Loneliness Quotes - Page 9

The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth.

Are you willing to forget what you have done for other people, and to remember what other people have done for you ... to remember the weakness and loneliness of people who are growing old ... Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest ting in the world ... stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death... Then you can keep Christmas! But you can never keep it alone.

The price for living the life I have -- for any serious, devoted person, is that at times one must live alone, or feel alone. I think loneliness is associated in many people's minds when they think about success.

The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

I'm lonely. What kind of loneliness? Every kind. I feel disconnected. Abandoned. As always. Repetition. So what, my love? So what? At first, I just wanted to run away. Now I have no where else to run to, nothing to run from. I don't belong anywhere, I don't want to go anywhere, I just want to be happy.

Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.

I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.

I felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of the living

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

Solitude without togetherness deteriorates into loneliness. One needs strong roots in togetherness to be solitary rather than lonely when one is alone.

Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.

This is how the world changes - little by little, table by table, meal by meal, hour by hour. This is how we chip away at isolation, loneliness, fear. This is how we connect, in big and small ways - we do it around the table.

We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life.

A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him. I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

I began to paint again, even though I could barely hold the brush, but knowing exactly what I wanted to paint, I began three more large canvases... of large wheat fields under cloudy skies, and it did not take a great deal to express sadness and loneliness... I believe these paintings say what words cannot.

How we need another soul to cling to.

The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy.

Don't let loneliness drive you back into the arms of someone who doesn't give a damn about you.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.