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Source: From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton

Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA

“On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.”

Spiritual Certain Poverty Loneliness Materials Continents Discouragement Meaning Life

Book:No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition

Source: No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition

“Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness.”

Art Loneliness Infinite Works Of Art

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Shyness is a condition foreign to the heart - a category, a dimension which leads to loneliness.”

Heart Conditions Loneliness Dimensions Categories Shyness

Author:Pablo Neruda

“The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.”

Lying Existence Loneliness Liars

Book:Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations

Source: Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations

“There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.”

Loneliness

Book:how to save your own life

Source: how to save your own life

“On the outside one is a star. But in reality, one is completely alone, doubting everything. To experience this loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world.”

World Soul Reality Stars Doubt Loneliness Hardest Hardest Thing Doubting Everything

Author:Brigitte Bardot

“No technological achievements can mitigate the disappointment of modern man, his loneliness, his feeling of inferiority, and his fear of war, revolution and terror. Not only has our generation lost faith in Providence but also in man himself, in his institutions and often in those who are nearest to him.”

Men War Feelings Lost Generations Modern Loneliness Revolution Achievement Institutions Terror Disappointment Providence Technological Inferiority Our Generation Modern Man Lost Faith

Book:Aspects of I.B. Singer

Source: Aspects of I.B. Singer

“Alone is a fact, a condition where no one else is around. Lonely is how you feel about that.”

Feels Facts Conditions Loneliness Lonely How You Feel

Book:The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

“the sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time.”

Loss Grief Loneliness Grew Sentiments

Book:The Last Man

Source: The Last Man

“And I was to find out then, as I found out so many times, over and over again, that women especially are social beings, who are not content with just husband and family, but must have a community, a group, an exchange with others. A child is not enough. A husband and children, no matter how busy one may be kept by them, are not enough. Young and old, even in the busiest years of our lives, we women especially are victims of the long loneliness.”

Years May Children Long Matter Enough Young Found Social Women Community Our Lives Groups Loneliness Husband Victim Busy Young And Old Social Being

Author:Dorothy Day

“There is a terrible loneliness in the spring.”

Loneliness Terrible Spring

Book:The Miller of Old Church

Source: The Miller of Old Church

“Death is loneliness in its purest form.”

Form Loneliness

Book:Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

“as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness. You are in the country where you make up the rules, the laws. You are both dictator and obedient populace. It is a country nobody has ever explored before. It is up to you to make the maps, to build the cities. Nobody else in the world can do it, or ever could do it, or ever will be able to do it again.”

World Persons Country Able Law Can Do Cities Loneliness Solitude Maps Dictator Up To You Obedient Your Freedom

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“Youth gives a sense of new days dawning bright, going on for ever, and a kind of tamped-down excitement which keeps breaking through even the worst days of poverty, depression and loneliness. But then youth is something which only exists in retrospect; you are barely conscious of it while you have it.”

Giving Kind Poverty Worst Loneliness Youth Conscious Excitement New Day Retrospect Worst Day

Author:Fay Weldon

“Such a nice day - out all day up in the Carter Notch direction, trout-fishing, with the long drive there and the long drive home again in time for supper. It was a lovely brook and I caught seven good trout and one small one - which eight trout-persons you should have for your breakfast if only you were near enough. It was not alone the fishing, but the delightful loneliness and being out of doors.”

Source: Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett

“I believe that it is sometimes less difficult to wake up and feel that I am alone when I really am, than to wake up with someone else and be lonely.”

Feels Believe Sometimes I Believe Difficult Loneliness Lonely Wake Up

Author:Liv Ullmann

“How on earth can religious people believe in so much arbitrary, clearly invented balderdash?....The acceptance of a creed, any creed, entitles the acceptor to membership in the sort of artificial extended family we call a congregation. It is a way to fight loneliness. Any time I see a person fleeing from reason and into religion, I think to myself, There goes a person who simply cannot stand being so goddamned lonely anymore.”

Source: Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

“Scary is time passing and sickness and dying and regret and isolation and loneliness and relationship problems - as opposed to a guy in a hockey mask, which didn't seem that scary.”

Problem Seems Guy Dying Loneliness Regret Scary Passing Passings Isolation Sickness Mask Hockey Time Passing Time Passes Relationship Problem Isolation And Loneliness

Author:Charlie Kaufman

“I get an audience personally involved in a song - because I'm involved myself. It's not something I do deliberately: I can't help myself. If the song is a lament at the loss of love, I get an ache in my gut. I feel the loss myself and I cry out the loneliness, the hurt and the pain that I feel.”

Ifs Feels I Can Helping Pain Song Hurt Loss Audience Loneliness Cry Involved Guts Ache Lament Love Loss

Author:Frank Sinatra

“When I allow myself to feel all my feelings instead of numbing myself to them, they pass more quickly. I spent my entire life telling everyone I was "OK, damn it." But when you surrender to the [uncomfortable] feelings, there are gifts on the other side: Allowing yourself to feel loneliness forces you to reach out. Letting yourself get angry gives you strength, energy and motivation.”

Giving Feels Feelings Motivation Energy Force Sides Loneliness Angry Surrender Damn Uncomfortable Allowing Reach Out Numbing Uncomfortable Feeling

Author:Ashley Judd

“You really come to life on stage but outside - this is a bit of a sad clown cliché - there is that element of loneliness you get from travelling and being on the road. Stand-ups can bring a lot of that to a dramatic role and make it work for them.”

Bits Roles Stage Loneliness Elements Dramatic Clown Sad Clown

Author:Doc Brown

“But, visiting Sea, your love doth press / And reach in further than you know, / And fills all these; and, when you go, / There's loneliness in loneliness.”

Knows Sea Loneliness Ocean Presses Visiting

Author:Alice Meynell

“The illusion of companionship sits waiting in the television set. We keep our televisions on more than we watch them - an average of more than seven hours a day. For background. For company.”

Waiting Hours Company Watches Loneliness Television Illusion Seven Average Backgrounds Companionship

Book:Alone in America: the search for companionship

Source: Alone in America: the search for companionship

“for many people, loneliness was an experience of time. 'Not knowing what to do with yourself' was the way it was usually put.”

People Way Knowing Loneliness Not Knowing Knowing What To Do

Book:Alone in America: the search for companionship

Source: Alone in America: the search for companionship

“A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.”

Needs Loneliness Cat Lonely

Book:The frightened wife, and other murder stories

Source: The frightened wife, and other murder stories

“in love, gallantry is necessary. Even when the first wild desire is gone, especially then, there is an inherent need for good manners and consideration, for the putting forth of effort. Two courteous and civilized human beings out of the loneliness of their souls owe that to each other.”

Needs Firsts Humans Two Soul Desire Human Beings Effort Gone Loneliness Manners Consideration Good Man Civilized Inherent Good Manners Courteous Gallantry

Author:Ilka Chase

“Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And anyone can have them.”

Loneliness Convinced Manners Good Man Priceless Good Manners

Author:Elsa Maxwell

“Loneliness is random; solitude is ritual.”

Loneliness Solitude Ritual

Book:Mad at Miles: a blackwoman's guide to truth

Source: Mad at Miles: a blackwoman's guide to truth

“A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him. I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.”

People Made Loneliness Identity Essentials Independent Weather

Author:Carson McCullers

“Smell remembers and tells the future. ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers.”

Home Remember Loneliness Betrayal Smell

Author:Cherrie Moraga

“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.”

People Kind Mean Enough Company Loneliness Who You Are Longing Sensitivity Mean People

Book:The Women's Room

Source: The Women's Room

“Marriage is supposed to do everything, like Duz, which is more than half its problem. It is said to save us, define us, give us purpose, keep us from loneliness, and incidentally balance our diet and wash our socks, and when it doesn't, we get divorced.”

Giving Said Problem Purpose Half Marriage Loneliness Balance Diets Divorced Sock

Book:Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others

Source: Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others

“I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me.”

Way Needs Loneliness Noise Kill Me Discomfort Interruptions Irritation Starters

Author:Anita Brookner

“I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to live in.”

World Children Millions Loneliness Wander Immigrants

Book:Children of Loneliness

Source: Children of Loneliness

“Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.”

Freedom Loneliness Paid Possession Expensive

Book:The letters of Martha Gellhorn

Source: The letters of Martha Gellhorn

“Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.”

Wisdom Felt Loneliness Lonely Communicate Being Alone Feeling Lonely Being Lonely Loneliness And Solitude I Am Lonely Lonely Feeling Lonely Heart I Feel Lonely Propinquity

Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“In truth, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” isn't about Sept. 11. It's about the impulse to drain that day of its specificity and turn it into yet another wellspring of generic emotions: sadness, loneliness, happiness. This is how kitsch works. It exploits familiar images, be they puppies or babies - or, as in the case of this movie, the twin towers - and tries to make us feel good, even virtuous, simply about feeling. And, yes, you may cry, but when tears are milked as they are here, the truer response should be rage.”

“I am lonesome so regular it's like a job I gotta report to every day.”

Jobs Loneliness Reports Lonesome

Author:Alice Childress

“There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has been terrific.”

Has Beens Loneliness Ill Terrific Whips Public Life Sociability

Author:Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

“The association between failure, loneliness, and solitude is so strong in our culture that people often find it difficult to believe that there are some who like being by themselves.”

People Believe Culture Strong Difficult Loneliness Solitude Association Loneliness And Solitude

Book:Lonely in America

Source: Lonely in America

“of all the deprivations which afflict humankind, none is more dreadful than loneliness. A corrosive, it eats the heart out. People were meant to live by twos, with someone close with whom to share good and bad, to hear breathing in the dark room at night. Being alone is the one unnatural act.”

People Heart Night Dark Rooms Share Loneliness Breathing Live By Humankind Good And Bad Unnatural Deprivation Dark Room

Author:Zelda Popkin

“One should have the courage of one's loneliness.”

Should Loneliness Should Have

Book:Singing in the Shrouds: Roderick Alleyn #20

Source: Singing in the Shrouds: Roderick Alleyn #20

“It's when you have friends that you can afford to be lonely. When you know a lot of people, loneliness becomes a luxury. It's only when you're forced to be lonely that it's bad.”

People Knows Loneliness Lonely Luxury

Author:Vera Caspary

“The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy is its prime virtue. ... The letter, written in absorbed solitude, is an act of faith: it assumes the presence of humanity: world and self are generated from within: loneliness is courted, not feared. To write a letter is to be alone with my thoughts in the conjured presence of another person. I keep myself imaginative company. I occupy the empty room.”

World Writing Persons Self Humanity Rooms Company Virtue Written Loneliness Solitude Conversation Empty Letters Assuming Prime Telephones My Thoughts Imaginative Immediacy Empty Rooms

Author:Vivian Gornick

“The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.”

Feels Loneliness Lonely Cinema Feeling Lonely

Author:Tom Hanks

“Living in a rural town really compelled me to start tweeting so much. Mostly, my Twitter usage is fueled by loneliness. I can go days without talking to another human being unless it's my mother, especially when I'm not teaching or on break.”

Humans I Can Mother Human Beings Talking Break Teaching Loneliness Towns Compelled Usage

Author:Roxane Gay

“If your beliefs are stressful and you question them, you come to see that they aren't true - whereas prior to questioning, you absolutely believe them. How can you live in joy when you're believing thoughts that bring on sadness, frustration, anger, alienation, and loneliness?”

Ifs Believe Joy Belief Sadness Loneliness Frustration Questioning Alienation Stressful

Author:Byron Katie

“Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.”

People Knows Way Art Feelings Literature Given Sex Loneliness Connected Isolation Relief

Author:Adrienne Rich

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