Best loneliness & firsts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The first cup caresses my dry lips and throat, The second shatters the walls of my loneliness, The third explores the dry rivulets of my soul Searching for legends of five thousand scrolls. With the fourth the pain of past injustice vanishes through my pores. The fifth purifies my flesh and bone. With the sixth I commune with the immortals. The seventh conveys such pleasure I am overcome. The fresh wind blows through my wings As I make my way to Penglai.”

“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

“Until the day when, your endurance gone, in this world for you without arms, you catch up in yours the first mangy cur you meet, carry it for the time needed for it to love it and you it, then throw it away.”

World Love Firsts Gone Loneliness This World Arms Needed Despair Endurance

Book:Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

Source: Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

“Courage looks you straight in the eye. She is not impressed with power trippers, and she knows first aid. Courage is not afraid to weep, and she is not afraid to pray, even when she is not sure who she is praying to. When she walks it is clear she has made the journey from loneliness to solitude. The people who told me she was stern were not lying. they just forgot to mention she was kind.”

People Knows Firsts Looks Kind Made Eye Lying Walks Clear Journey Loneliness Praying Solitude Aids Not Sure Not Afraid Impressed Not Impressed

Author:J. Ruth Gendler

“The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her.”

Firsts Mother Realizing Loses Family Loneliness First Time Terror Helplessness Desolation

Author:Francis Thompson

“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.”

Giving Feels Firsts May Whole Feelings Body Light Seems Pain Turns Dark Grief Attention Consciousness Darkness Loneliness Your Body Cells Flames Urges Dread Refrain Labeling

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.”

Firsts Eye Loneliness Lonely Christian Inspirational Being Alone Feeling Lonely Being Lonely Feeling Alone Lonely Feeling Lonely And Alone Alone Lonely Lonely Heart

Book:The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton

Source: The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton

“To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes.”

Source: Rise of Endymion

“At first it upset me to realize how many people are, at heart, selfish. Now I take that in stride, but people's loneliness still gets to me.”

People Firsts Heart Stills Realizing Loneliness Selfish Upset Stride

Book:Just One Wish

Source: Just One Wish

“The loved object is simply one that has shared an experience at the same moment of time, narcissistically; and the desire to be near the beloved object is at first not due to the idea of possessing it, but simply to let the two experiences compare themselves, like reflections in different mirrors. All this may precede the first look, kiss, or touch; precede ambition, pride, or envy; precede the first declarations which mark the turning point—for from here love degenerates into habit, possession, and back to loneliness.”

Source: The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea

“This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.”

Giving Firsts Desire Community Responsibility Generations Century Loneliness Identity Duty Members Despair Ethics Lonely Weak Sick Twenties Noble Solidarity Our Generation Persecuted

Author:Elie Wiesel

“There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for any kind of sociability, however trivial or cheap, for the tiniest outward agreement with the first person who comes along.”

Firsts Kind Persons Difficult Hours Loneliness Bears Solitude Heavy Agreement First Person Sociability

Book:Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet

“Look on each day that comes as a challenge, as a test of courage. The pain will come in waves, some days worse than others, for no apparent reason. Accept the pain. Little by little, you will find new strength, new vision, born of the very pain and loneliness which seem, at first, impossible to master.”

Firsts Looks Littles Reason Seems Pain Born Challenges Accepting Vision Impossible Loneliness Masters Tests Wave Grieving Each Day New Vision

Author:Daphne du Maurier

“Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.”

Firsts Loneliness Solitude Determine Virtuous Singularity

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I negotiated the no man's land between the country of my past and the continent of my present.”

Men Firsts Country Past Mother Felt Novel Land Loneliness Daughter Acknowledge Continents Tigers My Past

Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“The first cup moistens my lips and throat; The second cup breaks my loneliness; The third cup searches my barren entrail but to find therein some thousand volumes of odd ideographs; The fourth cup raises a slight perspiration-all the wrongs of life pass out through my pores; At the fifth cup I am purified; The sixth cup calls me to the realms of the immortals. The seventh cup-ah, but I could take no more! I only feel the breath of the cool wind that raises in my sleeves. Where is Elysium? Let me ride on this sweet breeze and waft away thither.”

Feels Firsts Break Loneliness Sweet Wind Thousand Thirds Let Me Breaths Raises Lips Cups Tea Odd Realms Call Me Throat Fourth Volume Breeze Fifth Sleeves Barren Perspiration Elysium Sweet Tea

Author:Lu Tong

“The first bowl sleekly moistened throat and lips, The second banished all my loneliness The third expelled the dullness from my mind, Sharpening inspiration gained from all the books I've read. The fourth brought forth light perspiration, Dispersing a lifetimes troubles through my pores. The fifth bowl cleansed every atom of my being. The sixth has made me kin to the Immortals. This seventh... I can take no more.”

Mind Firsts Made I Can Book Light Inspiration Trouble Loneliness Thirds Lifetime Lips Tea Throat Atoms Fourth Bowls Fifth Dullness Sharpening Perspiration

Author:Lu Tong

“For the first time in four billion years a living creature had contemplated himself and heard with a sudden, unaccountable loneliness, the whisper of the wind in the night reeds.”

Years Firsts Night Four Heard Loneliness Wind Creatures First Time Billions Living Creatures Reeds

Book:The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature

Source: The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature

“Maybe a first love exists to reaffirm the best parts of yourself, the choices you made when you didn't worry about the consequences. Maybe a first love exists to remind you to be brave in the moment, to stand up for your feelings, instead of shrinking back in the face of potential loneliness.”

Firsts Made Moments Feelings Faces Choices Worry Loneliness Consequence Brave First Love Be Brave Shrinking

Author:Adriana Trigiani

“People often expect the other person to respond first in a positive way, instead of taking the initiative to create that possibility. I feel that's wrong; it can act as a barrier that just promotes a feeling of isolation from others. To overcome feelings of isolation and loneliness, your underlying attitude makes a tremendous difference - approaching others with the thought of compassion in your mind is the best way.”

“When children feel understood, their loneliness and hurt diminish. When children are understood, their love for their parent is deepened. A parent's sympathy serves as emotional first aid for bruised feelings. When we genuinely acknowledge a child's plight and voice her disappointment, she often gathers the strength to face reality.”

Feels Firsts Children Feelings Reality Faces Parent Voice Hurt Loneliness Emotional Understood Disappointment Aids Acknowledge Diminish Bruised Plight

Author:Haim Ginott

“It is not good that man should be alone. ... Hitherto all things that have been named, were approved of God to be very good: loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good: whether it be a thing, or the want of something, I labour not.”

Men Firsts Has Beens Eye Loneliness All Things Very Good Genesis Approved

Author:John Milton

“I'm lonely. What kind of loneliness? Every kind. I feel disconnected. Abandoned. As always. Repetition. So what, my love? So what? At first, I just wanted to run away. Now I have no where else to run to, nothing to run from. I don't belong anywhere, I don't want to go anywhere, I just want to be happy.”

Want Feels Firsts Kind Running Wanted Loneliness Lonely Abandoned Running Away Repetition Disconnected Want To Be Happy I'm Lonely I Just Want To Be Happy Just Want To Be Happy

Author:Daul Kim

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