Loneliness Quotes - Page 23

• Technology grows and so does loneliness.

  Lucero Isaac

  Technology, Doe, Grows

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• I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely.

  Amy Tan

  Lonely, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Loneliness is something we [all people] go through. We go through mourning and longing. We make some bad choices sometimes because we're desperate for something, and that's okay. That's part of life.

  Jennifer Lee

  People, Choices, Mourning

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• Loneliness opens the door for wisdom and wisdom opens all the doors!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Doors

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• Loneliness itself is material for sacrifice. The very longings themselves can be offered to Him who understands perfectly. The transformation into something He can use for the good of others takes place only when the offering is put into his hands.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Sacrifice, Hands, Offering

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.67, Revell

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• So often loneliness comes from being out of touch with parts of oneself. We go searching for those parts in other people, but there's a difference between feeling separate from others and separate from oneself.

  Diane Ackerman

  Differences, People, Feelings

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis”, p.259, Vintage

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• Suicide is a crime of loneliness, and adulated people can be frighteningly alone. Intelligence does not help in these circumstances; brilliance is almost always profoundly isolating.

  Andrew Solomon

  Suicide, People, Doe

  FaceBook post by Andrew Solomon from Aug 21, 2014

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• I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do. It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem.

  Maggie Nelson

  Solitude, Trying, Dignity

  Maggie Nelson (2009). “Bluets”, p.28, Wave Books

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• For how smart we think we are, how facile with words, we don't have a word for this feeling, the feeling of being blessed by belonging. If the universe is an unfolding bud, then I am a part of its creative surge, along with the flowing of water and the growing of pines. I can find a kind of camaraderie in this universe, once I recover from the astonishment of it. Or maybe not camaraderie exactly. What is the opposite of loneliness?

  Kathleen Moore

  Smart, Blessed, Thinking

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• Being alone was easier. No risk, just loneliness. No one ever died from that.

  Marjorie M. Liu

  Risk, Easier, Died

  Marjorie M. Liu (2010). “A Wild Light: Hunter Kiss:”, p.40, Hachette UK

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• Jesus . . . wants us to see that the neighbor next door or the people sitting next to us on a plane or in a classroom are not interruptions to our schedule. They are there by divine appointment. Jesus wants us to see their needs, their loneliness, their longings, and he wants to give us the courage to reach out to them.

  Rebecca Pippert

  Jesus, Doors, People

  David Peterson, Rebecca Manley-Pippert (2013). “Out of the Saltshaker and into the World: Evangelism As A Way Of Life”, p.104, SPCK

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• Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused.

  Dean Koontz

  Doors, Two, Solitude

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Forever Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.123, Bantam

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• When so much is left to the listener's imagination, it is bound to be more scary. But our stories are not just to frighten; they are engaged with the things that are really scary like loneliness and madness.

  Larry Fessenden

  Imagination, Scary, Stories

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• loneliness is a twilight moment by feelings, longing after something or someone you can not reach

  Istvan Molnar

  Twilight, Feelings, Longing

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• For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Kindness, Worry, Needs

  Vincent van Gogh, Martin Bailey (1990). “Vicent van Gogh, letters from Provence”, Editorial Biblos

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• What I need is courage, and this often fails me. And it is also a fact that since my disease, when I am in the fields I am overwhelmed by a feeling of loneliness to such a horrible extent that I shy away from going out. But this will change all the same as time goes on. Only when I stand a painting before my easel do I feel somewhat alive. Never mind, this is going to change too, for now my health is so good that I suppose the physical part of me will gain the victory.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Feelings, Mind, Victory

  Vincent van Gogh, Martin Bailey (1990). “Van Gogh, letters from Provence”, Clarkson N Potter Publishers

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• There have been times in my life when I have felt I was lonely, but I don't think you want to live your life in order to mitigate against loneliness.

  Harrison Ford

  Lonely, Thinking, Order

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

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• Cool loneliness allows us to look honestly and without aggressionat our own minds. We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think weought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other peoplethink we want to be or ought to be. We give it up and just look directlywith compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat andheartache, no punishment.

  Pema Chodron

  Thinking, Compassion, Punishment

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.76, Shambhala Publications

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• A book is not an end in itself; it is only a way to touch someone - a bridge extended across a space of loneliness and obscurity - and sometimes it is a way of winning other people to our causes.

  Isabel Allende

  Book, Winning, Bridges

  Isabel Allende (1989). “Paths of resistance: the art and craft of the political novel”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• When you jump onto the emptiness of the loneliness, the best parachute to land you safely will be the books!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Book, Land, Emptiness

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• Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self.

  Carl Rogers

  Self, Uniting, Barriers

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• There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity. All young people should be taught now to put up with loneliness ... because the less man is compelled to come into contact with others, the better off he is.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, People, Choices

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• What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit

  Chief Seattle

  Men, Gone, Spirit

  Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

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• It might be better - more comfortable - to have a dog and two cats. All the love is focused on the cats and the dog. Am I right or wrong here? Have you seen it? At the end of this marriage, comes old age and loneliness.

  Pope Francis

  Dog, Cat, Love Is

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• Much has been said of the loneliness of wisdom, and how much the Truth seeker becomes a pilgrim wandering from star to star. To the ignorant, the wise man is lonely because he abides in distant heights of the mind. But the wise man himself does not feel lonely. Wisdom brings him nearer to life; closer to the heart of the world than the foolish man can ever be. Bookishness may lead to loneliness, and scholarship may end in a battle of beliefs, but the wise man gazing off into space sees not an emptiness, but a space full of life, truth, and law.

  Manly Hall

  Wise, Lonely, Stars

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