Best Loneliness Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 15

Source: Seven Pillars of Wisdom & The Evolution of a Revolt (Complete Edition with Original Illustrations and Maps): Lawrence of Arabia's Account and Memoirs of the Arab Revolt and Guerrilla Warfare during World War One

“[...] We have to realize that this wound [of loneliness] is inherent in the human condition and that what we have to do is walk with it instead of fleeing from it. We cannot accept it until we discover that we are loved by God just as we are, and that the Holy Spirit in a mysterious way is living at the centre of the wound.”

Way Humans Spirit Realizing Walks Accepting Conditions Loneliness Holy Wounds Mysterious Holy Spirit Human Condition Inherent Centre Fleeing Mysterious Ways

Author:Jean Vanier

“No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”

“He stretched out his hands as he sang, sadly, because all beauty is sad…The poem had done no ‘good’ to anyone, but it was a passing reminder, a breath from the divine lips of beauty, a nightingale between two worlds of dust. Less explicit than the call to Krishna, it voiced our loneliness nevertheless, our isolation, our need for the Friend who never comes yet is not entirely disproved.”

World Needs Two Done Hands Loneliness Divine Breaths Lips Passing Passings Dust Isolation Nevertheless Reminders Krishna Explicit Two Worlds Nightingales

Author:E. M. Forster

“Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world.” “Then you’ve made the only choice. But there’s a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It’s loneliness.”

World Want Made Choices Loneliness Penalties

Book:Gone with the wind

Source: Gone with the wind

“I also have the impression that many women have been able, instinctively, to sniff out this loneliness of mine, which I confided to no one, and this in later years was to become one of the causes of my being taken advantage of.”

Years Has Beens Able Causes Taken Loneliness Mines Advantage Impression Taken Advantage

Book:No Longer Human

Source: No Longer Human

“Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation. (pg.99, "The Body and the Earth")”

Body Earth Healing Impossible Loneliness Creation Creatures Opposites Healed

Author:Wendell Berry

“We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.”

Ifs Knows Needs Born Loneliness Conscious Helpless

Book:The Four Loves

Source: The Four Loves

“We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity even if we must manufacture it from our time on the Web and our use of calling cards to connect long distance. We must “log on” somewhere, and if it is only in cyberspace, that is still far better than nowhere at all. (264)”

Ifs Needs Long Stills Use Community Loneliness Calling Distance Cards Bridges Our Time Continuity Long Distance Cyberspace Disconnection

Book:God is No Laughing Matter

Source: God is No Laughing Matter

“It didn't occur to him that she might have chosen to remain this way. That where he saw reserve and loneliness, Cassandra saw self-preservation and the knowledge that it was safer when one had less to lose.”

Way Self Might Loses Saws Loneliness Chosen Reserves Preservation Self Preservation

Book:The Forgotten Garden: A Novel

Source: The Forgotten Garden: A Novel

“It was as if the power and loneliness of the vampires' world had combined with the group oriented puppy-pile world of the shapeshifters and made something new.”

Ifs World Made Groups Loneliness Vampire Something New Puppy Shapeshifters

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“All the things that girls feel they are not when they fear that if they become, if they are, they will no longer be loved by the sisters whose hearts they have not meant to break. And besides, if the sisters are gone and only the beloved remains with his dense curls and his lips, how safe are you then? You have to have him or you will die if the sisters are gone with their listening ears and their feet to rub and their bodies to dress and their shared loneliness.”

Ifs Feels Heart Body Dies Girl Break Gone Feet Loneliness Listening Safe Ears Dresses Remains Lips Beloved Curls Dense That Girl Listening Ear

Author:Francesca Lia Block

“Under the ground seep the toxins of the population that lives above. If you have to, you will eat roots and earthworms. It is always night. Candles burn in lanterns made from tin cans. When it is nighttime up above, you can crawl out, but only for a little while. You feel ashamed of your matted hair, your torn clothes, the dirt on your face. Who would want to speak to you? They are all shiny and pretty. They have parents and house with gardens. What do you have? The earth. Whole handfuls of it. The lizard people with their slit eyes and scaly skin. Your loneliness. Your longing.”

“We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — "Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought."”

Way Feels Trying Stories Animal Our Lives Loneliness Method Ancient Storytelling Listeners Storyteller Begging Telling Stories Lonesome Lonesomeness

Author:John Steinbeck

“It didn't take a trauma to make you wear a mask. It didn't take your parents getting shot...or cosmic rays or a power ring...Just the perfect combination of loneliness and despair.”

Parent Perfect Loneliness Despair Shots Trauma Rings Combination Mask Rays Cosmic Perfect Combination Cosmic Rays

Author:Mark Millar

“Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.”

Loneliness Going Away

Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves. There was some element of loneliness involved--so easy to be loved--so hard to love.”

People Ifs Hard Certain Easy Loneliness Involved Mets Ego Elements

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“When asked "What do we need to learn this for?" any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the knowledge will come in handy once the student hits middle age and starts working crossword puzzles in order to stave off the terrible loneliness.”

Needs Age School Order Answers Teacher Middle Subjects Loneliness Students Terrible High School Puzzles Middle Ages Handy School Teachers Crosswords High School Teachers

Book:Me Talk Pretty One Day

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day

“Sitting up all night would be pointless if somebody you loved wasn't sitting up with you, picking out music to play and helping you kill the bourbon. Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.”

Ifs Thinking Play Helping Would Be Kids Night Loneliness College Poet Walking Sitting Rain All Night Pointless Up All Night Bourbon Sitting Up

Book:A fine and private place: The last unicorn

Source: A fine and private place: The last unicorn

“As for fame, fame felt like nothing. Fame was not a sensation like love or hunger or loneliness, welling from within and invisible to the outside eye. It was rather entirely external, coming from the minds of others. It existed in the way people looked at him or behaved towards him. In that, being famous was no different from being gay, or Jewish, or from a visible minority: you are who you are, and then people project onto you some notion they have.”

People Way Mind Different Eye Felt Loneliness Gay Fame Projects Who You Are Notion Hunger Invisible Visible Minorities Sensations Like Love Being Gay Being Famous

Book:Beatrice & Virgil

Source: Beatrice & Virgil

“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”

Ifs Different Loneliness Lonely Bounds Brave New World Happiness Brave New World Freedom Brave New World Character

Book:Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

Source: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

“Tore up my heart and shut it down. Nothing to do, nowhere to be. A simple little kind of free. Nothing to do, no one but me, and that's all I need. I'm perfectly lonely.”

Needs Heart Kind Littles Simple Loneliness My Heart Lonely

Author:John Mayer

“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”

People Years Enough Would Be Romance Time Opportunity Loneliness Seven Determine Intimacy Openness Sensibility Disposition Seven Years Insufficient Seven Days Marianne Dashwood

Author:Jane Austen

“If you want to find the trail, if you want to find yourself, you must explore your dreams alone. You must grow at a slow pace in a dark cocoon of loneliness so you can fly like wind, like wings, when you awaken.”

Ifs Want Dream Grows Dark Loneliness Wind Wings Your Dreams Finding Yourself Pace Trails Cocoons

Author:Francesca Lia Block

“Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness.”

Ifs Men Believe Ends Left Loneliness Praise Faithful Offering Praise God

Book:The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)

Source: The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)

“Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.”

Knows Needs Wells Shows Guy Left Loneliness Depression Show Me Badges

Book:The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

“We walk alone through this world, but if we're lucky, we have a moment of belonging to something, to someone, that sustains us through a lifetime of loneliness.”

Ifs World Moments Walks Loneliness This World Lucky Lifetime Belonging Tatiana Metanova

Author:Paullina Simons

“No shame in saying that I felt a loneliness drifting through me. Funny how it was, everyone perched in their own little world with the deep need to talk, each person with their own tale, beginning in some strange middle point, then trying so hard to tell it all, to have it all make sense, logical and final.”