Loneliness Quotes - Page 14

• What's mysterious, ambiguous, inexplicable. What doesn't fit into a story, what doesn't have a story. Glint of brightness on a barely-there chain. Patch of sunlight on a yellow wall. The loneliness that separates every living creature from every other living creature. Sorrow inseparable from joy.

  Donna Tartt

  Wall, Yellow, Joy

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• The drivenness in any addiction is about the ruptured self, the belief that one is flawed as a person. The content of the addiction, whether it is alcoholism or work, is an attempt at an intimate relationship. The workaholic with her work or the alcoholic with his booze are having a love affair. Each alters mood to avoid the feeling of loneliness and hurt in the underbelly of shame.

  John Bradshaw

  Hurt, Intimate Relationships, Self

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• Labor in loneliness is irksome.

  Mark Twain

  Labor

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.512, Velvet Element Books

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• I should be glad of loneliness      And hours that go on broken wings,A thirsty body, a tired heart      And the unchanging ache of things,If I could make a single song      As lovely and as full of light,As hushed and brief as a falling star      On a winter night.

  Sara Teasdale

  Song, Stars, Fall

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.31, Рипол Классик

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• All the suffering that humanity ever knew can be traced to the one fact that no man in the history of the Galaxy ... could really understand one another. Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed.

  Isaac Asimov

  Wall, Men, Humanity

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• Yes, you who must leave everything that you cannot control, It begins with your family, and soon it comes round to your soul. Well I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned: When you're not feeling holy your loneliness says that you've sinned.

  Leonard Cohen

  Thinking, Soul, Feelings

  Leonard Cohen (2001). “Leonard Cohen Anthology (Songbook)”, p.85, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, "I shall be unhappy without loneliness," shows that he made loneliness his master.

  Matsuo Basho

  Unhappy, Facts, Made

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• The ultimate aim of politics is not politics, but the activities which can be practised within the political framework of the State. Therefore an effective statement of these activities - e.g. science, art, religion - is in itself a declaration of ultimate aims around which the political means will crystallise... a society with no values outside of politics is a machine carrying its human cargo, with no purpose in its institutions reflecting their care, eternal aspirations, loneliness, need for love.

  Stephen Spender

  Art, Mean, Political

  "Life and the Poet". Book by Stephen Spender, 1942.

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• You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too. Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev'rybody loves you now.

  Billy Joel

  Mistake, Love You, Cake

  Song: Everybody Loves You Now

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• We have forgotten love, and Sat lonely beside each other. We have eaten together, Lonely behind our plates, we Have hidden behind children, We have slept together in A lonely bed. Now my heart Turns toward you, awake at last, Penitent, lost in the last Loneliness. Speak to me. Talk To me. Break the black silence.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Lonely, Children, Heart

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• Lost in loneliness and pain. Black and unendurable, Thinking of you with every Corpuscle of my flesh, in Every instant of night And day.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Thinking Of You, Pain, Night

  Kenneth Rexroth (1967). “The Collected Shorter Poems”, p.230, New Directions Publishing

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• Loneliness feels like prison.

  Naz?m Hikmet

  Prison, Feels

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• The distances between the stars seem brief by contrast to the distances between each of us and his fellows.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Stars, Distance, Contrast

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• If there is one person on the planet who still is suffering from loneliness and from pain or despair, and we don't know about it, or we don't want to know about it, then something is wrong with the world.

  Elie Wiesel

  Pain, Suffering, Despair

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression that affect our hearts, minds and souls and remind us of who we are as human beings, the fragility of our human status and the inevitability of death.

  Cornel West

  Heart, Sadness, Wrestling

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and sadness.

  Cornel West

  Sadness, Sacrifice, Artist

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.

  Edward Hopper

  Communication, Reflection, People

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• And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for. In polaroids you were dressed in women's clothes Were you made ashamed, why'd you lock them in a drawer? Well, I don't think that I ever loved you more Well let the poets cry themselves to sleep And all their tearful words will turn back into steam The sound of loneliness makes me happier.

  Conor Oberst

  Sleep, Thinking, Yellow

  "Song: "Poison Oak" ("I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning ")". January 25, 2005.

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• I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him.

  Jose Saramago

  Men, Doors, House

  "The Cave" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costa, Vintage, (p. 29), 2003.

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• Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone.

  Gao Xingjian

  Reflection, Ability, Depends

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• 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.

  Lu Tong

  Wall, Pain, Blow

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• Green makes me think of silence, or maybe it's loneliness. I get the feeling of a terribly distant star.

  Kobo Abe

  Stars, Thinking, Color

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• There was nothing lonelier than a man with a million friends.

  William Shatner

  Men, Millions

  William Shatner, Judith Reeves-Stevens, Garfield Reeves-Stevens (1996). “The Ashes of Eden”, Pocket Books/Star Trek

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• Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return! whose poetry is too finely spun, whose philosophy is too and mystified for popular demand: perhaps we have experienced feeling which Mr. Wordsworth alludes to, in a poem worthy of simplicity and loneliness of the sentiment "Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure; Sighed to think I read a book Only read perhaps by me!

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Lonely, Philosophy, Book

  "Sketches from Life" by Laman Blanchard. "Quotations", 1846.

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