Lonely Quotes - Page 32

• Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and to feel connected with others. Instead, we often contract, fear intimacy, and suffer a bewildering sense of separation. We crave love, and yet we are lonely. Our delusion of being separate from one another, of being apart from all that is around us, gives rise to all of this pain.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Emo, Pain, Long

  "Lovingkindness". Book by Sharon Salzberg, July 14, 2014.

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• One of my patients told me that when she tried to tell her story people often interrupted her to tell her that they once had something just like that happen to them. Subtly her pain became a story about themselves. Eventually she stopped talking to most people. It was just too lonely. We connect through listening. When we interrupt what someone is saying to let them know that we understand, we move the focus of attention to ourselves. When we listen, they know we care. Many people with cancer talk about the relief of having someone just listen.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Pain, Cancer, Moving

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• When you are lonely, writing can keep you company. It is also a form of self-compensation, a way of making up for things—as opposed to making things up—that did not quite happen.

  Geoff Dyer

  Writing, Self, Way

  Geoff Dyer (2007). “Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It”, p.13, Vintage

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• I've thought about the idea of, 'Can happiness and creativity co-exist?' So much of what I've done, I think, has been based on being dissatisfied or incomplete or lonely. The answer is, 'There isn't an answer, necessarily.

  Conor Oberst

  Creativity, Thinking, Ideas

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• Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don't talk about that much. It seems to piss people off--especially men. (Kinsey Millhone)

  Sue Grafton

  Men, People, Mets

  Sue Grafton (2010). “"B" is for Burglar”, p.86, Macmillan

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• What did I know, what did I know
  of love's austere and lonely offices?

  Robert Hayden

  Office, Knows

  "ThoseWinter Sundays" l. 10 (1962)

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• Having always imagined myself in a fairly slim minority, I suddenly saw that I was in a vast company. Difference unites us. While each of these experiences can isolate those who are affected, together they compose an aggregate of millions whose struggles connect them profoundly. The exceptional is ubiquitous; to be entirely typical is the rare and lonely state.

  Andrew Solomon

  Struggle, Differences, Together

  Andrew Solomon (2012). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things. The blessed ones who possess the Kingdom are they who have repudiated every external thing and have rooted from their hearts all sense of possessing. These are the 'poor in spirit.'

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Blessed, Heart, Soul

  "The Pursuit of God". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, 1957.

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• Once outside the magic circle the writers became their lonely selves, pondering on poems, observing their fellow men ruthlessly, putting people they knew into novels; no wonder they were without friends.

  Barbara Pym

  Men, Self, Circles

  Barbara Pym (1981). “Jane and Prudence”, Dutton Adult

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• I just think that sometimes it is less hard to wake up feeling lonely when you are alone than to wake up feeling lonely when you are with someone else. Some people would be better off alone, but they feel they've got to get hold of someone to prove they're worthwhile.

  Liv Ullmann

  Thinking, People, Solitude

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• Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble, a priest without a god. Without an airplane I am a lonely consumer of hamburgers.

  Richard Bach

  Horse, Airplane, Men

  Richard Bach (2003). “Flying: The Aviation Trilogy”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• The panic disappeared under those soothing old fingers and the breathing slowed down and stopped hurting the chest as if a fox was caught in it, and then at last Mr. Kroger began to lecture the boy as he used to, Pablo, he murmured, don't ever be so afraid of being lonely that you forget to be careful. Don't forget that you will find it sometimes but other times you won't be lucky, and those are the times when you have got to be patient, since patience is what you must have when you don't have luck.

  Tennessee Williams

  Patience, Hurt, Boys

  Tennessee Williams (2010). “Tales of Desire (New Directions Pearls)”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.

  Abe Fortas

  Jobs, Men, Islands

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• Life is very long, when you're lonely.

  Steven Morrissey

  Long, Life Is

  "Song: "The Queen Is Dead"". 1986.

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• I'm full of restlessness. Not lonely, exactly - my head is racing with ideas. But it is that old treacherous feeling that real life is happening somewhere else, and I'm left out.

  Helen Garner

  Real, Somewhere Else, Ideas

  Helen Garner (2011). “Monkey Grip”, p.257, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Running and meditation are very personal activities. Therefore they are lonely. This loneliness is one of their best qualities because it strengthens our incentive to motivate ourselves.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Running, Loneliness, Meditation

  Sakyong Mipham (2012). “Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind”, p.48, Harmony

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• Though a country be sundered, hills and rivers endure;
  And spring comes green again to trees and grasses
  Where petals have been shed like tears
  And lonely birds have sung their grief.
  ...After the war-fires of three months,
  One message from home is worth a ton of gold.
  ...I stroke my white hair. It has grown too thin
  To hold the hairpins any more.

  Du Fu

  Country, Spring, War

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• People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.

  Mort Sahl

  People, Guy, Like Me

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• I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.

  Clarence Darrow

  Tired, Men, Enemy

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.233, Lulu.com

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• My desires seem especially to be after weanedness from the world, perfect deadness to it, and that I may be crucified to all its allurements. My soul desires to feel itself more of a pilgrim and a stranger here below, that nothing may divert me from pressing through the lonely desert, till I arrive at my Father's house.

  David Brainerd

  Father, Perfect, House

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.68

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• Blue is the insides of something mysterious and lonely. I'd look at fish and birds, thinking the sky and water colored them. The first abyss is blue. An artist must go beyond the mercy of satin or water-from a gutty hue to that which is close to royal purple. All seasons and blossoms inbetween. Lavender. Theatrical and outrageous electric. Almost gray. True and false blue. Water and oil. The gas jet breathing in oblivion. The unstruck match. The blue of absence. The blue of deep presence. The insides of something perfect.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Thinking, Artist, Sky

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• O Hope! Dazzling, radiant Hope! What a change thou bringest to the hopeless; brightening the darkened paths, and cheering the lonely way.

  Aimee Semple McPherson

  Change, Cheer, Way

  Aimee Semple McPherson (2009). “This is That: Personal Experiences Sermons and Writings of Aimee Semple McPherson”, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• If you're going to be a true Christian, I'll tell you one thing amongst others: it'll be a lonely life. It's a narrow way and it becomes narrower and narrower and narrower.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Christian, Way, Ifs

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• Everywhere I go, there are all these Big Star freaks, and they’re nice little guys who are usually in college, and they’re kind of lonely and misunderstood, learning to play guitar.

  Alex Chilton

  Stars, Nice, College

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• I'd rather be lonely than happy with somebody else.

  Gus Kahn

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