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“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.”

Feels Feelings Happiness Answers Loneliness Creation Buddhism Ego Overcoming Ecstasy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.”

Source: The Diary of Anne Frank

“Because of my childhood where I was constantly by myself, I always feel lonely. I have a lot of people that I absolutely love and I know love me but I can't get rid of that feeling of loneliness no matter who I'm with - even with my children.”

People Knows Feels Children I Can Matter Feelings Childhood Loneliness Lonely My Children Feeling Lonely

Author:Natalia Vodianova

“How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and rightfully represented as oneself.”

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Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you--these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones.”

People Feelings Dark Loneliness Produce Genuine Pity Contempt

Book:Day watch

Source: Day watch

“When you're creating you have to descend to depths. You've just got to go there - to the boredom, the banality, the loneliness and all that. Those moments of really feeling in the flow are fleeting.”

Moments Feelings Loneliness Creating Flow Depth Boredom Fleeting Banality

Author:Errollyn Wallen

“The drivenness in any addiction is about the ruptured self, the belief that one is flawed as a person. The content of the addiction, whether it is alcoholism or work, is an attempt at an intimate relationship. The workaholic with her work or the alcoholic with his booze are having a love affair. Each alters mood to avoid the feeling of loneliness and hurt in the underbelly of shame.”

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Author:John Bradshaw

“Yes, you who must leave everything that you cannot control, It begins with your family, and soon it comes round to your soul. Well I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned: When you're not feeling holy your loneliness says that you've sinned.”

Thinking Wells I Can Soul Feelings Loneliness Holy Rounds Your Soul Our Family

Book:Leonard Cohen Anthology (Songbook)

Source: Leonard Cohen Anthology (Songbook)

“Green makes me think of silence, or maybe it's loneliness. I get the feeling of a terribly distant star.”

Thinking Feelings Stars Silence Loneliness Color Green

Author:Kobo Abe

“Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return! whose poetry is too finely spun, whose philosophy is too and mystified for popular demand: perhaps we have experienced feeling which Mr. Wordsworth alludes to, in a poem worthy of simplicity and loneliness of the sentiment "Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure; Sighed to think I read a book Only read perhaps by me!”

Thinking World Book Philosophy Feelings Pleasure Practice Loneliness Taught Return Demand Lonely Simplicity Worthy Poetry Is Sentiments Spun Wordsworth Shunning

Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard

“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

“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

“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.”

“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

“y feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders.”

“I drink out of desperation. Life is too dreary to endure. The misery, loneliness, crampedness - they're heartbreaking.[...] What feelings do you suppose a man has when he realizes that he will never know happiness or glory as long as he lives? Hard work. All that amounts to is food for the wild beasts of hunger.”

Knows Men Long Hard Feelings Life Is Realizing Loneliness Hard Work Amount Drink Glory Misery Endure Hunger Beast Desperation Heartbreaking Dreary Wild Beasts

Book:The Setting Sun

Source: The Setting Sun

“My children's favorite, and it's funny because they've seen it but they have a difficult time watching it because it's their dad and they make that connection, but Edward Scissorhands is by far my kids' favorite. They just connect with the character, and they see their dad feeling that isolation, that loneliness. He's a tragic character, so I think it's hard for them. They bawl.”

Thinking Children Hard Character Feelings Kids Difficult Loneliness Dad Connections My Children Isolation Tragic Difficult Times Edward Scissorhands

Author:Johnny Depp

“Terrified of being alone, yet afraid of intimacy, we experience widespread feelings of emptiness, of disconnection, of the unreality of self. And here the computer, a companion without emotional demands, offers a compromise. You can be a loner, but never alone. You can interact, but need never feel vulnerable to another person.”

Source: The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit

“As an artist, the most important feeling is loneliness. So when I say artists need to isolate themselves from society this is what I mean: You have to look for that feeling of loneliness again. Only this way can you have something that is purely your own.”

Way Needs Looks Mean Important Feelings Artist Loneliness

Author:Zhang Xiaogang

“I am interested in the loneliness and isolation that we can feel when we hide feelings we are ashamed of, especially if they concern people that we love.”

People Ifs Feels Feelings Loneliness Concern Isolation Ashamed

Author:Torill Kove

“So give your complete attention to what you feel, and refrain from mentally labeling it. As you go into the feeling, be intensely alert. At first, it may seem like a dark and terrifying place, and when the urge to turn away from it comes, observe it but don’t act on it. Keep putting your attention on the pain, keep feeling the grief, the fear, the dread, the loneliness, whatever it is. Stay alert, stay present - present with your whole Being, with every cell of your body. As you do so, you are bringing a light into this darkness. This is the flame of your consciousness.”

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Author:Eckhart Tolle

“I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely.”

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Author:Amy Tan

“So often loneliness comes from being out of touch with parts of oneself. We go searching for those parts in other people, but there's a difference between feeling separate from others and separate from oneself.”

People Feelings Differences Loneliness Oneself

Book:A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis

Source: A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis

“For how smart we think we are, how facile with words, we don't have a word for this feeling, the feeling of being blessed by belonging. If the universe is an unfolding bud, then I am a part of its creative surge, along with the flowing of water and the growing of pines. I can find a kind of camaraderie in this universe, once I recover from the astonishment of it. Or maybe not camaraderie exactly. What is the opposite of loneliness?”

Ifs Thinking Kind I Can Feelings Universe Water Creative Growing Loneliness Smart Opposites Blessed Belonging Bud Unfolding Astonishment Camaraderie Being Blessed

Author:Kathleen Moore

“loneliness is a twilight moment by feelings, longing after something or someone you can not reach”

Moments Feelings Loneliness Longing Twilight Can Not

Author:Istvan Molnar

“What I need is courage, and this often fails me. And it is also a fact that since my disease, when I am in the fields I am overwhelmed by a feeling of loneliness to such a horrible extent that I shy away from going out. But this will change all the same as time goes on. Only when I stand a painting before my easel do I feel somewhat alive. Never mind, this is going to change too, for now my health is so good that I suppose the physical part of me will gain the victory.”

Needs Feels Mind Facts Feelings Alive Failing Loneliness Fields Painting Goes On Victory Disease Gains Horrible Shy Going Out Overwhelmed Time Goes On

Book:Van Gogh, letters from Provence

Source: Van Gogh, letters from Provence

“I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future - the timelessness of the rocks and the hills - all the people who have existed there.”

People Thinking Feels Whole Stories Shows Feelings Dream Past Fall Waiting Rocks Loneliness Structure Winter Bones Awful Hills Landscape Timelessness

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty.”

Kind Use Feelings Poverty Worst Loneliness

Author:Mother Teresa

“The gay life is filled with as much cruelty and loneliness as the heterosexual life... I search into my dreams or desires and try to ask myself how these feelings can be made into concrete images... Are they really abnormal, or are they trying to tell us something we have repressed about ourselves, something we don't want to see, something about the darker side of the human condition itself?”

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Author:Arthur Tress

“Usually there's no specific reason for loneliness - it's a broad feeling.”

Reason Feelings Loneliness Broads

Author:Cass McCombs

“I better be honest about my feelings, even those involving loneliness, jealousy, and fear.”

Feelings Honest Loneliness Being Honest Involving

Author:Andy Cohen

“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

“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.”

Real Sometimes Feelings Loneliness

Author:Nicolas Ghesquiere

“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.”

World Feelings School Dark Loneliness Listening Okay My Favorite Misunderstood Goth Being Misunderstood

Author:Diane Birch

“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

“One of the things that people complain about is loneliness, disconnectedness. If you live in a society where your life is rarely threatened and most of your relationships are more on an economic exchange basis, then this could leave people feeling less connected.”

People Ifs Feelings Life Is Economic Loneliness Bases Connected Complaining Threatened Disconnectedness

Author:Steven Pinker

“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”

“Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.”

“It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness.”

Ifs Men Wells Feelings Loneliness Endure Envy Odd Farewell Tested

Author:Isak Dinesen

“I didn't think I was in a morbid mood, but it appears I am. My mind goes round and round trying to figure things out, but I always come back to the same two things: Loneliness and Death. Life ends before we figure anything out, most importantly how not to be lonely. Solitude is fine. But feeling like you have no one to love - abject lonliness - is not alright.”

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Author:Jonathan Ames

“Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.”

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Author:Gregory David Roberts

“I need someone. I need to hold somebody close. And I need more than this holding. I need someone to understand how I feel at a time like now. And the understanding must be part of the holding.”

Needs Feels Feelings Understanding Loneliness Being Alone Feeling Lonely Feeling Lost Feeling Empty

Book:A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW

Source: A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW

“Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Molly read me some books, those writers reached out and said, Look Gideon, we know about your loneliness and we know you're feeling downtrodden. And they said...I'll stand up for you. You're not lone anymore.”

Knows Want Looks Mean Persons Said Book Feelings Missing Loneliness Lonely They Said Lone Gideon Downtrodden Abigail

Book:Mitla Pass

Source: Mitla Pass

“And so he did his endless work,' I continued quietly, 'without feeling, without pity, without rest, for to open his heart to these would be to open his heart to his loneliness and longing and that was beyond bearing.”

Heart Feelings Would Be Loneliness Longing Endless Pity

Book:Keturah and Lord Death

Source: Keturah and Lord Death

“There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessness–like how a person alone for too long cannot feel comfortable when with others; cannot neglect that underlying the feeling of belongingness is the certainty, really, of loneliness, and nothingness, and so experiences life in that hurried, worthless way one experiences a mistake–he could no longer get at.”

Way Feels Persons Long Feelings Felt Mistake Alive Loneliness Comfortable Certainty Enjoyment Neglect Nothingness Worthless Meaninglessness

Author:Tao Lin

“When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned.”

Feelings Loneliness Holy

Author:Leonard Cohen

“When we sat down to eat I took inventory of the people in the room, and the remnants of my good mood evaporated when I realized how very little I had in common with them – the career dads, the responsible and diligent moms – and I was soon filled with dread and loneliness. I locked in on the smug feeling of superiority that married couples give off and that permeated the air – the shared assumptions, the sweet and contented apathy, it all lingered everywhere – despite the absence in the room of anyone single at which to aim this.”

Source: Lunar Park

“The pain of being alone is completely out of this world, isn't it? I don't know why, but I understand your feelings so much, it actually hurts.”

Knows World Feelings Pain Hurt Loneliness This World

Author:Masashi Kishimoto

“I had dropped one form and not taken on the other, and was become like Mohammed's coffin in our legend, with a resultant feeling of intense loneliness in life, and a contempt, not for other men, but for all they do.”

Men Feelings Form Taken Loneliness Intense Contempt Legends Coffins Loneliness In Life

Book: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

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

“They had stopped now and he gave a glance up at the sky, through the trees, as though to see how much time was left. Amber, watching him, was suddenly struck with panic. Now he was going--out again into that great world with its bustle and noise and excitement--and she must stay here. She had a terrible new feeling of loneliness, as if she stood in some solitary corner at a party where she was the only stranger. Those places he had seen, she would never see; those fine things he had done, she would never do. But worst of all she would never see him again.”

Ifs World Done Feelings Left Party Tree Sky Worst Loneliness Fine Terrible Corners Stranger Noise Excitement Panic Solitary Going Out Glances Amber Fine Things Bustle New Feelings

Book:Forever Amber

Source: Forever Amber