Loneliness Quotes - Page 35

• Loneliness is the worst pain in this world. It constantly eats away the person's heart, and can cause the person to hate, to feel enraged. It is like a wound of the heart; the type of wounds that cannot go away with a kiss or a hug. The only thing that can make this great pain go away is love and compassion, another human heart to pull them out of this hell.

  Princess Diana

  Pain, Hate, Heart

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• Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

  Max Ehrmann

  Born, Fatigue, Strength Of Spirit

  Max Ehrmann (2003). “Desiderata: Words for Life”, p.31, Scholastic Inc.

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• We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place. We stay there even though we go away and there are things in us we can find again only by going back there. We travel to ourselves when we go to a place. We have covered a stretch of our life no matter how brief it may have been but by traveling to ourselves we must confront our own loneliness. And isn’t it so that everything we do is done out of fear of our loneliness? Isn’t that why we renounce all the things we will regret at the end of our life?

  Pascal Mercier

  Regret, Going Away, Done

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• I've decided that the worst part of loneliness isn't being alone. It's being forgotten.

  Tawni O'Dell

  Forgotten, Worst, Decided

  Tawni O'Dell (2010). “Fragile Beasts: A Novel”, p.129, Crown

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• The great loneliness- like the loneliness a caterpillar endures when she wraps herself in a silky shroud and begins the long transformation from chrysalis to butterfly. It seems we too must go through such a time, when life as we have known it is over- when being a caterpillar feels somehow false and yet we don’t know who we are supposed to become. All we know is that something bigger is calling us to change. And though we must make the journey alone, and even if suffering is our only companion, soon enough we will become a butterfly, soon enough we will taste the rapture of being alive.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Life, Change, Being Alone

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• Define loneliness?
  Yes.
  It's what we can't do for each other.

  Claudia Rankine

  Claudia Rankine (2004). “Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric”, Graywolf Press

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• The joy of the gospel fills the hearts and lives of all who encounter Jesus. Those who accept His offer of salvation are set free from sin, sorrow, inner emptiness, and loneliness. With Christ joy is constantly born anew.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Heart, Joy

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.5, BookBaby

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• Lonely? Give it to Jesus. The loneliness itself is material for sacrifice.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Lonely, Jesus, Sacrifice

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• Even in this world where you’re getting everything you need and having this nice life, there’s still loneliness and longing and disconnection.

  Spike Jonze

  Nice, Needs, World

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• He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the open, like some old stone lying on the sand; he looked as if he had become physically what was always at the back of both of their minds-that loneliness which was for both of them the truth about things.

  Virginia Woolf

  Running, Lying, Water

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.387, Wordsworth Editions

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• After close to a year of traveling, I had seen things in the world and in myself, both good and bad, that I had never noticed before. I was struggling daily with pride and insecurity, homesickness and loneliness, with the burden of picking up my cross and following Jesus. This journey produced a new hunger for redemption in me.

  Bethany Dillon

  Jesus, Struggle, Pride

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• When we look within ourselves with psilocybin, we discover that we do not have to look outward toward the futile promise of life that circles distant stars in order to still our cosmic loneliness. We should look within; the paths of the heart lead to nearby universes full of life and affection for humanity.

  Terence McKenna

  Stars, Heart, Order

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

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• God has spoken very boldly about his desire to be a presence in our lives. If I want to heal the ache and loneliness in my own life, one of the things I need to do is get away, alone with God. . . . In the silence God will speak to you most powerfully. Too often his words to us get muffled, lost, or covered by the crowd of many noises both inside and outside of us. We must have a quiet heart in order to hear God's distinctive message to us.

  Tim Hansel

  God, Heart, Order

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• We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life.

  Marina Keegan

  Love, Women, Opposites

  Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Happy Life, Play, Envy

  "Balanced Life — 6 Tips for Battling Loneliness" by Gretchen Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2011.

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• People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition.

  Jean Vanier

  People, Community, Competition

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• Fundamentally, diaries are about loneliness.

  Kenneth Williams

  Diaries, Journal

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• And for this you must have quiet and solitude. But society does not allow you to have them. You must be with people, outwardly active at all costs. If you are alone you are considered antisocial or peculiar, or you are afraid of your own loneliness.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  People, Solitude, Doe

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1936-1944, The mirror of relationship”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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• Relaxing with something as familiar as loneliness is good discipline for realizing the profundity of the unresolved moments of our lives. We are cheating ourselves when we run away from the ambiguity of loneliness.....Rather than persecuting yourself or feeling that something terribly wrong is happening, right there in the moment of sadness and longing, could you relax and touch the limitless space of the human heart?

  Pema Chodron

  Running, Cheating, Sadness

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• The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Lonely, Men, Sky

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1898). “Sielanka: A Forest Picture, and Other Stories”

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• Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Children, Pain

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.3, Routledge

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• The simplest spiritual discipline is some degree of solitude and silence. But it's the hardest, because none of us want to be with someone we don't love. Besides that, we invariably feel bored with ourselves, and all of our loneliness comes to the surface.We won't have the courage to go into that terrifying place without Love to protect us and lead us, without the light and love of God overriding our own self-doubt. Such silence is the most spacious and empowering technique in the world, yet it's not a technique at all. It's precisely the refusal of all technique.

  Richard Rohr

  Love, Spiritual, Self

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• You can have everything in the world and still be the loneliest man. And that is the most bitter type of loneliness, success has brought me world idolisation and millions of pounds. But it's prevented me from having the one thing we all need: A loving, ongoing relationship.

  Freddie Mercury

  Men, Pounds, Needs

  "Rock On Freddie". Interview, www.queenarchives.com. 1985.

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• I've never been lonely. I've been in a room... I've felt suicidal, I've been depressed. I've felt awful ... awful beyond all , but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude.

  Charles Bukowski

  Lonely, Suicidal, Numbers

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• There is nothing more painful than the untimely death of someone young and dear to the heart. The harrowing grief surges from a bottomless well of sorrow, drowning the mourner in a torrent of agonizing pain; an exquisite pain that continues to afflict the mourner with heartache and loneliness long after the deceased is buried and gone.

  Jocelyn Murray

  Pain, Grief, Heart

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