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“I think the thing is that you're very affected by your early life, and I think that if you ever had that feeling of outsider, or loneliness or whatever, it just doesn't leave you. You can be happy and successful, whatever, but I think that thing stays inside of you. It doesn't ever really leave you. You kind of always will have that.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Feelings Successful Loneliness Affected Outsiders Early Life

Author:Tim Burton

“What is the emotion of an empty inbox? An unliked Post? An ignored dating app message? I think there's a great loneliness that much of our society is running from, and we search for relief in our phones and computers, our online communities, our social networks of friends.”

Thinking Running Social Community Emotion Loneliness Computer Messages Empty Dating Phones Posts Relief Our Society Online Ignored Social Network Apps Inbox

Author:Alexander Weinstein

“I always wished I could go to confession. I was so full of things I couldn't name and had an instinct to hide. I felt burdened by the loneliness of my interior life. I wanted some container that I could empty myself into, some ear that would never be shocked, even if it offered me some kind of penance.”

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Author:Melissa Febos

“[Pope Francis]sees a world in need of the Gospel, and of friendship with Jesus Christ, as an antidote to the self-absorption and loneliness that are eating away at the solidarity of the human community.”

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Author:George Weigel

“Travel, in the superficial sense at least, is a good cure for loneliness. When you travel, especially in the third world, you quickly find that you get more friends than you know what to do with.”

Knows World Loneliness Thirds Cures Superficial Third World

Author:Pico Iyer

“I don't experience much loneliness, oddly. Sometimes I have thought I was lonely and it turned out I was in reality wanting a snack, just like sometimes I have thought I was mad and it turned out I was actually wearing too many sweaters. I've always been very content in the company of my own thoughts, and I prefer to spend much of my time alone. But I do like conversation - for the exercise, for the spark, for the let's-see-where-it-takes-us, for being able to dip into communal creativity when you're tired of your own air.”

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Author:Patricia Lockwood

“Love is a balance between independence and interdependence. In love, you want to be independent and interdependent. You want to be a little bit selfish and a little bit selfless. Love can be an antidote to loneliness, as long as there is some aloneness in it.”

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Author:Bruce Feiler

“On a societal level, what happens to community when people don't have time to gather or connect, in person, not just over social media? Not having time off becomes a public-interest issue. It means the erosion of social bonds, less civic contribution and participation. Loneliness is on the rise in North America; we find ourselves too busy for true connection, prioritizing work over life.”

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Author:Katrina Onstad

“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.”

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Author:Russell Baker

“There's a weird loneliness that comes with being a comedian, especially standup. Even with improvisers, I think there are certain moments of truth where you feel really, really connected to audiences, and that's when you're on stage. I think there's definitely something inside the personality of a person who wants to be a comedian that's looking to connect at all times. That's where the adrenaline rushes in their lives come from.”

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Author:Chris Gethard

“If there's anything to be said in a broad way about different audiences it's that I live in a major city, and those themes of isolation, protectiveness, loneliness tend to resonate with other people in major cities. In a sleepier village, where people are married with their children, me standing up and saying, "This marriage idea is a funny old convention that we invented" - various things that are deconstructions of the norms of a culture - if people have already made decisions like that, they're more inclined to say "Please, stop talking about our marriages, 'cause we're here now."”

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Author:Simon Amstell

“I think we tend to write more uplifting and vibrant music when we're in bleak and lonely surroundings. I think it's because you're channeling your loneliness in a way that you're trying to escape to your situation.”

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Author:Ed MacFarlane

“If someone were plucked from the group and given those responsibilities, they might find themselves growing more aloof, just by virtue of that promotion. Suddenly the group culture excludes you. I saw this in my own working life, and I don't think it's a coincidence - I sensed a kind of loneliness in middle managers especially.”

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Author:Joshua Ferris

“The people at the very top could fall by and grace you with their presence and give you a little largesse, and you'd be "Oh, I'm so beloved." In a way, it was kind of like flattery. The middle managers didn't quite have that cachet, but at the same time, they had to seem like they were of that caliber. So there's a little bit of loneliness at the heart of those with a little bit of power.”

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Author:Joshua Ferris

“I think that cinema is a great place to make stories of loneliness. And being Norwegian, I don't want to make the film about loneliness in being out in nature on a mountaintop; it's about being in the cities.”

Thinking Film Loneliness

Author:Joachim Trier

“Traveling is amazing. You meet so many great, positive people. You get to see new faces all the time. I don't think that loneliness, it's not like you have no one in your life. Well, I'd say it's like . . . you can have everyone you need in your life and still be lonely. Everyone knows that. Being on the road is complicated and shitty; it's also really, really rad.”

People Thinking Loneliness Like You Lonely Complicated

Author:How to Dress Well

“Sometimes you never feel lonelier than when you are always doing tons of things and traveling all over the place. There is a real feeling of loneliness sometimes.”

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Author:Nicolas Ghesquiere

“I think loneliness comes with being creative, because you are obsessed with creation. And it is so satisfying that sometimes, I have noticed, I completely neglect my friends and my family, and they fall away.”

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Author:Tom Ford

“The Lord is near! You're not alone. You may feel alone. You may think you're alone. But there's never a moment in which you face life without help. God is near. God repeatedly pledges his proverbial presence to his people. Don't assume God is watching from a distance. Avoid the quicksand that bears the marker "God has left you!" Don't indulge this lie. If you do, your problem will be amplified by a sense of loneliness. It's one thing to face a challenge, but to face it all alone? Isolation creates a downward cycle of fret.”

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Author:Max Lucado

“I like dark music and I want to wear those goth clothes in school. And I suddenly discovered this whole world of music that I totally loved. The Cure was my favorite band, even though they're not specifically a goth band. I was listening to everything from The Cure to Depeche Mode to Siouxsie and the Banshees and Bauhaus and all of that stuff. It was just this release for me. I was able to channel a lot of my loneliness and my feelings of being misunderstood, and I could go into this world where it was okay to be really eccentric.”

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Author:Diane Birch

“I love to write when I feel like everybody else is asleep and when I feel like the world is kind of empty in some ways. I find, oddly enough, that I write about loneliness and isolation a lot.”

World Writing Kind Enough Loneliness Empty Isolation

Author:Dan Chaon

“I thought that it's so sad there are people who live their entire lives lonely. They die and no one goes to their funeral. I thought about how sad that was and how so many people out there have that path. I know this sounds weird, but if I could go take their bones back to my house and appreciate them for what they are, it would be my way of taking that loneliness away.”

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Author:Lindi Ortega

“Modern loneliness is an extraverted loneliness, in which the person is surrounded by many people and partakes of much communication but feels unrecognized and more alone and, although connected technically, isolated and even estranged emotionally.”

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Author:Edward Hallowell

“For me, filmmaking is an ongoing self-reflection process. I kind of push everything to the edge. I feel very exposed and fragile when I make a film. It's a process of dealing with loneliness. And it's also very dramatic - because while you are working on a film, you just realize how incapable you are of dealing with all these things. And you open yourself up, and it's like your heart is utterly exposed. And it's very tiring on a daily basis.”

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Author:Tamer El Said

“The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.”

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Author:Jessica Lange

“Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.”

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Author:Honore de Balzac

“Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.”

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Author:Oscar Levant

“The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.”

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Book:Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead

Source: Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead

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

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Book:Among my Books, etc

Source: Among my Books, etc

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

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Author:Martin Luther

“Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.”

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Author:Brennan Manning

“It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.”

Loneliness Terrible Lonely Prepared Mask Terrible Things

Book:The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1903-1917

Source: The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1903-1917

“While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.”

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Book:Evidence for the Resurrection: What It Means for Your Relationship with God

Source: Evidence for the Resurrection: What It Means for Your Relationship with God

“It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.”

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Author:Bruce Barton

“Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.”

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Book:New Seeds of Contemplation

Source: New Seeds of Contemplation

“It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.”

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Author:Marilyn Monroe

“The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.”

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Author:Ashley Montagu

“Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.”

Mind Pain Literature Grief Behinds Beauty Loneliness Shadow Lonely Fleeting Being Alone Visitors Feeling Lonely Souvenirs

Author:Christopher Morley

“The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.”

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Author:Ajay Naidu

“There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.”

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Author:Ajay Naidu

“Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.”

Loneliness Solitude Pleasant Being Lonely

Author:Anna Neagle

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”

“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.”

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Author:Richard M. Nixon

“Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.”

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Author:Martha Beck

“Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.”

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Author:Eugene O'Neill

“Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.”

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Author:Mehmet Oz

“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”

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Author:Blaise Pascal

“A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.”

Men World Used Company Boys Worst Loneliness This World Youth Used To Be Single Being Single Grown Man

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

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

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Author:Octavio Paz

“When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.”

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Book:Delphi Works of Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated)

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