Loneliness Quotes - page 19

Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality. (Anthony de Mello)
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. View quote
Tom Hanks
But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it. View quote
Tom Hanks
But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44. View quote
Tom Hanks
Loneliness watches and sights, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over... himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He's going to make me sleep with him again tonight, i just know it. View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert
Loneliness isn't about being by yourself. That's fine, right and good, desirable in many ways. Loneliness is about finding a landing-place, or not, and knowing that, whatever you do, you can go back there. The opposite of loneliness isn't company, it's return. A place to return. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being. View quote
Daniel Kahneman
I know the night is not the same as the day that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
To recognize you are the source of your own loneliness is not a cure for it. But it is a step toward seeing that it is not inevitable, and that such a choice is not irrevocable. View quote
Robin Hobb
Utter loneliness was planted in me then, and sent its deep roots down into me. View quote
Robin Hobb
Sometimes I wish I had more people to relate to and refer to and talk to, but there are very few artists whose work I want to see. It all makes for a kind of loneliness. (Helen Frankenthaler)
...I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away. View quote
Octavia Butler
Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love. View quote
Richard Bach
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. View quote
Anchee Min
There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness... It will never end, for madness carves its own reality. View quote
Kay Redfield Jamison
Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness. View quote
Amy Lowell
I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up. View quote
Taylor Swift
Bad people succeed and good people fail, but that's not the end of the story. Miracles happen that nobody sees, and among us walk heroes who are never recognized, and people live in loneliness because they cannot believe they are loved. View quote
Dean Koontz
She felt a stealing sense of fatigue as she walked; the sparkle had died out of her, and the taste of life was stale on her lips. She hardly knew what she had been seeking, or why the failure to find it had so blotted the light from her sky: she was only aware of a vague sense of failure, of an inner isolation deeper than the loneliness about her. View quote
Edith Wharton
The cure for loneliness is solitude. View quote
Marianne Moore
DeWitt: Loneliness leads to nothing good, only detachment. And sometimes the people who most need to reach out are the people least capable of it. (Jane Espenson)
I have always been very interested in the idea of loneliness and the presumption that romantic relationships are supposed to rid you of that. View quote
Ayobami Adebayo
Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self. View quote
Maxwell Maltz
There are two essential kinds of loneliness: that of not having found someone to love, and that of having been deprived of the one you did love. The first kind is worse. Nothing can compare to the loneliness of the soul in adolescence. View quote
Julian Barnes
It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start. View quote
Mother Teresa