L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.”
Source: Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline
“Loneliness is just a thing that I'm not personally interested in. So far, it hasn't been on my docket of things to write about.”
“Loneliness is keenest when in the company of others, when comparisons suggest that everyone else is relating to and forming bonds with one another ... To make a connection requires risking rejection. To share a story requires an audience trustworthy enough to receive it. The longer a person remains isolated, the more sensitive they become to potential threats. The longer a story goes untold, the harder it gets to tell.”
Source: Empty Theatre: or, The Lives of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Sisi of Austria (Queen of Hungary), Cousins, in Their Pursuit of Connection and Beauty...
“Loneliness is lessened when you're lonely by choice.”
Source: I Lived to Tell It All
“Loneliness is like a big, empty room inside you that echoes with the sounds of the life you're not living.”
Source: Mr. Romance
“Loneliness is like a hiss of a snake
ambushed. It‘s horrific and horrible. The sound of the
hidden menace spoils your peace of mind and is
panicking enough to make you taste death before dying.”
“Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the
universe, except that everyone else is still here.”
Source: Everything Beautiful Began After
“Loneliness is like curfew, in the bird's cage.”
“Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a condition of separateness. Solitude is becoming one with the space around you. It is a condition of union. Loneliness is small, solitude is large. Loneliness closes in around you; solitude expands toward the infinite. Loneliness has its roots in words, in an internal conversation that nobody answers; solitude has its roots in the great silence of eternity.”
“Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.”
Source: Faithless: Tales of Transgression
“Loneliness is more likely to lead to fussy housekeeping than to grand views of the Universe.”
“Loneliness is more painful than being hurt”
“Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.”
“Loneliness is my worst enemy, but in the end he's usually my only real friend.”
“Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry.”
Source: The Collected Books of Jack Spicer
“Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry. When someone intrudes into the poet's life (and any sudden personal contact, whether in the bed or in the heart, is an intrusion) the poet loses his or her balance for a moment, slips into being what he or she is, uses his or her poetry as one would use money or sympathy. The person who writes the poetry emerges, tentatively, like a hermit crab from a conch shell. The poet, for that instant, ceases to be a dead person.”
“Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.”
Source: the female eunuch
“Loneliness is not a fault but a condition of existence.”
“loneliness is not a longing for company, it is a longing for kind. And kind means people who can see you who you are, and that means they have enough intelligence and sensitivity and patience to do that.”
Source: The Women's Room
“Loneliness is not about numbers because you can be among ten people and still feel lonely, or you can feel crowded as if there were ten people around you when you were alone! Loneliness is not about numbers, it is only about being in an environment that cannot connect with your soul, or being in a place where there are people who cannot connect with your ideas, who do not look at the same horizons as you!”
“Loneliness is not being alone, It's loving others to no avail.”
Source: The City of Falling Angels
“Loneliness is not being seen in a world full of people; it's not knowing if you belong somewhere, it's wandering around, feeling homeless inside, despite having a home. It's about being adrift at sea.”
“Loneliness is not cured by human company.loneliness is cured by contact with reality,by understanding that we don't need people.”
“Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.”
Source: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
“Loneliness is not emptiness but negation, with all its agonising precision, its absoluteness; exact, active; in every depth of detail, it is the inverse of love, the dark replica of love.”
Source: Held
“Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose.”
“Loneliness Is Not The Absence Of Affection, But The Absence Of Direction.”
“Loneliness is not the absence of companions but rather the absence of like-minded companions.”
“Loneliness is not the absence of people but the absence of like-minded people.”
Source: The Depths of A Mad Mind
“Loneliness is not the condition of just being alone. A more accurate definition, according to the Washington Post, 'is the distress people feel when reality fails to meet their ideal of social relationships.”
“Loneliness is not the enemy of your joy
as long as you know how you should always destroy
the pensive mood that remains with you like a friend
who never stands up for you when you’re forced to bend”
“Loneliness is often the by-products of a gifted mind.”
“Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.”
“Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Loneliness is painful. But suffering is not wrong in and of itself. It's part of the human experience, and in a way brings us closer to all people.”
Source: Shelter Me: A Novel About Grief, Fierce Motherhood, and Unexpected Love
“Loneliness is personal, and it is also political. Loneliness is collective; it is a city. As to how to inhabit it, there are no rules and nor is there any need to feel shame, only to remember that the pursuit of individual happiness does not trump or excuse our obligations to each another. We are in this together, this accumulation of scars, this world of objects, this physical and temporary heaven that so often takes on the countenance of hell. What matters is kindness; what matters is solidarity. What matters is staying alert, staying open, because if we know anything from what has gone before us, it is that the time for feeling will not last.”
Source: The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
“Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.”
“Loneliness is random; solitude is ritual.”
Source: Mad at Miles: a blackwoman's guide to truth
“Loneliness is really a wonderful companion that can show us so much about ourselves and others.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Loneliness is remedied at times with the company of a friend and at other times with the company of oneself.”
“Loneliness is sadness.
Solitude is happiness.”
“Loneliness is so much worse than sadness, because loneliness, by definition, cannot be shared.”
Source: Truths I Never Told You
“loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude.”
“Loneliness is something we [all people] go through. We go through mourning and longing. We make some bad choices sometimes because we're desperate for something, and that's okay. That's part of life.”
“Loneliness is something you can't walk away from.”
“Loneliness is something you get used to until you no longer recognize it as something that needs fixing you simply are lonely and that is that”
Source: Prince of Foxes
“Loneliness is such a struggle and pain that strengthens you and your spirit.”
“Loneliness is the best state I can be in.It enables me to listen to my heart.”
“Loneliness is the best way to realize that you are not alone..”
“Loneliness is the biggest enemy of a human. Cause it is more than the enemy. When a person becomes lonely from inside, no one can save the person from sinking under the deep sea of end.”