Loneliness Quotes - Page 22

• People don't acknowledge loneliness in themselves, and don't appreciate its benefits, the reflection and attentiveness that come with it, the deepened acquaintance with oneself.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Reflection, People, Appreciate

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• I am interested in the loneliness and isolation that we can feel when we hide feelings we are ashamed of, especially if they concern people that we love.

  Torill Kove

  People, Feelings, Isolation

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• What wants to live in you may be waiting...at the end of a long loneliness.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Long, Waiting, May

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• Jesus never tried to hide his loneliness and dependence on other people. He chose his disciples not as servants but as friends. He shared moments of joy and grief with them, and asked for them in times of need. They became his family, his substitute mother and brothers and sisters. They gave up everything for him, as he had given up everything for them. He loved them, plain and simple.

  Philip Yancey

  Mother, Brother, Jesus

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• Loneliness is the penalty of leadership, but the man who has to make the decisions is assisted greatly if he feels that there is no uncertainty in the minds of those who follow him, and that his orders will be carried out confidently and in the expectation of success.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Men, Order, Expectations

  Ernest Shackleton (2015). “South”, p.119, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Cinema is a wonderful art form for talking about loneliness. We can experience films together with other people. It can be a collective experience of loneliness. We're alone in the dark of the theater, but with other people.

  Joachim Trier

  Art, Dark, Talking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The traits of our sexual culture are still speechlessness, loneliness, violence and not enough desire and love.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  Desire, And Love, Culture

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• At some point just about all of us experience loneliness. In a sense, it is what it means to be a sentient animal, to have an experience of separation from others.

  Thomas L. Dumm

  Mean, Animal, Separation

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, believermag.com. January 1, 2009.

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• There are degrees of loneliness, ways in which the experience of loneliness deepens, becomes something like what we might call a way of life. This way of life is both what is most damaging to us as a culture, and, paradoxically, contributes to its richness. It may in the end be our lasting contribution to the life of our planet.

  Thomas L. Dumm

  Degrees, Culture, May

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, believermag.com. January 1, 2009.

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• Usually, we think that "good" loneliness is what we call "solitude," the choice of some alone-time. But I want to press on with the negative dimension, to look at ways in which a fundamental sense of being separated from others shapes who we are and why.

  Thomas L. Dumm

  Thinking, Choices, Solitude

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, believermag.com. January 1, 2009.

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• We can never leave loneliness behind completely - it is part of what forms us.

  Thomas L. Dumm

  Form, Behinds

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, believermag.com. January 1, 2009.

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• One of the reasons I always come back to representations of loneliness in plays, films, and literature is that they give us specific examples of the powerful hold that it has on us, and yet, paradoxically, by representing what can't really be represented, so to speak, they give us ways of going forward even as we fall apart.

  Thomas L. Dumm

  Powerful, Fall, Play

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• A lot of people think that my work is about mocking or making fun of things, but a lot of it is about discomfort and making myself as uncomfortable as the men feel, or putting myself in a situation where I'm revealing my loneliness as much as they're revealing theirs.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Fun, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• A lot of people have said that the main thread in my work is loneliness or just wanting to create a world with someone who doesn't really have much in their life, so maybe I'm looking for someone who's lonely and wants to try to create something with me as a subject for my videos.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Lonely, People, Trying

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• Sometimes I felt lonely because I pushed people away for so long that I honestly didn't have many close connections left. I was physically isolated and disconnected from the world. Sometimes I felt lonely in a crowded room. This kind of loneliness pierced my soul and ached to the core. I not only felt disconnected from the world, but I also felt like no one ever loved me. Intellectually, I knew that people did, but I still felt that way.

  Jenni Schaefer

  Lonely, Long, People

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• Gail Godwin has written a book about the heaviest matters of loss, grief, and loneliness with a touch so light that I was as often deeply amused by it as I was deeply moved.

  Frederick Buechner

  Grief, Book, Loss

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• The problem with the loneliness I suffer is that the company of others has never been a cure for it.

  Joseph Heller

  Suffering, Problem, Cures

  Joseph Heller (1997). “God Knows”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• We are called to love even in the loneliness, worship even in the tears and follow even in the darkness.

  Pete Wilson

  Darkness, Tears, Worship

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• So give your complete attention to what you feel, and refrain from mentally labeling it. As you go into the feeling, be intensely alert. At first, it may seem like a dark and terrifying place, and when the urge to turn away from it comes, observe it but don’t act on it. Keep putting your attention on the pain, keep feeling the grief, the fear, the dread, the loneliness, whatever it is. Stay alert, stay present - present with your whole Being, with every cell of your body. As you do so, you are bringing a light into this darkness. This is the flame of your consciousness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Grief, Dark

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• Basal Ganglia casts an unsettling spell, but one that in its aphoristic intensity and lightning-flash insights into human loneliness and connection, achieves a genuine empathic wisdom.

  Sergio De La Pava

  Lightning, Connections, Achieve

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• For all the advances in technology, science and communications, there are signs that we are failing in areas where it matters most: our personal relationships and society in general. The atomisation of society evidenced by the startling increase in recent decades of single person households and the identification of loneliness and isolation as one of our most pressing new social problems, should give us cause for concern.

  Cory Bernardi

  Communication, Technology, Giving

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• Don't be afraid of loneliness, because everything is a door; even loneliness is a door, it opens to somewhere!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Doors

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• Every time I stepped into madness of the crowds, I longed for the wisdom of the loneliness.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Crowds, Madness

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• It was a lot to carry out of a childhood--all those textured layers of thwarted dreams rumbling under the fifties patina--but a lot of us did it. In those manicured lives and choreographed marriages there was an often-pronounced loneliness, an emptiness that we would try to fill with our own accomplishments. And our role, the one we would have so much trouble trying to shed later, was simply to be the best little girls in the world, the high- achieving, make-no-waves, properly behaved little kittens.

  Anne Taylor Fleming

  Girl, Dream, Accomplishment

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• ... it is a lonely programme. The very virtues you cultivate become walls that inevitably separate you from your kind.... A new danger comes to your soul, and intolerance and impatience with those who are as you have been all but destroy that which you have taken such pains to build up. Not alone are there spiritual barriers between you and the friends that you have, but your business training has made your mind incisive. In the swift rush of business you have no time for small debates and petty dilemmas.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Spiritual, Lonely, Business

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