Loneliness Quotes - Page 31

• I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them.

  Anais Nin

  Lonely, Reality, Ideas

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• Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Believe, Discovery, Impossible

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• Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.

  Milan Kundera

  Sweet, Being Alone, Solitude

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• My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.

  Anthony Swofford

  Boredom, Despair

  Anthony Swofford (2008). “Jarhead: A Solder's Story of Modern War”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Laughter, Lds, Trying

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• However contradictory the coroner's report — whether he pronounces Consumption or Loneliness or Suicide to be the cause of death — isn't it plain how the true artist-seer actually dies? I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human conscience.

  J. D. Salinger

  Suicide, Artist, Color

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• Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Inspirational, Life, Believe

  "Shantaram". Book by Gregory David Roberts, 2003.

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• It's so kind of you to want to visit me in my loneliness. - The Wicked Witch of the West. Now I know I have a heart, because it's breaking. - The Tin Woodsman Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

  L. Frank Baum

  Heart, Wicked, Tin

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• ...to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that can not be ravaged in the dark without great consequence.

  Eve Ensler

  Pain, Dark, Speak

  Eve Ensler (1998). “The Vagina Monologues”, Villard Books

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• Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come to the joint conclusion that the purpose of writing fiction was “a way out of loneliness.” (NY Times article on the memorial service of David Foster Wallace.)

  Jonathan Franzen

  Writing, Years, Memorial

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• She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime.

  Lorrie Moore

  Littles, Crime, Made

  Lorrie Moore (2010). “The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore”, p.79, Faber & Faber

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• Every one of Joel's important songs--including the happy ones--are ultimately about loneliness. And it's not 'clever lonely' (like Morrissey) or 'interesting lonely' (like Radiohead); it's 'lonely lonely,' like the way it feels when you're being hugged by someone and it somehow makes you sadder.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Song, Lonely, Clever

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They are the enemies of our loneliness, our doubt, our anxiety, our tendencies to abdicate. To continue to be in good conversation over our enormous and terrifying problems is to be calling out to each other in the night. If we attend with imagination and devotion to our conversations, we will find what we need; and someone among us will act—it does not matter whom—and we will survive.

  Barry Lopez

  Exercise, Night, Imagination

  FaceBook post by Barry Lopez from Jul 30, 2014

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• Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Realizing, Hungry, Starvation

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “Faithless: Tales of Transgression”, p.36, Harper Collins

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• Then when dusk began to settle he would retrace his steps, back to his own world. And on the way home, a loneliness would always claim his heart. He could never quite get a grip on what it was. It just seemed that whatever lay waiting "out there" was all too vast, too overwhelming for him to possibly ever make a dent in.

  Haruki Murakami

  Home, Heart, Waiting

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• Wounding and healing are not opposites. They're part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate with the wounds of others. It is our limitations that make us kind to the limitations of other people. It is our loneliness that helps us to to find other people or to even know they're alone with an illness. I think I have served people perfectly with parts of myself I used to be ashamed of.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Healing, Thinking, Opposites

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• In our opposed forms of loneliness and self-recognition and recognition of the other, we touched each other often as we spoke; and on shore in explorations of the past, we strolled with our arms linked.

  Harold Brodkey

  Past, Self, Arms

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• There is no holy life. There is no war between good and evil. There is no sin and no redemption. None of these things matter to the real you. But they all matter hugely to the false you, the one who believes in the separate self. You have tried to take your separate self, with all its loneliness and anxiety and pride, to the door of enlightenment. But it will never go through, because it is a ghost.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Real, War

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• When I left you, you were already more beautiful than anything I dared to dream. In our years apart, my imaginings did their best to improve on your perfection. At night, your face was forever behind my eyes. And now I see that that vision who kept me company in my loneliness was a hag compared to the beauty now before me.

  William Goldman

  Beautiful, Dream, Eye

  "The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure".

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  I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Inspirational, Heart, Giving

  Jorge Luis Borges (2011). “Poesía completa”, p.140, DEBOLS!LLO

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• Divinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in the falling snow; Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued Elations when the forest blooms; gusty Emotions on wet roads on autumn nights; All pleasures and all pains, remembering The boughs of summer and the winter branch. These are the measures destined for her soul.

  Wallace Stevens

  Summer, Pain, Rain

  Wallace Stevens (2002). “Harmonium”, p.105, Icaria Editorial

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• [...] We have to realize that this wound [of loneliness] is inherent in the human condition and that what we have to do is walk with it instead of fleeing from it. We cannot accept it until we discover that we are loved by God just as we are, and that the Holy Spirit in a mysterious way is living at the centre of the wound.

  Jean Vanier

  Fleeing, Way, Spirit

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• He stretched out his hands as he sang, sadly, because all beauty is sad…The poem had done no ‘good’ to anyone, but it was a passing reminder, a breath from the divine lips of beauty, a nightingale between two worlds of dust. Less explicit than the call to Krishna, it voiced our loneliness nevertheless, our isolation, our need for the Friend who never comes yet is not entirely disproved.

  E. M. Forster

  Dust, Hands, Two

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• Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world.” “Then you’ve made the only choice. But there’s a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It’s loneliness.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Choices, Want, World

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.438, Hamilton Books

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• I also have the impression that many women have been able, instinctively, to sniff out this loneliness of mine, which I confided to no one, and this in later years was to become one of the causes of my being taken advantage of.

  Osamu Dazai

  Taken, Years, Able

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.38, New Directions Publishing

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