Loneliness Quotes - Page 21

• These are frightening times...when she feels herself annointed by loneliness.

  Carol Shields

  Feeling Lonely, Feels, Frightening

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• Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat in a flock By the embers in hearth-side ease. We pictured the meek mild creatures where They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few would weave In these years! yet, I feel If someone said on Christmas Eve, "Come; see the oxen kneel, In the lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used to know," I should go with him in the gloom, Hoping it might be so.

  Thomas Hardy

  Lonely, Oxen, Years

  Thomas Hardy (2009). “Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.77, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her.

  Francis Thompson

  Family, Mother, Firsts

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• Oh, whoever has been himself alone can never find another’s loneliness strange.

  Robert Walser

  Strange, Has Beens

  Robert Walser (2012). “Berlin Stories”, p.119, New York Review of Books

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• The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.

  Richard Powers

  Writing, Stranger

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• The larger loneliness of our lives evolves from our unwillingness to spend ourselves, stir ourselves. We are always damping down our inner weather, permitting ourselves the comforts of postponement, of rehearsals

  Carol Shields

  Weather, Rehearsal, Comfort

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• Instead of hiding your loneliness, bring it into the light. Honor it. Treat it. Heal it. You'll find that it returns the favor.

  Martha Beck

  Light, Honor, Favors

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• Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.

  David Mitchell

  Travel, Thinking, Used

  "Finding the route of inspiration". Interview with Carl Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2005.

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• Yea, I have looked, and seen November there; The changeless seal of change it seemed to be, Fair death of things that, living once, were fair; Bright sign of loneliness too great for me, Strange image of the dread eternity, In whose void patience how can these have part, These outstretched feverish hands, this restless heart?

  William Morris

  Heart, Hands, Living Once

  William Morris, Peter Faulkner (2002). “Selected Poems”, p.96, Taylor & Francis

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• I am learning to see loneliness as a seed that, when planted deep enough, can grow into writing that goes back out into the world.

  Kathleen Norris

  Writing, World, Enough

  Kathleen Norris (2001). “Dakota: A Spiritual Geography”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She cried for the life she could not control. She cried for the mentor who had died before her eyes. She cried for the profound loneliness that filled her heart. But, above all, she cried for the future ... which suddenly felt so uncertain.

  Dan Brown

  Heart, Eye, Profound

  Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.76, Knopf

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• The arctic loneliness of age.

  Silas Weir Mitchell

  Age, Arctic

  Medical proverbs by F.H. Garrison, Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine October: 979 - 1005 (1928)

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• My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.

  William Sharp

  Lonely, Heart, Hunters

  "The Lonely Hunter" l. 24 (1896) See McCullers 1

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• I never had a dog that showed a human fear of death. Death, to a dog, is the final unavoidable compulsion, the least ineluctable scent on a fearsome trail, but they like to face it alone, going out into the woods, among the leaves, if there are any leaves when their time comes, enduring without sentimental human distraction the Last Loneliness, which they are wise enough to know cannot be shared by anyone.

  James Thurber

  Death, Wise, Dog

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• That's what Jamie didn't understand: it was never just sex. Even the fastest, dirtiest, most impersonal screw was about more than sex. It was about connection. It was about looking at another human being and seeing your own loneliness and neediness reflected back. It was recognising that together you had the power to temporarily banish that sense of isolation. It was about experiencing what it was to be human at the basest, most instinctive level. How could that be described as just anything?

  Emily Maguire

  Sex, Together, Connections

  Emily Maguire (2009). “Taming the Beast”, p.85, Picador Australia

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• You must watch the pictures that you paint with your imagination. Your environment and the conditions of your life at any given time are the direct result of your own inner expectations. If you imagine dire circumstances, ill health or desperate loneliness, these will be 'automatically' materialized, for these thoughts themselves bring about the conditions that will give them a reality in physical terms. If you would have good health then you must imagine this as vividly as you fearfully imagine ill health.

  Seth

  Health, Reality, Giving

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• The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise.

  Jack London

  Hate, Men, Doe

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.570, Delphi Classics

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• What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself's the beginning of all love.

  Fritz Leiber

  People, Care, Like You

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “The Wanderer”, p.345, Open Road Media

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• Loneliness is just a thing that I'm not personally interested in. So far, it hasn't been on my docket of things to write about.

  Dave Eggers

  Writing

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 23, 2005.

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• I was in L.A. in '08. It was a cold Saturday night. I had spread my phone number out to a score of women and was just indulging this sweet, sad, elegiac, bale loneliness - don't tell me you haven't been there.

  James Ellroy

  Sweet, Night, Phones

  Interview by Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• It'd be preposterous for me to propose a universal cure to loneliness but I will say that people who do the things they find interesting, either creatively or vocationally, tend to become unlonely very quickly.

  Douglas Coupland

  People, Interesting, Cures

  Source: feathertale.com

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• Any business or enterprise that shaves away loneliness is going to last forever. And like it or not but we've got a lonely society.

  Anita Roddick

  Lonely, Forever, Lasts

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people; which is one reason why I'm not subject to what is known as loneliness. I have plenty of company.

  William S. Burroughs

  Real, Character, People

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• Loneliness is the teacher of giving.

  Hyemeyohsts Storm

  Teacher, Giving

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• I almost never get lonely. I love being alone. I'm glad I'm married, and I love my wife. But there's never been a situation in my life where my unhappiness was based on loneliness.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Lonely, Love Is, Wife

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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