Loneliness Quotes - Page 25

The definition of the word nerd has changed. It's now any attractive person with a hobby. The loneliness component is no longer included.

Physician Albert Scheweitzer said. " We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness." Professor Leo Buscaglia notes, "There seems to be accumulating evidence that there is actually an inborn need for this togetherness, this human interaction, this love. It seems that without these close ties with other human beings, a new born infant, for example, can regress developmentally, lose consciousness, fall into idiocy and die.

The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.

The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her.

Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.

At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner -- young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome.

Like falling stars from the universe we are hurled Down through the long loneliness of the world Until we behold the pain, become the pearl

Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.

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

Loneliness is a required course for leadership.

This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.

The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.

Loneliness is a very special place, Silently silently you touch my face

Isolation and loneliness create the conditions for rapid aging. The key is to stay connected and open to new relationships throughout your life.

But at least this got Mouth thinking about how his loneliness wasn't unique. We all suffered. And I guess we all had good times too. Man - if every person who ever felt lonely killed himself, the world would be littered with corpses. And far lonelier.

One leaf left on a branch and not a sound of sadness or despair. One leaf left on a branch and no unhappiness. One leaf left all by itself in the air and it does not speak of loneliness or death. One leaf and it spends itself in swaying mildly in the breeze.

We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?

Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.

The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.

Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.