Loneliness Quotes - Page 40

• There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.

  Alexander Pope

  Solitude, Devil, Adam

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.123

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• The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.

  Erich Fromm

  Solitude, Noble, World

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.30, Open Road Media

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• Loneliness comes over us sometimes as a sudden tide. It is one of the terms of our humanness, and, in a sense, therefore, incurable. Yet I have found peace in my loneliest times not only through acceptance of the situation, but through making it an offering to God, who can transfigure it into something for the good of others.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Acceptance, Offering, Tides

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• If you feel a great loneliness and a deep longing for human contact, you have to be extremely discerning...and ask yourself whether this situation is truly God given. Because where God wants you to be, God holds you safe and gives you peace, even when there is pain. To live a disciplined life is to live in such a way that you want only to be where God is with you. The more deeply you live your spiritual life, the easier it will be to discern the difference between living with God and living without God, and the easier it will be to move away from the places where God is no longer with you.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Pain, Moving

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• Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship to formula. Laughter and love, pain and loneliness, the challenge of beauty and truth: these will always surpass the scientific mastery of nature.

  Louis Orr

  Beauty, Laughter, Pain

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• Loneliness is failed solitude.

  Sherry Turkle

  Solitude, Introvert

  Sherry Turkle (2011). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.288, Basic Books

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• Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you always talk of their envy, without understanding that what they ask of you is not so much your worldly goods, as something very hard to define, which they themselves can put no name to; yet at times it consoles their loneliness; a dream of splendor, of magnificence, a tawdry dream, a poor man's dream -and yet God blesses it!

  Georges Bernanos

  Dream, Simple, Men

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• Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence on a noxious private planet they can never leave, and where they can receive no visitors.

  Andrew Solomon

  Depression, Fading, World

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.296, Simon and Schuster

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• I have a lot of friends, but my biggest fear is loneliness. I miss my family in Mumbai, and my biggest nightmare every day is to go back home alone.

  Deepika Padukone

  Home, Missing, Lots Of Friends

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

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• In past wars only homes burnt, but this time
  Don't be surprised if even loneliness ignites.
  In past wars only bodys burnt, but this time
  Don't be surprised if even shadows ignite.

  Sahir Ludhianvi

  War, Home, Past

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• But loneliness is as delusive a belief in the pertinence of the world as is love: in choosing to feel lonely, as in choosing to love, one carves a space next to oneself to be filled by others - a friend, a lover, a toy poodle, a violinist on the radio.

  Yiyun Li

  Lonely, Space, World

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• The American appetite for loneliness impressed me, and there was something about this solitude that freed conversation. One night at a bar, I met a man, and within five minutes he explained that he had just been released from prison. Another drinker told me that his wife had passed away, and he had recently suffered a heart attack, and now he hoped that he would die within the year. I learned that there's no reliable small talk in America; at any moment a conversation can become personal.

  Peter Hessler

  Heart, Night, Men

  "Go West". www.newyorker.com. April 19, 2010.

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• My loneliness...still comes over me sometimes...It's a liminal, lost sensation of having wandered wide, endless boulevards, among rows of orange trees, winter butterflies, seasons reversed and out of order, dogs barking from behind fences meant to keep out intruders. It's not the place that impoverishes me but I who bring my own sense of poverty, of loss, to the place. It's a sense of near nothingness, as though I were not so much a blank slate as an erased chalkboard, still bearing illegible smudges of smoothed-over writing.

  Marco Roth

  Dog, Writing, Butterfly

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• The lack of human voices really gets to me. I never realized that we need to talk with other people just to know that we exist. That we matter. Loneliness is a howling, empty cavern inside of me that just keeps growing.

  Cheryl Rainfield

  Voice, People, Needs

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• It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another.

  Aimee Carter

  Oneself

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• I'm supposed to be, I am an artist. Yes, I'm lonely. But I'm married to my loneliness.

  Lady Gaga

  Lonely, Artist, Married

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• It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today.

  Elisabeth Shue

  Mean, People, Would Be

  "Elisabeth Shue Talks Lingerie With AM". Interview with Teena Apeles, www.askmen.com. April 2, 2010.

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• Theres a difference between solitude and loneliness

  Maggie Smith

  Differences, Solitude, Maggie

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• The fear inside of loneliness: That only what others have is real.

  Liv Ullmann

  Real

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• If we don't accept loneliness, then capitalism wins hands down. Because capitalism is all about trying to convince people that you can distract yourself, that you can make it better. And it ain't true.

  Tilda Swinton

  Winning, Hands, People

  "An elegant escape" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2003.

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• You are the architect of your own loneliness.

  Adam Shankman

  Architect, Originals

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• Success definitely brings on loneliness. People think you're lucky, that you have everything. They think you can go anywhere and do anything, but that's not the point. One hungers for the basic stuff.

  Michael Jackson

  Thinking, People, Lucky

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Mar 06, 2017

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• The purpose of fiction is to combat loneliness.

  Josh Radnor

  Purpose, Fiction, Combat

  ""Liberal Arts" Lights Up the Big Screen". Interview with Jonathan Sherman, bulletin-archive.kenyon.edu. September, 2012.

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• My loneliness ain't killing me no more.

  Britney Spears

  Killing

  Song: Stronger

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• The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world.

  John Huston

  Together, World, Individual

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

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