Loneliness Quotes - Page 38

• They are sharing a drink called loneliness.

  Billy Joel

  Expression, Drink

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• I've never been without a dog. I've made trips across the country with a dog. I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.

  William Shatner

  Country, Dog, Made

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• When I think about popular culture, I can't help but think that we're living in the age of loneliness. There's this illusion that we all have instant access to each other, but we actually have no real connection.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Real, Thinking, Age

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, Emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up the batteries of spiritual energy. Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Spiritual, People, Water

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• Loneliness isn't about being by yourself. That's fine, right and good, desirable in many ways. Loneliness is about finding a landing-place, or not, and knowing that, whatever you do, you can go back there. The opposite of loneliness isn't company, it's return. A place to return.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Being Yourself, Opposites, Knowing

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• Being single isn't the cause of loneliness, and marriage is not necessarily the cure. There are many lonely married people as well.

  Renee Jones

  Marriage, Single, Lonely

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• The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. The remarkable thing is that the cessation of the inner dialogue marks also the end of our concern with the world around us. It is as if we noted the world and think about it only when we have to report it to ourselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  Sadness, Thinking, Finals

  "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer, Section 165, 1973.

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• It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.

  Eric Hoffer

  Sad, I Miss You, Missing You

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• Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Insomnia, Reality, Worry

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.109, BookBaby

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• Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.

  Janet Malcolm

  Trust, Betrayal, Stupid

  The Journalist and the Murderer pt. 1 (1990)

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• The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Eagles, Liberty

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• It's getting to the point where I am no fun anymore, I am sorry. / Sometimes it hurts so badly I must cry out loud, ' I am lonely.' / I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are, you make it hard.

  Stephen Stills

  Lonely, Hurt, Sorry

  Song: Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, 2007

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• When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.

  Don Williams

  Being Alone, Heart, Men

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• A valuable lesson I've learned from making music is to never let anyone intimidate me. Every student, celebrity, CEO and math teacher in the world has experienced love, loneliness, fear and embarassment at some point. To understand this is to level an often very lopsided playing field.

  Anna Nalick

  Teacher, Math, Carpe Diem

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• Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.

  Lou Dorfsman

  Life, Beautiful, Lonely

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• Since God intends to make you like Jesus, he will take you through the same experiences Jesus went through. That includes loneliness, temptation, stress, criticism, rejection, and many other problems.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Stress, Rejection

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.179, Zondervan

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• When you are praying alone, and your spirit is dejected, and you are wearied and oppressed by your loneliness, remember then, as always, that God the Trinity looks upon you with eyes brighter than the sun; also all the angels, your own Guardian Angel, and all the Saints of God.

  John of Kronstadt

  Prayer, Eye, Angel

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• Some nights, valor and cold purpose aren't enough.

  Janet Morris

  Love, Determination, Commitment

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• ‎Niko and his women will be the death of all the Stepsons yet.

  Janet Morris

  Love, Sexuality, Stepsons

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.203, Paradise Publishing

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• Some nights, one wants to tell beloveds everything that's been waiting to be said. Some nights, a man needs flesh and blood and warm breath and a loving heart.

  Janet Morris

  Love, Heart, Night

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• Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.

  Deepak Chopra

  Wisdom, Teacher, Silence

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• To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Solitude, Oneself, Known

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• You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and, nymph-like, shall ere long burst forth a more perfect creature, fitted for a higher society.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Men, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.173, Courier Corporation

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• There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for any kind of sociability, however trivial or cheap, for the tiniest outward agreement with the first person who comes along.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Agreement, Solitude, Firsts

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• Not everyone knows how to be alone with others, how to share solitude. We have to help each other to understand how to be in our solitude, so that we can relate to each other without grabbing on to each other. We can be interdependent but not dependent. Loneliness is rejected despondency. Solitude is shared interdependence.

  David Spangler

  Solitude, Helping, Share

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