Best loneliness & has-beens Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. I want to ask you to keep this great wonder of nature as it now is. I hope you will not have a building of any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel or anything else, to mar the wonderful grandeur, the sublimity, the great loneliness and beauty of the canyon. Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it.”

“Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?”

Has Beens Water Brain Company Too Much Loneliness Pursuit Islands Emptiness Thirst Sailor

Author:Margaret Atwood

“A great many wise sayings have been uttered about the effects of solitary retirement; but the motives which impel men to seek it are not more various than the effects which it produces on different individuals. One thing is certain, that those who can with truth affirm that they are "never less alone than when alone," might generally add that they never feel more lonely than when not alone.”

Source: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

“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

“A cruel joke has been played on us. We are fated always to remember what we learned but never to recall the experiences that taught us. Who can remember being born? Yet, it is possible to speculate that anxiety has its roots in this experience, that dread of abandonment, fears of separation, intolerable loneliness go back to this moment. Who can remember being cared for as an infant? ... Who can remember being toilet-trained? ... Who can remember the attachment which developed to the parent of the opposite sex? ... We cannot remember but what we have forgotten lives on dynamically.”

Has Beens Moments Remember Sex Parent Born Loneliness Taught Anxiety Jokes Roots Opposites Forgotten Separation Attachment Dread Recalls Infant Toilets Abandonment Taught Us

Author:Jo Coudert

“Loneliness has been following me my whole life.”

Has Beens Whole Loneliness Following Whole Life

Author:Robert De Niro

“Oh, whoever has been himself alone can never find another’s loneliness strange.”

Has Beens Loneliness Strange

Book:Berlin Stories

Source: Berlin Stories

“... it is a lonely programme. The very virtues you cultivate become walls that inevitably separate you from your kind.... A new danger comes to your soul, and intolerance and impatience with those who are as you have been all but destroy that which you have taken such pains to build up. Not alone are there spiritual barriers between you and the friends that you have, but your business training has made your mind incisive. In the swift rush of business you have no time for small debates and petty dilemmas.”

“I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do. It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem.”

Trying Has Beens Hard Problem Courses Loneliness Easier Solitude Findings Dignity

Book:Bluets

Source: Bluets

“Much has been said of the loneliness of wisdom, and how much the Truth seeker becomes a pilgrim wandering from star to star. To the ignorant, the wise man is lonely because he abides in distant heights of the mind. But the wise man himself does not feel lonely. Wisdom brings him nearer to life; closer to the heart of the world than the foolish man can ever be. Bookishness may lead to loneliness, and scholarship may end in a battle of beliefs, but the wise man gazing off into space sees not an emptiness, but a space full of life, truth, and law.”

“What, after all, are the world's deepest problems? They are what they always have been, the individual's problemsâthe meaning of life and death, the mastery of self, the quest for value and worth-whileness and freedom within, the transcending of loneliness, the longing for love and a sense of significance, and for peace. Society's problems are deep, but the individual's problems go deeper; Solzhenitsyn, Dostoyevsky, or Shakespeare will show us that, if we hesitate to take it from the Bible.”

Ifs World Has Beens Self Shows Problem Values Individual Loneliness Longing Deeper Meaning Of Life Life And Death Significance Mastery Quests Transcending Dostoyevsky

Author:J. I. Packer

“We are not alone in our loneliness, others have been here and known griefs we thought our special own.”

Has Beens Grief Known Special Loneliness Not Alone

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“My intention has been to encourage viewers to face their prejudices about prostitution, sex and aging while reflecting on the complex and varied forms that love and loneliness can take.”

Has Beens Faces Form Sex Loneliness Prejudice Aging Intention Complexes Viewers Reflecting Prostitution

Author:Maya Goded

“Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.”

Men Has Beens Loneliness Solitude Lonely Every Man Inevitable Being Alone Being Lonely Loneliness And Solitude Lonely And Alone Alone Lonely Lonely Man

Book:You Can't Go Home Again

Source: You Can't Go Home Again

“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”

Source: Visions of Poe: a personal selection of Edgar Allan Poe's stories and poems

“Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.”

Believe Has Beens Impossible Loneliness Discovery Absolutes

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“Corrigan told me once that Christ was quite easy to understand. He went where He was supposed to go. He stayed where He was needed. He took little or nothing along, a pair of sandals, a bit of a shirt, a few odds and ends to stave off the loneliness. He never rejected the world. If He had rejected it, He would have been rejecting mystery. And if He rejected mystery, He would have been rejecting faith.”

Ifs World Littles Has Beens Ends Easy Bits Christ Mystery Loneliness Needed Shirts Pairs Odds Rejected Rejecting Sandals Odds And Ends

Book:Let The Great World Spin

Source: Let The Great World Spin

“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

“Occasionally, very occasionally, say at four o’clock in the afternoon on a wet Sunday, she feels panic-stricken and almost breathless with loneliness. Once or twice she has been known to pick up the phone to check that it isn’t broken. Sometimes she thinks how nice it would be to be woken by a call in the night: ‘get in a taxi now’ or ‘I need to see you, we need to talk’. But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel – independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.”

Thinking Needs Feels Has Beens Sometimes Character Would Be Night Known Novel Four Nice Loneliness Broken Picks Independent Phones Checks Clock Sunday Sparks Afternoon Panic Wet Taxi Breathless

Book:One Day

Source: One Day

“We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist. So, for a time, if such a passion come to fruition, the man will get what he wants. He will get the moral support, the encouragement, the relief from the sense of loneliness, the assurance of his own worth. But these things pass away; inevitably they pass away as the shadows pass across sundials. It is sad, but it is so. The pages of the book will become familiar; the beautiful corner of the road will have been turned too many times. Well, this is the saddest story.”

Source: The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion

“There is absolutely no point in sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself. The great power you have is to let go ... focus on what you have, no that which has been mean or unkindly removed.”

Mean Has Beens Feelings Focus Loneliness Letting Go Sitting Sorry No Point Being Alone Great Power Sitting Around Feeling Sorry Feeling Sorry For Yourself

Author:Minnie Driver

“Perhaps a great love is never returned. Had it been given warmth and shelter by its counterpart in the Other, perhaps it would have been hindered from ever growing to maturity. It "gives" us nothing. But in its world of loneliness it leads us up to the summits with wide vistas - of great insights.”

World Love Giving Has Beens Given Love Is Growing Loneliness Insight Wide Maturity Warmth Shelter Summit Great Love Counterparts Vistas

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“Most of the world's great souls have been lonely. Loneliness seems to be one price the saint must pay for his saintliness... Always remember: you cannot carry a cross in company. Though a man were surrounded by a vast crowd, his cross is his alone and his carrying of it marks him as a man apart. Society has turned against him; otherwise he would have no cross. No one is a friend to the man with a cross.”

Men World Has Beens Soul Seems Christian Remember Pay Company Loneliness He Man Crosses Lonely Mark Saint Crowds Christian Inspirational Remember You Remembers You Great Souls

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.”

“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place. We stay there even though we go away and there are things in us we can find again only by going back there. We travel to ourselves when we go to a place. We have covered a stretch of our life no matter how brief it may have been but by traveling to ourselves we must confront our own loneliness. And isn’t it so that everything we do is done out of fear of our loneliness? Isn’t that why we renounce all the things we will regret at the end of our life?”

May Has Beens Ends Matter Done Behinds Our Lives Loneliness Regret Going Away Covered Renounce

Author:Pascal Mercier

“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

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