Loneliness Quotes - Page 24

• It is necessary to like loneliness to be photographer

  Raymond Depardon

  Photographer

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• I wish other people would write about loneliness more. It's hard to remember that it's not personal. We live in a world that is built to make people lonely... It's difficult to remember that your loneliness is not really about you and everyone has it.

  Jessa Crispin

  Lonely, Writing, People

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• People who have at least three or four very close friendships are healthier, have higher wellbeing, and are more engaged in their jobs. But the absence of any close friendships can lead to boredom, loneliness, and depression.

  Tom Rath

  Jobs, People, Boredom

  Tom Rath, James K. Harter, Jim Harter (2010). “Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future - the timelessness of the rocks and the hills - all the people who have existed there.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Dream, Fall, Winter

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

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• Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

  Max Ehrmann

  Shields, Spirit, Born

  Max Ehrmann (2017). “The Desiderata of Happiness”, p.6, Souvenir Press Ltd

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• Leaders who insulate themselves from others and choose to bear their burdens single-handedly are destined for loneliness and burnout. Leaders, like everyone else, need friends and perhaps in light of the load they carry, even more so.

  Richard Blackaby

  Light, Leader, Needs

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• I've definitely had my hard partying moments. I've definitely had the long stretches of time in my personal life where I've felt an intense loneliness and a desperation to feel something real and to have something that truly meant something in my life.

  Brett Gelman

  Real, Party, Long

  Source: collider.com

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• One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.

  John Ortberg

  Support, Empathy, Suffering

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.214, Harper Collins

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• Loneliness is an aspect of the land.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Land, Aspect

  N. Scott Momaday (1976). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.5, UNM Press

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• Loneliness is the fundamental force that urgees mystics to a deeper union with God... An experience of God quenches this thirst for the absolute but at the same time, paradoxiacally, whets it, because this is an experience that can never be total; by necessity, the knowledge of God is always partial. So loneliness opens up mystics to a desire to love each other and every human being as God loves them.

  Jean Vanier

  Desire, Fundamentals, Unions

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• Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists, heterosexual or homosexual. Loneliness has to do with the sudden clefts we experience in every human relation, the gaps that open up with such stomach-turning unexpectedness. In a brief moment, I and my brother or sister have moved away into different worlds, and there is no language we can share.... It is in the middle of intimacy that the reality of loneliness most dramatically appears.

  Rowan Williams

  Brother, Reality, Different

  Rowan Williams (1995). “A Ray of Darkness”, p.121, Cowley Publications

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• Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty.

  Mother Teresa

  Feelings, Use, Poverty

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• Michael Jackson plays the wounded puppy very well. 'I must be the loneliest man in the world'. Well, you're not a man. And the loneliness is self inflicted, so sod off you pathetic puerile pimp. I wonder what color his willy is.

  John Lydon

  Men, Self, Color

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• Loneliness is a very special place, Silently silently you touch my face

  Dennis Wilson

  Special, Faces, Special Places

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• Do not think I do not realise what I am doing. I am making a composition using the following elements: the winter beach; the winter moon; the ocean; the women; the pine trees; the riders; the driftwood; the shells; the shapes of darkness and the shapes of water; and the refuse. These are all inimical to my loneliness because of their indifference to it. Out of these pieces of inimical indifference, I intend to represent the desolate smile of winter which, as you must have gathered, is the smile I wear.

  Angela Carter

  Beach, Ocean, Winter

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• Your melancholy. Or depression. Along with nine-tenths of the afflictions I've studied, diagnosed, attempted to treat. Call them whatever you like, but they're just different names for loneliness. That's what lets the darkness in. That's what you have to fight.

  Andrew Pyper

  Fighting, Names, Darkness

  Andrew Pyper (2014). “The Demonologist: A Novel”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Loneliness remembers what happiness forgets

  Hal David

  Remember, Forget

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• My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Wall, Expression, White

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• Since I love you, my loneliness begins to throw you.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Love You

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• We need new words for what this is, this hunger entering our loneliness like birds, stunning our eyes into rays of hope. we need the flutter that can save us, something that will swirl across the face of what we have become and bring us grace.

  Lucille Clifton

  Eye, Bird, Grace

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• What, after all, are the world's deepest problems? They are what they always have been, the individual's problems—the meaning of life and death, the mastery of self, the quest for value and worth-whileness and freedom within, the transcending of loneliness, the longing for love and a sense of significance, and for peace. Society's problems are deep, but the individual's problems go deeper; Solzhenitsyn, Dostoyevsky, or Shakespeare will show us that, if we hesitate to take it from the Bible.

  J. I. Packer

  Self, Life And Death, Meaning Of Life

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• I began to paint again, even though I could barely hold the brush, but knowing exactly what I wanted to paint, I began three more large canvases... of large wheat fields under cloudy skies, and it did not take a great deal to express sadness and loneliness... I believe these paintings say what words cannot.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Believe, Sadness, Knowing

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• No human pursuit achieves dignity unless it can be called work, and when you can experience a physical loneliness for the tools of your trade, you see that the other things - the experiments, the irrelevant vocations, the vanities you used to hold - were false to you.

  Beryl Markham

  Vanity, Tools, Dignity

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• Working alone on stories, I began to feel the anonymity of motels on interstate highways reached by jet planes and rental cars. It was hard to have a good time, and the only way I could make the loneliness excusable was by taking pictures I thought were very good, even valuable.

  John Loengard

  Car, Working Alone, Stories

  John Loengard (1987). “Pictures under discussion”, Amphoto Books

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• For me it is essential to understand that everyone is alone. Not in the sense of loneliness, but rather in the sense that no one can completely understand someone else. I know very well what Diane Arbus means when she says that one cannot crawl into someone else's skin, but there is always an urge to do so anyway. I want to awaken definite sympathies for the person I have photographed.

  Rineke Dijkstra

  Mean, Skins, Essentials

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