Being Alone Quotes - Page 12

• Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

  Liv Ullmann

  Loneliness, Swimming, Hollywood

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• I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

  Yousuf Karsh

  Lonely, Loneliness, Men

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• Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Loneliness, Views

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.

  Ronald Anthony Cross

  Lonely, Loneliness, Feeling Alone

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• We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

  Tennessee Williams

  Lonely, Loneliness, Solitary Life

  Orpheus Descending act 2, sc. 1 (1958)

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• The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.

  Nora Ephron

  Regret, Believe, Being Single

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Spring, Loneliness, Men

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• We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.

  Gladys Taber

  Dream, Time, Needs

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• What we don't let out traps us. We think, No one else feels this way, I must be crazy. So we don't say anything. And we become enveloped by a deep loneliness, not knowing where our feelings come from or what to do with them. Why do I feel this way?

  Sabrina Ward Harrison

  Inspirational, Crazy, Loneliness

  "Women of Courage: Inspiring Stories from the Women Who Lived Them". Book by Katherine Martin (p. 268), 1999.

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• Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.

  Indra Devi

  Freedom, Fear, Loneliness

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• Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.

  Khalil Gibran

  Valentines Day, Family Love, Doe

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core, is one connected to others. And for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through silence.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Spring, Silence, Stranger

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1967). “SELECTIONS FROM GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.

  Warsan Shire

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Single

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• A little while alone in your room
  will prove more valuable than anything else
  that could ever be given you.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Solitude, Feeling Lonely

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• It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Success, Teamwork

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.372, Penguin

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• Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Distance, Voice, Solitude

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• There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

  Eric Hoffer

  Loneliness, Failure, House

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.

  Mindy Kaling

  Being Single, Different, World

  "Flick Chicks" by Mindy Kaling, www.newyorker.com. October 3, 2011.

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• To love blindly is to love selfishly, because the goal of such love is not the real advantage of the beloved but only the exercise of love in our own souls.

  Thomas Merton

  Real, Being Single, Exercise

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.3, Shambhala Publications

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• How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Dream

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• Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.

  Stephen King

  Sad, Time, Loneliness

  Stephen King (2010). “The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel”, p.363, Simon and Schuster

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• My life is spent in perpetual alternation between two rhythms,
  the rhythm of attracting people for fear I may be lonely
  and the rhythm of trying to get rid of them
  because I know that I am bored.

  C. E. M. Joad

  Lonely, Two, People

  In Observer 12 Dec. 1948, p. 2

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• Never fear being alone, because you never are.

  Rod McKuen

  Never Fear

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• Never do I close my door behind me without being conscious that I am carrying out an act of charity towards myself.

  Peter Høeg

  Doors, Charity, Conscious

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• The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Solitude, Depth, World

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.242, Sahitya Akademi

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