Loneliness Quotes - page 13

Rossini was gentle with her. "In one way or another, we all have to cope with the essential solitude of being human, whether we're celibate or married." "If you're a good person, doesn't God fill your loneliness?" "He fills it, I think, with a divine discontent." (Morris West)
And I have found both freedom and safety in my madness. Freedom of loneliness and safety from being understood. For those who understand us enslave something in us. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness. View quote
B. W. Powe
...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. View quote
Louis Bromfield
Writing is an antidote for loneliness. View quote
Steven Berkoff
I knew this feeling, the 2 a. m. loneliness that I'd practically invented. View quote
Sarah Dessen
Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness. View quote
Pedro Almodóvar
I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust. View quote
Patti Smith
Billy Budd: You didn't even hate him. I think that sometimes you hate yourself. I was thinking, sir, the nights are lonely. Perhaps I could talk with you between watches when you've nothing else to do. Claggert: Lonely. What do you know of loneliness? Billy Budd: Them's alone that want to be. Claggert: Nights are long. Conversation helps pass the time. Billy Budd: Can I talk to you again, then? It would mean a lot to me. Claggert: Perhaps to me, too. [His expression suddenly sours] Oh, no. You would charm me too, huh? Get away. View quote
Peter Ustinov
What we tried to do, out of mutual loneliness, was make more out of the relationship than it could support. Then it becomes pretend, and you are both saying things cribbed from half-forgotten books and plays. So the structure slowly topples over, like vanilla ice cream piled too high. And the end of it there was an obscure impulse to shake hands. View quote
John D. MacDonald
Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome. (Erich Fromm)
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. View quote
Shimon Peres
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. View quote
Eric Hoffer
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. View quote
Eric Hoffer
It was not knowing that was the seed of madness, loneliness, fear. But there were ways to solve all this. Clarity had made her knowable to the world, and had made her better, had brought her close, she hoped, to perfection. Now the world would follow. Full transparency would bring full access, and there would be no more not-knowing. Mae smiled, thinking about how simple it all was, how pure. Bailey shared her smile. View quote
Dave Eggers
Love is a fire that burns unseen, A wound that aches yet isn't felt, An always discontent contentment, A pain that rages without hurting,A longing for nothing but to long, A loneliness in the midst of people, A never feeling pleased when pleased, A passion that gains when lost in thought.It's being enslaved of your own free will; It's counting your defeat a victory; It's staying loyal to your killer.But if it's so self-contradictory, How can Love, when Love chooses, Bring human hearts into sympathy? View quote
Luís de Camões
That sad and joyful dawn, light full of pity and grief, while the world wakes in loneliness I'll praise it and remember it. View quote
Luís de Camões
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. View quote
Marilynne Robinson
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery. View quote
Marilynne Robinson
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone. View quote
Paul Tillich
Even loneliness is not absolute loneliness because the contents of the universe are in him. (Paul Tillich)
Being someone is being one alone. Being someone is loneliness. View quote
Antonio Porchia
Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, Emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up the batteries of spiritual energy. Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness. View quote
Benjamin Hoff
...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. View quote
Joey Comeau
The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness. View quote
Henry Kissinger