Loneliness Quotes - page 20

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. (Mother Teresa)
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. 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. Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger. View quote
Mother Teresa
Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be. View quote
Alan Alda
Christmas is an awfulness that compares favorably with the great London plague and fire of 1665-66. No one escapes the feelings of mortal dejection, inadequacy, frustration, loneliness, guilt and pity. View quote
Harlan Ellison
At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self. View quote
Brendan Behan
I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating on a nothing, known by nothing, lonelier and colder than the space between the stars. It was more frightening than being dead. View quote
Peter Carey
Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. View quote
Thomas Wolfe
Before getting to my mother's house, I would always think of her on the porch or even on the street, sweeping. She had a light way of sweeping, as if removing the dirt were not as important as moving the broom over the ground. Her way of sweeping was symbolic; so airy, so fragile, with a broom she tried to sweep away all the horrors, all the loneliness, all the misery that had accompanied her all her life. View quote
Reinaldo Arenas
When he was dead I raised myself to my feet and I looked about me. Everything was still. A loneliness had come upon my soul. There was darkness everywhere now but in the forest. And even here there were wisps of grey, as if evil crept in. I lifted my head to the sky and I shook my fist. "Oh, I reject you. I reject your Heaven and I reject your Hell. Do as you wish with me, but know that your desires are petty and your ambitions have no meaning!”. View quote
Michael Moorcock
If he'd learned one thing while he'd been away, it was that loneliness is the most taboo subject in the world. Forget sex or politics or religion. Or even failure. Loneliness is what clears out a room. View quote
Douglas Coupland
Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room. (Douglas Coupland)
Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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. View quote
Amelia Earhart
He was a poet of great power, who described the loneliness of military life in the early Forties with unique eloquence and accuracy; he wrote, too, exciting and original love poetry. View quote
Alun Lewis
A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory. View quote
Pablo Neruda
Loneliness comes with life. View quote
Whitney Houston
Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness. View quote
Jonathan Safran Foer
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. View quote
Alice Meynell
It's paradoxical that where people are the most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities in the East and West, the loneliness is the greatest. View quote
Robert M. Pirsig
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness. View quote
Mitch Albom
The scientist comes to the world and says, "I do not understand the divine source, but I know, in a way that I don't understand, that out of chaos I can make order, out of loneliness I can make friendship, out of ugliness I can make beauty." (Edwin H. Land)
... The type of loneliness where you need to keep struggling to accept a situation is fundamentally different than the sort you know you'll get through if you just hang in there. View quote
Ryu Murakami
People were infected with the concept that happiness was something outside themselves, and a new and powerful form of loneliness was born. Mix loneliness with stress and enervation, and all sorts of madness can occur. Anxiety increases, and in order to obliterate the anxiety, people turn to extreme sex, violence, and even murder. View quote
Ryu Murakami
In Japan, even when you're alone, you're never really that lonely. But the loneliness you feel among people with differently colored skin and eyes, whose language you don't even speak very well – that sort of loneliness is something you feel down to the marrow of your bones. View quote
Ryu Murakami
He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself. But the street ran on: catlike, one place was the same as another to him. But in none of them could he be quiet. But the street ran on in its moods and phases, always empty: he might have seen himself as in numberless avatars, in silence, doomed with motion, driven by the courage of flagged and spurred despair; by the despair of courage whose opportunities had to be flagged and spurred. View quote
William Faulkner