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Quotes about Loneliness

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526 Written Quotes

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. Votes: 6

Mother Teresa

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Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people. Votes: 4

Joan Collins

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Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self. Votes: 4

May Sarton

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Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone. Votes: 4

Paul Tillich

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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. Votes: 4

Dag Hammarskjold

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Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. Votes: 4

Henry Rollins

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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. Votes: 4

Maya Angelou

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Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Votes: 4

Janet Fitch

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Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. Votes: 4

Germaine Greer

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Loneliness is failed solitude. Votes: 3

Sherry Turkle

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Loneliness feels like prison. Votes: 3

Naz?m Hikmet

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Loneliness cannot be shared. Votes: 3

Randall Dale Adams

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Loneliness comes with life. Votes: 3

Whitney Houston

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Loneliness remembers what happiness forgets Votes: 3

Hal David

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Loneliness is the ultimate poverty. Votes: 3

Pauline Phillips

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Loneliness is the ultimate poverty. Votes: 3

Abigail Van Buren

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Loneliness is a terrible blindness. Votes: 3

Christina Stead

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Loneliness is a strange gift. Votes: 3

E. B. White

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Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not. Votes: 3

Anna Neagle

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Loneliness is random; solitude is ritual. Votes: 3

Pearl Cleage

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Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry. Votes: 3

Jack Spicer

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Loneliness is one thing, solitude another. Votes: 3

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Loneliness is a long unbearable pain, Votes: 3

Dennis Nilsen

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Loneliness is the teacher of giving. Votes: 3

Hyemeyohsts Storm

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Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you. Votes: 3

Johnny Cash

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Loneliness is a failure to appreciate others. Votes: 3

Marty Rubin

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Loneliness is a required course for leadership. Votes: 3

Elisabeth Elliot

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Loneliness is a mirror, and recognizes itself. Votes: 3

Jodi Picoult

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Loneliness is more painful than being hurt Votes: 3

Eiichiro Oda

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Loneliness is a darkness of the soul Votes: 3

N. K. Jemisin

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Loneliness is an aspect of the land. Votes: 3

N. Scott Momaday

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Loneliness is a hell of a drug. Votes: 3

Jeremy Robert Johnson

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Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin. Votes: 3

Ian Fleming

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Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment. Votes: 3

Richard J. Foster

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Loneliness is lessened when you're lonely by choice. Votes: 3

George Jones

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Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation. Votes: 3

Mo Yan

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Loneliness surrounds me without your arms around me. Votes: 3

Tammy Wynette

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Loneliness is something you can't walk away from. Votes: 3

William Feather

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Loneliness has been following me my whole life. Votes: 3

Robert De Niro

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Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be. Votes: 3

Alan Alda

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Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world. Votes: 3

Mother Teresa

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Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there. Votes: 3

Joss Whedon

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Loneliness is the most compelling force in the universe. Votes: 3

Cass McCombs

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The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy Votes: 3

Richard Bach

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Loneliness is equal to the radius of one's awareness. Votes: 3

Yoko Ono

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Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you. Votes: 3

Haruki Murakami

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Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings. Votes: 3

Bram Stoker

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Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh] Votes: 3

Irving Stone

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Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all. Votes: 3

Nicole Krauss

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Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables. Votes: 3

Sigmund Freud

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Loneliness is not a fault but a condition of existence. Votes: 3

Ivan Albright

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Loneliness doesn't have much to do with where you are. Votes: 3

Hugh Hefner

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Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound. Votes: 3

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Loneliness is not being alone, It's loving others to no avail. Votes: 3

John Berendt

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Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact. Votes: 3

Martha Beck

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Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self. Votes: 3

May Sarton

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Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude. Votes: 3

Paul Tillich

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Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose. Votes: 3

Guillermo Maldonado

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Loneliness Is Not The Absence Of Affection, But The Absence Of Direction. Votes: 3

Mike Murdock

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Loneliness is a very special place, Silently silently you touch my face Votes: 3

Dennis Wilson

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Loneliness is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings. Votes: 3

Paulo Coelho

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Loneliness can make you feel that you have a kingdom in darkness. Votes: 3

MRK ONTIM

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Loneliness opens the door for wisdom and wisdom opens all the doors! Votes: 3

Mehmet Murat ildan

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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself. Votes: 3

Hermann Hesse

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Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self. Votes: 3

Carl Rogers

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Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. Votes: 3

Thomas Wolfe

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Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone. Votes: 3

Bob Dylan

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Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Votes: 3

Pearl Cleage

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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality. Votes: 3

Anthony de Mello

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Spells of acute loneliness are an essential part of travel. Loneliness makes things happen. Votes: 3

Jonathan Raban

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Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality. Votes: 3

Mignon McLaughlin

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Loneliness is the theme, and I play it like a symphony, in endless variations. Votes: 3

Jonathan Tropper

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If you don't Understand the color of Darkness and Loneliness Then you must be Blind Votes: 3

Yaganesh Derasari

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Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not. Votes: 3

Andrew Stanton

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Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty. Votes: 3

Mother Teresa

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Loneliness Got a mind of its own The more people around The more you feel alone Votes: 3

Bob Dylan

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People who can't be alone have a problem. Loneliness is a luxury for people like me. Votes: 3

Karl Lagerfeld

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Loneliness is more likely to lead to fussy housekeeping than to grand views of the Universe. Votes: 3

Mason Cooley

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SO the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, "Loneliness is the ultimate poverty" Votes: 3

Abigail Van Buren

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Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat. Votes: 3

Joyce Carol Oates

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Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self. Votes: 3

Maxwell Maltz

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Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life. Votes: 3

Paulo Coelho

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Loneliness in a crowd of people was the worst kind of loneliness, but she couldn't help it. Votes: 3

Lauren Kate

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Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone. Votes: 3

Bruce Lee

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Loneliness in travel directs you and tells you about yourself. You don't become lonely unless you're alone. Votes: 3

Paul Theroux

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Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness. Votes: 3

Vladimir Nabokov

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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits. Votes: 3

Jorge Luis Borges

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Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in theuniverse, except that everyone else is still here. Votes: 3

Simon Van Booy

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Loneliness was tough, the toughest role you ever played. Hollywood created a superstar, and pain was the price you paid. Votes: 3

Elton John

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Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery. Votes: 3

Marilynne Robinson

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Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds. Votes: 3

John Powell

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Loneliness is dangerous ... because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self. Votes: 3

Joyce Carol Oates

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Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone. Votes: 3

Gao Xingjian

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Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well. Votes: 3

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Loneliness is a good education. You learn the things no crowds can teach and you discover the things no crowds can give. Votes: 3

Mehmet Murat ildan

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To break the silence the old man said the first thing that came to his mind: "Loneliness is a type of violence. Votes: 3

Jonathan Messinger

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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. Votes: 3

Dave Eggers

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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. Votes: 3

Whitney Houston

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Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book. Votes: 3

Eva Ibbotson

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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. Votes: 3

Soseki Natsume

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The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness. Votes: 2

Henry A. Kissinger

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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? Votes: 2

George Eliot

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. Votes: 2

Lawrence Durrell

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There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. Votes: 2

Maggie Smith

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To live alone is the fate of all great souls. Votes: 2

Arthur Schopenhauer

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All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. Votes: 2

Jean de la Bruyere

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I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. Votes: 2

Henry David Thoreau

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The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up. Votes: 2

Christopher Hitchens

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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. Votes: 2

Wayne Dyer

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters. Votes: 2

Friedrich Nietzsche

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We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. Votes: 2

Albert Schweitzer

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. Votes: 2

Woody Allen

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I think I'd like to be able to heal people's pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever. Votes: 2

Brandi Chastain

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Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony. Votes: 2

Douglas Coupland

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Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness. Votes: 2

Indra Devi

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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. Votes: 2

Dalai Lama

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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. Votes: 2

Edward Gibbon

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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. Votes: 2

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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. Votes: 2

Dag Hammarskjold

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Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they're big, flashing signs that something needs to change. Votes: 2

Gretchen Rubin

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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. Votes: 2

Orson Welles

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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. Votes: 2

Paul Tillich

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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. Votes: 2

Joshua Ferris

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Feelings such as loneliness, longing or love are sometimes hard to put into words; maybe that's why we all love music, because it resonates with something we can't share. Votes: 2

Agnes Obel

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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. Votes: 2

Anne Hathaway

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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. Votes: 2

Kurt Vonnegut

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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. Votes: 2

Joseph Conrad

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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. Votes: 2

Bertrand Russell

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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) Votes: 2

Sherman Alexie

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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. Votes: 2

Lorraine Hansberry

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Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It 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. Votes: 2

Paul Tillich

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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. Votes: 2

Benjamin Britten

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The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality. Votes: 2

Shimon Peres

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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. Votes: 2

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Because of my childhood where I was constantly by myself, I always feel lonely. I have a lot of people that I absolutely love and I know love me but I can't get rid of that feeling of loneliness no matter who I'm with - even with my children. Votes: 2

Natalia Vodianova

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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. Votes: 2

Sam Harris

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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. Votes: 2

Franz Kafka

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Some days, 24 hours is too much to stay put in, so I take the day hour by hour, moment by moment. I break the task, the challenge, the fear into small, bite-size pieces. I can handle a piece of fear, depression, anger, pain, sadness, loneliness, illness. I actually put my hands up to my face, one next to each eye, like blinders on a horse. Votes: 2

Regina Brett

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Words are loneliness. Votes: 0

Henry Miller

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Curiosity makes loneliness. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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Leave my loneliness unbroken Votes: 0

Edgar Allan Poe

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Fame doesn't end loneliness. Votes: 0

Claire Danes

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loneliness has its own needs! Votes: 0

Eric Jerome Dickey

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The arctic loneliness of age. Votes: 0

Silas Weir Mitchell

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Every loneliness is a pinnacle Votes: 0

Ayn Rand

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Labor in loneliness is irksome. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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My loneliness tasted like pennies. Votes: 0

Janet Fitch

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Fundamentally, diaries are about loneliness. Votes: 0

Kenneth Williams

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Hate engenders loneliness and despair Votes: 0

Jocelyn Murray

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Self-hatred is worse than loneliness. Votes: 0

John Irving

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Children are no antidote to loneliness. Votes: 0

Erica Jong

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Sometimes loneliness makes the loudest noise. Votes: 0

Aaron Ben-Ze'ev

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Technology grows and so does loneliness. Votes: 0

Lucero Isaac

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Writing is an antidote for loneliness. Votes: 0

Steven Berkoff

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Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness. Votes: 0

John Irving

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This loneliness won't leave me alone. Votes: 0

Otis Redding

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Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool. Votes: 0

Liv Ullmann

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Online communities are an expression of loneliness. Votes: 0

Joanne Harris

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Love and loneliness, they are both coincidences. Votes: 0

M.F. Moonzajer

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I hate loneliness, but it loves me. Votes: 0

Tite Kubo

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Theres a difference between solitude and loneliness Votes: 0

Maggie Smith

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Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness Votes: 0

Kate Atkinson

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Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness. Votes: 0

Franz Grillparzer

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The worst thing baldness causes is loneliness. Votes: 0

Gail Porter

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Novelty is a new kind of loneliness. Votes: 0

Wendell Berry

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The surest sign of age is loneliness. Votes: 0

Annie Dillard

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...loneliness is not a function of solitude. Votes: 0

David Foster Wallace

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I've come home in love with loneliness Votes: 0

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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People living alone get used to loneliness. Votes: 0

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Tranquility, allied to loneliness, possessed no charms. Votes: 0

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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They are sharing a drink called loneliness. Votes: 0

Billy Joel

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Death is loneliness in its purest form ... Votes: 0

Katherine Anne Porter

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The sound of loneliness makes me happier. Votes: 0

Conor Oberst

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The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. Votes: 0

Tom Wolfe

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The loneliness is the mother of wisdom. Votes: 0

Laurence Sterne

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My loneliness ain't killing me no more. Votes: 0

Britney Spears

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Each way means loneliness -- and communion. Votes: 0

T. S. Eliot

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The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness. Votes: 0

Adrienne Rich

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The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness. Votes: 0

William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

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The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness. Votes: 0

William Slim

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Oh, loneliness and cheeseburgers are a dangerous mix. Votes: 0

Matt Groening

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â¦nothing remained but loneliness and griefâ¦ Votes: 0

Louisa May Alcott

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My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness. Votes: 0

Enrique Iglesias

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Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness. Votes: 0

Bill W.

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Just the absence of loneliness. That's love enough. Votes: 0

John Rechy

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When does the loneliness of old age begin? Votes: 0

Janusz Korczak

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If you fear loneliness, then don't get married. Votes: 0

Anton Chekhov

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Thirsty for attention is a cry of loneliness. Votes: 0

Toba Beta

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You are the architect of your own loneliness. Votes: 0

Adam Shankman

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The point of books is to combat loneliness. Votes: 0

David Foster Wallace

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One should have the courage of one's loneliness. Votes: 0

Ngaio Marsh

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Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Votes: 0

Max Ehrmann

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The purpose of fiction is to combat loneliness. Votes: 0

Josh Radnor

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There is a terrible loneliness in the spring ... Votes: 0

Ellen Glasgow

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Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another. Votes: 0

May Sarton

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Man's loneliness is but his fear of life. Votes: 0

Eugene O'Neill

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Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness. Votes: 0

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache. Votes: 0

Sidney Sheldon

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My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness. Votes: 0

Anthony Swofford

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I think cruelty is just loneliness disguised as bitterness. Votes: 0

Tom Hiddleston

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I diagnosed my loneliness as premature empty nest syndrome. Votes: 0

Kristen Schaal

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Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed. Votes: 0

Thomas Harris

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Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness. Votes: 0

Henry Rollins

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Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days. Votes: 0

Edward Hoagland

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Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Votes: 0

Hunter S. Thompson

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Twilight whippoorwill... Whistle on, sweet deepener Of dark loneliness Votes: 0

Matsuo Basho

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The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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It is necessary to like loneliness to be photographer Votes: 0

Raymond Depardon

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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. Votes: 0

Anton Chekhov

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if you are afraid of loneliness, don't get married Votes: 0

August Strindberg

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No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness. Votes: 0

Georges Bernanos

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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. Votes: 0

John Steinbeck

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to comfort any mortal against loneliness, one other is enough. Votes: 0

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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I have always photographed loneliness because that is my life. Votes: 0

Bob Richardson

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A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life. Votes: 0

R.K. Narayan

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Being human is the most terrible loneliness in the universe. Votes: 0

A.A. Attanasio

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The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure. Votes: 0

Richard Ford

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One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness. Votes: 0

Edward Dahlberg

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Since I love you, my loneliness begins to throw you. Votes: 0

Jean Giraudoux

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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love. Votes: 0

Samuel Beckett

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I would have to say loneliness is next to uncleanliness. Votes: 0

Janeane Garofalo

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A world without pain, loss, betrayal, hate, death, loneliness? Impossible! Votes: 0

Darren Shan

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Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away. Votes: 0

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another. Votes: 0

Aimee Carter

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Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness. Votes: 0

B. W. Powe

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Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair. Votes: 0

bell hooks

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There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage. Votes: 0

Alexander Theroux

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I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness. Votes: 0

Tom Cochrane

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The most evident quality of human life is its loneliness. Votes: 0

Austin O'Malley

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Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? Votes: 0

Haruki Murakami

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Define loneliness? Yes. It's what we can't do for each other. Votes: 0

Claudia Rankine

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Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life. Votes: 0

Jerzy Kosinski

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When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned. Votes: 0

Leonard Cohen

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The devil-ache of loneliness seldom deserts the bones of the angry. Votes: 0

Lucy Freeman

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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone. Votes: 0

Charles Bukowski

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Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper. Votes: 0

Tom Clancy

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Sometimes I dread loneliness more than bores. Other times, the reverse. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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These are frightening times...when she feels herself annointed by loneliness. Votes: 0

Carol Shields

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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear. Votes: 0

Carson McCullers

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Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis. Votes: 0

William Arthur Ward

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You left , and my heart is a ceaseless sermon of loneliness. Votes: 0

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

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I have a life that's just been a well of loneliness. Votes: 0

Jessica Lange

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The loneliness of a one night stand is hard to take. Votes: 0

Stevie Nicks

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At any moment solitude may put on the face of loneliness. Votes: 0

May Sarton

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I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work. Votes: 0

Orhan Pamuk

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Of all the diseases I have known, loneliness is the worst. Votes: 0

Mother Teresa

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In short, [photography] is a matter of turning loneliness into thoughts. Votes: 0

Shomei Tomatsu

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Stretch a hand to one unfriended And thy loneliness is ended. Votes: 0

William Arthur Dunkerley

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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage. Votes: 0

Erica Jong

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I have a very childlike rage, and a very childlike loneliness. Votes: 0

Richey Edwards

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When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness. Votes: 0

Mitch Albom

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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness. Votes: 0

Dallas Willard

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Many Christians suffer from loneliness because they are sitting instead of serving. Votes: 0

Croft M. Pentz

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Oh, whoever has been himself alone can never find another's loneliness strange. Votes: 0

Robert Walser

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I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented. Votes: 0

Sarah Dessen

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Time brought along its secretary, memory, and space brought its brat, loneliness. Votes: 0

Tom Robbins

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Usually there's no specific reason for loneliness - it's a broad feeling. Votes: 0

Cass McCombs

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Lonely? Give it to Jesus. The loneliness itself is material for sacrifice. Votes: 0

Elisabeth Elliot

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Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth. Votes: 0

Alan Ladd

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Love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness. Votes: 0

Nadeem Aslam

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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry... Votes: 0

Erica Jong

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After all who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness Votes: 0

Nicole Krauss

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loneliness gives you opportunity to look the beauty of out of window Votes: 0

Arya vidhan

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I think the most common cause of insomnia is simple; its loneliness. Votes: 0

Heath Ledger

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The fear inside of loneliness: That only what others have is real. Votes: 0

Liv Ullmann

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Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found. Votes: 0

Claire Danes

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Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay. Votes: 0

William Styron

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Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth Votes: 0

Alan Ladd

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Python carries his loneliness in him as if he had eaten clay. Votes: 0

Barbara Chase-Riboud

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Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart. Votes: 0

Sam Rayburn

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The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness. Votes: 0

David Foster Wallace

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We want to know that we're not alone with our loneliness or loss. Votes: 0

Michael Helm

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Memories and loneliness look backward, fear looks around, but faith always looks forward. Votes: 0

E. Lynn Harris

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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else. Votes: 0

Lillian Hellman

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Physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance. Votes: 0

Robert M. Pirsig

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Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness. Votes: 0

Poppy Z. Brite

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The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself. Votes: 0

Neal A. Maxwell

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The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. Votes: 0

Norman Cousins

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Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness. Votes: 0

Pedro Almodovar

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I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness. Votes: 0

Wilbur Smith

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The irony of loneliness is that everybody shares it from time to time. Votes: 0

Lil B

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A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness. Votes: 0

Francois Mauriac

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The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all. Votes: 0

Beryl Markham

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We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness. Votes: 0

Andy Rooney

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I better be honest about my feelings, even those involving loneliness, jealousy, and fear. Votes: 0

Andy Cohen

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But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness. Votes: 0

Megan Whalen Turner

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I've decided that the worst part of loneliness isn't being alone. It's being forgotten. Votes: 0

Tawni O'Dell

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she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty Votes: 0

Charles Bukowski

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To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions. Votes: 0

Jonathan Lethem

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Being alone was easier. No risk, just loneliness. No one ever died from that. Votes: 0

Marjorie M. Liu

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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. Votes: 0

Dag Hammarskjold

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The loneliness of another can be shocking when it lays itself bare without warning. Votes: 0

Dennis Lehane

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You build walls to fortify your heart,and blame on others for your loneliness. Votes: 0

Toba Beta

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Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness. Votes: 0

Amy Lowell

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i suppose doing things you hate is the price you pay to avoid loneliness. Votes: 0

Mark Corrigan

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I, however, cannot force myself to use "meat drugs" to cheat on my loneliness. Votes: 0

Franz Kafka

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We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness... Votes: 0

C. S. Lewis

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When traversing the vast sea of loneliness, Oneness is the only true safe harbor. Votes: 0

Gary Hopkins

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When loneliness comes stalking, go into the fields, consider the orderliness of the world. Votes: 0

Mary Oliver

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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. Votes: 0

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime... Votes: 0

John Green

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My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues. Votes: 0

Khalil Gibran

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She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well. Votes: 0

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different. Votes: 0

Gretchen Rubin

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When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude. Votes: 0

Alfred Polgar

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The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all. Votes: 0

Deb Caletti

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Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Votes: 0

David Foster Wallace

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He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world. Votes: 0

Richard Preston

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....you can overcome sadness, loneliness, even terrible loss. But guilt goes with you the grave. Votes: 0

Jodee Blanco

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People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this world's worst kind of pain. Votes: 0

Masashi Kishimoto

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I think she ate a salad and some soup. And loneliness. She ate that, too. Votes: 0

Markus Zusak

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We can never leave loneliness behind completely - it is part of what forms us. Votes: 0

Thomas L. Dumm

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Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets. Votes: 0

Peter S. Beagle

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. Votes: 0

Cyril Connolly

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Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room. Votes: 0

Douglas Coupland

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Celebrate your humanness, celebrate your craziness, celebrate your inadequacies, celebrate your loneliness ... but celebrate YOU! Votes: 0

Leo Buscaglia

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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole. Votes: 0

Vicki Baum

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My loneliness turned itself inside out and I grew myself a kind of perverse pride. Votes: 0

Phyllis Gotlieb

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Even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough. Votes: 0

Theodore Sturgeon

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The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself. Votes: 0

Mary Balogh

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One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with. Votes: 0

Phyllis Rose

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Everything is freedom and everything is loneliness. Make your choice and let the rest fall away. Votes: 0

Ariel Gore

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...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing. Votes: 0

Emma Donoghue

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..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask. Votes: 0

RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa

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loneliness is a twilight moment by feelings, longing after something or someone you can not reach Votes: 0

Istvan Molnar

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Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature. Votes: 0

Rachel Hartman

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Mandarin ducks mate for life and will die of loneliness if separated from their chosen mate. Votes: 0

Katherine Paterson

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The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers. Votes: 0

Richard Powers

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Sometimes, the loneliness probably got to be too much and anyone seemed better than no one. Votes: 0

Gena Showalter

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Poverty and loneliness could be seen as a liberation from strivings to become rich and popular. Votes: 0

Donald Richie

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Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward. Votes: 0

Helen Rowland

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When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness. Votes: 0

Brian Swimme

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People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition. Votes: 0

Jean Vanier

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It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs. Votes: 0

Eric Hoffer

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What wants to live in you may be waiting...at the end of a long loneliness. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Lesser

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It seems to be that loneliness is a small price to pay for peace and quiet. Votes: 0

Bart Yates

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In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community. Votes: 0

Dorothy Day

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The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! Votes: 0

Edith Wharton

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She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship. Votes: 0

David Levithan

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Life is loneliness, broken only by the gods taunting us with friendship and the odd bonk Votes: 0

Christopher Moore

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Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing. Votes: 0

Fred Rogers

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Smell remembers and tells the future. ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers. Votes: 0

Cherrie Moraga

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Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness. Votes: 0

Martha Gellhorn

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Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness. Votes: 0

John D. Voelker

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The traits of our sexual culture are still speechlessness, loneliness, violence and not enough desire and love. Votes: 0

Volkmar Sigusch

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...and my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me. Votes: 0

Tabitha Suzuma

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There is a strain of loneliness infecting many Christians, which only the presence of God can cure. Votes: 0

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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Shyness is a condition foreign to the heart -- a category, a dimension which leads to loneliness. Votes: 0

Pablo Neruda

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Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated. Votes: 0

David Foster Wallace

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...the pain of the constant, bone-chilling loneliness she'd accustomed herself to. And learned to live with it. Votes: 0

Christina Dodd

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Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity. Votes: 0

Mignon McLaughlin

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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of crowds, especially to those who are unaccustomed to them. Votes: 0

H. Rider Haggard

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Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldnât even begin to solve. Votes: 0

Kate Atkinson

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... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. Votes: 0

Bertrand Russell

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Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Votes: 0

Gregory David Roberts

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The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community. Votes: 0

Dorothy Day

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No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness. Votes: 0

Robert Breault

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I'm supposed to be, I am an artist. Yes, I'm lonely. But I'm married to my loneliness. Votes: 0

Lady Gaga

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When the fire of love is quenched, hatred creeps in through the window of neglect and loneliness. Votes: 0

izuakor ikechukwu

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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen. Votes: 0

Carson McCullers

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At the simplicity of the gesture, he felt a pang: the raw nerve of his loneliness exposed. Votes: 0

Maile Meloy

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Every time I stepped into madness of the crowds, I longed for the wisdom of the loneliness. Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness. Votes: 0

Theophile Gautier

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Once in a while, people enter our lives and lessen the loneliness of being away from Home. Votes: 0

Yasmin Mogahed

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Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness. Votes: 0

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Gilbert

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I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does. Votes: 0

Henry Rollins

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I think Id like to be able to heal peoples pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever. Votes: 0

Brandi Chastain

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For too many women pregnancy is just the start of loneliness and abuse. It is a cruel reality. Votes: 0

Fay Ripley

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In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that. Votes: 0

Bertrand Russell

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Do we have any food that wasn't brutally slaughtered?" Homer: "Well, I think the veal died of loneliness. Votes: 0

Matt Groening

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Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art. Votes: 0

Robert Redford

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Marriage. Don't be pressured into it. Is the fear of loneliness really greater than the fear of bondage? Votes: 0

Sumiko Tan

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How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him. Votes: 0

Mignon McLaughlin

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This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul. Votes: 0

Waylon Jennings

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One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person. Votes: 0

Jamaica Kincaid

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Don't let loneliness drive you back into the arms of someone who doesn't give a damn about you. Votes: 0

Megan Fox

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We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock. Votes: 0

Leonard Cohen

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I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog. Votes: 0

William Shatner

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You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one. Votes: 0

Theodore Sturgeon

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The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth. Votes: 0

Jim Lovell

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You got your glory and you paid for it all, you take your pension in loneliness and alcohol. Votes: 0

Billy Squier

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An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. Votes: 0

Henry Miller

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Don't be afraid of loneliness, because everything is a door; even loneliness is a door, it opens to somewhere! Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them. Votes: 0

Brock Clarke

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There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while. Votes: 0

Tom Hanks

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I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did. Votes: 0

John Green

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All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess... Votes: 0

Kate DiCamillo

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Maybe the biggest problem with loneliness is that we walk around thinking we're the only ones suffering from it. Votes: 0

Jeanne Marie Laskas

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The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone. Votes: 0

Ashley Montagu

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The Seasons Difference is a suave and urbane comedy about several immense abstractions - faith, innocence, loneliness, and love. Votes: 0

Orville Prescott

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What you notice is the loneliness. Daniel started to isolate himself, because it hurt less than being pushed away. Votes: 0

Jodi Picoult

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Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness. Votes: 0

Naomi Campbell

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Touch is... one of the most ancient transactions, a defiance of the plasma membrane and the loneliness it brought. Votes: 0

Natalie

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We have to live with our loneliness and the destiny that drives each person to the order of things. Votes: 0

Cecile de France

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The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness. Votes: 0

Erich Fromm

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While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow. Votes: 0

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness. Votes: 0

Stephen King

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Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism. Votes: 0

Rainer Maria Rilke

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At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self. Votes: 0

Brendan Behan

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For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear... Votes: 0

Vincent Van Gogh

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I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life. Votes: 0

Ernest Hemingway

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Green makes me think of silence, or maybe it's loneliness. I get the feeling of a terribly distant star. Votes: 0

Kobo Abe

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I am never lonely when I am reading the Bible. Nothing dissolves loneliness like a session with God's Word. Votes: 0

Billy Graham

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We are not alone in our loneliness, others have been here and known griefs we thought our special own... Votes: 0

Patrick Kavanagh

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Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions. Votes: 0

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone. Votes: 0

Mandy Hale

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Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness. Votes: 0

Criss Jami

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the sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time. Votes: 0

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger. Votes: 0

Mother Teresa

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You will never feel alone, if you run down the stairs of loneliness; as every solitary step becomes your companion. Votes: 0

Munia Khan

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The very fine line between loneliness and solitude, reflection; being alone, always appealed to me when I was a kid. Votes: 0

Brad Mehldau

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. Votes: 0

Eric Hoffer

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I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust. Votes: 0

Patti Smith

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love all the people you can. The sufferings from love are not to be compared to the sorrows of loneliness. Votes: 0

Susan Hale

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It is better to be alone than to become a person that loses his soul to the fear of loneliness. Votes: 0

Shannon L. Alder

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The problem with the loneliness I suffer is that the company of others has never been a cure for it. Votes: 0

Joseph Heller

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Times may have changed, but there are some things that are always with us - loneliness is one of them. Votes: 0

Laurie Graham

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We are called to love even in the loneliness, worship even in the tears and follow even in the darkness. Votes: 0

Pete Wilson

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What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit Votes: 0

Chief Seattle

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The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness. Votes: 0

Henryk Sienkiewicz

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No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love. Votes: 0

Arthur Schnitzler

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When you jump onto the emptiness of the loneliness, the best parachute to land you safely will be the books! Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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I would argue that it might be easier to endure loneliness than to endure the idea that you might disappear. Votes: 0

Susan Orlean

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I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets. Votes: 0

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else. Votes: 0

Mehmet Oz

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You can use your time to build bridges or walls.The latter is not only unChristlike, it limits impact & creates loneliness. Votes: 0

Rick Warren

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You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools... Votes: 0

Claude McKay

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I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death. Votes: 0

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small. Votes: 0

Gordon Parks

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The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others. Votes: 0

Cesare Pavese

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She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime. Votes: 0

Lorrie Moore

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One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world. Votes: 0

Emile M. Cioran

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The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared. Votes: 0

Lois Lowry

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When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. Votes: 0

Ingrid Newkirk

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I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul. Votes: 0

Thomas Merton

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One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well. Votes: 0

Karl Kraus

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Please, God. Help me. Take this pain away. Please fill this loneliness with your love. Help me, God, please, help me. Votes: 0

David

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The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, "I shall be unhappy without loneliness," shows that he made loneliness his master. Votes: 0

Matsuo Basho

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The best of community does give one a deep sense of belonging and well-being; and in that sense community takes away loneliness. Votes: 0

Henri Nouwen

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The song is languid and speaks of love and loneliness and loss. Why does love seem to go with the sad things? Votes: 0

Lisa Ann Sandell

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It was very relaxing to be away from civilization, and this bothered me. I should not have found the loneliness so welcoming. Votes: 0

Stephenie Meyer

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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account. Votes: 0

Alice Walker

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Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it. Votes: 0

Robin Hobb

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Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair. Votes: 0

Leo Buscaglia

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There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact. Votes: 0

Marie-Louise von Franz

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If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness. Votes: 0

Sharon Salzberg

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A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory. Votes: 0

Pablo Neruda

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The soul hardly ever realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God. Votes: 0

Hubert Van Zeller

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What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself's the beginning of all love. Votes: 0

Fritz Leiber

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Being single isn't the cause of loneliness, and marriage is not necessarily the cure. There are many lonely married people as well. Votes: 0

Renee Jones

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Whenever I'm around people it causes me to feel nostalgic for the loneliness that drove me into their presence in the first place. Votes: 0

Dov Davidoff

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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. Votes: 0

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Instead of hiding your loneliness, bring it into the light. Honor it. Treat it. Heal it. You'll find that it returns the favor. Votes: 0

Martha Beck

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Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort. Votes: 0

Anne Rice

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I inhale loneliness like it is the sweet smell of virgin earth conquered by fiery rain drops. Within me, I'm a thousand others. Votes: 0

Faraaz Kazi

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We're afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever... Instead, acting it out is what makes it last. Votes: 0

Pema Chodron

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But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back. There is no bruise like the bruise loneliness kicks into your spine. Votes: 0

Andrea Gibson

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Aloneness is a state of being, whereas loneliness is a state of feeling. It's like the difference between being broke and being poor. Votes: 0

Townes Van Zandt

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Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible. Votes: 0

Andrea Dworkin

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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. Votes: 0

Marina Keegan

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If you are not capable of being alone, your relationship is false. It is just a trick to avoid your loneliness, nothing else. Votes: 0

Rajneesh

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for many people, loneliness was an experience of time. 'Not knowing what to do with yourself' was the way it was usually put. Votes: 0

Louise Bernikow

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You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves. Votes: 0

Darren Shan

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People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in. Votes: 0

Margaret Cho

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I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and sadness. Votes: 0

Cornel West

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No matter how lonely it makes me, and no matter how wide and horrific the loneliness, at least I remember who I am. Votes: 0

Lauren DeStefano

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She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected. Votes: 0

Ayn Rand

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We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community. Votes: 0

Dorothy Day

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What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit. Votes: 0

Chief Seattle

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Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Gilbert

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The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea. Votes: 0

Khalil Gibran

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Any business or enterprise that shaves away loneliness is going to last forever. And like it or not but we've got a lonely society. Votes: 0

Anita Roddick

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...I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away. Votes: 0

Octavia Butler

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What was the point in such loneliness among people. At least if you were by yourself, you had a good reason to be lonely. Votes: 0

Janet Fitch

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There is a crisis that is not political - an epidemic of loneliness, of sadness - and we're completely unequal to dealing with it. Votes: 0

Richard Flanagan

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There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness. Votes: 0

Michael Jackson

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We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence. Votes: 0

Emile M. Cioran

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But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness. Votes: 0

Dean Koontz

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there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock Votes: 0

Charles Bukowski

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It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today. Votes: 0

Elisabeth Shue

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You are alone,So alone,You speak back to silence.People call it loneliness,You call it solitude,Different words,Meaning the same pain. Votes: 0

Jenim Dibie

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Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone. Votes: 0

Wendell Berry

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I felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of the living Votes: 0

John Fante

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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. Votes: 0

John J. Geddes

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I am learning to see loneliness as a seed that, when planted deep enough, can grow into writing that goes back out into the world. Votes: 0

Kathleen Norris

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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. Votes: 0

Pico Iyer

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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. Votes: 0

Alessandro Baricco

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Maybe true love isn't out there for me, but I can sublimate my loneliness with the notion that true love is out there for someone. Votes: 0

Roxane Gay

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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. Votes: 0

Gregory Maguire

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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. Votes: 0

Dag Hammarskjold

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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. Votes: 0

Lisa Kleypas

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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. Votes: 0

Banana Yoshimoto

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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'. Votes: 0

Hāfez

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Photography is a very lonely medium. Thereâs a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And thatâs why Iâm a photographer.

Alec Soth

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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...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

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we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness.

Bill McKibben

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Anfering sex for money is not a profession that glorifies women; it is a profession born of desperation, poverty, alieatioin, and loneliness.

Ann Rule

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I never really understood the word âlonelinessâ. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature.

Bjork

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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

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It is hard going to the door cut so small in the wall where the vision which echoes loneliness brings a scent of wild flowers in the wood.

Robert Creeley

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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

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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

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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

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Loneliness comes suddenly like waves and recedes just as fast. That continues on forever. Itâs the same for you. Itâs the same for everyone.

Chica Umino

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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

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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

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The best antidote for loneliness, hopelessness, and fear is vulnerability: sharing your secrets and talking about what shames you, what you fear.

Jewel

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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

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Oh! death will find me, long before I tire Of watching for you; and swing me suddenly Into the shade and loneliness and mire Of the last land!

Rupert Brooke

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me.

Anita Brookner

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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

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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

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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

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Greedï¼has no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome.

Erich Fromm

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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

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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

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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

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God hates loneliness, and community is God's answer to loneliness. When we walk alongside other people, we find a community where we learn how to love.

Rick Warren

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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 Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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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

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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

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But, visiting Sea, your love doth press / And reach in further than you know, / And fills all these; and, when you go, / There's loneliness in loneliness.

Alice Meynell

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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

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It is said that life is too short, and that's quite true, unless you are lonely. Loneliness can bring time to its knees; an absolute and utter standstill.

Jonathan Hull

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For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieveâlike the soulâs version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.

Laini Taylor

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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

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Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.

Richard Bach

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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

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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

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I was born on a tiny cot in southwestern Massachusetts during World War II. A sickly child, I turned to photography to overcome my loneliness and isolation.

William Wegman

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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

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She had always maintained a cynical facade, using it as a defence against embarrassment, fear, lonelinessâ¦ but at the moment she felt unusually vulnerable.

Lisa Kleypas

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Sometimes you can be lucky enough to establish a working relationship with another artist who takes away the loneliness, particularly in travel and outdoor work.

Robert Genn

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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

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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

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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

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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

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The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her.

Francis Thompson

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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

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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

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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

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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

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How dear to the mind of the sage are the thoughts that are bred in loneliness; for there is as it were music at his heart, and he talketh within him as with friends.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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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

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...she had come long ago to understand that loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a little above the level of ordinary humanity.

Louis Bromfield

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Bare heights of loneliness...a wilderness whose burning winds sweep over glowing sands, what are they to HIM? Even there He can refresh us, even there He can renew us.

Amy Carmichael

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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

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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

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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

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Goodbye, you who are, for me, the postmarks again of shattered towns--Xenia, Burnt Cabins, Hornell-- their loneliness given away in poems, only their solitude kept.

Galway Kinnell

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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

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You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was the way out of loneliness.

Carrie Brownstein

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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

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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

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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

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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

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What is it that we call loneliness. It can't simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely, and you can be among people and yet be lonely. So what is it?

Pascal Mercier

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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

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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

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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

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...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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.

Maya Angelou

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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

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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

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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

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I've never been without a dog. I've made trips across the country with a dog. I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.

William Shatner

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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

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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

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Suicide is a crime of loneliness, and adulated people can be frighteningly alone. Intelligence does not help in these circumstances; brilliance is almost always profoundly isolating.

Andrew Solomon

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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

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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

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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

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The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of God creating from a primal loneliness.

Garry Wills

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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

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Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.

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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

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

Mother Teresa

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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I am no good without you, Ginesse,â he said. âI 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

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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

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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

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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

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There's a romance to danger. There's a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of those things can be used to make the STORY of our lives better.

Joey Comeau

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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

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It is not good for man to be alone. Hitherto all things [in Genesis] that have been named, were approved of God to be very good: loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.

John Milton

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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

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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

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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

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I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness.

Jim Harrison

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse. Art doesn't work without pain; art also exists for compensating pain.

Till Lindemann

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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. Iâm my own company.

Audrey Hepburn

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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

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

Jennifer Lee

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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.. 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

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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

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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

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My greatest affliction... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a very ponderous shadow too heavy to drag after me all of my days and nights.

Tennessee Williams

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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 Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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When so much is left to the listener's imagination, it is bound to be more scary. But our stories are not just to frighten; they are engaged with the things that are really scary like loneliness and madness.

Larry Fessenden

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I had created a happy world of make-believe around me during the long years of loneliness, a world of beauty and love. It had helped me to survive, this lovely world that was to be mine when the war was over.

Gerda Weissmann Klein

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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

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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

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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

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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

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So often loneliness comes from being out of touch with parts of oneself. We go searching for those parts in other people, but there's a difference between feeling separate from others and separate from oneself.

Diane Ackerman

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It'd be preposterous for me to propose a universal cure to loneliness but I will say that people who do the things they find interesting, either creatively or vocationally, tend to become unlonely very quickly.

Douglas Coupland

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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

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If you want to find the trail, if you want to find yourself, you must explore your dreams alone. You must grow at a slow pace in a dark cocoon of loneliness so you can fly like wind, like wings, when you awaken.

Francesca Lia Block

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The larger loneliness of our lives evolves from our unwillingness to spend ourselves, stir ourselves. We are always damping down our inner weather, permitting ourselves the comforts of postponement, of rehearsals

Carol Shields

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Let us remember with humility the loneliness of being man in a universe we do not understand and the vulnerability of the human condition. The animals could do very well without us, but we cannot do without them.

Gerald Carson

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The price for living the life I have -- for any serious, devoted person, is that at times one must live alone, or feel alone. I think loneliness is associated in many people's minds when they think about success.

Helen Frankenthaler

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When I think about popular culture, I can't help but think that we're living in the age of loneliness. There's this illusion that we all have instant access to each other, but we actually have no real connection.

Madonna Ciccone

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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

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I hold my face in my two hands. No, I am not crying. I hold my face in my two hands to keep the loneliness warm - two hands protecting, two hands nourishing, two hands preventing my soul from leaving me in anger.

Nhat Hanh

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When I'm writing, I like to travel alone. If you really want to find out about a place, you need to be as free as possible to be spontaneous. You also need to be lonely, because loneliness is a great teacher, too.

Paul Theroux

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Desire, loneliness, wind in the flowering almondâ surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjects to which my predecessors apprenticed themselves. I hear them echo in my own heart, disguised as convention.

Louise GluÌck

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I had dropped one form and not taken on the other, and was become like Mohammed's coffin in our legend, with a resultant feeling of intense loneliness in life, and a contempt, not for other men, but for all they do.

T. E. Lawrence

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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

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And so he did his endless work,' I continued quietly, 'without feeling, without pity, without rest, for to open his heart to these would be to open his heart to his loneliness and longing and that was beyond bearing.

Martine Leavitt

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

Mother Teresa

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At that moment i felt lonelier than i'd ever felt before, and that loneliness seemed to squat in my lungs and crush all but my most minimal breathing. There was nothing left to say. Not about this. Not about anything.

Mitch Albom

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I didn't really get the chance to talk to girls. I was a straight boy with hormones kicking in, and I wanted to talk to girls, but they weren't interested in talking back to me, so there was a real sense of loneliness.

Andy Biersack

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I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all what do they want, a crowd looking over their typewriters? Or those who talk about having to stare at a blank page do they want someone to write on it?

Wilfrid

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The lack of human voices really gets to me. I never realized that we need to talk with other people just to know that we exist. That we matter. Loneliness is a howling, empty cavern inside of me that just keeps growing.

Cheryl Rainfield

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I had to fight hard against loneliness, abuse, and the knowledge that any mistakes I made would be magnified because I was the only black man out there... I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

Jackie Robinson

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In every seed to breathe a flower, In every drop of dew To reverence a cloister star Within the distant blue; To wait the promise of the how, Despite the cloud between, Is Faith-the fervid evidence Of loneliness unseen.

John B. Tabb

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It might be better - more comfortable - to have a dog and two cats. All the love is focused on the cats and the dog. Am I right or wrong here? Have you seen it? At the end of this marriage, comes old age and loneliness.

Pope Francis

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If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.

Chief Seattle

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The joy of the gospel fills the hearts and lives of all who encounter Jesus. Those who accept His offer of salvation are set free from sin, sorrow, inner emptiness, and loneliness. With Christ joy is constantly born anew.

Pope Francis

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Writing can be a lonely business. But gradually your characters, or the scenes and peopl from your past, begin to rise up around you, and you find yourself writing your way out of loneliness, writing into your own company.

Barbara Abercrombie

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All right, that was my moment with loneliness. I'm not afraid of feeling lonely, but now I'm going to put that loneliness aside and know that there are other emotions in the world, and I'm going to experience them as well.

Morrie Schwartz

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Of those that are drawn away, each is drawn elsewhere toward another: once more a man and a woman, in a loneliness they are not liable at that time to notice, are tightened together upon a bed: and another family has begun.

James Agee

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Please make me empty, if I'm empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I'm not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.

Leonard Cohen

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Jesus Christ lives, knows us, watches over us, and cares for us. In moments of pain, loneliness, or confusion, we do not need to see Jesus Christ to know that He is aware of our circumstances and that His mission is to bless.

Henry B. Eyring

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The economic dependence of woman and her apparently indestructible illusion that marriage will release her from loneliness and work and worry are potent factors in immunizing her from common sense in dealing with men at work.

Mary Barnett Gilson

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I get inspired by so many things every single day. Things I see every day, conversations, arguments, day to day occurrences, good days, bad days, loneliness, happiness, anger, anxiety, pressure, relationships......EVERYTHING.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

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This is how the world changes - little by little, table by table, meal by meal, hour by hour. This is how we chip away at isolation, loneliness, fear. This is how we connect, in big and small ways - we do it around the table.

Shauna Niequist

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I also have the impression that many women have been able, instinctively, to sniff out this loneliness of mine, which I confided to no one, and this in later years was to become one of the causes of my being taken advantage of.

Osamu Dazai

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There is in certain living souls a quality of loneliness unspeakable, so great it must be shared as company is shared by lesser beings. Such a loneliness is mine; so know by this that in immensity there is one lonelier than you.

Theodore Sturgeon

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I understand everything," he said. "You understand nothing, but it really doesn't matter, since what you mean is, you're glad to see me, just as I'm glad to see you because no more loneliness." "That's what I mean," said Fezzik.

William Goldman

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Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release, From little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear The sound of wings.

Amelia Earhart

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There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity. All young people should be taught now to put up with loneliness ... because the less man is compelled to come into contact with others, the better off he is.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolationof loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of thingsthe thought of God comes into one's mind.

Vincent Van Gogh

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

R.J. Ellory

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Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.

Adrienne Rich

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I was trundling around with my inadequacies, and inner pain and loneliness. I yearned, desperately, to be something. I yearned to get out from where I was ... some deep discontent within myself, actually some deep dislike of myself.

Anthony Hopkins

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I think there is a weird loneliness that comes with being a comedian. There is something definitely inside the personality of a person who wants to be a comedian, and (he or she) is looking to connect (to the audience) at all times.

Chris Gethard

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Often, feelings of sadness, uneasiness, and loneliness are vague and unattached to specific events. This makes it more challenging to find ways to turn you mood around. When you find yourself in a funk, focus on what you're feeling.

G. Alan Marlatt

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Now I know what loneliness is, I think. Momentary loneliness, anyway. It comes from a vague core of the self - - like a disease of the blood, dispersed throughout the body so that one cannot locate the matrix, the spot of contagion.

Sylvia Plath

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that pathetic short-cut suggested by Nature the supreme joker as a remedy for our loneliness, that ephemeral communion which we persuade ourselves to be of the spirit when it is in fact only of the body - durable not even in memory!

Vita Sackville-West

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I HIDE myself within my flower That wearing on your breast, You, unsuspecting, wear me tooâ 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

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Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. But this is truest of the face of an infant. I consider that to be one kind of vision, as mystical as any.

Marilynne Robinson

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Sitting up all night would be pointless if somebody you loved wasn't sitting up with you, picking out music to play and helping you kill the bourbon. Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.

Peter S. Beagle

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I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being alone"a-l-o-n-e: which is the one New York prayer that rarely gets lost or delayed in channels, and in no time at all everything I touched turned to solid loneliness.

J. D. Salinger

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If Christians cannot communicate as thinking beings, they are reduced to encountering one another only at the shallow level of gossip and small talk. Hence the perhaps peculiarly modern problem - the loneliness of the thinking Christian.

Harry Blamires

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I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same.

Martha Gellhorn

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How many human beings anywhere, hold on to a relationship merely because it exists? This fear of loneliness, abandonment, or failure can, if we let it, hold any of us back from doing exactly what each of us needs to do to feel fulfilled.

Walter Inglis Anderson

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I must conquer my loneliness alone. I must be happy with myself or I have nothing to offer you. Two halves have little choice but to join; and yes, they do make a whole. But two wholes when they coincide... that is beauty. That is love....

Peter McWilliams

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She cried for the life she could not control. She cried for the mentor who had died before her eyes. She cried for the profound loneliness that filled her heart. But, above all, she cried for the future ... which suddenly felt so uncertain.

Dan Brown

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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

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I went through a period in my life when I had no friends, when the phone never rang, when I thought I would die from loneliness. I know that the real blessing here isn't that I have a book published, but that I have so many people to thank.

Louise Penny

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We may be living at that moment, on the cusp, when we go from being a species that feels a kind of loneliness in the cosmos to actually one sometime in the not too distant future being able to confirm the existence of other intelligent life.

Ann Druyan

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But where pain was, healing could come; where loneliness was, new relationships could be formed; where rejection was, new love could be found. It was a moment. And moments changed. She would have to live through the moment to get to the next.

Cecelia Ahern

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If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore.

Denis Johnson

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Music has always carried me through times of loneliness. So when I make music, I like it to make people who listen to it feel like they have a friend who reveals something personal to them, rather than trying to be like a god up on a pedestal

John Frusciante

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To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.

Thomas Hardy

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Sittin' here resting my bones, this loneliness won't leave me alone. Two thousand miles I roam, just to make this dock my home. I'm just gon' sit at the dock of the bay, watching the tide roll away. Sittin' on the dock of the bay, wastin' time.

Otis Redding

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There's a pervading sense of loneliness I've had since the day I was born. Maybe a lot of other people feel the same way, but I'm not about to run up and down the street asking everybody if they're as lonely as I am. I'd probably get locked up.

Thom Yorke

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Great eagles fly alone; great lions hunt alone; great souls walk alone-alone with God. Such loneliness is hard to endure, and impossible to enjoy unless God accompanied. Prophets are lone men; they walk alone, pray alone and God makes them alone.

Leonard Ravenhill

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

Elisabeth Elliot

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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

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I won't waste your time with the injuries of my childhood, with my loneliness, or the fear and sadness of the years I spent inside my parents' marriage, under the reign of my father's rage, afer all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?

Nicole Krauss

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Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire.

Ayn Rand

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A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him. I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

Carson McCullers

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But at least this got Mouth thinking about how his loneliness wasn't unique. We all suffered. And I guess we all had good times too. Man - if every person who ever felt lonely killed himself, the world would be littered with corpses. And far lonelier.

David Lubar

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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--to feel less lonely. But as human beings betray his creation, he may become even lonelier.

Elie Wiesel

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I wish other people would write about loneliness more. It's hard to remember that it's not personal. We live in a world that is built to make people lonely... It's difficult to remember that your loneliness is not really about you and everyone has it.

Jessa Crispin

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The secret to overcoming a feeling of loneliness is not going outside to meet people. That will only keep you from being alone. The secret is going inside yourself, to realize your true kinship with God and with all the human beings that he created.

Amy Grant

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My mind swirled with memories of the life I had led. The constant struggle to keep up appearances, the pretenses, the smiles that had been met with tears. The long sleepless nights, the loneliness that cloaked my spirit and turned me into a true ghost.

Anchee Min

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I've definitely had my hard partying moments. I've definitely had the long stretches of time in my personal life where I've felt an intense loneliness and a desperation to feel something real and to have something that truly meant something in my life.

Brett Gelman

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Marriage is supposed to do everything, like Duz, which is more than half its problem. It is said to save us, define us, give us purpose, keep us from loneliness, and incidentally balance our diet and wash our socks, and when it doesn't, we get divorced.

Merle Shain

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Usually, we think that "good" loneliness is what we call "solitude," the choice of some alone-time. But I want to press on with the negative dimension, to look at ways in which a fundamental sense of being separated from others shapes who we are and why.

Thomas L. Dumm

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We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God's grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers.

Barbara Johnson

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As an artist, the most important feeling is loneliness. So when I say artists need to isolate themselves from society this is what I mean: You have to look for that feeling of loneliness again. Only this way can you have something that is purely your own.

Zhang Xiaogang

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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

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We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.' Someone answers, 'I'm alone too.' There's a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses.

Elie Wiesel

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Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brains cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age.

Sherwin B. Nuland

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It's paradoxical that where people are most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities of the East and West, the loneliness is the greatest...The explanation is that the physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance.

Robert M. Pirsig

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O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other. After all, if we look closer into ourselves, shall we not admit that the warmth from other people comes so sweet to us when it comes, because, we always carry with us the knowledge of the cold loneliness of death?

Ama Ata Aidoo

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