Loneliness Quotes - page 14

We live in a predominately Christian culture which has lost its living connection to the symbolism of wafer and wine. Lacking spiritual sustenance there is a genuine hunger and thirst. The archetypal structure behind the wafer and wine is slowly giving way to a new configuration, but we are in chaos during the transition. That chaos breeds loneliness, fear and alienation. While that sense of aloneness is hard to endure, it can be of supreme value in the analytic process. The new life always comes out of the dispossessed, as Christ came from the cow stable. (Marion Woodman)
How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
I don't want to do any of those things you said. I want – I want – to make things right.' 'Then so you shall.' 'Is it so easy?' 'Not easy. Not easy at all. Think how much is wanting to make things wrong. All the fear in the world, and the violence that comes from the fear, and the hatred that comes from the violence, and the loneliness that comes from the hatred. All the unhappiness, all the cruelty, it gathers like clouds in the air, and grows dark and cold and heavy, and falls like grey snow in thick layers over the land. Then the world is all muffled and numb, and no one can hear each other or feel each other. Think how sad and lonely that must be. View quote
William Nicholson
The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared. View quote
Lois Lowry
The medical professionals are a lot more comfortable calling it "depression" than calling it "loneliness." View quote
Patch Adams
She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still. View quote
Toni Morrison
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. View quote
Toni Morrison
I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having "too much" sex. At what point does a "healthy" amount become "too much"? There are, of course, those who suffer because their desire for sex has become compulsive; in their cases the drive (loneliness, guilt) is at fault, not the activity as such. View quote
Edmund White
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. View quote
Dan Brown
Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return! whose poetry is too finely spun, whose philosophy is too and mystified for popular demand: perhaps we have experienced feeling which Mr. Wordsworth alludes to, in a poem worthy of simplicity and loneliness of the sentiment-"Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure; Sighed to think I read a book Only read perhaps by me!" (Samuel Laman Blanchard)
Hunger haunted the dog. It sat like an agony back of his eyes. Hunger ached out of his ladder-rack ribs, those lean ribs that threatened to break through the stretched, shivering skin. Always the dog shivered. When at rest he shivered. Not from cold necessarily, but from hunger, from fear, from loneliness, and from lovelessness- mostly, perhaps, from lovelessness, for the dog had nothing but himself. View quote
Meindert DeJong
there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock. View quote
Charles Bukowski
Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone. View quote
Charles Bukowski
she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty. View quote
Charles Bukowski
if you are afraid of loneliness, don't get married. View quote
August Strindberg
The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precedes all the great events in the heart's history. View quote
Stefan Zweig
A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness. View quote
François Mauriac
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. View quote
John Keats
Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin. View quote
Ian Fleming
Life is loneliness, broken only by the gods taunting us with friendship and the odd bonk. (Christopher Moore (author))
Fame doesn't end loneliness. View quote
Claire Danes
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature: either into a creature that is in harmony with God, and with other creatures, and with itself, or else into one that is in a state of war and hatred with God, and with its fellow-creatures, and with itself. To be the one kind of creature is heaven: that is, it is joy and peace and knowledge and power. To be the other means madness, horror, idiocy, rage, impotence, and eternal loneliness. Each of us at each moment is progressing to the one state or the other. View quote
C. S. Lewis