer sweet when the beloved presences are discovered. ~ Pearl S Buck, #NFDB
1052:she didn’t attempt to fix the splitting of my soul. She only crawled into the fault line with me, giving me company in the hollow loneliness of it all. ~ Kandi Steiner, #NFDB
1053:The loneliness became more and more unbearable. I ached to be touched. I feared I was disappearing and I'd cease to exist if someone didn't touch me. ~ Leslie Feinberg, #NFDB
1054:The root cause of loneliness is not the absence of another, but the absence of the awareness of our connection to our true divine selves.” —Swati Nigam ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
1055:For her, loneliness is something you have others remove for you. And once it’s gone, everything’s okay. Doesn’t go any further. I can’t live that way. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1056:I turned to the page on decorated buttons and tried to ponder their beauty instead of my own loneliness, trying to will myself into being a sociopath. ~ Heather O Neill, #NFDB
1057:My first life, for all it lacked any real direction, had about it a kind of happiness, if ignorance is innocence, and loneliness is a separation of care. ~ Claire North, #NFDB
1058:The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise. ~ Jack London, #NFDB
1059:There is a difference between loneliness and solitude. Loneliness is boring, whereas in solitude you can inspect and examine your deeds and your thoughts. ~ Sudha Murty, #NFDB
1060:The root cause of loneliness is not the absence of another, but the absence of the awareness of our connection to our true divine selves.” — Swati Nigam ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
1061:And she was well-enough acquainted with loneliness to understand that the worst part wasn't having nobody caring for you - it was having nobody to care for. ~ Tessa Dare, #NFDB
1062:But I needed to build up my loneliness tolerance, was all. The loneliness became like a friend, my constant companion. I could depend on it, and only it. ~ Jessica Knoll, #NFDB
1063:I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything. ~ Lawrence Durrell, #NFDB
1064: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, #NFDB
1065:..."Not if I remember to take my pills," he said, as a tangible wave of longing hit him, lust and loneliness riding in on the wavelength of amphetamine. ~ William Gibson, #NFDB
1066:A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet. ~ Truman Capote, #NFDB
1067:and i've begun
(as a reaction to a feeling)
to balance
the pleasure of loneliness
against the pain
of loving you
from Balances ~ Nikki Giovanni,#NFDB
1068:Friends are the real superheroes. They battle our worst enemies—loneliness, grief, anxiety, depression, fear, and doubt—every time they come around. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
1069:I'm quite all right. I'm not even scared. You see, I've learned from looking around, there is something worse than loneliness--and that's the fear of it. ~ Dorothy Parker, #NFDB
1070:Is sex a cure for loneliness, and if it is, what happens if our body or sexuality is considered deviant or damaged, if we are ill or unblessed with beauty? ~ Olivia Laing, #NFDB
1071:Loneliness is a feeling that is created by our ego. The ego feels separate from the rest of creation. The answer to overcoming those feelings is ecstasy. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1072:Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love. ~ Richard Bach, #NFDB
1073:She had always maintained a cynical facade, using it as a defence against embarrassment, fear, loneliness… but at the moment she felt unusually vulnerable. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
1074:The aloneness ate a hole through him. Sometimes he worried that the loneliness had taken everything, that there was nothing left of him at all on the inside. ~ Alma Katsu, #NFDB
1075:The loneliness of Prometheus on the rock or of Christ on the cross is the sacrifice they have to endure for having brought fire and redemption to mankind. ~ Erich Neumann, #NFDB
1076:This deadness. This solemn loneliness. All of the blooms have been cut from both of our lives, and only winter remains inside of us. Stark, cold, winter. He ~ Celia Aaron, #NFDB
1077:This is the loneliest point in history. The last moment of true abandonment. From here on, abandonment is nothing more than a myth. And loneliness? A choice. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
1078:This pep talk was sometimes combined with a rueful reminder to himself about the loneliness of ethical leadership: 'the post of honor is a private station. ~ John P Avlon, #NFDB
1079:Ah, do not mistake solitude for loneliness,” he advised. “A man may be lonely in a crowd, or he can be quite content in the society of the natural world. ~ Deanna Raybourn, #NFDB
1080:There is a loneliness that must be particular to monsters, I think, the feeling that each is the only child of a species. And now that loneliness was over. ~ Karen Russell, #NFDB
1081:We are a singularity that makes music out of noise because we must hurry. We make a harvest of loneliness and desiring in the blank wasteland of the cosmos. ~ Jack Gilbert, #NFDB
1082: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, #NFDB
1083:Like all men who are fundamentally of the group, of the herd, he was incapable of taking a strong stand with the inevitable loneliness that it implied. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
1084:Our universe, one could almost say, is actually built out of loneliness; and that fundamental loneliness persists upwards to haunt every one of its residents. ~ Paul Murray, #NFDB
1085:Solitude without togetherness deteriorates into loneliness. One needs strong roots in togetherness to be solitary rather than lonely when one is alone. ~ David Steindl Rast, #NFDB
1086:To be a lighthouse, you must be strong enough to resist every kind of storm, to every kind of loneliness and you must have a powerful light inside you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1087:A kiss in so much loneliness was like a hand pulling you up out of the water, scooping you up from a place of drowning and into the reckless abundance of air. ~ Ann Patchett, #NFDB
1088:Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, #NFDB
1089:I’m not afraid of loneliness,” he continues. “I’m afraid of deluding myself, of looking at reality the way I would like it to be and not how it really is.” He ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1090:Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
1091:Loneliness, she said, is when nothing will stick to you, when nothing will thrive around you, when you start to think that you kill things just by being there. ~ Rachel Cusk, #NFDB
1092:PRAY that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."
Dag Hammarskjold
Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961) ~ Dag Hammarskj ld,#NFDB
1093:There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely. ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery, #NFDB
1094:You’re still young, so that’s why you say that. When you get to be my age, you’ll understand how I feel. How much loneliness the truth can cause sometimes. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1095:Above all, such an understanding of loneliness should help liberate us. It should teach us that loneliness is both a good and a natural force in our lives. ~ Ronald Rolheiser, #NFDB
1096:Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
1097:Dad? Dad, no. No. I can't. I can't. Why are you saying these things?"
"Because I can't stand watching all that loneliness that lives inside you. ~ Benjamin Alire S enz,#NFDB
1098:Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are. ~ Tom Hanks, #NFDB
1099:He didn't believe in magic and demons. He believed in day and night, endurance and fury, cold mud and loneliness and the speed with which blood leaves the body ~ Laini Taylor, #NFDB
1100:It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness. ~ Bruce Barton, #NFDB
1101:Loneliness is a source of loathsome ice-cold suffering, the suffering of unreality. At such times we need people to teach us that we're not really so far gone. ~ Peter Handke, #NFDB
1102:One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place. ~ John Ortberg, #NFDB
1103:The chief characteristics of my childhood were an aching loneliness and the daily struggle to avoid a bleakness of spirit that unrelieved loneliness can foment. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
1104:29. Most loneliness results from insulation rather than isolation. In other words, we are lonely because we insulate ourselves, not because others isolate us. ~ James C Dobson, #NFDB
1105:Hate is better. Hate keeps you cold, keeps you moving fast, keeps you lonely. If you need to make yourself into someone else, loneliness is a good place to start. ~ L S Hilton, #NFDB
1106:If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for? ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
1107:I wanted literature to assuage human loneliness, but nothing can assuage human loneliness. Literature doesn't lie about this --which is wha makes it essential. ~ David Shields, #NFDB
1108:Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!" Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
1109:Today's word was interminable, meaning never-ending. Like his loneliness. Like the love he felt for Kate. Like the awful hurt that wouldn't go away. ~ Margaret Brownley, #NFDB
1110:We’re always alone. You can be in a crowded room and still feel the bite of loneliness. Personally, I find that it bites deepest whenever others are around. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
1111:Because they saved me from myself, they rescued me from my loneliness. They were the first to accept me for who I am. They're my friends.
-Naruto Uzumaki ~ Masashi Kishimoto,#NFDB
1112:For reasons he did not himself understand, it was unbearable to think that he might be the last of his kind. The feeling was beyond loneliness. It was desolation. ~ Andr Alexis, #NFDB
1113:If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected. ~ Chief Seattle, #NFDB
1114:I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB
1115:Learn to appreciate loneliness for the gift that it truly is—a chance for God to finally get you alone so He can go to work on building a relationship with
you. ~ Mandy Hale,#NFDB
1116:loneliness is endemic to the human condition, and it is more intense in our society, where we are taught to call our loneliness “freedom of the individual. ~ William H Willimon, #NFDB
1117:Reckon your weakness as praise of God’s power, endure suffering in joy, risk your life on the veracity of Christ, count your loneliness a means of grace. ~ William Stringfellow, #NFDB
1118:This is poetry. You’re writing about Heaven’s Gate and the Caribou Herd, but what comes across is loneliness, displacement, angst, and a cynical look at humanity. ~ Dan Simmons, #NFDB
1119:All that he had of her was his memory, where he held every moment, every single moment that she had been his. That was all he had, to keep out the loneliness. ~ Juliet Marillier, #NFDB
1120:And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1121:Here had lived someone else who knew that the only thing waiting at home was a sense of loneliness.
Sometimes it is comforting.
Most often, it isn't. ~ Jim Butcher,#NFDB
1122:He would say her name over and over until it devolved into meaningless sounds - mah REI kuh, mah REI kuh - it became an entry in a dictionary of loneliness. ~ Audrey Niffenegger, #NFDB
1123:It’s all right,” he said, wondering at the same time why there were no better words, why there never are any better words to answer fear and grief and loneliness. ~ Robert Bloch, #NFDB
1124:I was lonely—painfully, achingly lonely, the kind of loneliness that comes from feeling like your life is passing you by and there’s no one there to witness it. ~ Laura Thalassa, #NFDB
1125:People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
1126:We walk alone through this world, but if we're lucky, we have a moment of belonging to something, to someone, that sustains us through a lifetime of loneliness ~ Paullina Simons, #NFDB
1127:Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism. Only love can grasp and hold and be just toward them. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
1128:Emerence was spontaneously good, unthinkingly generous, able to reveal her orphaned condition only to another orphan, but never giving voice to her utter loneliness. ~ Magda Szab, #NFDB
1129:Even if the world is cruel, even if all I have is loneliness, I’ll still live with everything I’ve got. Even if this emotion is all I have, I’ll keep struggling. ~ Makoto Shinkai, #NFDB
1130:I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness. ~ Pedro Almodovar, #NFDB
1131:Living without love was
something he knew more about than any
soul on Earth. The more Sarah spoke of
loneliness, the clearer it became why he
was there. ~ Mitch Albom,#NFDB
1132:Rage is pure, eloquent, and I can weave it into a tool. Sadness, loneliness, anguish - none of them require a partner.
Love? Love is a crack in my armour. ~ Dawn Kurtagich,#NFDB
1133:Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and death. ~ Joshua L Liebman, #NFDB
1134:Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
1135:Unfortunately, large cities don't have a monopoly on loneliness. It can be found in small towns as well. Loneliness can be found everywhere there are people. ~ Richard Paul Evans, #NFDB
1136:We walk alone through this world, but if we're lucky, we have a moment of belonging to something, to someone, that sustains us through a lifetime of loneliness. ~ Paullina Simons, #NFDB
1137:We walk alone through this world, but if we’re lucky, we have a moment of belonging to something, to someone, that sustains us through a lifetime of loneliness. ~ Paullina Simons, #NFDB
1138:you don’t truly know loneliness until you’ve spent ten minutes in not-so- glorious isolation at an orgy—that’s when you’ll really start to feel the pinch of solitude. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1139:At some point just about all of us experience loneliness. In a sense, it is what it means to be a sentient animal, to have an experience of separation from others. ~ Thomas L Dumm, #NFDB
1140:Books had gotten her through many years of loneliness. They kept dreams alive inside her soul and taught her of love that always seemed so far from her reach. And ~ Victoria James, #NFDB
1141:I had failed him; I knew it. But I could do no more. It was beyond my strength.
That night, I think, he explored the uttermost depths of his loneliness. ~ Christopher Isherwood,#NFDB
1142:I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness. ~ Jason Schwartzman, #NFDB
1143:I was crazed with loneliness, cut off from everything and everyone I knew. The occasional sight of a New York Times, or a Time magazine, gave me a lump in my throat. ~ Phil Knight, #NFDB
1144:No matter where you run, if people are involved in your life, you will be hurt; it’s a fact of life. But you of all people should know that loneliness hurts even worse. ~ K M Shea, #NFDB
1145:Once you connect with yourself, it is impossible to be lonely or desperate. Loneliness and desperation are only possible when we lose touch with our beauty within. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
1146:You must always see your loneliness as an opportunity to meet something good unexpected, something new unknown before, something interesting not happened yet! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1147:Asleep you don't feel pain or hunger, or loneliness, or bitterness. In sleep you can drown in false euphoria, and when you awaken, you just don't care about anything. ~ V C Andrews, #NFDB
1148:Asleep you don’t feel pain or hunger, or loneliness, or bitterness. In sleep you can drown in false euphoria, and when you awaken, you just don’t care about anything. ~ V C Andrews, #NFDB
1149:Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. ~ Dag Hammarskj ld, #NFDB
1150:Fear is the process of the mind in the struggle of becoming. In becoming good there is the fear of evil; in becoming complete, there is the fear of loneliness. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB
1151:For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor. ~ Carlos Castaneda, #NFDB
1152:God desires that man should be. God does not wish to be alone. The meaning of existence is the conquest of loneliness, the acquisition of kinship and nearness. ~ Nikolai A Berdyaev, #NFDB
1153:It’s not their fault that the world is full of hard choices and hunger and loneliness,” she said. “What can you expect of people when demons are their neighbors? ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
1154:It was as if the power and loneliness of the vampires' world had combined with the group oriented puppy-pile world of the shapeshifters and made something new. ~ Laurell K Hamilton, #NFDB
1155:Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible. ~ Sydney J Harris, #NFDB
1156:The poet Hafiz writes, Don’t surrender your loneliness So quickly. Let it cut more deep. Let it ferment and season you As few human Or even divine ingredients can. ~ Jack Kornfield, #NFDB
1157:There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness... It will never end, for madness carves its own reality. ~ Kay Redfield Jamison, #NFDB
1158:We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these poets bring us fire and light. ~ Harold Bloom, #NFDB
1159:When loneliness mastered him he would go up to the cemetery...The rest of his time was taken up with a liturgy of habits that succeeded in warding off sadness. ~ Alessandro Baricco, #NFDB
1160:Collapse, spread, merging, union: these things sound like the opposite of loneliness, and yet intimacy requires a solid sense of self to be successful and satisfying. ~ Olivia Laing, #NFDB
1161:Do you know a six-letter word for a man of constant sorrow and loneliness?” she asked after sliding the window open and then checking her nail for damage. “Bosch. ~ Michael Connelly, #NFDB
1162:Is this crushing loneliness I feel just for you, or is it really, underneath, the harsh metallic edge of existential longing?"
"That's the airport talking. ~ David Cronenberg,#NFDB
1163:Now this... this is why humans did such stupid things for love. To feel this heady sense of belonging and connection, this temporary abatement of perpetual loneliness. ~ Stacey Kade, #NFDB
1164:To be alone: icy, iron terror, foretaste of the grave, forerunner of unpitying death. Oh, whoever has been himself alone can never find another's loneliness strange. ~ Robert Walser, #NFDB
1165:Addiction to knowledge is like any other addiction; it offers an escape from the fear of emptiness, of loneliness, of frustration, the fear of being nothing. The ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB
1166:An echo from the past when, innocent
We looked upon the present with delight
And doubted not the future would be kinder
And never knew the loneliness of night. ~ No l Coward,#NFDB
1167:I realize that nothing is really normal. All it takes to alter normalcy is a death or a birth. Or just some misguided fear, love, or loneliness that never goes away. ~ Kevin Sampsell, #NFDB
1168:Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you--these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones. ~ Sergei Lukyanenko, #NFDB
1169:My plight has given me a strange kind of wealth, the most important kind. I value each moment that is not spent in pain, desperation, hunger, thirst, or loneliness. ~ Steven Callahan, #NFDB
1170:On the outside one is a star. But in reality, one is completely alone, doubting everything. To experience this loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world. ~ Brigitte Bardot, #NFDB
1171:the liquor aiding the shorthand of my loneliness. It was strange that I could feel differently so easily, that there was a sure way to soften the crud of my own sadness. ~ Emma Cline, #NFDB
1172:There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock. People so tired, mutilated either by love or no love ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
1173:and after she went, Dalton didn't last long. His death certificate listed heart failure as the cause, but Owen Gray knew it had been loneliness and grief. After ~ James Stewart Thayer, #NFDB
1174:Anger was days of courteous silence, and love was a word of courteous endearment. She was an only child, and loneliness was one of the earliest conditions of her life. ~ John Williams, #NFDB
1175:Because you already know what it means to be Men Without Women. You are a pastel-colored Persian carpet, and loneliness is a Bordeaux wine stain that won’t come out. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1176:For all its manifold beauties, the world is never so fine once someone you love leaves it; instead, there is only the bleak prospect of loneliness and might-have-beens. ~ Kevin Hearne, #NFDB
1177:Hers would be the perpetual ache of loss and loneliness, slowly dulled with time until it became a part of her character, a faint sourness tinged with withered pride. ~ Winston Graham, #NFDB
1178:I've had a lot of time to think and even though the silence is new, the loneliness isn't. How is it possible to have been surrounded by people and never feel complete? ~ Katie McGarry, #NFDB
1179:My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people; which is one reason why I'm not subject to what is known as loneliness. I have plenty of company. ~ William S Burroughs, #NFDB
1180:Sometimes you never feel lonelier than when you are always doing tons of things and traveling all over the place. There is a real feeling of loneliness sometimes. ~ Nicolas Ghesquiere, #NFDB
1181:Why do they call it grief, when really it’s a whole gamut of awful emotions, confusion and regret and anger and guilt and loneliness, wrapped up into one little word? ~ Kimberly Belle, #NFDB
1182:... and for the first time he realized the pain inevitable in any human relationship - pain suffered and pain inflicted. How foolish we were to be afraid of loneliness. ~ Graham Greene, #NFDB
1183:And that is the loneliness of seeing a different world from that of the people around you. Their lives remain remote from yours. You can see the gulf and they can't. ~ Patricia Duncker, #NFDB
1184:For a moment he seemed impressed with the speaking loneliness of the scene, or rather with the complete abstraction from all its compass of the sights and sounds of man. ~ Thomas Hardy, #NFDB
1185:Her face was the only thing that had stayed with him, this one face that so frightened and disturbed him but also—in his unbearable loneliness—drew him irresistibly to it, ~ Magda Szab, #NFDB
1186:I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us. ~ Kahlil Gibran, #NFDB
1187:I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB
1188:I’m quite all right. I’m not even scared. You see, I’ve learned from looking around, there is something worse than loneliness—and that’s the fear of it.”—Dorothy Parker ~ Nicole Archer, #NFDB
1189: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. ~ Anne Hathaway, #NFDB
1190:My own dark time, as I call it, the time of my loneliness, was most of my life, as I have said, and I can’t make any real account of myself without speaking of it. ~ Marilynne Robinson, #NFDB
1191:See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1192:Always I have possessed the loneliness of one raised amid intrigues and clustering secrets, the isolation of a boy who cannot trust the completeness of his heart to anyone. ~ Robin Hobb, #NFDB
1193:It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new. ~ Gregory Maguire, #NFDB
1194:Loneliness is my curse---our species' curse---it's the gun that shoots the bullets that make us dance on a saloon floor and humiliate ourselves in front of strangers. ~ Douglas Coupland, #NFDB
1195:Loneliness, I think, has very little to do with location. It’s a state of mind. In the center of every big, bustling city are some of the loneliest people in the world. ~ Chris Hadfield, #NFDB
1196:Mercifully, I was at that age when reading was still a passion and thus, save for a happy marriage, the best state possible in which to keep absolute loneliness at bay. ~ William Styron, #NFDB
1197:there was a quality of loneliness to her that comes when your only friend walks away and you don’t know why and there’s no one else and never will be. A left-behind look. ~ Robert Crais, #NFDB
1198:When we finished the kiss she said laughing, I can taste your loneliness - it tastes like vinegar. That annoyed me. Everyone knows loneliness tastes like cold potato soup. ~ Steve Toltz, #NFDB
1199:But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44. ~ Tom Hanks, #NFDB
1200:can you believe in guides your eyes can’t see
can you believe I still want you
I cannot believe you would choose loneliness
loneliness is how little you want me ~ Melissa Broder,#NFDB
1201:People talked about loneliness as if it were something alive and it could get you. But loneliness is something dead, it's deadness. Lonely people are slowly dying people. ~ Sofia Samatar, #NFDB
1202:To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude. ~ Henri Nouwen, #NFDB
1203:Wondering at the loneliness of the new dead, remembering Kitten and Kitten’s need for light and life. She had no sorrow for Kitten dead; she had pity that scalded. She ~ Dorothy B Hughes, #NFDB
1204:But it seems that I can tackle the most esoteric of recipes, the most elusive puff pastry, as long as I do not have to count the empty layers of loneliness building up inside. ~ Kim Sun e, #NFDB
1205:but this loneliness exists and eats away at the best parts of us because we must use all our energy to appear happy, even though we will never be able to deceive ourselves. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1206:Every day you preach to yourself a gospel of your loneliness, inability, and lack of resources or you faithfully preach to yourself the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. ~ Paul David Tripp, #NFDB
1207:He stood slowly and took her in his arms. She wanted to bottle how safe she felt in this moment, so she could drink of it later when loneliness and fear left her parched. ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
1208:He stood slowly and tool her in his arms. She wanted to bottle how safe she felt in this moment, so she could drink of it later when loneliness and fear left her parched. ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
1209:I called no one, and no one called me. I was suffocating with loneliness. The pain was almost physical. I felt like tearing myself apart. I wanted to escape from my own skin. ~ Cat Clarke, #NFDB
1210:Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship. ~ Doris Lessing, #NFDB
1211:Loving-kindness challenges those states that tend to arise when we think of ourselves as isolated from everyone else—fear, a sense of deficiency, alienation, loneliness. ~ Sharon Salzberg, #NFDB
1212:She saw that he knew what loneliness was, that he understood why it might be raining inside a person even when the sun shone, that sadness needed no immediate cause. ~ Jan Philipp Sendker, #NFDB
1213:[...] Sivesh cried one name aloud. It was the name of Azhrarn, and in that name was all the pain and loneliness and despair and accusation that any mortal throat could utter. ~ Tanith Lee, #NFDB
1214:The intensity and excitement which accompanies moments of infatuation is frequently relative to the degree of loneliness and isolation which has been previously experienced. ~ Erich Fromm, #NFDB
1215:We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936 ~ William Butler Yeats, #NFDB
1216:If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness. ~ Peter Kreeft, #NFDB
1217:Loneliness is inside a person . . . It is possible to be lonely in a big city. If a person is contented and has enough work to do he will not feel lonely amongst the hills. ~ D E Stevenson, #NFDB
1218:My loneliness is not
By the presence or absence of people;
On the contrary, I hate who steals my loneliness,
Without, in exchange, offer me a real company ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,#NFDB
1219:We are graced, and we are together, and the twoliness is trumping the loneliness and the doubt and the fear. We are making it through. Damn you, memories. Thank you, present. ~ Rachel Cohn, #NFDB
1220:You ever get lonely?” “Sometimes.” Loneliness breathed on my neck in the middle of the night; it walked beside me as I grocery-shopped, drove to work, cleaned my apartment. ~ Carla Buckley, #NFDB
1221:By Fortune's adverse buffets overborne
To solitude I fled, to wilds forlorn,
And not in utter loneliness to live,
Myself at last did to the Devil give! ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,#NFDB
1222:concerned. Forget the cold and the loneliness. He was a Jew and if there was one place he was destined to exist, it was a basement or any other such hidden venue of survival. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
1223:loneliness can fly a helicopter through a cut-out shape of a helicopter the same size as the helicopter and that's it's only skill and it isn't good enough but it's still amazing. ~ Tao Lin, #NFDB
1224:So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even one, that's the journey of the warrior. (68) ~ Pema Ch dr n, #NFDB
1225:So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even one, that's the journey of the warrior. (68) ~ Pema Chodron, #NFDB
1226:There's a lot under the surface of life, everyone knows that. A lot of malice and dread and guilt, and so much loneliness, where you wouldn't expect to find it, either. ~ Marilynne Robinson, #NFDB
1227:a love without satiety an ecstasy without an end, a surrender to the beloved— God—without ever falling back on egotistic loneliness. Marriage and celibacy are not contraries ~ Fulton J Sheen, #NFDB
1228:He stood up slowly and took her in his arms. She wanted to bottle how safe she felt in this moment, so she could drink of it later when loneliness and fear left her parched. ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
1229:If youve ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you. ~ Tim Burton, #NFDB
1230:In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
1231:No, I won't try to escape myself by losing myself in artificial chatter 'Did you have a nice vacation?' 'Oh, yes, and you?' I'll stay here and try to pin that loneliness down. ~ Sylvia Plath, #NFDB
1232:[...]or at work when i half-jokingly overshare thoughts about loneliness
then laugh to show everyone 'it's okay, really, look how well-adjusted i can be, and still laugh ~ Megan Boyle,#NFDB
1233:The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1234:The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. ~ Thomas Wolfe, #NFDB
1235:To recognize you are the source of your own loneliness is not a cure for it. But it is a step toward seeing that it is not inevitable, and that such a choice is not irrevocable. ~ Robin Hobb, #NFDB
1236:...to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that can not be ravaged in the dark without great consequence. ~ Eve Ensler, #NFDB
1237:Tragedy is always a mistake; and the loneliness of the deepest thinker, the widest lover, ceases to be pathetic to us so soon as the sun is high enough above the mountains. ~ Margaret Fuller, #NFDB
1238:For all that I could not bear my own silence, I wanted the voices of the world around me to disappear. Solitude was different from loneliness, and it was solitude I was seeking. ~ S Jae Jones, #NFDB
1239:If you've ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you. ~ Tim Burton, #NFDB
1240:I had to stop wanting to believe that her affection for me had been genuine. It was a stupid, pathetic hope, built on loneliness and the desire to feel close to someone again. ~ Bella Forrest, #NFDB
1241: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, #NFDB
1242:Loneliness can be a prison, but we have keys. You needn’t wait for someone to open the bars. If you can make a pot of chili and use a cell phone, then you can create community. ~ Jen Hatmaker, #NFDB
1243:The house is not this large, he thought. Other things are making it seem larger: the dim light, the symmetry, the mirrors, so many years, my unfamiliarity, the loneliness. ~ Jorge Luis Borges, #NFDB
1244:... The type of loneliness where you need to keep struggling to accept a situation is fundamentally different than the sort you know you'll get through if you just hang in there ~ Ry Murakami, #NFDB
1245:We cannot eliminate hunger, but we can feed each other. We cannot eliminate loneliness, but we can hold each other. We cannot eliminate pain, but we can live a life of compassion. ~ Mark Nepo, #NFDB
1246:I confided again that I wanted him, I wanted him to share my loneliness. I wanted him to share all that I could teach and give. Oh, the pain of it! All that I could teach and give. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
1247:It's when you have friends that you can afford to be lonely. When you know a lot of people, loneliness becomes a luxury. It's only when you're forced to be lonely that it's bad. ~ Vera Caspary, #NFDB
1248:Loneliness was just like winter, he decided. Cold and pervasive, trapping you inside your own head because what was outside was so inhospitable. Was he never going to be warm again? ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
1249:Most people never realize that loneliness is a gift from God. Not only can it draw us closer to Jesus, it can teach us to cherish a long-awaited marriage relationship all the more. ~ Eric Ludy, #NFDB
1250:Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took your little circle of loneliness with you. ~ Mary Stewart, #NFDB
1251:Perhaps our loneliness can never be filled with even the best of human love. Maybe the longing for human love is just the beginning, and the longing for God is always the end. ~ Susan E Isaacs, #NFDB
1252:The memories disintegrated into anger, sorrow, fear, and loneliness that gripped my heart and tugged on it as though they were trying to remove it from my chest completely. ~ Lindsey Fairleigh, #NFDB
1253:The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing. ~ Hunter S Thompson, #NFDB
1254:The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
1255:...accustomed like the white blackbird to the loneliness of eccentricity yet never quite reconciled to it, they found in each other's oddness a most comforting compatibility. ~ Elizabeth Goudge, #NFDB
1256:If you want to heal your loneliness, you first have to learn how to heal yourself, be there for yourself, and cultivate your own garden of love, acceptance, and understanding. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
1257:I must confess that I am usually drawn to sadness, and loneliness has never been a stranger to me. But love tried to welcome me, but my soul drew back, guilty of lust and sin. ~ Madonna Ciccone, #NFDB
1258:Nonetheless, Scranton had travelled in space. He had known the loneliness of separation from all other human beings, he had gazed at the empty perspectives that I myself had seen. ~ J G Ballard, #NFDB
1259:Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
1260:For the first time in four billion years a living creature had contemplated himself and heard with a sudden, unaccountable loneliness, the whisper of the wind in the night reeds. ~ Loren Eiseley, #NFDB
1261:Gail Godwin has written a book about the heaviest matters of loss, grief, and loneliness with a touch so light that I was as often deeply amused by it as I was deeply moved. ~ Frederick Buechner, #NFDB
1262:If I accept it, rather than fight against it, things might change. I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down but gets weaker when we simply ignore it. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1263:I knew that somehow this loneliness was linked to all my other fears and worries and premonitions and to my sense, that fall, of the terrible fragility of everything around me. ~ Stephen Goodwin, #NFDB
1264:I spent time then soothing Mike down and trying to make him happy, having figured out what troubled him—thing that makes puppies cry and causes people to suicide: loneliness. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
1265:It didn't take a trauma to make you wear a mask. It didn't take your parents getting shot...or cosmic rays or a power ring...Just the perfect combination of loneliness and despair. ~ Mark Millar, #NFDB
1266:Loneliness pressed down on Ye like a giant hand, and she felt herself being crushed; compressed until she was so small that she disappeared into an invisible corner of the universe.… ~ Liu Cixin, #NFDB
1267:Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took your little circle of loneliness with you... ~ Mary Stewart, #NFDB
1268:[Redacted] felt a certain heaviness descend upon his shoulders and a loneliness rise to his throat, and instead of embracing the familial moment, he turned away, overwhelmed by it. ~ Lisa McMann, #NFDB
1269:The anesthetic of work, the numbing of narcotics, be they chemical or ideological, the terror of loneliness all wounds without transformation. Such wounds are barbarous, soulless. ~ James Hollis, #NFDB
1270:There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
1271:Your hurt is not an excuse to take.
Your loneliness is not an excuse to cheat.
Your desire is not a reason to rape.
You raped me, and now, I'm going to rape you. ~ Courtney C Stevens,#NFDB
1272:And my mother’s afternoon escapes from the house that she could not quite consider her own were an indication that loneliness can be felt even in the most ideal of circumstances. ~ Anita Brookner, #NFDB
1273:Human being can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. it iz the worst of all tortures,the worst of all sufferings. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1274:I Hide Myself Within My Flower
903
I hide myself within my flower,
That fading from your Vase,
You, unsuspecting, feel for me—
Almost a loneliness.
~ Emily Dickinson,#NFDB
1275:Most of us are so enthralled with the scary tigers in our minds--our stories of loneliness, rejection, grief--that we don't realize they are in the past. They can't hurt us anymore. ~ Geneen Roth, #NFDB
1276:Taggle looked up at her, his amber eyes as deep as the loneliness Kate had felt before he became her friend.
"The traditional thing," he said slowly, "involves the river and a sack. ~ Erin Bow,#NFDB
1277:They were lonely and sad people, all three of them, and they would not make one another less sad, but they could, with great care, make a world that would accommodate their loneliness. ~ Yiyun Li, #NFDB
1278:We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong. ~ Carson McCullers, #NFDB
1279:You are the partner of her loneliness, the unspeaking center of her monologues. With each disclosure you encompass more and she stretches beyond what limits her, to hold you. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
1280:As I finished the bed, thinking it looked surprisingly comfortable, a terrible black feeling came over me and I shuddered, aching at the sudden loneliness. I missed my new family. ~ Eliot Schrefer, #NFDB
1281:as the Persian poet Hafiz warns, “Don’t surrender your loneliness so quickly. Let it cut you more deep. Let it ferment and season you as few human and even divine ingredients can. ~ Toko pa Turner, #NFDB
1282:Cliff, a cell phone isn't a toy. It's a very lucky technical miracle for all of us. It's a prime weapon against our essential loneliness."
I can't say I've ever felt that lonely. ~ Jim Harrison,#NFDB
1283:Danni was his reward for all the bullshit he'd gone through, the torture, the anger,
hatred and the bitter loneliness. She was going to be the band-aid for his tortured
soul. ~ R L Mathewson,#NFDB
1284:Loneliness is painful; Solitude is peaceful. Loneliness makes us cling to others in desperation; solitude allows us to respect others in their uniqueness and create community... ~ Henri J M Nouwen, #NFDB
1285:Nothing fortified me, and simple loneliness all but destroyed me, yet I felt swamped by the belief that life must mean something- otherwise why was it there? Why was anything anything? ~ Morrissey, #NFDB
1286:There’s a lot under the surface of life, everyone knows that. A lot of malice and dread and guilt, and so much loneliness, where you wouldn’t really expect to find it, either. ~ Marilynne Robinson, #NFDB
1287:the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
1288:While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life. ~ Josh McDowell, #NFDB
1289:Because loneliness can kill you. And even if it doesn’t kill you physically—which it certainly can, disease of the psyche often leads to disease of the flesh—it can kill your soul. ~ J T Geissinger, #NFDB
1290:Every time you think about the ex, every time the loneliness rears up in you like a seething, burning continent, you tie on your shoes and hit the paths and that helps; it really does. ~ Junot D az, #NFDB
1291:He thinks of himself as worthless and either falls into masochistic loneliness or, failing that, ultimately becomes suspicious and pious, forever denouncing the eccentricities of others ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1292:He was smarter than most, more sensitive. In that regard he was more prepared for the loneliness of senescence than she was. He'd been a stranger in the world for most of his life. ~ Matthew Thomas, #NFDB
1293:Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1294:If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more prevalent than the fear of one another. ~ R D Laing, #NFDB
1295:Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world.” “Then you’ve made the only choice. But there’s a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It’s loneliness. ~ Margaret Mitchell, #NFDB
1296:As if the aim of a beautiful view is to create a great artist or to make the lonely to forget his loneliness or just to create a great ease in the tired minds of every creature! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1297:Literature is essentially loneliness. It is written in solitude, it is read in solitude and, in spite of everything, the act of reading allows a communication between two human beings. ~ Paul Auster, #NFDB
1298:My intention has been to encourage viewers to face their prejudices about prostitution, sex and aging while reflecting on the complex and varied forms that love and loneliness can take. ~ Maya Goded, #NFDB
1299:Scary is time passing and sickness and dying and regret and isolation and loneliness and relationship problems - as opposed to a guy in a hockey mask, which didn't seem that scary. ~ Charlie Kaufman, #NFDB
1300:There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is blink. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
1301:There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed. ~ Hubert Selby Jr, #NFDB
1302:We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where there is no more shadow, darkness, loneliness, isolation, or pain. They are home. ~ John O Donohue, #NFDB
1303:As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
1304:But then there's loneliness. However you might philosophise about it, loneliness is a terrible thing, my dear fellow… Although in reality, of course, it's absolutely of no importance! ~ Anton Chekhov, #NFDB
1305:Durum semolina, golden wheat wafting in Italian fields. Can you imagine how astonished the Italians would be if they knew that what they were exporting in 1971 was really loneliness ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1306:He stood up slowly and took her in his arms. She wanted to bottle how safe she felt in this moment, so she could drink of it later when loneliness and fear left her parched. Remember ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
1307:I almost never get lonely. I love being alone. I'm glad I'm married, and I love my wife. But there's never been a situation in my life where my unhappiness was based on loneliness. ~ Chuck Klosterman, #NFDB
1308:I kind of like being single. You’re not responsible to tell anyone where you are or who you’re with. It’s freedom and loneliness, exhilaration and inner calm. You don’t have to shave. ~ Tarryn Fisher, #NFDB
1309:In loneliness I have drifted this long way, alone.
My torn and shabby robe could not keep out the cold.
And tonight the sky was so clear
it made my heart ache all the more. ~ Hiromi Kawakami,#NFDB
1310:In the basement, with Ruth, I began to learn that anger, hate, fear and loneliness are all one button awaiting the touch of just a single finger to set them blazing toward destruction. ~ Jack Ketchum, #NFDB
1311:It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted. ~ Adrien Brody, #NFDB
1312:It was strange learning the contours of another’s loneliness. You could never know it all at once; like stepping inside a dark cave, you felt along the walls, bumped into jagged edges. ~ Brit Bennett, #NFDB
1313:Loneliness is not about what happens when you are alone, but what happens when you are with others. It is about how willing you are to open your heart and allow another to get close to you. ~ Kim Fay, #NFDB
1314:Many people do not take ownership for how they resist love. They have a lot of love around them but do not realize that their loneliness is a result of their own lack of responsiveness. ~ Henry Cloud, #NFDB
1315:Nothing can bring the hurt of loneliness upon a man so swiftly as to pass a strange house in the dark and witness, in the lamplight from within, a family breaking evening bread together. ~ Og Mandino, #NFDB
1316:She understands, too, the loneliness of parenting, which is the loneliness of memory—to know that she connects a future unknowable to her parents with a past unknowable to her child. ~ Chloe Benjamin, #NFDB
1317:The association between failure, loneliness, and solitude is so strong in our culture that people often find it difficult to believe that there are some who like being by themselves. ~ Suzanne Gordon, #NFDB
1318:The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules of the game forbid assuagement. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
1319:Use loneliness. Its ache creates urgency to reconnect with the world. Take that aching and use it to propel you deeper into your need for expression - to speak, to say who you are. ~ Natalie Goldberg, #NFDB
1320:At home, Tommy tried to avoid looking too long at himself in the mirror, for his reflection stirred in him a feeling of great loneliness and a fear that this loneliness might be permanent. ~ Aryn Kyle, #NFDB
1321:It was strange, learning the contours of another's loneliness. You could never know it all at once; like stepping inside a dark cave, you felt along the walls, bumped into jagged edges. ~ Brit Bennett, #NFDB
1322:It was strange, learning the contours of another’s loneliness. You could never know it all at once; like stepping inside a dark cave, you felt along the walls, bumped into jagged edges. ~ Brit Bennett, #NFDB
1323:She felt as if she bled her regret and loneliness from her very pores, and yet she could not shape those feelings into any sentiment she could imagine her parents could bear reading. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1324: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, #NFDB
1325:I realized that I might be a lonely Indian boy, but I was not alone in the loneliness. There were millions of other Americans who had left their birthplaces in search of a dream. (217) ~ Sherman Alexie, #NFDB
1326:It is in the face of disasters that we show our strength as a people. Understand that we are not defined by our individual loneliness, but by the web of relationships in which we're enmeshed. ~ Ken Liu, #NFDB
1327:It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition. ~ Edward Hopper, #NFDB
1328:loneliness can fly a helicopter through a cut-out shape
of a helicopter the same size as the helicopter
and that's it's only skill
and it isn't good enough
but it's still amazing. ~ Tao Lin,#NFDB
1329:On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy.... No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky. ~ E B White, #NFDB
1330:Ralph reflected for a moment on the similarities between loneliness and insomnia — how they were both insidious, cumulative, and divisive, the friends of despair and the enemies of love. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1331:She understands, too, the loneliness of parenting, which is the loneliness of memory – to know that she connects a future unknowable to her parents with a past unknowable to her child. ~ Chloe Benjamin, #NFDB
1332:And the Milky Way, like a great aurora, flowed through his body to stand at the edges of the earth. There was a quiet, chilly loneliness in it, and a sort of voluptuous astonishment. ~ Yasunari Kawabata, #NFDB
1333:I am no good without you, Ginesse,” he said. “I spent a lifetime alone, but I never understood loneliness until I was away from you. I never understood happiness until I saw you again. ~ Connie Brockway, #NFDB
1334:Kino enjoyed listening to whatever music he liked and reading books he'd been wanting to read. Like dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1335:Loneliness becomes an acids that eats away at you.
“I don’t think I’m lonely,” Aomame declares. She said this half to Tamaru, half to herself.
“I’m all alone, but I’m not lonely. ~ Haruki Murakami,#NFDB
1336:She buried her ears into the calm of his heartbeat, and in a matter of seconds; fell terribly in love with the way her loneliness fell softly and suddenly, asleep, in his chest. ~ Christopher Poindexter, #NFDB
1337:Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever. ~ Brennan Manning, #NFDB
1338:The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes that living with pets can decrease blood pressure, cholesterol, and triglyceride levels, as well as alleviate feelings of loneliness. ~ Gregory Berns, #NFDB
1339:A mystifying sensation of loneliness shook him. Arthur had been alone before, to be sure, but to be alone while surrounded by people, the one sane man in a mad place - that was loneliness. ~ Graham Moore, #NFDB
1340:Being alone was lonely, but there was an even greater loneliness sometimes when he was surrounded by a lot of other people who were constantly making demands of him. He needed a break. C ~ Daniel Wallace, #NFDB
1341:He reminded them of the Three Plagues, of the fact that people in nursing homes are dying of boredom, loneliness, and helplessness and that they wanted to find the cure for these afflictions. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1342:I'm left with a loneliness so overpowering it threatens to seep from my eyes. I have no one. Unfortunately, that's not fantasy. That's all natural, 100 percent organic, un processed reality. ~ Val Emmich, #NFDB
1343:I'm left with a loneliness so overpowering it threatens to seep from my eyes. I have no one. Unfortunately, that's not fantasy. That's all-natural, 100 percent organic, unprocessed, reality. ~ Val Emmich, #NFDB
1344:No “normal” people find themselves in the history books... No “normal” people change the world. So get comfortable being “weird” and embrace the loneliness of unapologetic determination. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
1345:Running and meditation are very personal activities. Therefore they are lonely. This loneliness is one of their best qualities because it strengthens our incentive to motivate ourselves. ~ Sakyong Mipham, #NFDB
1346:The loneliness is the worst, because this knowledge is something that cannot be shared, only suffered. Just as well. Why should anyone else have it easy. Spoken like a true New Yorker. ~ Colson Whitehead, #NFDB
1347:To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude. —Henri J. M. Nouwen ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1348: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, #NFDB
1349:Basal Ganglia casts an unsettling spell, but one that in its aphoristic intensity and lightning-flash insights into human loneliness and connection, achieves a genuine empathic wisdom. ~ Sergio De La Pava, #NFDB
1350:I love to write when I feel like everybody else is asleep and when I feel like the world is kind of empty in some ways. I find, oddly enough, that I write about loneliness and isolation a lot. ~ Dan Chaon, #NFDB
1351:Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1352:Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again breeds isolation, loneliness. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB
1353:We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, intellectually; we need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1354:Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world.”
“Then you’ve made the only choice. But there’s a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It’s loneliness. ~ Margaret Mitchell,#NFDB
1355:A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general. ~ Lorraine Hansberry, #NFDB
1356:For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
1357:I think I'm Swedish because I like to live here on this island. You can't imagine the loneliness and isolation in this country. In that way, I'm very Swedish - I don't dislike to be alone. ~ Ingmar Bergman, #NFDB
1358:I wear my loneliness like a taffeta dress riding up my thigh,
and you cannot help but want me.
You think it's cruel
how I break your heart, to write a poem.
I think it's alchemy. ~ Warsan Shire,#NFDB
1359:Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world. ~ Benjamin Hoff, #NFDB
1360:On the white summit of eternity
A single Soul of bare infinities,
Guarded he keeps by a fire-screen of peace
His mystic loneliness of nude ecstasy. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Shiva,#NFDB
1361:Sometimes I think the loneliness inside of me is going to explode through my skin and sometimes im not sure if crying or screaming or laughing through the hysteria will solve anything at all ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
1362:The loneliness comes to me in certain hours everyday, like a visitor. Like a friend you never expected, a friend you never really want to be with, but he always visit you and love you somehow, ~ Xiaolu Guo, #NFDB
1363:There's a loneliness that only exists in one's mind. The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart and all they can do is stare blankly. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
1364:Well, I know about loneliness. I won't talk about it, but I was very lonely after the war. I know what it feels like to spend a whole weekend all by yourself and no one wants you at all. ~ Charles M Schulz, #NFDB
1365:Gratitude promotes consciousness, enthusiasm, joy, empathy, and tranquillity, while protecting from anxiety, sadness, loneliness, regret, and envy, with which it is fundamentally incompatible. ~ Neel Burton, #NFDB
1366:I took one of my hands in the other, tried to imagine what it would feel like if it was another person's hand holding mine. There have been times where I felt that I might die of loneliness. ~ Gail Honeyman, #NFDB
1367:It's all right", he said, wondering at the same time why there were no better words, why there never are any better words to answer fear and grief and loneliness. "It's all right, believe me. ~ Robert Bloch, #NFDB
1368:pag. 74
"I am a tree"
"The essential reason for my loneliness is that I don't even know where I belong. I was supposed to be part of a story, but I fell from there like a leaf in autumn. ~ Orhan Pamuk,#NFDB
1369:She said that whenever she feels the old insidious chill of loneliness beginning to creep back into her life, she picks up the phone and calls someone who may be lonelier than she is. ~ Norman Vincent Peale, #NFDB
1370:All of us are lonely at some point or another, no matter how any people surround us. And then, we meet someone who seems to understand. She smiles, and for a moment the loneliness disappears. ~ Helene Wecker, #NFDB
1371:If you learn to practice love, compassion, joy, and equanimity, you will know how to heal the illnesses of anger, sorrow, insecurity, sadness, hatred, loneliness, and unhealthy attachments. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
1372:I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already. ~ Veronica Roth, #NFDB
1373:I used to think loneliness was being stuck with only the one voice in your head. I was wrong. Loneliness is hearing everyone else’s voices too, except they are stuck on repeat: Die, die, die. ~ Julie Buxbaum, #NFDB
1374:The first thing you learn is how to be alone. You learn, or suffer. It is an easy lesson. You suffer more when people are around. People make you feel alone. And loneliness is a quiet wound. ~ Marjorie M Liu, #NFDB
1375:The inner loneliness can only be cured by the inner experience of union with the Divine; no human association can fill the void. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Human Relations and the Spiritual Life, #NFDB
1376:Travel, in the superficial sense at least, is a good cure for loneliness. When you travel, especially in the third world, you quickly find that you get more friends than you know what to do with. ~ Pico Iyer, #NFDB
1377:We long to connect, all of us. We long to be noticed, to be cared for, to matter. Generosity is the invisible salve on our wound of loneliness, one that benefits both sides, over and over again. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
1378:What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
1379:If love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness, then he had loved Mikal since they were ten years old.... This almost-brother. This blood-love in everything but name. ~ Nadeem Aslam, #NFDB
1380:In a world characterized by loneliness and despair, we can reach out in love to those around us. Or, as St. Francis once said, we can "preach the gospel all the time; if necessary, use words." ~ Phil Callaway, #NFDB
1381:It was incomprehensible that her entire life had been a carousel of unhappiness, drinking, failed promises, and loneliness, all turning around and around a single afternoon encounter with this man. ~ Joe Hill, #NFDB
1382:I yearn for empty thoughts and silence in my head. For someone to sit down beside me, to hold my hand and take away the cold sting of loneliness that creeps under my skin like an English winter. ~ Malia Zaidi, #NFDB
1383:We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1384:What does it … feel like, to have lost an entire world?’
‘Lonely.’ Rat raised his many-ringed hand to rub at his neck under his broad jaw. ‘But the loneliness comes from the question. ~ Samuel R Delany,#NFDB
1385:A wolf of the Steppes that had lost its way and strayed into the towns and the life of the herd, a more striking image could not be found for his shy loneliness, his savagery, his restlessness, ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
1386:He's only slept with us when he's cold and lonely."
"Isaboe, he is a hound. He will feign loneliness the rest of his life just to lie on this bed,. My bed. I was the king of this bed. ~ Melina Marchetta,#NFDB
1387:Remind yourself of that when feelings of loneliness and despair come over you. Remember, those are just feelings. They are not real, but God’s love is so real that He created you to prove it. It ~ Nick Vujicic, #NFDB
1388:we used to talk all night
and do things alone together
and i’ve begun
(as a reaction to a feeling)
to balance
the pleasure of loneliness
against the pain
of loving you ~ Nikki Giovanni,#NFDB
1389:A certain cynicism, born of the life she has led; a streak of strange wisdom; the wistfulness behind the gaiety; sometimes fear; and nearly always the memory of loneliness that hurts the soul. ~ Georgette Heyer, #NFDB
1390:His smile banished my loneliness and limbed the hollows of my anema with starlight, pure and bright...his touch hummed in my bones like an aria -- a song to my dance, a beginning of a promise. ~ Roshani Chokshi, #NFDB
1391:I am never lonely, Galahad. Or rather I never suffer from loneliness. I suffer much from the idea that my loneliness might be taken away from me by a lot of mercilessly well-meaning people. ~ Leonora Carrington, #NFDB
1392:It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness. ~ Isak Dinesen, #NFDB
1393:It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness. ~ Karen Blixen, #NFDB
1394:Loneliness watches and sights, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over... himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He’s going to make me sleep with him again tonight, i just know it. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
1395:We all know how important love is, yet how often is it really emoted or exhibited? What so many sick people in this world suffer from-loneliness, boredom and fear-can't be cured with a pill. ~ Albert Schweitzer, #NFDB
1396:A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best. ~ Bernard Malamud, #NFDB
1397:… and now and then we could look up and give each other a thought,
because I think he could have beautiful thoughts,
and we could just let each other be less lonely in our loneliness. ~ Charlotte Eriksson,#NFDB
1398: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. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
1399:Loneliness, I began to realise, was a populated place. A city in itself. And when one inhabits a city, even a city as rigorously and logically constructed as Manhattan, one starts by getting lost. ~ Olivia Laing, #NFDB
1400:loneliness lies within the listener-- a cuckoo's call [2598.jpg] -- from Chiyo-ni: Woman Hiaku Master, Translated by Patricia Donegan / Translated by Yoshie Ishibashi
~ Fukuda Chiyo-ni, loneliness
,#NFDB
1401:Loneliness struck again, its force doubled by how much she wished it was her family there instead. Then oddly enough, she met the boy's stare and that feeling came again, that this was her family. ~ Marcha A Fox, #NFDB
1402:My lamp seemed to be of little effect in the brilliant moonlight, but I was glad to have it with me, for there was a dread loneliness in the place which chilled my heart and made my nerves tremble. ~ Bram Stoker, #NFDB
1403:Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren't true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react. ~ Jennifer Beals, #NFDB
1404:...really, what a strange man he is, thought klara, with that aching feeling of loneliness which always overcomes us when someone dear to us surrenders to a daydream in which we have no place. ~ Vladimir Nabokov, #NFDB
1405:A book is not an end in itself; it is only a way to touch someone - a bridge extended across a space of loneliness and obscurity - and sometimes it is a way of winning other people to our causes. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
1406:Death is the opposite of lonely, and lonely is the only thing the janitor owns. It is the only thing that's hers. And that makes loneliness beautiful, out here among the cold and bright beginnings. ~ Amber Sparks, #NFDB
1407:I dont fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach. ~ Mary Roach, #NFDB
1408: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. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
1409:music is the great love of the People. If we sing a beautiful song, if we faithfully remember all the words, the People will never abandon us. Without the musician, all life would be loneliness. ~ Madeleine Thien, #NFDB
1410:On the whole I am inclined to think that a witch should not kiss. Perhaps it is the not being kissed that makes her a witch; perhaps the source of her power is the breath of loneliness around her. ~ Emma Donoghue, #NFDB
1411:Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in their reach inward, via print, for a way out of loneliness. ~ Jonathan Franzen, #NFDB
1412:She looks after him, feeling a wave of longing, loneliness. Not sexual particularly but to do with the nature of cities, the thousands of strangers you pass in a day, probably never to see again. ~ William Gibson, #NFDB
1413:Closer of lovely eyes to lovely dreams, Lover of loneliness, and wandering, Of upcast eye, and tender pondering! Thee must I praise above all other glories That smile us on to tell delightful stories. ~ John Keats, #NFDB
1414:Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering? ~ Margaret Atwood, #NFDB
1415:From long experience she knew that she wore her loneliness like armor. Very few people ever recognized it for what it was. To the casual observer it looked very much like arrogance. Sometimes it was. ~ Nevada Barr, #NFDB
1416:I happen to believe that America is dying of loneliness, that we, as a people, have bought into the false dream of convenience, and turned away from a deep engagement with our internal lives—those ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB
1417:I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love. ~ John Derbyshire, #NFDB
1418:Loneliness cannot be reassured by proportion. Even friendship would have seemed to Pritchard a feast behind a pane of glass; even the smallest charity would have wet his lip, and left him wanting. ~ Eleanor Catton, #NFDB
1419:"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." ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
1420:Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company. ~ Hannah Arendt, #NFDB
1421:Sometimes we women are our own worst traps. Our hopes snatch us like quicksand. Our loneliness forges a cage. Sometimes all it takes is one sweet glance and kind word to make us forget ourselves. ~ Roshani Chokshi, #NFDB
1422:the only true wisdom lives far from mankind, out in the great loneliness, and can be reached only through suffering. Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others.’ ~ Joseph Campbell, #NFDB
1423:When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly. ~ Hilaire Belloc, #NFDB
1424:And yet, these insights of connectedness and oneness, which make us feel so at home in the world, are so difficult to hold onto. And so, inevitably, we wind up living lives of isolation and loneliness. ~ Irwin Kula, #NFDB
1425:Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes identity. These are natural and very human instincts. ~ Joshua Ferris, #NFDB
1426:Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
1427:We state and commend the faith only in so far as we go out and put ourselves inside the doubts of the doubters, the questions of the questioners and the loneliness of those who have lost their way. ~ John R W Stott, #NFDB
1428:What a hideous life he had chosen, how painful was the loneliness he endured because he didn't have the courage to trust someone again. To trust someone entirely because in love there is no other way. ~ Nina George, #NFDB
1429:When the chips are down, you are alone, and loneliness can be terrifying. Fortunately, I've always had a chum I could call. And I love to be alone. It doesn't bother me one bit. I’m my own company. ~ Audrey Hepburn, #NFDB
1430:Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Or is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else? ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
1431:Aristotle said that only two living entities are capable of complete solitude and complete separateness: God and beast. Because of this the most acute form of suffering for human beings is loneliness. ~ Chris Hedges, #NFDB
1432:Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
1433:When men feel the wound that cannot heal, they either bury themselves in woman's arms and ask her for healing, which she cannot provide, or they hide themselves in macho pride and enforced loneliness. ~ James Hollis, #NFDB
1434:For each, God has a different response. With every man He has a secret—the secret of a new name. In every man there is a loneliness, an inner chamber of peculiar life into which God only can enter. ~ George MacDonald, #NFDB
1435:He’d mistaken loneliness for independence, and had become so good at closing himself off from the world that it took an e-mail from Ellie to remind him what it was like to have a real conversation. ~ Jennifer E Smith, #NFDB
1436:I know exactly what my future looks like and I'm okay with it. I'm happy to live in solitude. I'm not afraid of spending the rest of my life in the company of my own person. I do not afraid loneliness. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
1437:the girl is now a girl who is also a whale; full of unoccupied space.
it's tragic how she displaces her emptiness with loneliness,
how she wants & wants & wants & needs to know why. ~ Sabrina Benaim,#NFDB
1438:When you're creating you have to descend to depths. You've just got to go there - to the boredom, the banality, the loneliness and all that. Those moments of really feeling in the flow are fleeting. ~ Errollyn Wallen, #NFDB
1439:You better believe when I walk into a conference now, I look for someone sitting alone and make sure she knows she is noticed. When I ease the loneliness ache in others it is beautifully eased in me. ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
1440:I felt for the first time the premonitory of loneliness.It was all fantastic, and yet, and yet...He might be a poor lover, but I was a poor man. He had in his hand the infinite riches of respectability ~ Graham Greene, #NFDB
1441:If we don't accept loneliness, then capitalism wins hands down. Because capitalism is all about trying to convince people that you can distract yourself, that you can make it better. And it ain't true. ~ Tilda Swinton, #NFDB
1442:It's better to be hungry than to be lonely - and i'm not talking about the loneliness that we choose but the loneliness that we are forced to accept - , it's like you don't belong to this world anymore! ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1443:Loneliness flooded his whole body like it was a physical sensation, not merely a feeling. Like it was a liquid that had replaced his blood and flowed inside his veins as his heart pumped it through. ~ Cynthia Kadohata, #NFDB
1444:The loneliness of a visionary is that you might be the only one in the universe at that time who recognizes magic. I'm a magical person, and so I recognize other magical people. It takes ones to know one. ~ Kim Fowley, #NFDB
1445:There are two kinds of loneliness,
one you feel when you're all alone,
and the other you feel in a crowded room,
when you realize you're the only person who knows
what it's like to be you. ~ Atticus Poetry,#NFDB
1446:To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many. ~ Stanley Hauerwas, #NFDB
1447:...what living things provide. In place of boredom, they offer spontaneity. In place of loneliness, they offer companionship. In place of helplessness, they offer a chance to take care of another being. ~ Atul Gawande, #NFDB
1448:How did I come to such a dark place? I don't know where my road now leads but I fear the shadowlands that lie ahead. But it is not the darkness of the path I fear. Just the loneliness of the trail. ~ Richard Paul Evans, #NFDB
1449:I became hypnotized by my own loneliness, unwilling to stop until my eyes wouldn't stay open anymore, watching the white line of the highway as though it was the last thing that connected me to the earth. ~ Paul Auster, #NFDB
1450:If there is one person on the planet who still is suffering from loneliness and from pain or despair, and we don't know about it, or we don't want to know about it, then something is wrong with the world. ~ Elie Wiesel, #NFDB
1451:In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. And if he is a writer wise enough to know it can't be done, then he is not a writer at all. A good writer always works at the impossible. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
1452:I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They show us that conversations are possible across distances. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB
1453:Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
1454:Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
1455:[Pope Francis]sees a world in need of the Gospel, and of friendship with Jesus Christ, as an antidote to the self-absorption and loneliness that are eating away at the solidarity of the human community. ~ George Weigel, #NFDB
1456:Some years passed, but I still did not lose that sense of wonder about New York. I began to cherish the loneliness of it, the sense that at any given time no one need know where I was or what I was doing. ~ Joan Didion, #NFDB
1457:Success definitely brings on loneliness. People think you're lucky, that you have everything. They think you can go anywhere and do anything, but that's not the point. One hungers for the basic stuff. ~ Michael Jackson, #NFDB
1458:The dog looked at him curiously, its good ear twitching again. Those eyes, Neville thought. What a world of feeling in those eyes! Distrust, fear, hope, loneliness-all etched in those big brown eyes. ~ Richard Matheson, #NFDB
1459:A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel. ~ Elizabeth Blackwell, #NFDB
1460:If I was to itemise my loneliness, to categorise its component parts, I would have to admit that some of it at least was to do with anxieties around appearance, about being found insufficiently desirable. ~ Olivia Laing, #NFDB
1461:I think loneliness comes with being creative, because you are obsessed with creation. And it is so satisfying that sometimes, I have noticed, I completely neglect my friends and my family, and they fall away. ~ Tom Ford, #NFDB
1462:Yes, there is that dark, terrifying loneliness that scares me, but I am acquainted with fear. If I stay inside it long enough, root my heels in deeper, it doesn’t feel scary anymore. It feels like home. ~ Zinzi Clemmons, #NFDB
1463:Even in the depths of sleep, in which he had to satisfy his need for protection and love by curling himself up into a trembling ball, he could not rid himself of the feeling of loneliness and homelessness. ~ Bruno Schulz, #NFDB
1464:He stood and watched his friend hobble around the house, felt the cold claw of loneliness reach out and touch him with icy fingers. A terrible loneliness. The loneliness of age—of age and the outdated. ~ Clifford D Simak, #NFDB
1465:If he'd learned one thing while he'd been away, it was that loneliness is the most taboo subject in the world. Forget sex or politics or religion. Or even failure. Loneliness is what clears out a room. ~ Douglas Coupland, #NFDB
1466:I'm just a believer in keeping all of the creative brain cells moving and working even when you're not working because the inevitable loneliness and boring drought in the actor's world, it can eat you alive. ~ Nikki Reed, #NFDB
1467:It didn't occur to him that she might have chosen to remain this way. That where he saw reserve and loneliness, Cassandra saw self-preservation and the knowledge that it was safer when one had less to lose. ~ Kate Morton, #NFDB
1468: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. ~ Nick Hornby, #NFDB
1469: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. ~ Marilyn French, #NFDB
1470:Believe me, I know what it's like to feel all alone...the worst kind of loneliness in the world is isolation that comes from being misunderstood, it can make people lose their grasp on reality. - Sienna Brooks ~ Dan Brown, #NFDB
1471:If we don’t have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness. When we get together we build miles of summer cottages and kill each other in the bars on Saturday night. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1472:In our opposed forms of loneliness and self-recognition and recognition of the other, we touched each other often as we spoke; and on shore in explorations of the past, we strolled with our arms linked... ~ Harold Brodkey, #NFDB
1473: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. ~ Nick Hornby, #NFDB
1474:The greatest artists express their inner self; an artist paints her rage; a writer pens his fear; a dancer expresses her sadness through movement; and a musician's loneliness echoes in his performance. ~ Gerard de Marigny, #NFDB
1475:.. then when the hurt goes, anger takes its place; when the anger runs out of system, loneliness steps in to take over. it's a never ending circle of emotions; every lost emotion being replaced by another. ~ Cecelia Ahern, #NFDB
1476:Time could not be compared with any sort of food: nibble at it as greedily as you liked, there was never any less of it. Knut felt powerless in the face of time. Time was a huge ice block made of loneliness. ~ Y ko Tawada, #NFDB
1477:Anna took her solace where she always did. The smell of the earth, the touch of the sky held for her a special alchemy, able to turn loneliness into aloneness, and so make it, if not sacred, at least bearable. ~ Nevada Barr, #NFDB
1478:He tilted back his head and stared up at the sky and marveled once again, as he had marveled many other times on many other planets, at the sheer, devastating loneliness and alienness of unfamiliar stars. ~ Clifford D Simak, #NFDB
1479: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, #NFDB
1480:They come upon me all silent and menacing like Pinkerton Detectives, and they flank me—Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don’t need to show me their badges. I know these guys very well. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
1481:And for Narnie, hours without them went by, and then days, and then weeks. And in between those seconds and minutes and hours and day and weeks was the most acute sense of loneliness she'd ever experienced ~ Melina Marchetta, #NFDB
1482:I couldn't leave there without carrying some of her sadness and loneliness with me like a cloak. There was a smell that I've come to think of as life rot. Where a life has spoiled, gone bad through lack of use. ~ Lisa Unger, #NFDB
1483:If you pay court to a young girl whose existence is a compound of loneliness, despair, and poverty, and who has no suspicion that she will come into a fortune, good Lord! it is quint and quatorze at piquet; ~ Honor de Balzac, #NFDB
1484:I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do. It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem. ~ Maggie Nelson, #NFDB
1485:I think that cinema is a great place to make stories of loneliness. And being Norwegian, I don't want to make the film about loneliness in being out in nature on a mountaintop; it's about being in the cities. ~ Joachim Trier, #NFDB
1486:I was in L.A. in '08. It was a cold Saturday night. I had spread my phone number out to a score of women and was just indulging this sweet, sad, elegiac, bale loneliness - don't tell me you haven't been there. ~ James Ellroy, #NFDB
1487:Realizing all over again how important sunlight is to human beings, I appreciate each second of that precious light. The intense loneliness and helplessness I felt under those millions of stars has vanished ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1488:the people of the city were either in their deepest dreams or wide awake, burning up with loneliness and imagination as shadows and sounds twisted into alien forms, untouched by the blanket of daylight bustle. ~ Kate Griffin, #NFDB
1489:There is no loneliness when you meditate, you feel eternity. How could you ever be lonely? You just feel God's love for you and that sustains you. It's totally clear; it's part of every aspect of your being. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1490:Be silent in that solitude Which is not loneliness - for then The spirits of the dead who stood In life before thee are again In death around thee - and their will Shall then overshadow thee: be still. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
1491:Closer of lovely eyes to lovely dreams,
Lover of loneliness, and wandering,
Of upcast eye, and tender pondering!
Thee must I praise above all other glories
That smile us on to tell delightful stories. ~ John Keats,#NFDB
1492:I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them. ~ Anais Nin, #NFDB
1493:I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them. ~ Ana s Nin, #NFDB
1494:I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me all the time. It's not getting easier; if anything, it's always right on the edge of my skin. ~ Erwin McManus, #NFDB
1495:Life is like a book starts with title similar to your personal names, begins to give you pleasure with each and every different chapters, and finally ends with lesson learned, leaving you in loneliness again. ~ Santosh Kalwar, #NFDB
1496:Man is like an island set in isolation in a fathomless sea enveloped by darkness, saying that the loneliness his self knows is so utterly absolute because even he knows not his self completely. ~ Syed Muhammad Naquib al Attas, #NFDB
1497:Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
1498:...most people never experience such a passion, that I had been incredibly, divinely fortunate to have found, in a world where most souls dig there own graves with the sharp edge of their bitter loneliness... ~ Valerie Martin, #NFDB
1499:oh, how I wish that I could give him what Daddy takes so easily from me. But it would be a tainted gift. Sadness now, and I wonder how it feels to live without a constant fog of sorrow, a breeze of loneliness. ~ Ellen Hopkins, #NFDB
1500:So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being. ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
53 Poetry
13 Philosophy
10 Integral Yoga
10 Fiction
9 Mysticism
7 Psychology
4 Occultism
2 Buddhism
2 Baha i Faith
1 Zen
1 Christianity
28 Sri Aurobindo
9 Friedrich Nietzsche
8 William Wordsworth
6 H P Lovecraft
6 Carl Jung
5 William Butler Yeats
5 Percy Bysshe Shelley
4 Rabindranath Tagore
4 Nolini Kanta Gupta
3 John Keats
3 Edgar Allan Poe
2 Robert Browning
2 Rainer Maria Rilke
2 Jorge Luis Borges
2 Jordan Peterson
2 Baha u llah
17 Savitri
9 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
8 Wordsworth - Poems
6 Lovecraft - Poems
5 Yeats - Poems
5 Shelley - Poems
4 Tagore - Poems
4 Collected Poems
3 Poe - Poems
3 Keats - Poems
2 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
2 Rilke - Poems
2 Mysterium Coniunctionis
2 Maps of Meaning
2 Letters On Yoga IV
2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
2 Browning - Poems
01.02 - The Issue, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Steeping her soul in its wide Loneliness
Had shown to her her self's bare reality
01.05 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Spirits Freedom and Greatness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Drew him out of his seeking Loneliness
Into the magnitudes of God's embrace.
02.01 - The World-Stair, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Apart in an unfathomed Loneliness,
He travelled in his mute and single strength
02.04 - The Kingdoms of the Little Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Or else to heal his body's Loneliness.
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02.06 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Accepted by her mighty Loneliness,
He stood with her on meditating peaks
02.07 - The Descent into Night, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A threatening waste, a sinister Loneliness
That left mind bare to an unseen assault,
02.08 - The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The heart-beats of its fatal Loneliness.
Above was a chill deaf eternity.
02.14 - The World-Soul, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Its dance solaced an eternal Loneliness:
An old forgotten sweetness sobbing came.
03.03 - The House of the Spirit and the New Creation, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
On the cosmic murmur primal Loneliness fell,
Annulled was the contact formed with time-born things,
04.02 - The Growth of the Flame, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
And the Loneliness that separates soul from soul,
She wished to make all one immense embrace
05.02 - Satyavan, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Hidden in the forest's bosom of Loneliness
Amid the leaves the inmate voices called,
05.03 - Satyavan and Savitri, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
In Nature's green unhuman Loneliness
Surrounded by enormous silences
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In my high-peopled Loneliness of spirit
And this huge vital murmur kin to me,
05.19 - Lone to the Lone, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
When one is a member of the crowd, he has no personality or individuality, he is an amorphous mass, moving helplessly in the current of life, driven by Nature-force as it pleases her: spiritual life begins by withdrawing oneself from this flow of Ignorance and building up or taking cognisance of one's true person and being. When one possesses oneself integrally, is settled in the armature of one's spirit self, he has most naturally turned away from the inferior personalities of his own being and the comradeship also of people in bondage and ignorance. But then one need not stop at this purely negative poise: one can move up and arrive at a positive status, a new revaluation and reaffirmation. For when the divine selfhood is attained, one is no longer sole or solitary. Indeed, the solitariness or Loneliness that is attributed to the spiritual status is a human way of viewing the experience: that is the impression left on the normal mind consciousness when the Purusha soars out of it, upwards from the life of the world to the life of the Spirit. But the soul, the true spiritual being in the individual, is not and cannot be an isolated entity; the nature of the spiritual consciousness is first transcendence, no doubt, transcendence of the merely temporal and ephemeral, but it is also universalisation, that is to say, the cosmic realisation that has its classic expression in the famous mantra of the Gita, he who sees himself in other selves and other selves in his own self. In that status "own" and "other" are not distinct or contrary things, but aspects of the one and the same reality, different stresses in one rhythm.
The flight then represents the freedom, the movement in height of the soul; but there is also the other, the horizontal movement leading to expansiveness and comprehension. One is transcendental, the other global or cosmic. First we have to reject, reject the false formations one by one (sheath by sheath, as it is described in the Upanishads) and arrive at the purest core of truth and reality; but again we have to come back, take up a new, the true formation. What was renounced has to be reintegrated in the divine becoming. While we are in Ignorance, our relations with men and the world are false and, ignorant, but once we attain our true self, we find the same self in men and things and we have no more revulsion for themtato na vijigupsate.
05.26 - The Soul in Anguish, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
But the new Anguish spoken of is a strange phenomenon: it is causeless and it is eternal. It has sprung unbidden with no antecedent cause or condition: it is woven into the stuff of the being, part and parcel of the consciousness itself. Indeed it seems to be the veritable original sin, pertaining to the very nature. Kierkegaard makes of it an absolute necessity in the spiritual constituent and growth of the human soul something akin to, but deeper, because ineradicable, than the Socratic "divine discontent". Sartre puts it in more philosophical and rational terms, in a secular atmosphere as a kind of inevitable accompaniment to the sense of freedom and responsibility and Loneliness that besets the individual being and consciousness at its inmost core, its deepest depth.
I was speaking of the depth, of the sounding of consciousness in present-day inquiries into human nature. Sartre's investigation links itself up with the eternal inquiry graphically and beautifully described in the famous parable of the Taittiriya Upanishad (III).
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It seems that the School of Anguish is on the borderl and between the second and the third stage, that is to say, the vital rising into the mental or the mental still carrying an impress of the vital consciousness. It is the emergence of the Purusha consciousness, the individual being in its heart of hearts, in its pure status: for it is that that truly evolves, progresses from level to level, deploying and marshalling according to its stress and scheme the play of its outward nature. Now the Purusha consciousness, as separate from the outward nature, has certain marked characteristics which have been fairly observed and comprehended by the exponents of the school we are dealing with. Sartre, for example, characterises this beingtre en soi, as distinguished from tre pour soi which is something like dynamic purusha or purusha identified or associated with prakrtias composed of the sense of absolute freedom, of full responsibility, of unhindered choice and initiation. Indeed, Purusha is freedom, for in its own status it means liberation from all obligations to Prakriti. But such freedom brings in its train, not necessarily always but under certain conditions, a terrible sense of being all alone, of infinite Loneliness. One is oneself, naked and face to face with one's singleness and unbreakable, unsharable individual unity. The others come as a product or corollary to this original sui generisentity. Along with the sense of freedom and choice or responsibility and loneness, there is added and gets ingrained into it the sense of fear and anxiety the anguish (Angst). The burden that freedom and Loneliness brings seems to be too great. The Purusha that has risen completely into the mental zone becomes wholly a witness, as the Sankhyans discovered, and all the movements of his nature appear outside, as if foreign: an absolute calm and unperturbed tranquillity or indifference is his character. But it is not so with regard to the being that has still one foot imbedded in the lower region of the vital consciousness; for that indeed is the proper region of anguish, of fear and apprehension, and it is there that the soul becoming conscious of itself and separate from others feels lone, lonely, companionless, without support, as it were. The mentalised vital Purusha suffers from this peculiar night of the soul. Sartre's outlook is shot through with very many experiences of this intermediary zone of consciousness.
The being immersed in Prakriti, as normally it is, in relation and communion with others, may entertain as a pleasure and luxury, the illusion of its separateness and freedom: it can do so at ease, because it feels it has the secret support of its environment, it is courageous because it feels itself in good company. But once it rises out of the environmental level and stands truly apart and outside itit is the mental being which can do so more or less successfully the first feeling is that of freedom, no doubt, but along with it there is also the uncanny sense of isolation, of heavy responsibility, also a certain impotence, a loss of bearings. The normal Cartesian Co-ordinates, as it were, are gone and the being does not know where to look for the higher multi-dimensional co-ordinates. That is the real meaning of the Anguish which suddenly invades a being at a certain stage of his ascending consciousness.
07.01 - The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Nature's primaeval Loneliness was here:
Here only was the voice of bird and beast, -
07.07 - The Discovery of the Cosmic Spirit and the Cosmic Consciousness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Restored to its original Loneliness,
Impassive, sole, silent, intangible.
09.01 - Towards the Black Void, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Piling their void unbearable Loneliness
Upon her mighty uncompanioned soul,
09.02 - The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
And to abysmal Loneliness she fell,
Even from herself cast out, from love remote.
1.02 - MAPS OF MEANING - THREE LEVELS OF ANALYSIS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
disappointment, frustration, Loneliness), when faced by things we do not like. In the most basic of situations
when we know what we are doing; when we are engaged with the familiar these fundamental
1.02 - Meditating on Tara, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset
be happy entails wanting them to be free from pain and Loneliness. Wouldnt
it be wonderful if they were free from these and all other miseries?
1.05 - Solitude, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose Loneliness was relieved by the grotesque visions with which, owing to bodily weakness, his diseased imagination surrounded him, and which he believed to be real. So also, owing to bodily and mental health and strength, we may be continually cheered by a like but more normal and natural society, and come to know that we are never alone.
I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls. Let me suggest a few comparisons, that some one may convey an idea of my situation. I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company has that lonely lake, I pray? And yet it has not the blue devils, but the blue angels in it, in the azure tint of its waters. The sun is alone, except in thick weather, when there sometimes appear to be two, but one is a mock sun. God is alone,but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion. I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumble-bee. I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house.
1.05 - THE HOSTILE BROTHERS - ARCHETYPES OF RESPONSE TO THE UNKNOWN, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
expected rewards), Loneliness and pain [see Beck, A. (1979)].
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1.08 - ON THE TREE ON THE MOUNTAINSIDE, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
the frost of Loneliness makes me shiver. What do I
want up high? My contempt and my longing grow at
1.13 - Gnostic Symbols of the Self, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
hung a human figure that held within itself all the Loneliness of the world and
of the spaces. Alone, and hoping for nothing, the One hung and gazed down
1.17 - ON THE WAY OF THE CREATOR, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
"He who seeks, easily gets lost. All Loneliness is
guilt"-thus speaks the herd. And you have long belonged to the herd. The voice of the herd will still be
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Co into your Loneliness with your love and with
your creation, my brother; and only much later will
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With my tears go into your Loneliness, my brother. I
love him who wants to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.
12.01 - The Return to Earth, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Once sacred to secluded Loneliness
With violent breaking of its virgin sleep.
1.20 - ON CHILD AND MARRIAGE, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
that speak out of your wish? Or Loneliness? Or lack of
peace with yourself?
1.21 - On unmanly and puerile cowardice., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
10. It is not darkness and Loneliness of place that gives the demons power against us, but barrenness of soul. And through Gods providence this sometimes happens in order that we may learn by it.
11. He who has become the servant of the Lord will fear his Master alone, but he who does not yet fear Him is often afraid of his own shadow.
14.02 - Occult Experiences, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The poet thinks that it is the personification of solitude, but it is something more than that. As I said, it is your other self, your subtle self. The body, the personality that you see externally is only a reflection of the inner being that you are. I don't mean your spiritual personality, but your subtle material self which is physically your true personality. And that is inspired by something greater which you all know your true individuality your psychic being. But that being can only be perceived, seen and experienced and heard in solitude, in Loneliness what you call calmness and quietness and detachment. This vision here, this being of Alfred de Musset says: "I can approach you but I cannot touch you; there is a separation between the two. We can touch only when there are some conditions fulfilled in the physical body."
Another French poet speaks of a similar experience. He speaks of it in a jocular way, in a funny way. He says that this inner self sees things in a quite different way than the external being does. Sometimes it does quite the opposite. While the physical eye says 'It is this', the other says 'No, it is that'. Different values and perceptions what we see externally is only Maya. There is only a rope, but you see a snake there that is Maya.
1914 02 02p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
O Lord, I would like to be so ardent a love that all Lonelinesses may be filled up by it and all sorrows soothed.
O Lord, I cry unto Thee: Make me a burning brazier which consumes all suffering and transforms it into joyous light irradiating the hearts of all!
1.fcn - loneliness, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
object:1.fcn - Loneliness
author class:Fukuda Chiyo-ni
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English version by Patricia Donegan & Yoshie Ishibashi Original Language Japanese Loneliness lies within the listener-- a cuckoo's call [2598.jpg] -- from Chiyo-ni: Woman Hiaku Master, Translated by Patricia Donegan / Translated by Yoshie Ishibashi <
1f.lovecraft - He, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
blankness and ineffable Loneliness; and I saw at last a fearful truth
which no one had ever dared to breathe beforethe unwhisperable secret
1f.lovecraft - The Curse of Yig, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
its new Loneliness. Capable at last of conscious motion, she shook the
covers from her face and looked into the darkness toward the window. It
1f.lovecraft - The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
of vague blackness and Loneliness beyond the cosmos.
Then through the glittering vault ahead there fell a hush of portent,
1f.lovecraft - The Horror in the Museum, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
But the utter Loneliness of this place was frightful. Even the distant
chimes seemed to come from across cosmic gulfs. It made Jones think of
1f.lovecraft - The Night Ocean, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
gradual consciousness of the oceans immense Loneliness crept upon me,
a Loneliness that was made subtly horrible by intimationswhich were
never more than suchof some animation or sentience preventing me from
--
will ask me why I did not leave the place since its Loneliness was
depressing me. To all this I have no reply, save that whatever unrest I
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Loneliness which had encircled me welled back into a watchful place of
retreat, whence it went no farther, but crouched and waited.
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bauble, the recurrent stagnant foam, the Loneliness of that bleak-eyed
house, and the mockery of the puppet town. I no longer went to the
--
These scribbled words can never tell of the hideous Loneliness
(something I did not even wish assuaged, so deeply was it embedded in
1.jk - Endymion - Book II, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
And he in Loneliness: he felt assur'd
Of happy times, when all he had endur'd
1.jk - Isabella; Or, The Pot Of Basil - A Story From Boccaccio, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
It aches in Lonelinessis ill at peace
As the break-covert blood-hounds of such sin:
1.jk - I Stood Tip-Toe Upon A Little Hill, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
Lover of Loneliness, and wandering,
Of upcast eye, and tender pondering!
1.jlb - The Labyrinth, #Borges - Poems, #Jorge Luis Borges, #Poetry
The Loneliness that braids and weaves this hell,
To crave my blood, and to fatten on my death.
1.jm - The Song of Food and Dwelling, #Milarepa - Poems, #Jetsun Milarepa, #Buddhism
Because of the fear of Loneliness, I searched for a friend;
The friend I found is the bliss of perpetual Sunyata.
Now I have no fear of Loneliness.
Because of the fear of going astray,
1.lovecraft - Laeta- A Lament, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
The green meadows and groves in their Loneliness pine,
Whilst the dryads no more in their madrigals join,
1.mb - None is travelling, #Basho - Poems, #Masho Basho, #unset
thoughts come - and there is Loneliness;
the autumn dusk is here.
1.pbs - Queen Mab - Part VIII., #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
In melancholy Loneliness, and swept
The desert of those ocean solitudes
1.pbs - Rosalind and Helen - a Modern Eclogue, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
In the bowers of mossy Lonelinesses
His neck, and win me so to mingle
1.pbs - The Daemon Of The World, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
In melancholy Loneliness, and swept
The desert of those ocean solitudes,
1.pbs - The Revolt Of Islam - Canto I-XII, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
A sense of Loneliness, a thirst with which I pined.
Alas, that love should be a blight and snare
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Their watch in some dim charnel's Loneliness,
A shoreless sea, a sky sunless and planetless!
--
With their sweet blooms the wintry Loneliness
Of those dead leaves, shedding their stars, whene'er
1.pbs - The Woodman And The Nightingale, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
Of the night-cradled earth; the Loneliness
Of the circumfluous waters,every sphere
1.poe - Spirits Of The Dead, #Poe - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Which is not Loneliness- for then
The spirits of the dead, who stood
1.poe - The Raven, #Poe - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Leave my Loneliness unbroken!- quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my
1.poe - To The Lake, #Poe - Poems, #unset, #Zen
So lovely was the Loneliness
Of a wild lake, with black rock bound,
1.rb - Pauline, A Fragment of a Question, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
In her first Loneliness in some retreat,
When, late emerged, all gaze and glow to view
1.rb - Sordello - Book the First, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
That shuts out Mantua, still in Loneliness,
A slender boy in a loose page's dress,
1.rmr - Autumn, #Rilke - Poems, #Rainer Maria Rilke, #Poetry
away from all other stars in the Loneliness.
We're all falling. This hand here is falling.
1.rmr - Loneliness, #Rilke - Poems, #Rainer Maria Rilke, #Poetry
object:1.rmr - Loneliness
author class:Rainer Maria Rilke
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that is when Loneliness receives the rivers
1.rt - Fireflies, #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
in silent awe at her Loneliness
that can never be touched.
1.rt - Gitanjali, #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
There was none in the world who ever saw her face to face, and she remained in her Loneliness waiting for thy recognition.
67.
1.rt - She, #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
and she remained in her Loneliness waiting for thy recognition.
1.rt - The Gardener XXIX - Speak To Me My Love, #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
there in the sweet Loneliness murmur
on your heart. I will shut my eyes
1.sig - Lord of the World, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
English version by Israel Zangwill Original Language Hebrew Lord of the world, He reigned alone While yet the universe was naught. When by His will all things were wrought. Then first his sovran Name was known. And when the All shall cease to be, In dread lone splendour He shall reign, He was, He is, He shall remain In glorious eternity. For He is one, no second shares His nature or His Loneliness; Unending and beginningless, All strength is His, all sway He bears. He is the living God to save, My Rock while sorrow's toils endure, My banner and my stronghold sure, The cup of life whene'er I crave. I place my soul within His palm Before I sleep as when I wake, And though my body I forsake, Rest in the Lord in fearless calm. [1835.jpg] -- from The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse, Edited by T. Carmi <
1.wby - All Souls Night, #Yeats - Poems, #William Butler Yeats, #Poetry
Much boisterous courage, before Loneliness
Had driven him crazed;
1.wby - Loves Loneliness, #Yeats - Poems, #William Butler Yeats, #Poetry
object:1.wby - Loves Loneliness
author class:William Butler Yeats
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If ever lover's Loneliness
Came where you stood,
1.wby - September 1913, #Yeats - Poems, #William Butler Yeats, #Poetry
In all their Loneliness and pain,
You'd cry, 'Some woman's yellow hair
1.wby - Shepherd And Goatherd, #Yeats - Poems, #William Butler Yeats, #Poetry
And when he played it was their Loneliness,
The exultation of their stone, that died
1.wby - The Phases Of The Moon, #Yeats - Poems, #William Butler Yeats, #Poetry
Their beauty dropped out of the Loneliness
Of body and soul.
--
The soul remembering its Loneliness
Shudders in many cradles; all is changed,
1.ww - 1- The White Doe Of Rylstone, Or, The Fate Of The Nortons, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
A penitential Loneliness.
"Look, there she is, my Child! draw near;
1.ww - Address To My Infant Daughter, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Thy Loneliness: or shall those smiles be called
Feelers of love, put forth as if to explore
1.ww - Book Third [Residence at Cambridge], #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
Of Loneliness gave way to empty noise
And superficial pastimes; now and then
1.ww - Even As A Dragons Eye That Feels The Stress, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
To mitigate and cheer its Loneliness.
Yet, round the body of that joyless Thing
1.ww - Ruth, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Her Loneliness she cheers:
This flute, made of a hemlock stalk,
1.ww - The Excursion- II- Book First- The Wanderer, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
The feeling pleasures of his Loneliness,
His observations, and the thoughts his mind
--
By Loneliness, and goodness, and kind works,
Whate'er, in docile childhood or in youth,
1.ww - The Excursion- V- Book Fouth- Despondency Corrected, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
The Loneliness of this sublime retreat!"
"Yes," said the Sage, resuming the discourse
1.ww - The Recluse - Book First, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
She withering in her Loneliness. Be this
A task above my skill--the silent mind
2.01 - THE CHILD WITH THE MIRROR, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
Too long have I belonged to Loneliness; thus I have forgotten how to be silent. Mouth have I become through
and through, and the roaring of a stream from towering
2.09 - THE NIGHT SONG, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
such spite wells up out of my Loneliness. My happiness
in giving died in giving; my virtue tired of itself in its
--
eyes gone and the down of my heart? Oh, the Loneliness
of all givers! Oh, the taciturnity of all who shine
--
for the nocturnal And Loneliness!
Night has come: now my craving breaks out of me
2.1.3 - Wrong Movements of the Vital, #Letters On Yoga IV, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The feeling of Loneliness, udsnat, dryness and lack of rasa come very usually when the vital part is disappointed in its desires or tries to give them up but has not yet attained a quiet indifference towards them. It is necessary to replace this condition by the true quietude which will allow the psychic being to become again active and reopen the doors of inner experience, and we shall try to get this done.
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2.14 - The Unpacking of God, #Sex Ecology Spirituality, #Ken Wilber, #Philosophy
The loveless, beaten, battered self will let go the torment and the torture of its self-embracing ways, tire of that marriage to a special misery that it had chosen over Loneliness, to nurse it through the long brutality of a life that doesn't care, surrender the murderous love affair with its own perplexed reflection, which had itself pretended to the throne of the Divine, and find instead its soul in Grace and drenched throughout with a luminous God that is its own true Being-its always and only Original Face, smiling now from the radiant Abyss, unreasonably happy in the face of every sight, set helplessly afloat on the Sea of Intimacy, adrift in currents of Compassion and caressed in unrelenting Care, one with each and one with all in mutual Self-recognition, dancing in the dawn that heralds now the Self of all that truly is, and the Community of all that well might be, and the State of all that is to come.
And every I will sing of the Self, and every We will resonate with worship of the Divine, and every It will radiate the light of a Spirit happy to be seen, with dialogue the abode of the Gods and perception the home of Grace, and gone the lonely loveless self, the god of its own perception, and gone the Godless destiny of time and separation.
2.4.1 - Human Relations and the Spiritual Life, #Letters On Yoga IV, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
I take it therefore that the condition you describe is a period of transition and change, negative in its beginning, as these movements often are at first, so as to create a vacant space for the new positive to appear and live in it and fill it. But the vital, not having a long continued or at all sufficient or complete experience of what is to fill the vacancy, feels only the loss and regrets it even while another part of the being, another part even of the vital, is ready to let go what is disappearing and does not yearn to keep it. If it were not for this movement of the vital (which in your case has been very strong and large and avid of life), the disappearance of these things would, at least after the first sense of void, bring only a feeling of peace, relief and a still expectation of greater things. What is intended in the first place to fill the void was indicated in the peace and joy which came to you as the touch of Shivanaturally, this would not be all but a beginning, a basis for a new self, a new consciousness, an activity of a greater nature; as I told you, it is a deep spiritual calm and peace that is the only stable foundation for a lasting Bhakti and Ananda. In that new consciousness there would be a new basis for relations with others; for an ascetic dryness or isolated Loneliness cannot be your spiritual destiny since it is not consonant with your Swabhava which is made for joy, largeness, expansion, a comprehensive movement of the life-force. Therefore do not be discouraged; wait upon the purifying movement of Shiva.
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The inner Loneliness can only be cured by the inner experience of union with the Divine; no human association can fill the void. In the same way, for the spiritual life the harmony with others must be founded not on mental and vital affinities, but on the divine consciousness and the union with the Divine. When one finds the Divine and finds others in the Divine, then the real harmony comes. Meanwhile what there can be is the goodwill and unity founded on the feeling of a common divine goal and the sense of being all children of the Mother. Real harmony can come only on a psychic or a spiritual basis.
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To be alone with the Divine is the highest of all privileged states for the sadhak, for it is that in which inwardly he comes nearest to the Divine and can make all existence a communion in the chamber of the heart as well as in the temple of the universe. Moreover that is the beginning and base of the real oneness with all, for it establishes that oneness in its true base, on the Divine, for it is in the Divine that he meets and unites with all and no longer in a precarious interchange of the mental and vital ego. So do not fear Loneliness but put your trust in the Mother and go forward on the Path in her strength and Grace.
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3.01 - THE WANDERER, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
I am ready. Now my ultimate Loneliness has begun.
Alas, this black sorrowful sea below mel Alas, this
3.05 - SAL, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
the desert and the wilderness. Everyone who becomes conscious of even a fraction of his unconscious gets outside his own time and social stratum into a kind of solitude, as our text remarks. But only there is it possible to meet the god of salvation. Light is manifest in the darkness, and out of danger the rescue comes. In his sermon on Luke 19: 12 Meister Eckhart says: And who can be nobler than the man who is born half of the highest and best the world has to offer, and half of the innermost ground of Gods nature and Gods Loneliness? Therefore the Lord speaks in the prophet Hosea: I will lead the noble souls into the wilderness, and speak into their hearts. One with the One, One from the One, and in the One itself the One, eternally!473
[259] I have gone into this Hippolytus text at some length because the Red Sea was of special significance to the alchemists. Sermo LXII of the Turba mentions the Tyrian dye, which is extracted from our most pure Red Sea. It is the parallel of the tinctura philosophorum, which is described as black and is extracted from the sea.474 The old treatise Rosinus ad Euthiciam says: And know that our Red Sea is more tincturing than all seas, and that the poison,475 when it is cooked and becomes foul and discoloured, penetrates all bodies.476 The tincture is the dip and the baptismal water of the alchemists, here asserted to come from the Red Sea. This idea is understandable in view of the patristic and Gnostic interpretation of the Red Sea as the blood of Christ in which we are baptized; hence the paralleling of the tincture, salt, and aqua pontica with blood.477
3.05 - The Conjunction, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
tyrannically upon you in the stillness and Loneliness of the night. The
images welling up from the unconscious do precisely that. What we
3.06 - UPON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
Loneliness can be the escape of the sick; Loneliness
can also be escape from the sick.
3.16 - THE SEVEN SEALS OR THE YES AND AMEN SONG, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
sang to himself to endure his ultimate Loneliness." In this
later context, the poem is entitled "Ariadne's Lament,"
33.07 - Alipore Jail, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The case dragged on for quite sometime, for several months in fact. And then, the trial once over, came a period of utter Loneliness. We could do nothing but await the results his state of dark night lasted nearly two months. I too had occasional fits of depression during this period. "Why, and what, and where, and which way?" These were questions at came up and clouded the mind. There was a sense of wariness. The one solace I found - it came towards the end - was in the company of Vivekananda. That was 1en his book, Colombo to Almora,came to my hands. What faith and confidence, what strength, what courage breathed through his words and his manner! All seemed to get cleared up, especially when I read aloud the Vedic and Upanishadic mantraslike,
vedaham etam purusam mahantam
3-5 Full Circle, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
Implicit in this abstraction hierarchy is the following exceedingly important fact: human beings are by definition unable to grasp abstraction levels higher than their own abstraction ceilings; unable to understand, often even to become aware of, and never to operate on levels of abstraction higher than their own abstraction ceilings. (Hence the Loneliness, frustration, impotence, and sometimes martyrdom of great and good men and women throughout human history.) These characteristic numbers and some of their consequences appear below in the Periodic Table of Human Cultures and in our mappings of the web-of-mind.8
By postulating three more cumulative "repetitions" of this process, we obtain human Periods 4, 5, and 6 with the correct number of Strata and Sub-strata in each Period; the correct kinds of tools, foods, social positions, and vocabulary levels in each Stratum; the correct kinds and amounts of control; and the correct kinds and amounts of socio-genetic mobility among the Strata Skipping Periods 4 and 5 for lack of space, we come to our own Period 6, Lower Industrialists.
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Implicit in this abstraction hierarchy is the following exceedingly important fact: human beings are by definition unable to grasp abstraction levels higher than their own abstraction ceilings; unable to understand, often even to become aware of, and never to operate on levels of abstraction higher than their own abstraction ceilings. (Hence the Loneliness, frustration, impotence, and sometimes martyrdom of great and good men and women throughout human history.) These characteristic numbers and some of their consequences appear below in the Periodic Table of Human Cultures and in our mappings of the web-of-mind.8
By postulating three more cumulative "repetitions" of this process, we obtain human Periods 4, 5, and 6 with the correct number of Strata and Sub-strata in each Period; the correct kinds of tools, foods, social positions, and vocabulary levels in each Stratum; the correct kinds and amounts of control; and the correct kinds and amounts of socio-genetic mobility among the Strata Skipping Periods 4 and 5 for lack of space, we come to our own Period 6, Lower Industrialists.
4.02 - Humanity in Progress, #Hymn of the Universe, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
feeblement, Loneliness, the sense that no further ho-
rizons lie ahead. .
4.03 - The Special Phenomenology of the Child Archetype, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
This Loneliness expresses the conflict between the bearer or
symbol of higher consciousness and his surroundings. The con-
4.08 - THE VOLUNTARY BEGGAR, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
comforted his Loneliness, behold, they were cows, standing together on a knoll; their proximity and smell had
warmed his heart. These cows, however, seemed to be
5.06 - THE TRANSFORMATION, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
[622] The reference to the mountains which encompass the Shulamite has a strange parallel in Parvati, whose name means mountain dweller and who was deemed the daughter of Himavat (Himalaya).226 Grieving over her blackness, for which her husb and Shiva reproached her, she left him and withdrew to the solitude of the forest. And in her Loneliness and seclusion the Shulamite exclaims:
What shall I say? I am alone among the hidden; nevertheless I rejoice in my heart, because I can live privily, and refresh myself in myself. But under my blackness I have hidden the fairest green.227
[623] The state of imperfect transformation, merely hoped for and waited for, does not seem to be one of torment only, but of positive, if hidden, happiness. It is the state of someone who, in his wanderings among the mazes of his psychic transformation, comes upon a secret happiness which reconciles him to his apparent Loneliness. In communing with himself he finds not deadly boredom and melancholy but an inner partner; more than that, a relationship that seems like the happiness of a secret love, or like a hidden springtime, when the green seed228 sprouts from the barren earth, holding out the promise of future harvests. It is the alchemical benedicta viriditas, the blessed greenness, signifying on the one hand the leprosy of the metals (verdigris), but on the other the secret immanence of the divine spirit of life in all things. O blessed greenness, which generatest all things! cries the author of the Rosarium.229 Did not the spirit of the Lord, writes Mylius, which is a fiery love, give to the waters when it was borne over them a certain fiery vigour, since nothing can be generated without heat? God breathed into created things . . . a certain germination or greenness, by which all things should multiply . . . They called all things green, for to be green means to grow . . . Therefore this virtue of generation and the preservation of things might be called the Soul of the World.230
[624] Green signifies hope and the future, and herein lies the reason for the Shulamites hidden joy, which otherwise would be difficult to justify. But in alchemy green also means perfection. Thus Arnaldus de Villanova says: Therefore Aristotle says in his book, Our gold, not the common gold, because the green which is in this substance signifies its total perfection, since by our magistery that green is quickly turned into truest gold.231 Hence the Shulamite continues:
5.1.01.8 - The Book of the Gods, #5.1.01 - Ilion, #unset, #Zen
Robbed of my Loneliness pure and coerced in my radiant freedom,
Now whose clearness and pride are the sovereign joy of thy creatures.
5.1.02 - Ahana, #Collected Poems, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Sole on the peaks of the world, unafraid of thy Loneliness. Glances
Leap from thee down to us, dream-seas and light-falls and magical trances;
6.08 - Intellectual Visions, #The Interior Castle or The Mansions, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
7. When our Lord chooses to withdraw His presence, the soul in its Loneliness makes every possible effort to induce Him to return. This avails but little, for this grace comes at His will and not by our endeavours. At times we may enjoy the company of some saint,143 which also brings us great profit. You will ask me, if we see no one, how can we know whether it is Christ, or His most glorious Mother or a saint? Such a person cannot answer this question or know how she distinguishes them, but the fact remains undoubted. It seems easy to recognize our Lord when He speaks, but it is surprising how the soul can, without hearing a word from him, recognize which saint has been sent by God to be its companion and helper.
8. There are other spiritual matters which cannot be explained. Our inability to grasp them should teach us how incapable is our nature of understanding the sublime mysteries of God. Those on whom these favours are bestowed should marvel at and praise Gods mercy for them. As these particular graces are not granted to everybody, any one who receives them should esteem them highly and strive to serve God more zealously, since He has given her such special aid. Therefore such a person does not rate herself more highly on this account, but rather thinks she serves Him less than any one else in the world; feeling herself to be under greater obligations to Him than others, any fault she commits pierces her to the heart, as indeed it ought under the circumstances.
6.0 - Conscious, Unconscious, and Individuation, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
remember the wings! over the dark abyss of inner Loneliness.
575 Earlier, I mentioned Bohme's lightning that "makes a cross,"
7.5.33 - Shiva, #Collected Poems, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
His mystic Loneliness of nude ecstasy.
But, touched by an immense delight to be,
7.5.59 - The Hill-top Temple, #Collected Poems, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
In a Loneliness of meditating air.
Wise were the human hands that set her there
Aeneid, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
all of your youth in dreary Loneliness,
and never know sweet children or the soft
--
support her Loneliness. Let me have hope
from you, let me go bolder toward all trials."
Prayers and Meditations by Baha u llah text, #Prayers and Meditations by Baha u llah, #unset, #Zen
Thou seest Thy dear One, O my God, lying at the mercy of Thine enemies, and hearest the voice of His lamentation from the midst of such of Thy creatures as have dealt wickedly in Thy sight. He it is, O my Lord, through Whose name Thou didst beautify Thy Tablets, and for Whose greater glory Thou didst send down the Bayán, and at Whose separation from Thee Thou didst weep continually. Look Thou, then, upon His Loneliness, O my God, and behold Him fallen into the hands of them that have disbelieved in Thy signs, have turned their backs upon Thee, and have forgotten the wonders of Thy mercy.
He it is, O my God, about Whom Thou hast said: "But for Thee the Scriptures would have remained unrevealed, and the Prophets unsent." And no sooner had He, by Thy behest, been manifested and spoken forth Thy praise, than the wicked doers among Thy creatures compassed Him round, with the swords of hate drawn against Him, O Thou the Lord of all names! Thou well knowest what befell Him at the hands of such as have rent asunder the veil of Thy grandeur, and cast behind their backs Thy Covenant and Thy Testament, O Thou Who art the Maker of the heavens! He is the One for Whose sake Thou (the Báb) hast yielded Thy life, and hast consented to be touched by the manifold ills of the world that He may manifest Himself, and summoned all mankind in His name. As soon as He came down, however, from the heaven of majesty and power, Thy servants stretched out against Him the hands of cruelty and sedition, and caused Him to be afflicted with such troubles that the scrolls of the world are insufficient to contain a full recital of them.
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Behold, then, O my God, my Loneliness among Thy servants and my remoteness from Thy friends and Thy chosen ones. I beseech Thee, by the showers of the clouds of Thy mercy, whereby Thou hast caused the blossoms of Thy praise and utterance and the flowers of Thy wisdom and testimony to spring forth in the hearts of all them that have recognized Thy oneness, to supply Thy servants and my kindred with the fruits of the tree of Thy unity, in these days when Thou hast been established upon the throne of Thy mercy. Hinder them not, O my Lord, from attaining unto the things Thou dost possess, and write down for them that which will aid them to scale the heights of Thy grace and favor. Give them, moreover, to drink of the living waters of Thy knowledge, and ordain for them the good of this world and of the world to come.
Thou art, verily, the Lord of Bahá, and the Beloved of his heart, and the Object of his desire, and the Inspirer of his tongue, and the Source of his soul. No God is there but Thee, the Inaccessible, the Most High. Thou art, verily, the Almighty, the Most Exalted, the Ever-Forgiving, the Most Merciful.
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How many the days, O my God, which I have spent in utter Loneliness with the transgressors amongst Thy servants, and how many the nights, O my Best-Beloved, during which I lay a captive in the hands of the wayward amidst Thy creatures! In the midst of my troubles and tribulations I have continued to celebrate Thy praise before all who are in Thy heaven and on Thy earth, and have not ceased to extol Thy wondrous glory in the kingdoms of Thy Revelation and of Thy creation, though all that I have been capable of showing forth hath fallen short of the greatness and the majesty of Thy oneness, and is unworthy of Thine exaltation and of Thine omnipotence.
I swear by Thy glory, O Thou Who art the one alone Beloved! I find myself to be only nothing before the habitation of Thy great glory. Every time I attempt to extol any one of Thy virtues, my heart restraineth me, for naught but Thee is able to soar into the atmosphere of the kingdom of Thy nearness, or reach up to the heaven of Thy presence.
The Act of Creation text, #The Act of Creation, #Arthur Koestler, #Psychology
orbits and our feet on our earth. It is Nature's fear of Loneliness, the earth's
longing for the moon; it is love in its pure, inorganic form.* {Twilight Bar, 1945.)
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symbols of mans Loneliness; the paintings in the Lascaux caves are
symbols of his magic powers.
The Book of Certitude - P2, #The Book of Certitude, #Baha u llah, #Baha i
Furthermore, call to mind the shameful circumstances that have attended the martyrdom of Husayn. Reflect upon his Loneliness, how, to outer seeming, none could be found to aid him, none to take up his body and bury it. And yet, behold how numerous, in this day, are those who from the uttermost corners of the earth don the garb of pilgrimage, seeking the site of his martyrdom, that there they may lay their heads upon the threshold of his shrine! Such is the ascendancy and power of God! Such is the glory of His dominion and majesty!
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The Immortal, #Labyrinths, #Jorge Luis Borges, #Poetry
Nor did any one of the shapes resemble any other - a fact that ruled out (or made quite remote) the possibility that they were symbols. The man would draw them, look at them, and correct them. Then suddenly, as though his game irritated him, he would rub them out with his palm and forearm. He looked up at me, though he seemed not to recognize me. Still, so great was the relief I felt (or so great, so dreadful had my Loneliness been) that I actually thought that this primitive Troglodyte looking up at me from the floor of a cave had been waiting for me. The sun warmed the plain; as we began our return to the village, under the first stars of evening, the sand burned our feet. The Troglodyte walked ahead of me; that night I resolved to teach him to recognize, perhaps even to repeat, a few words. Dogs and horses, I reflected, are able to do the first; many birds, like the Caesars' nightingale, can do the second.
However scant a man's understanding, it will always be greater than that of unreasoning beasts.
--- Overview of noun loneliness
The noun loneliness has 3 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (4) loneliness, solitariness ::: (the state of being alone in solitary isolation)
2. (1) forlornness, loneliness, desolation ::: (sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned)
3. aloneness, loneliness, lonesomeness, solitariness ::: (a disposition toward being alone)
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun loneliness
3 senses of loneliness
Sense 1
loneliness, solitariness
=> isolation
=> separation
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
forlornness, loneliness, desolation
=> sadness, unhappiness
=> feeling
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
aloneness, loneliness, lonesomeness, solitariness
=> disposition, temperament
=> nature
=> trait
=> attribute
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
--- Hyponyms of noun loneliness
1 of 3 senses of loneliness
Sense 3
aloneness, loneliness, lonesomeness, solitariness
=> friendlessness
=> reclusiveness
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun loneliness
3 senses of loneliness
Sense 1
loneliness, solitariness
=> isolation
Sense 2
forlornness, loneliness, desolation
=> sadness, unhappiness
Sense 3
aloneness, loneliness, lonesomeness, solitariness
=> disposition, temperament
--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun loneliness
3 senses of loneliness
Sense 1
loneliness, solitariness
-> isolation
=> solitude
=> solitude, purdah
=> loneliness, solitariness
=> quarantine
=> insulation, insularity, insularism, detachment
=> alienation, estrangement
=> anomie, anomy
=> privacy, privateness, secrecy, concealment
Sense 2
forlornness, loneliness, desolation
-> sadness, unhappiness
=> dolefulness
=> heaviness
=> melancholy
=> misery
=> forlornness, loneliness, desolation
=> weepiness, tearfulness
=> sorrow
=> sorrow, regret, rue, ruefulness
=> cheerlessness, uncheerfulness
=> depression
=> downheartedness, dejectedness, low-spiritedness, lowness, dispiritedness
Sense 3
aloneness, loneliness, lonesomeness, solitariness
-> disposition, temperament
=> aloneness, loneliness, lonesomeness, solitariness
=> animalism, physicality
=> bloodiness, bloodthirstiness
=> heart, spirit
=> nervousness
=> esprit de corps, morale, team spirit
=> moodiness
=> blood
=> perfectionism
=> permissiveness, tolerance
=> unpermissiveness, restrictiveness
=> good nature
=> agreeableness, agreeability
=> ill nature
=> disagreeableness
=> willingness
=> unwillingness, involuntariness
=> friendliness
=> unsociability, unsociableness
=> unfriendliness
=> composure, calm, calmness, equanimity
=> discomposure
=> optimism
=> pessimism
=> epicurism
=> gourmandism
--- Grep of noun loneliness
loneliness
Wikipedia - 4 Seasons of Loneliness -- 1997 single by Boyz II Men
Wikipedia - Games of Love and Loneliness -- 1977 film
Wikipedia - Loneliness Can Kill -- Hong Kong television programme, first broadcast in 2020
Wikipedia - Loneliness (song) -- 2002 single by Tomcraft
Wikipedia - Loneliness -- Complex and usually unpleasant emotional response to isolation
Wikipedia - Modern Loneliness -- 2020 single by Lauv
Wikipedia - The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
Wikipedia - The Sudden Loneliness of Konrad Steiner -- 1976 film
Wikipedia - The Well of Loneliness -- 1928 novel by Radclyffe Hall
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200 Cigarettes(1999) - A collection of twentysomethings try to cope with relationships, loneliness, desire and their individual neuroses.
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner(1962) - An angry young man(Tom Courtenay)runs cross country,on his own terms,at a British reform school.
In a Better World (2010) ::: 7.6/10 -- Hvnen (original title) -- In a Better World Poster -- The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait. Director: Susanne Bier Writers:
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) ::: 7.5/10 -- R | 2h 3min | Drama, Horror | 11 November 1994 (USA) -- A vampire tells his epic life story: love, betrayal, loneliness, and hunger. Director: Neil Jordan Writers: Anne Rice (screenplay), Anne Rice (novel)
Paperhouse (1988) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 32min | Drama, Fantasy | 17 February 1989 (USA) -- A young girl lost in the loneliness and boredom of reality finds solace in an ill boy, whom she can visit in a surreal dream world that she drew in her school composition book. Director: Bernard Rose Writers: Catherine Storr (novel), Matthew Jacobs (screenplay) Stars:
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) ::: 7.3/10 -- R | 1h 35min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 1 November 2002 (USA) -- A frustrated Barry Egan calls a phone-sex line to curb his loneliness. Little does he know that he will land in huge trouble and will also jeopardise his relationship with Lena. Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Writer:
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) ::: 7.6/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 44min | Drama, Sport | 8 October 1962 (USA) -- A juvenile offender (Sir Tom Courtenay) at a tough reform school impresses its Governor (Sir Michael Redgrave) with his running ability and is encouraged to compete in an upcoming race, but faces ridicule from his peers. Director: Tony Richardson Writers:
The Long Voyage Home (1940) ::: 7.0/10 -- Approved | 1h 45min | Drama, War | 22 November 1940 (USA) -- A merchant ship's crew tries to survive the loneliness of the sea and the coming of war. Director: John Ford Writers: Eugene O'Neill (based on: four Sea Plays by), Dudley Nichols (adapted for the screen by) Stars:
The Yellow Handkerchief (2008) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 42min | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 19 November 2009 -- The Yellow Handkerchief Poster -- A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness. Director: Udayan Prasad Writers:
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3-gatsu no Lion -- -- Shaft -- 22 eps -- Manga -- Drama Game Seinen Slice of Life -- 3-gatsu no Lion 3-gatsu no Lion -- Having reached professional status in middle school, Rei Kiriyama is one of the few elite in the world of shogi. Due to this, he faces an enormous amount of pressure, both from the shogi community and his adoptive family. Seeking independence from his tense home life, he moves into an apartment in Tokyo. As a 17-year-old living on his own, Rei tends to take poor care of himself, and his reclusive personality ostracizes him from his peers in school and at the shogi hall. -- -- However, not long after his arrival in Tokyo, Rei meets Akari, Hinata, and Momo Kawamoto, a trio of sisters living with their grandfather who owns a traditional wagashi shop. Akari, the oldest of the three girls, is determined to combat Rei's loneliness and poorly sustained lifestyle with motherly hospitality. The Kawamoto sisters, coping with past tragedies, also share with Rei a unique familial bond that he has lacked for most of his life. As he struggles to maintain himself physically and mentally through his shogi career, Rei must learn how to interact with others and understand his own complex emotions. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- 492,391 8.42
Clover -- -- Madhouse -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Drama Fantasy Music Sci-Fi Shoujo -- Clover Clover -- Suu is a Four Leaf Clover. Her power is unrivaled, yet all she has known her whole life is loneliness. One day, a man named Kazuhiko appears and accompanies Suu for her first and last journey, to the place where she can find happiness. -- Music - Aug 21, 1999 -- 11,742 6.81
Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou Specials -- -- Sunrise -- 6 eps -- Web manga -- Comedy School Shounen Slice of Life -- Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou Specials Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou Specials -- The original gag comedy manga follows the humorous yet "realistic" everyday life of Tadakuni, Hidenori, Yoshitake, and other students at a boys' high school. -- -- This entry refers to the unaired episodes released on the DVDs and BDs. The pre-air specials were all included in the TV series and are not listed separately on MAL. -- -- Episode 1: High School Boys and Ideals -- Episode 2: High School Boys and Loneliness -- Episode 3: High School Boys and Zippers -- Episode 4: High School Boys and Tricks -- Episode 5: High School Boys and Hiccups -- Episode 6: High School Boys and Consideration -- Special - Apr 3, 2012 -- 108,243 7.85
Kara no Kyoukai 4: Garan no Dou -- -- ufotable -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Action Mystery Supernatural Thriller -- Kara no Kyoukai 4: Garan no Dou Kara no Kyoukai 4: Garan no Dou -- Following the events of Satsujin Kousatsu (Zen), Shiki Ryougi has been in a coma for two years due to a traffic accident. When she finally awakens, she has no memories of her past and is plagued by a profound loneliness. Even stranger, she notices dark lines encompassing the things around her, and if she touches them she can disassemble the object—something which completely terrifies her. Her friend, Mikiya Kokutou, enlists the help of Touko Aozaki, a mage who can help Shiki understand what her eyes—the "Mystic Eyes of Death Perception"—are truly capable of and how to use them properly. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- Movie - May 24, 2008 -- 175,302 7.89
Kara no Kyoukai 4: Garan no Dou -- -- ufotable -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Action Mystery Supernatural Thriller -- Kara no Kyoukai 4: Garan no Dou Kara no Kyoukai 4: Garan no Dou -- Following the events of Satsujin Kousatsu (Zen), Shiki Ryougi has been in a coma for two years due to a traffic accident. When she finally awakens, she has no memories of her past and is plagued by a profound loneliness. Even stranger, she notices dark lines encompassing the things around her, and if she touches them she can disassemble the object—something which completely terrifies her. Her friend, Mikiya Kokutou, enlists the help of Touko Aozaki, a mage who can help Shiki understand what her eyes—the "Mystic Eyes of Death Perception"—are truly capable of and how to use them properly. -- -- Movie - May 24, 2008 -- 175,302 7.89
Kuzu no Honkai -- -- Lerche -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Drama Romance School Seinen -- Kuzu no Honkai Kuzu no Honkai -- To the outside world, Hanabi Yasuraoka and Mugi Awaya are the perfect couple. But in reality, they just share the same secret pain: they are both in love with other people they cannot be with. -- -- Hanabi has loved her childhood friend and neighbor Narumi Kanai for as long as she can remember, so she is elated to discover that he is her new homeroom teacher. However, Narumi is soon noticed by the music teacher, Akane Minagawa, and a relationship begins to blossom between them, much to Hanabi's dismay. -- -- Mugi was tutored by Akane in middle school, and has been in love with her since then. Through a chance meeting in the hallway, he encounters Hanabi. As these two lonely souls spend more time together, they decide to use each other as a substitute for the one they truly love, sharing physical intimacy with one another in order to stave off their loneliness. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 494,783 7.28
Mahoutsukai no Yome: Hoshi Matsu Hito -- -- Wit Studio -- 3 eps -- Manga -- Slice of Life Magic Fantasy Shounen -- Mahoutsukai no Yome: Hoshi Matsu Hito Mahoutsukai no Yome: Hoshi Matsu Hito -- After many hardships in her life, Chise Hatori ended up at an auction, where she was purchased and then freed by the renowned Thorn Sorcerer, Elias Ainsworth, only to stay and become his apprentice. Though her life is wonderful now, the arrival of a picture book, "The Lonely Little Star," brings back memories of those trying times and the loneliness she endured. -- -- As a child, Chise experienced a great tragedy: her mother's death. Shunned and unwanted by peers and relatives alike, she has lived a detached and pitiful life. However, the unexpected discovery of a mysterious library in the forest provides her with a temporary place of solace. Through reading countless books and spending time with the kindhearted librarian, Chise slowly begins to feel less alone in the world. But could this peculiar library have a darker side? -- -- -- Licensor: -- Crunchyroll -- OVA - Sep 10, 2016 -- 225,972 8.13
Mahoutsukai no Yome: Hoshi Matsu Hito -- -- Wit Studio -- 3 eps -- Manga -- Slice of Life Magic Fantasy Shounen -- Mahoutsukai no Yome: Hoshi Matsu Hito Mahoutsukai no Yome: Hoshi Matsu Hito -- After many hardships in her life, Chise Hatori ended up at an auction, where she was purchased and then freed by the renowned Thorn Sorcerer, Elias Ainsworth, only to stay and become his apprentice. Though her life is wonderful now, the arrival of a picture book, "The Lonely Little Star," brings back memories of those trying times and the loneliness she endured. -- -- As a child, Chise experienced a great tragedy: her mother's death. Shunned and unwanted by peers and relatives alike, she has lived a detached and pitiful life. However, the unexpected discovery of a mysterious library in the forest provides her with a temporary place of solace. Through reading countless books and spending time with the kindhearted librarian, Chise slowly begins to feel less alone in the world. But could this peculiar library have a darker side? -- -- OVA - Sep 10, 2016 -- 225,972 8.13
Miyori no Mori -- -- Nippon Animation -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Slice of Life Fantasy Drama -- Miyori no Mori Miyori no Mori -- After being deserted by her parents, 11-year-old Miyori shuts her heart from the rest of the world and denies any form of human relationships. She was entrusted in the care of her grandmother who lives near a forest. Miyori will take a walk in the forest where she felt a strong sense of loneliness in the forest which seems to have nothing. However, she soon encounters unbelievable things and gradually realizes that the forest is more than what it seems... -- -- (Source: ANN) -- Special - Aug 25, 2007 -- 10,723 6.92
Norn9: Norn+Nonet -- -- Kinema Citrus -- 12 eps -- Visual novel -- Sci-Fi Adventure Romance Fantasy Josei -- Norn9: Norn+Nonet Norn9: Norn+Nonet -- In a futuristic era, "The World" is a peace-bringing entity. Though no one knows its location, it has watched over Earth for so long that war has become merely a fable. The airship Norn's task is to deliver nine ability users to The World. -- -- After collecting the last person, Norn takes off. Included onboard are eight men and three women—Koharu, who has finally escaped her loneliness and detests her destructive power; Mikoto Kuga, born to a noble family, who uses her barrier skill to protect the Norn and those it carries; and Nanami Shiranui, whose ability only brings pain, and who wishes to die for a past sin she has committed. While en route, suspicions arise amongst the passengers when they realize there are too many people onboard. -- -- As they try to determine who has snuck aboard, the ship is attacked by an unknown assailant aiming to stop the Norn's progress at all costs. From this chaos arises questions: why were they granted powers, and what must they do once they reach The World? -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 73,650 6.56
Sayonara no Asa ni Yakusoku no Hana wo Kazarou -- -- P.A. Works -- 1 ep -- Original -- Drama Fantasy -- Sayonara no Asa ni Yakusoku no Hana wo Kazarou Sayonara no Asa ni Yakusoku no Hana wo Kazarou -- Maquia is a member of a special race called the Iorph—mystical beings who can live for hundreds of years and remain separate from the lives and daily troubles of mankind. However, Maquia has always felt lonely despite being surrounded by her people, as she was orphaned from a young age. She daydreams about the outside world, but dares not travel from her home due to the warnings of the clan's chief. -- -- One day however, the outside world finds her, as the power-hungry kingdom of Mezarte invades her homeland. They already have what is left of the giant dragons, the Renato, under their control, and now their king wishes to add the immortality of the Iorph to his bloodline. -- -- The humans and their Renato ravage the Iorph homeland and kill most of its inhabitants. Caught in the midst of the attack, Maquia is carried off by one of the Renato that has gone berserk. It soon dies, and she is left deserted in a forest far from home, now truly alone save for the cries of a single baby off in the distance. Maquia finds the baby in a destroyed village and decides to raise him as her own, naming him Ariel. Although she knows nothing of the human world, how to raise a child that ages much faster than her, or how to live with the smoldering loneliness inside, she is determined to make it all work somehow. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Eleven Arts, Shout! Factory -- Movie - Feb 24, 2018 -- 264,866 8.44
Sayonara no Asa ni Yakusoku no Hana wo Kazarou -- -- P.A. Works -- 1 ep -- Original -- Drama Fantasy -- Sayonara no Asa ni Yakusoku no Hana wo Kazarou Sayonara no Asa ni Yakusoku no Hana wo Kazarou -- Maquia is a member of a special race called the Iorph—mystical beings who can live for hundreds of years and remain separate from the lives and daily troubles of mankind. However, Maquia has always felt lonely despite being surrounded by her people, as she was orphaned from a young age. She daydreams about the outside world, but dares not travel from her home due to the warnings of the clan's chief. -- -- One day however, the outside world finds her, as the power-hungry kingdom of Mezarte invades her homeland. They already have what is left of the giant dragons, the Renato, under their control, and now their king wishes to add the immortality of the Iorph to his bloodline. -- -- The humans and their Renato ravage the Iorph homeland and kill most of its inhabitants. Caught in the midst of the attack, Maquia is carried off by one of the Renato that has gone berserk. It soon dies, and she is left deserted in a forest far from home, now truly alone save for the cries of a single baby off in the distance. Maquia finds the baby in a destroyed village and decides to raise him as her own, naming him Ariel. Although she knows nothing of the human world, how to raise a child that ages much faster than her, or how to live with the smoldering loneliness inside, she is determined to make it all work somehow. -- -- Movie - Feb 24, 2018 -- 264,866 8.44
Shelter -- -- A-1 Pictures -- 1 ep -- Music -- Sci-Fi Music -- Shelter Shelter -- Day 2539: Rin wakes up alone again with blurred memories and still no contact from any other human. She's not bored, however, because in her arms lies a tablet capable of creating any world her heart desires. Day after day, Rin crafts a wonderful reality—one utopia at a time—to shelter her from loneliness, hoping to one day reveal the truth behind her very existence. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Crunchyroll -- Music - Oct 18, 2016 -- 274,088 8.33
Shiroi Suna no Aquatope -- -- P.A. Works -- ? eps -- Original -- Slice of Life -- Shiroi Suna no Aquatope Shiroi Suna no Aquatope -- Kukuru Misakino, an 18-year-old high school girl working in an aquarium, meets Fuuka Miyazawa, a former idol who lost her place in Tokyo and escaped. Fuuka will spend her days in the aquarium with her own thoughts in mind. However, the crisis of closing is approaching for the aquarium, as the girls explore their dreams and reality, loneliness and friends, bonds and conflicts. -- -- (Source: MAL News) -- TV - Jul ??, 2021 -- 9,908 N/A -- -- Green Green Specials -- -- - -- 3 eps -- - -- Comedy Ecchi Romance Slice of Life -- Green Green Specials Green Green Specials -- These are DVD specials, which include some extra footage and music videos; -- Character DVD #1 - Midori & Reika -- Character DVD #1 - Midori Music Video -- Character DVD #1 - Reika Music Video -- Character DVD #2 - Futaba & Chigusa -- Character DVD #2 - Futaba Music Video -- Character DVD #2 - Chigusa Music Video -- Character DVD #3 - Sanae & Wakaba -- Character DVD #3 - Sanae Music Video -- Character DVD #3 - Wakaba Music Video -- OVA - Nov 19, 2003 -- 9,897 6.22
Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasu ka? Isogashii Desu ka? Sukutte Moratte Ii Desu ka? -- -- C2C, Satelight -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Sci-Fi Drama Romance Fantasy -- Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasu ka? Isogashii Desu ka? Sukutte Moratte Ii Desu ka? Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasu ka? Isogashii Desu ka? Sukutte Moratte Ii Desu ka? -- Putting his life on the line, Willem Kmetsch leaves his loved ones behind and sets out to battle a mysterious monster, and even though he is victorious, he is rendered frozen in ice. It is during his icy slumber that terrifying creatures known as "Beasts" emerge on the Earth's surface and threaten humanity's existence. Willem awakens 500 years later, only to find himself the sole survivor of his race as mankind is wiped out. -- -- Together with the other surviving races, Willem takes refuge on the floating islands in the sky, living in fear of the Beasts below. He lives a life of loneliness and only does odd jobs to get by. One day, he is tasked with being a weapon storehouse caretaker. Thinking nothing of it, Willem accepts, but he soon realizes that these weapons are actually a group of young Leprechauns. Though they bear every resemblance to humans, they have no regard for their own lives, identifying themselves as mere weapons of war. Among them is Chtholly Nota Seniorious, who is more than willing to sacrifice herself if it means defeating the Beasts and ensuring peace. -- -- Willem becomes something of a father figure for the young Leprechauns, watching over them fondly and supporting them in any way he can. He, who once fought so bravely on the frontlines, can now only hope that the ones being sent to battle return safely from the monsters that destroyed his kind. -- -- 288,264 7.71
Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasu ka? Isogashii Desu ka? Sukutte Moratte Ii Desu ka? -- -- C2C, Satelight -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Sci-Fi Drama Romance Fantasy -- Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasu ka? Isogashii Desu ka? Sukutte Moratte Ii Desu ka? Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasu ka? Isogashii Desu ka? Sukutte Moratte Ii Desu ka? -- Putting his life on the line, Willem Kmetsch leaves his loved ones behind and sets out to battle a mysterious monster, and even though he is victorious, he is rendered frozen in ice. It is during his icy slumber that terrifying creatures known as "Beasts" emerge on the Earth's surface and threaten humanity's existence. Willem awakens 500 years later, only to find himself the sole survivor of his race as mankind is wiped out. -- -- Together with the other surviving races, Willem takes refuge on the floating islands in the sky, living in fear of the Beasts below. He lives a life of loneliness and only does odd jobs to get by. One day, he is tasked with being a weapon storehouse caretaker. Thinking nothing of it, Willem accepts, but he soon realizes that these weapons are actually a group of young Leprechauns. Though they bear every resemblance to humans, they have no regard for their own lives, identifying themselves as mere weapons of war. Among them is Chtholly Nota Seniorious, who is more than willing to sacrifice herself if it means defeating the Beasts and ensuring peace. -- -- Willem becomes something of a father figure for the young Leprechauns, watching over them fondly and supporting them in any way he can. He, who once fought so bravely on the frontlines, can now only hope that the ones being sent to battle return safely from the monsters that destroyed his kind. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 286,923 7.71
Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasu ka? Isogashii Desu ka? Sukutte Moratte Ii Desu ka? -- -- C2C, Satelight -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Sci-Fi Drama Romance Fantasy -- Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasu ka? Isogashii Desu ka? Sukutte Moratte Ii Desu ka? Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasu ka? Isogashii Desu ka? Sukutte Moratte Ii Desu ka? -- Putting his life on the line, Willem Kmetsch leaves his loved ones behind and sets out to battle a mysterious monster, and even though he is victorious, he is rendered frozen in ice. It is during his icy slumber that terrifying creatures known as "Beasts" emerge on the Earth's surface and threaten humanity's existence. Willem awakens 500 years later, only to find himself the sole survivor of his race as mankind is wiped out. -- -- Together with the other surviving races, Willem takes refuge on the floating islands in the sky, living in fear of the Beasts below. He lives a life of loneliness and only does odd jobs to get by. One day, he is tasked with being a weapon storehouse caretaker. Thinking nothing of it, Willem accepts, but he soon realizes that these weapons are actually a group of young Leprechauns. Though they bear every resemblance to humans, they have no regard for their own lives, identifying themselves as mere weapons of war. Among them is Chtholly Nota Seniorious, who is more than willing to sacrifice herself if it means defeating the Beasts and ensuring peace. -- -- Willem becomes something of a father figure for the young Leprechauns, watching over them fondly and supporting them in any way he can. He, who once fought so bravely on the frontlines, can now only hope that the ones being sent to battle return safely from the monsters that destroyed his kind. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 288,264 7.71
Sola -- -- Nomad -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Drama Romance Slice of Life Supernatural -- Sola Sola -- Yorito Morimiya is obsessed with the sky. He especially loves taking pictures of its array of different faces—sunrises, sunsets, clouds. On one of his early-morning excursions to photograph the sunrise, Yorito meets a strange girl engaged in an argument with a vending machine. By the time that Yorito forces the girl's tomato juice out of the machine, she's vanished without a trace. -- -- Sola follows the story of Yorito, his sister Aono, and their childhood friends Mana and Koyori Ishizuki, as well as that of a mysterious girl who appears and disappears, and who seems to harbor a dark secret. In a world where magic and the supernatural are never far below the surface and no one is who they seem to be, love and loneliness vie for supremacy beneath Yorito's sky. -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment -- TV - Apr 7, 2007 -- 91,526 7.21
Sola -- -- Nomad -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Drama Romance Slice of Life Supernatural -- Sola Sola -- Yorito Morimiya is obsessed with the sky. He especially loves taking pictures of its array of different faces—sunrises, sunsets, clouds. On one of his early-morning excursions to photograph the sunrise, Yorito meets a strange girl engaged in an argument with a vending machine. By the time that Yorito forces the girl's tomato juice out of the machine, she's vanished without a trace. -- -- Sola follows the story of Yorito, his sister Aono, and their childhood friends Mana and Koyori Ishizuki, as well as that of a mysterious girl who appears and disappears, and who seems to harbor a dark secret. In a world where magic and the supernatural are never far below the surface and no one is who they seem to be, love and loneliness vie for supremacy beneath Yorito's sky. -- TV - Apr 7, 2007 -- 91,526 7.21
Teizokurei Daydream -- -- Hal Film Maker -- 4 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Horror Supernatural Drama Ecchi -- Teizokurei Daydream Teizokurei Daydream -- Saiki Misaki has been able to see ghosts since she was a kid. Now, working at an S&M club, her spare time goes to sending the spirits off to the other world by having to make them realize they're dead and have to leave. This would supposedly be a little bit easier if you didnt have a background of hardship and loneliness... and a perverted employer. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Geneon Entertainment USA -- OVA - Jun 25, 2004 -- 8,704 6.19
Teizokurei Daydream -- -- Hal Film Maker -- 4 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Horror Supernatural Drama Ecchi -- Teizokurei Daydream Teizokurei Daydream -- Saiki Misaki has been able to see ghosts since she was a kid. Now, working at an S&M club, her spare time goes to sending the spirits off to the other world by having to make them realize they're dead and have to leave. This would supposedly be a little bit easier if you didnt have a background of hardship and loneliness... and a perverted employer. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- OVA - Jun 25, 2004 -- 8,704 6.19
Visual Prison -- -- A-1 Pictures -- ? eps -- Original -- Music Supernatural Vampire -- Visual Prison Visual Prison -- Ange Yuki—a boy who wrestles with deep-seated loneliness and can't fit in. With nobody to call family, he leaves his hometown. Longing to see an artist he admires perform, he heads for Harajuku, where he encounters a live battle between visual kei units ECLIPSE and LOS † EDEN. Overwhelmed by the energetic performance, he is suddenly struck by an intense pain... -- -- (Source: MAL News) -- TV - Oct ??, 2021 -- 1,528 N/A -- -- Zoku Gosenzo San'e -- -- - -- 4 eps -- Original -- Hentai Vampire -- Zoku Gosenzo San'e Zoku Gosenzo San'e -- A direct sequel, continuing about nine months after the first season ends. -- OVA - Oct 25, 2000 -- 1,430 5.50
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