Loneliness Quotes - Page 15

• There's a romance to danger. There's a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of those things can be used to make the story of our lives better.

  Joey Comeau

  Drinking, Romance, Drug

  Interview with Adrian Comeau, "I Am Other People" series, www.asofterworld.com.

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• Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.

  B. W. Powe

  Consciousness, Rebellion, Plant

  "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by B. W. Powe, 2006.

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• Just the absence of loneliness. That's love enough.

  John Rechy

  Absence, Enough

  John Rechy (2011). “City of Night”, p.329, Souvenir Press

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• Although the warrior's life is dedicated to helping others, he realizes that he will never be able to completely share his experience with others...Yet he is more and more in love with the world. That combination of love affair and loneliness is what enables the warrior to constantly reach out to help others. By renouncing his private world, the warrior discovers a greater universe and a fuller and fuller broken heart. This is not something to feel bad about; it is a cause for rejoicing.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Heart, Warrior, Helping Others

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• You travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing ... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.

  Agatha Christie

  Dream, Home, Adventure

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• Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness.

  John D. Voelker

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

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• It cannot be doubted that theistic belief is a comfort and a solace to those who hold it, and that the loss of it is a very painful loss. It cannot be doubted, at least, by many of us in this generation, who either profess it now, or received it in our childhood and have parted from it since with such searching trouble as only cradle-faiths can cause. We have seen the spring sun shine out of an empty heaven, to light up a soulless earth; we have felt with utter loneliness that the Great Companion is dead.

  William Kingdon Clifford

  Spring, Loss, Light

  William Kingdon Clifford (1999). “The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays”, Pyr Books

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• When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness.

  Brian Swimme

  Response, Humans, Objects

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• The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.

  Dorothy Day

  Community, Answers, This Life

  Dorothy Day (2011). “The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day”, p.184, Image

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• If same-sex relationships are really sinful, then why do they so often produce good fruit-loving families, open homes, self-sacrifice, commitment, faithfulness, joy? And if conservative Christians are really right in their response to same-sex relationships, then why does that response often produce bad fruit-secrets, shame, depression, loneliness, broken families, and fear?

  Rachel Held Evans

  Christian, Sex, Commitment

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• to comfort any mortal against loneliness, one other is enough.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Comfort, Enough, Mortals

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• that pathetic short-cut suggested by Nature the supreme joker as a remedy for our loneliness, that ephemeral communion which we persuade ourselves to be of the spirit when it is in fact only of the body - durable not even in memory!

  Vita Sackville-West

  Sex, Memories, Cutting

  Victoria Sackville-West, Vita Sackville-West (1985). “No Signposts in the Sea”, Penguin Group USA

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• Travel is in sad case. It is uncomfortable, it is expensive; it is a source of annoyance to our friends, and of loneliness to ourselves.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Travel, Source, Cases

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• Oh! death will find me, long before I tire
  Of watching for you; and swing me suddenly
  Into the shade and loneliness and mire
  Of the last land!

  Rupert Brooke

  Death, Swings, Land

  Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics

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• At any moment solitude may put on the face of loneliness.

  May Sarton

  Solitude, May, Faces

  May Sarton, Edith Royce Schade (1994). “From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton”, Papier Mache Pr

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• Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.

  Helen Rowland

  Mistake, Love Is, Men

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• On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.

  Mother Teresa

  Spiritual, Poverty, Discouragement

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.94, New World Library

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• Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Art, Infinite, Works Of Art

  'Briefe an einem jungen Dichter' (Letters to a Young Poet, 1929) 23 April 1903 (translation by Reginald Snell)

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• Shyness is a condition foreign to the heart - a category, a dimension which leads to loneliness.

  Pablo Neruda

  Heart, Dimensions, Shyness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.

  Adrienne Rich

  Liars, Lying, Existence

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.

  Erica Jong

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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• On the outside one is a star. But in reality, one is completely alone, doubting everything. To experience this loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Stars, Reality, Doubting Everything

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• No technological achievements can mitigate the disappointment of modern man, his loneliness, his feeling of inferiority, and his fear of war, revolution and terror. Not only has our generation lost faith in Providence but also in man himself, in his institutions and often in those who are nearest to him.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Disappointment, War, Our Generation

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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• Alone is a fact, a condition where no one else is around. Lonely is how you feel about that.

  Twyla Tharp

  Lonely, Facts, How You Feel

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• the sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Grief, Loss, Grew

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2015). “The Last Man”, p.564, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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