Loneliness Quotes - Page 36

• There is nothing more lonely than eternity. And nothing is more cozy for us than to be a human being. This indeed is another contradiction-how can we keep the bonds of our humanness and still venture gladly and purposefully into the absolute loneliness of eternity?

  Carlos Castaneda

  Lonely, Cozy, Venture

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Fire from Within”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Lonely, Hate, Dark

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• Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Mind, Earth, Bounds

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• Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Vision, Watches

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The critic as artist (low cost). Limited edition”, p.54, Oscar Wilde

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• ... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

  Bertrand Russell

  Pain, World, Poverty

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.9, Routledge

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• O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other. After all, if we look closer into ourselves, shall we not admit that the warmth from other people comes so sweet to us when it comes, because, we always carry with us the knowledge of the cold loneliness of death?

  Ama Ata Aidoo

  Lonely, Sweet, People

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• Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Listening, Remedy

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• We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.

  Andy Rooney

  Desire, Privacy, Away From Each Other

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.129, PublicAffairs

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• Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence mid the worlds loud din.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Men, Silence

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.16

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• Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.

  George Orwell

  Mean, Worry, Poverty

  George Orwell (1954). “Keep the aspidistra flying”

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• I (God) will leave man to make the fateful guess, Will leave him torn between the no and yes, Leave him unresting till he rests in me, Drawn upward by the choice that makes him free, Leave him in tragic loneliness to choose, With all in life to win or all to lose.

  Edwin Markham

  Winning, Men, Choices

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• Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Art, Criticism, Littles

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• If one's object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York; there is practically no extreme of heat or cold, physical risk, loneliness, hunger or thirst that cannot, with a little ingenuity, be conveniently achieved in the centres of civilization.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Travel, New York, Civilization

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Pain, Work, Overcoming

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• One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

  Karl Kraus

  Solitude, Needs, Tables

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules of the game forbid assuagement.

  Iris Murdoch

  Games, Soul, Framed

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.89, Penguin

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• A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.

  Francois Mauriac

  Writing, Men, Doe

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• Wouldn't it be nice if all the people who are lonesome could live in one big dormitory, sleep in beds next to each other, talk, laugh, and keep the lights on as long as they want to?

  Lenny Bruce

  Nice, Sleep, Light

  Lenny Bruce (1992). “How to Talk Dirty and Influence People”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days.

  Edward Hoagland

  Avid, Columns, These Days

  Edward Hoagland (1983). “The tugman's passage”, Viking Pr

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• ... we are all terribly alone no matter what people say.

  Bernard Malamud

  People, Matter, No Matter What

  Bernard Malamud (1967). “A Malamud Reader”, p.46, Macmillan

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• That many-faceted thing called love succeeds in building bridges from the loneliness on this shore to the loneliness on the other one. These bridges can be of great beauty, but they are rarely built for eternity, and frequently they cannot tolerate too heavy a burden without collapsing.

  Karen Horney

  Love, Bridges, Succeed

  Karen Horney (1967). “Feminine Psychology”

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• I've been so lonely for long periods of my life that if a rat walked in I would have welcomed it.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Lonely, Long, Rats

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• Of those that are drawn away, each is drawn elsewhere toward another: once more a man and a woman, in a loneliness they are not liable at that time to notice, are tightened together upon a bed: and another family has begun.

  James Agee

  Family, Men, Together

  James Agee, Walker Evans (2001). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Loneliness is dangerous ... because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Self, Devil, Doe

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• I hold my face in my two hands. No, I am not crying. I hold my face in my two hands to keep the loneliness warm - two hands protecting, two hands nourishing, two hands preventing my soul from leaving me in anger.

  Nhat Hanh

  Self, Hands, Two

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2013). “Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems”, p.15, Parallax Press

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