Loneliness Quotes - Page 16

And I was to find out then, as I found out so many times, over and over again, that women especially are social beings, who are not content with just husband and family, but must have a community, a group, an exchange with others. A child is not enough. A husband and children, no matter how busy one may be kept by them, are not enough. Young and old, even in the busiest years of our lives, we women especially are victims of the long loneliness.

Dorothy Day

Husband, Children, Women

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There is a terrible loneliness in the spring.

Ellen Glasgow

Spring, Terrible

Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Miller of Old Church”, p.207, The Floating Press

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Death is loneliness in its purest form.

Katherine Anne Porter

Form

Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.490, Atlantic Monthly Press

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as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness. You are in the country where you make up the rules, the laws. You are both dictator and obedient populace. It is a country nobody has ever explored before. It is up to you to make the maps, to build the cities. Nobody else in the world can do it, or ever could do it, or ever will be able to do it again.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Country, Law, Cities

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Youth gives a sense of new days dawning bright, going on for ever, and a kind of tamped-down excitement which keeps breaking through even the worst days of poverty, depression and loneliness. But then youth is something which only exists in retrospect; you are barely conscious of it while you have it.

Fay Weldon

Giving, New Day, Retrospect

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Such a nice day - out all day up in the Carter Notch direction, trout-fishing, with the long drive there and the long drive home again in time for supper. It was a lovely brook and I caught seven good trout and one small one - which eight trout-persons you should have for your breakfast if only you were near enough. It was not alone the fishing, but the delightful loneliness and being out of doors.

Sarah Orne Jewett

Nice, Home, Should Have

Sarah Orne Jewett (1911). “Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett”

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I believe that it is sometimes less difficult to wake up and feel that I am alone when I really am, than to wake up with someone else and be lonely.

Liv Ullmann

Lonely, Believe, Wake Up

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Scary is time passing and sickness and dying and regret and isolation and loneliness and relationship problems - as opposed to a guy in a hockey mask, which didn't seem that scary.

Charlie Kaufman

Regret, Hockey, Guy

"Charlie Kaufman" by Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2008.

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I get an audience personally involved in a song - because I'm involved myself. It's not something I do deliberately: I can't help myself. If the song is a lament at the loss of love, I get an ache in my gut. I feel the loss myself and I cry out the loneliness, the hurt and the pain that I feel.

Frank Sinatra

Song, Hurt, Pain

Source: www.slate.com

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When I allow myself to feel all my feelings instead of numbing myself to them, they pass more quickly. I spent my entire life telling everyone I was "OK, damn it." But when you surrender to the [uncomfortable] feelings, there are gifts on the other side: Allowing yourself to feel loneliness forces you to reach out. Letting yourself get angry gives you strength, energy and motivation.

Ashley Judd

Motivation, Uncomfortable Feeling, Giving

"Ashley's Secret Life". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. July 9, 2006.

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You really come to life on stage but outside - this is a bit of a sad clown cliché - there is that element of loneliness you get from travelling and being on the road. Stand-ups can bring a lot of that to a dramatic role and make it work for them.

Doc Brown

Roles, Elements, Dramatic

Source: www.gigglebeats.co.uk

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But, visiting Sea, your love doth press / And reach in further than you know, / And fills all these; and, when you go, / There's loneliness in loneliness.

Alice Meynell

Ocean, Sea, Visiting

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for many people, loneliness was an experience of time. 'Not knowing what to do with yourself' was the way it was usually put.

Louise Bernikow

Knowing, People, Way

Louise Bernikow (1986). “Alone in America: the search for companionship”, Harpercollins

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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Lonely, Cat, Needs

Mary Roberts Rinehart (1993). “The frightened wife, and other murder stories”, Thorndike Pr

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in love, gallantry is necessary. Even when the first wild desire is gone, especially then, there is an inherent need for good manners and consideration, for the putting forth of effort. Two courteous and civilized human beings out of the loneliness of their souls owe that to each other.

Ilka Chase

Two, Effort, Soul

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Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And anyone can have them.

Elsa Maxwell

Good Man, Priceless, Manners

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Loneliness is random; solitude is ritual.

Pearl Cleage

Solitude, Ritual

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

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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.

Carson McCullers

Independent, Weather, People

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Smell remembers and tells the future. ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers.

Cherrie Moraga

Betrayal, Home, Smell

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loneliness is not a longing for company, it is a longing for kind. And kind means people who can see you who you are, and that means they have enough intelligence and sensitivity and patience to do that.

Marilyn French

Mean, People, Kind

Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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Marriage is supposed to do everything, like Duz, which is more than half its problem. It is said to save us, define us, give us purpose, keep us from loneliness, and incidentally balance our diet and wash our socks, and when it doesn't, we get divorced.

Merle Shain

Marriage, Giving, Balance

Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”

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I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me.

Anita Brookner

Irritation, Way, Needs

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I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to live in.

Anzia Yezierska

Children, World, Wander

Anzia Yezierska (1923). “Children of Loneliness”

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Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.

Martha Gellhorn

Freedom, Possession, Paid

Martha Gellhorn, Caroline Moorehead (2006). “The letters of Martha Gellhorn”, Vintage

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In truth, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” isn't about Sept. 11. It's about the impulse to drain that day of its specificity and turn it into yet another wellspring of generic emotions: sadness, loneliness, happiness. This is how kitsch works. It exploits familiar images, be they puppies or babies - or, as in the case of this movie, the twin towers - and tries to make us feel good, even virtuous, simply about feeling. And, yes, you may cry, but when tears are milked as they are here, the truer response should be rage.

Manohla Dargis

Baby, Sadness, Feel Good

"A Youngster With a Key, a Word and a Quest" by Manohla Dargis, www.nytimes.com. December 22, 2011.

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