Loneliness Quotes - Page 29

One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. I mean it's one of the things that goes way back; loneliness is not good for the world. And so, whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural, and healthy to want somebody to go through life with. It's central to our humanity.

It is necessary to like loneliness to be photographer

Real love is not an escape from loneliness, real love is an overflowing aloneness. One is so happy in being alone that one wud like to share.

So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.

We walk alone through this world, but if we're lucky, we have a moment of belonging to something, to someone, that sustains us through a lifetime of loneliness.

All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.

All right, that was my moment with loneliness. I'm not afraid of feeling lonely, but now I'm going to put that loneliness aside and know that there are other emotions in the world, and I'm going to experience them as well.

How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him.

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.

Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.

Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self.

Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

The first cup caresses my dry lips and throat, The second shatters the walls of my loneliness, The third explores the dry rivulets of my soul Searching for legends of five thousand scrolls. With the fourth the pain of past injustice vanishes through my pores. The fifth purifies my flesh and bone. With the sixth I commune with the immortals. The seventh conveys such pleasure I am overcome. The fresh wind blows through my wings As I make my way to Penglai.

I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.

If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.

Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach.

In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in his cosmic loneliness. And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done." And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close to mud as man sat, looked around, and spoke. "What is the purpose of all this?" he asked politely. "Everything must have a purpose?" asked God. "Certainly," said man. "Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this," said God. And He went away.