Loneliness Quotes - page 16

...the pain of the constant, bone-chilling loneliness she'd accustomed herself to. And learned to live with it. (Christina Dodd)

If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?

Lisa Kleypas

I felt the kind of loneliness that can happen in a roomful of people when everyone but you seems to be in on the good time.

Lisa Kleypas

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

Lisa Kleypas

I've never minded solitude. For a writer, it's a natural condition. But caring for a dementia sufferer leads to a peculiar kind of loneliness.

Laurie Graham

Total intimacy is a myth; that said, a particular kind of loneliness can be both beautiful and fruitful.

Lauren Groff

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

Dalai Lama

My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.

Enrique Iglesias

I'm just a believer in keeping all of the creative brain cells moving and working even when you're not working because the inevitable loneliness and boring drought in the actor's world, it can eat you alive.

Nikki Reed

Online communities are an expression of loneliness.

Joanne Harris

I don't intend to share fate,
Fate which is a universal loneliness. (Chairil Anwar)

But oh my heart that will not give itself Break, you bastard, ripped by your loneliness!

Chairil Anwar

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

Wendell Berry

Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation. (pg.99, "The Body and the Earth")

Wendell Berry

My eyes are magical glass [when looking at] the outside world, and it can transform a lot into bewitching beauty. Paris, Munich.... they're all the same. The country is nice, because it is closer to nature and bad because we [Werefkin and Jawlensky] are no longer people from nature. I saw this at Blagodat. The more a person improves himself, the more one is doomed to loneliness. One doesn't need friends, one needs oneself and anybody who loves you like themselves.

Marianne von Werefkin

Mental states such as loneliness, compulsion, anguish, attachment, pain, and faith are not just "all in the head" but in the brain as well. Brain, mind, and body are a continuum. Our thoughts-intention, fear, images, suggestion, expectation- alter the brain's chemistry. And it works both ways; thoughts can be altered by changing the brain's chemistry with drugs, nutrients, oxygen. The brain is hopelessly complex.

Marilyn Ferguson

Loneliness Is Not The Absence Of Affection, But The Absence Of Direction.

Mike Murdock

My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.

Anthony Swofford

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.

Agnes Obel

It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things at some point in their lives.

Brendan Myers

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)

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

Brock Clarke

I said it's a cold universe and I don't mean that metaphorically. If you go out into space, it's cold. It's really cold and we don't know what's up there. We happen to be in this little pocket where there's a sun. What have we got except love and each other to guard against all that isolation and loneliness?

David Chase

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

Elisabeth Shue

Easter tells us of something children can't understand, because it addresses things they don't yet have to know: the weariness of life, the pain, the profound loneliness and hovering fear of meaninglessness.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

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