Loneliness Quotes - Page 6

• Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.

  Indra Devi

  Freedom, Fear, Yoga

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• I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.

  Russell Baker

  Lonely, Years, Poetry

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• What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

  Ellen Burstyn

  Lonely, Being Alone, Solitude

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• Fame doesn't end loneliness.

  Claire Danes

  Being Lonely, Fame, Ends

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• Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

  James Dean

  Being Alone, Imagination, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Hilarious, Being Alone, Feeling Alone

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• When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.

  Whitney Houston

  Mother, Singers, Being Lonely

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• There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I used to always cry from loneliness.

  Michael Jackson

  Brother, Fighting, Cry

  "Michael Jackson: The least weird man Elizabeth Taylor ever knew" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2009.

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• Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Character, Imagination

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.32

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• Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

  Martin Luther

  Death, Faith, Believe

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• Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

  Octavio Paz

  Being Alone, Men, Alone Man

  The Labyrinth of Solitude ch. 9 (1950) (translation by Lysander Kemp)

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• What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.

  Richard Wilbur

  Break Up, I Miss You, Broken Heart

  Richard Wilbur (2006). “Opposites, More Opposites, and a Few Differences”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All great and precious things are lonely.

  John Steinbeck

  Lonely, Being Alone, Precious Things

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.458, Penguin

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• If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Fall, Being Alone, Half

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

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• My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Men, Foam

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?

  David Foster Wallace

  Lonely, Being Alone, Missing

  "The Oscars Get It All Wrong Again: David Foster Wallace and the Best Film of 2015" by Allen Callaci, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 19, 2016.

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• The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.

  Marya Mannes

  Being Alone, Space, Omission

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• But he [Depression] just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on my table and lights a cigar, filling the place with his awful smoke. Loneliness watches and sighs, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He's going to make me sleep with him again tonight, I just know it.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Sleep, Dark, Shoes

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.50, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I went through a period in my life when I had no friends, when the phone never rang, when I thought I would die from loneliness. I know that the real blessing here isn't that I have a book published, but that I have so many people to thank.

  Louise Penny

  Real, Book, Blessing

  Louise Penny (2008). “Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.10, Macmillan

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  Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Mind, Illness, States

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov”, p.464, Vintage

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• The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.

  Mary Balogh

  Lonely, Faces, Worst

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• The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

  Tom Wolfe

  Life, Being Alone, Men

  "The American Mercury", p. 467, "The Anatomy of Loneliness", October 1941.

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• I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories.

  Charles Bukowski

  Drinking, Bars, Want

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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• I'm not one of those women who thinks beauty is a curse.

  Diane Kruger

  Thinking, Curse

  "Diane Kruger on starring in Quention Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds". www.mirror.co.uk. August 21, 2009.

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• The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Being Yourself, Lonely, Struggle

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