Loneliness Quotes - Page 7

• So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Wisdom, Art

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• Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.

  Sylvia Plath

  Self, Joy, Soul

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.31, Anchor

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• We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lonely, Being Alone, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.88, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Memories begin to creep forward from hidden corners of your mind. Passing disappointments. Lost chances and lost causes. Heartbreaks and pain and desolate, horrible loneliness. Sorrows you thought long forgotten mingle with still-fresh wounds.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Pain, Memories, Disappointment

  FaceBook post by Erin Morgenstern from Nov 07, 2012

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• Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

  Woody Allen

  Death, Depressing, Funny Life

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• Being human is the most terrible loneliness in the universe.

  A.A. Attanasio

  Being Human, Terrible, Humans

  A. A. Attanasio (1997). “The Dragon and the Unicorn”, GuildAmerica Books

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• The surest sign of age is loneliness.

  Annie Dillard

  Time, Age, Aging

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• The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Lonely, Jobs, Men

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• To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

  Anna Louise Strong

  Love, Dream, Missing Someone

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• Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Single, Brother, Solitude

  Miguel de Unamuno (1925). “Essays and Soliloquies”

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• But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.

  Haruki Murakami

  Morning, Book, Air

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jan 01, 2017

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• I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Night, Feeling Lonely, Clerks

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.48, Cambridge University Press

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• Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Time, Men, Hair

  The Great Gatsby ch. 7 (1925)

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• Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets
  loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet today
  the institutions on which community depends are crumbling in all the
  techno-societies. The result is a spreading plague of loneliness.

  Alvin Toffler

  Being Alone, People, Giving

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• Oh, I am a lonely painter / I live in a box of paints.

  Joni Mitchell

  Lonely, Paint, Boxes

  Song: A Case of You

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• The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of God creating from a primal loneliness.

  Garry Wills

  Artist, Creating, Brain

  Garry Wills (1979). “Confessions of a conservative”, Doubleday Books

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• Tranquility, allied to loneliness, possessed no charms.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Tranquility, Charm, Possessed

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore, by the author of 'Frankenstein'.”, p.13

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• I was born on a tiny cot in southwestern Massachusetts during World War II. A sickly child, I turned to photography to overcome my loneliness and isolation.

  William Wegman

  Photography, Children, War

  Joan Simon, William Wegman (2006). “William Wegman: Funney/strange”, p.105, Yale University Press

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• The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.

  Cesare Pavese

  Break Out, Problem, Communicate

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.135, Transaction Publishers

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• There are those who worship loneliness, I'm not one of them In this age of fiberglass I'm searching for a gem The crystal ball up on the wall hasn't shown me nothing yet I've paid the price of solitude, but at last I'm out of debt

  Bob Dylan

  Wall, Solitude, Age

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.460, Simon and Schuster

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• Remember we're all in this alone.

  Lily Tomlin

  Being Alone, Feeling Lonely, Remember

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• Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.

  Hermann Hesse

  Wise, Destiny, Men

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• Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.

  John Milton

  Lonely, Being Alone, Eye

  John Milton (2009). “The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton”, p.997, Modern Library

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  And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Relationship, Smile

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Running, Being Alone, Men

  "Wild Women Talk Back : Audacious Advice for the Bedroom, Boardroom, and Beyond". Book by Autumn Stephens (p. 15), 2004.

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