Loneliness Quotes - Page 10

• But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Being Single, Single Life, Use

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.67, A&C Black

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• Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “THE TALES OF AVONLEA - Complete Collection: 16 Novels & 27 Short Stories (Including Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Prince Edward Island, The Story Girl & Emily Starr Trilogy)”, p.2791, e-artnow

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• Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.

  Dan Brown

  Lonely, Technology, People

  Dan Brown (2005). “Angels & Demons”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• You sense my loneliness, (...) my bitterness at being shut out of life. My bitterness that I'm evil, that I don't deserve to be loved and yet I need love hungrily. My horror that I can never reveal myself to mortals. But these things don't stop me, Mother. I'm too strong for them to stop me. As you said yourself once, I am very good at being what I am. These things merely now and then make me suffer, that's all

  Anne Rice

  Mother, Strong, Evil

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• Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  I Miss You, Missing You, Broken Heart

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• Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow.

  Janet Fitch

  Tunnels, Soul, Way

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• The words 'alone,' 'lonely,' and 'loneliness' are three of the most powerful words in the English language. Those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.

  Donald Miller

  Lonely, Powerful, Soul

  "Blue Like Jazz". Book by Donald Miller, 2003.

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• A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Lonely, Being Alone, Heart

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• We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — "Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought."

  John Steinbeck

  Animal, Trying, Telling Stories

  "In Awe of Words". The Exonian, 75th anniversary edition, Exeter University, 1930.

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• Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices.

  Pearl Cleage

  Coffee, Self Worth, Unique

  Pearl Cleage (1990). “Mad at Miles: a blackwoman's guide to truth”, Cleage Group

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• Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Love, Relationship, Lonely

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• It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

  Benjamin Britten

  Strength, Music, Beauty

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• Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Sex, Real

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “A Wild Sheep Chase”, p.11, Random House

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• 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.

  Alice Meynell

  Eye, Looks, Crowds

  Alice Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell (1899). “The Spirit of Place, and Other Essays”

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

  Alice Walker

  Lonely, Taken, People

  Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.70, The New Press

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• I am alone and my spiritual journey is my experience.' This is the real experience of freedom and independence. Then we begin to see that being alone is a very beautiful thing. Nobody is obstructing our vision. We have complete panoramic vision.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Real

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• Suffering should not define you as a woman! And just because you’re a man it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t affect you! HELP HER to remove the taboos and the loneliness surrounding this disease; be understanding, show empathy, and don’t accuse her of being sensitive, delicate, or overly dramatic – this is a big opportunity for you guys to show that you care and to be a real man!

  Susan Sarandon

  Real, Mean, Opportunity

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• If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Love You, Inspiration

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Three Philosophies of Life: Ecclesiastes, Job, and Song of Songs”, p.70, Ignatius Press

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• I am going to give you a piece of advice... advice I wish I'd been told in guidance class back in high school, in between the don't-do-acid and don't-drink-and-drive films. I wish our counselors had told us, 'When you grow older a dreadful, horrible sensation will come over you. It's called loneliness, and you think you know what it is now, but you don't. Here is the list of the symptoms, and don't worry—loneliness is the most universal sensation on the planet. Just remember one fact—loneliness will pass. You will survive and you will be a better human for it.

  Douglas Coupland

  School, Thinking, Class

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

  Tom Wolfe

  Lonely, Being Alone, Vanity

  "The American Mercury", p. 467, "The Anatomy of Loneliness", October 1941.

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• What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Lonely, Being Alone, Youth Of Today

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Love, Lonely, Pain

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lonely, Discovery, Keys

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.282, Penguin

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• It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Lonely, Mask, Terrible

  Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (1984). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1903-1917”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

  Thomas Merton

  Being Alone, Profound, Vision

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.81, New Directions Publishing

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