L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Loneliness carves my heart full of holes.”
“Loneliness chosen is always preferable to loneliness imposed”
“Loneliness clarifies. Here silence stands
Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken,
Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken,
Luminously-peopled air ascends;
And past the poppies bluish neutral distance
Ends the land suddenly beyond a beach
Of shapes and shingle. Here is unfenced existence:
Facing the sun, untalkative, out of reach.”
Source: The Whitsun Weddings
“Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused.”
Source: Forever Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel
“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.”
“Loneliness comes suddenly like waves and recedes just as fast. That continues on forever. It’s the same for you. It’s the same for everyone.”
“Loneliness comes with life.”
“Loneliness companions me, in the emptiness, I reside.”
Source: Tales of Secrets Untold
“Loneliness, depression, and suicide are in fact side effects rising out of the misinterpretation of beliefs – beliefs that are created by the places we are in, the people we are surrounded by, and ourselves. Misunderstanding stops us from seeing further, causing emptiness, and making life seem uninteresting, limited – and consequently, boring.”
“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
Source: Memories, dreams, reflections
“Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.”
“Loneliness doesn't vanish overnight. But it softens when someone remembers how you take your coffee. When someone saves you the last slice of bread. When someone listens — not to fix, but to understand.”
“Loneliness doesn't have much to do with where you are.”
“Loneliness doesn’t exist on any single plane of consciousness. It’s generally a low throb, barely audible, like the hum of a Mercedes engine in park, but every so often the demands of the highway call for a burst of acceleration, and the hum becomes a thunderous, elemental roar, and once again you’re reminded of what this baby’s carrying under the hood.”
“Loneliness Ends With Love”
“Loneliness, especially long-term loneliness, give birth to geniuses or mad people.”
Source: Red-White Love: The Love of Liverpool FC
“Loneliness feels like prison.”
“Loneliness Got a mind of its own The more people around The more you feel alone”
“Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book.”
“Loneliness hardened in Arthur's stomach....
Frequently he could feel his loneliness: he could locate it with his fingers and if pushed too hard, it hurt. If he ate quickly, it hurt. He drank a lot of water, to flush it out, but it never came. He kept expecting to see it after he'd visited the lavatory. Small and blue. Afraid. He did not know what he would do with it. He did not know what he would do without it.”
Source: The Lamplighters
“Loneliness has a compass all its own.”
Source: Where the Crawdads Sing
“Loneliness has a pathos all its own...”
“Loneliness has been following me my whole life.”
“Loneliness has engulfed her like a goldfish in a bowl. She can no longer swim outside the bowl.”
Source: Veronica
“loneliness has its own needs!”
“loneliness has its roots in words,in internal conversation that nodbody answers,solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity.”
“Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists, heterosexual or homosexual. Loneliness has to do with the sudden clefts we experience in every human relation, the gaps that open up with such stomach-turning unexpectedness. In a brief moment, I and my brother or sister have moved away into different worlds, and there is no language we can share.... It is in the middle of intimacy that the reality of loneliness most dramatically appears.”
Source: A Ray of Darkness
“loneliness, hopeless and failure are my only friends.”
“Loneliness, I began to realise, was a populated place. A city in itself. And when one inhabits a city, even a city as rigorously and logically constructed as Manhattan, one starts by getting lost.”
Source: The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
“Loneliness, I’ve discovered–I discovered then–is a hard-to-define emotion. It’s the product of unfulfillment, a factor of frustration, and as such it is largely an emotion of negatives; it arises most often not from something that has, but from something that has not happened–a letter that has failed to arrive, a telephone that refuses to ring–and its worst feature is that its causes and its control are not governed by anything that you can do or can hope to do, but depend on the actions of some other. Thus it is that it has nothing to do with setting or with circumstance; it can descend on you anywhere, anytime, and as reasonlessly and as abruptly as a cloud can blot out the summer sun.”
Source: The Bitter Season
“Loneliness ia a human condition”
Source: White Oleander
“Loneliness if often exacerbated by a perception that one is lonely while everyone else is connected. It's exaggerated by a sensation of being outside something that others seem to be in on: a family, a couple, a friendship, a joke.
Perhaps now we can learn how flawed that kind of thinking is, because loneliness is one of the most universal things any person can feel.”
Source: Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
“Loneliness in a crowd of people was the worst kind of loneliness, but she couldn't help it.”
Source: The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection
“Loneliness, in all its stresses, and all its pressures, possesses 2 oppressive dangers: the potential to make a man either depressed with himself or obsessed with himself; in his own mind, he will become like either a beast or a god.”
“Loneliness in travel directs you and tells you about yourself. You don't become lonely unless you're alone.”
“Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self.”
“Loneliness is a bitter, wretched companion. Sometimes it just won't let go”
Source: Restore Me
“Loneliness is a city you don't know.”
Source: Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World
“Loneliness is a darkness of the soul”
Source: The Broken Kingdoms
“Loneliness is a desert. Aloneness is the desert rose in the dry soil of the desert. Our greatest journey is to walk out of loneliness into aloneness, so we can flower inside and taste the fruit of life.”
“Loneliness is a desert. Solitude an oasis.”
Source: the human key condensed: master
“Loneliness is a disease
spread by people who
try to use other people
to cure their loneliness.”
Source: Love and Gaslight
“Loneliness is a drug, a narcotic; it grows through veins, through nerves and muscles; it assumes some right of possession over your body and mind; it feeds itself, and creates its own requirement. Loneliness and solitude are walls.”
Source: A Quiet Belief in Angels: A Novel
“Loneliness is a feeling that is created by our ego. The ego feels separate from the rest of creation. The answer to overcoming those feelings is ecstasy.”
“Loneliness is a feeling that no one could ever understand unless you have felt it atleast once in your life.
Maybe everyone is around and they don't realise your demise
Maybe everyone is around and they really don't care
Being in a position where your loneliness kills you is the worst”
“Loneliness is a form of narcissism. A mother who is in harmony with her child, who understands her place in her child's life and her role in society, is never lonely. Through caring for her child, all her needs are fulfilled.”
Source: The School for Good Mothers
“Loneliness is a funny disease. You don’t realize how badly you’re infected until someone gives you a shot of contentment—and then it wears off”
Source: Thicker Than Water
“Loneliness is a good education. You learn the things no crowds can teach and you discover the things no crowds can give.”
“loneliness is a great teacher and a master test of character”
“Loneliness is a hard thing to handle. I feel it, sometimes. When I do, I want it to end. Sometimes, when you're near someone, when you touch them on some level that is deeper than the uselessly structured formality of casual civilized interaction, there's a sense of satisfaction in it. Or at least, there is for me. It doesn't have to be someone particularly nice. You don't have to like them. You don't even have to want to work with them. You might even want to punch them in the nose. Sometimes just making that connection is its own experience, its own reward.”
Source: White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files