Best loneliness & ifs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Author:Rachel Hartman

“If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.”

Ifs Wells Love You Loneliness Lonely Let Me Legends So Lonely

Author:Judy Garland

“My books are based on the "what if" principle. "What if you became invisible?" or "What if you did change into your mother for one day?" I then take it from there. Each book takes several months in the long process of writing, rewriting, writing, rewriting, and each has its own set of problems. The one thing I dislike about the writing process is the sometimes-loneliness of it all. Readers only get to see the glamour part of a bound book, not some of the agonizing moments one has while constructing it.”

“I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me all the time. It's not getting easier; if anything, it's always right on the edge of my skin.”

Ifs Feels Humans Suffering Realizing Loneliness Easier Despair Skins Weight Edges Insanity Bubbles Human Suffering

Author:Erwin McManus

“I should be glad of loneliness And hours that go on broken wings,A thirsty body, a tired heart And the unchanging ache of things,If I could make a single song As lovely and as full of light,As hushed and brief as a falling star On a winter night.”

Ifs Should Heart Body Light Night Song Fall Stars Hours Loneliness Broken Goes On Tired Wings Winter Glad Lovely If I Could Ache Thirsty Unchanging Winter Night Broken Wings

Book:Flame and Shadow

Source: Flame and Shadow

“If there is one person on the planet who still is suffering from loneliness and from pain or despair, and we don't know about it, or we don't want to know about it, then something is wrong with the world.”

Ifs Knows World Want Persons Stills Pain Suffering Loneliness Planets Despair

Author:Elie Wiesel

“It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.”

People Ifs Knows Humans May Whole My Own Conditions Loneliness Painting Communication Reflection Human Condition Lack Of Communication

Author:Edward Hopper

“If same-sex relationships are really sinful, then why do they so often produce good fruit-loving families, open homes, self-sacrifice, commitment, faithfulness, joy? And if conservative Christians are really right in their response to same-sex relationships, then why does that response often produce bad fruit-secrets, shame, depression, loneliness, broken families, and fear?”

“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 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

“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

“Python carries his loneliness in him as if he had eaten clay.”

Ifs Loneliness Carrie Clay Python

Author:Barbara Chase-Riboud

“Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.”

Ifs Feels Sometimes Might Lying Loneliness Frightening

Author:Brock Clarke

“When I'm writing, I like to travel alone. If you really want to find out about a place, you need to be as free as possible to be spontaneous. You also need to be lonely, because loneliness is a great teacher, too.”

Ifs Want Needs Writing Teacher Loneliness Lonely Spontaneous Great Teacher Be Spontaneous

Author:Paul Theroux

“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”

Ifs Happiness Success Fear Inspiring Loneliness Acceptance Intellectual Lonely Perseverance Exceptional Being Lonely Black Motivational

Author:Lorraine Hansberry

“If you fear loneliness, then don't get married.”

Ifs Fear Marriage Loneliness Married

Author:Anton Chekhov

“One ought to love society, if he wishes to enjoy solitude. It is a social nature that solitude works upon with the most various power. If one is misanthropic, and betakes himself to loneliness that he may get away from hateful things, solitude is a silent emptiness to him.”

Ifs May Wish Social Enjoy Loneliness Ought Solitude Silent Various Emptiness Get Away Hateful Misanthropic

Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat in a flock By the embers in hearth-side ease. We pictured the meek mild creatures where They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few would weave In these years! yet, I feel If someone said on Christmas Eve, "Come; see the oxen kneel, In the lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used to know," I should go with him in the gloom, Hoping it might be so.”

Source: Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“I never had a dog that showed a human fear of death. Death, to a dog, is the final unavoidable compulsion, the least ineluctable scent on a fearsome trail, but they like to face it alone, going out into the woods, among the leaves, if there are any leaves when their time comes, enduring without sentimental human distraction the Last Loneliness, which they are wise enough to know cannot be shared by anyone.”

Ifs Knows Humans Enough Lasts Faces Death Wise Dog Loneliness Endure Finals Woods Distraction Going Out Scent Sentimental Trails Fear Of Death Compulsion

Author:James Thurber

“You must watch the pictures that you paint with your imagination. Your environment and the conditions of your life at any given time are the direct result of your own inner expectations. If you imagine dire circumstances, ill health or desperate loneliness, these will be 'automatically' materialized, for these thoughts themselves bring about the conditions that will give them a reality in physical terms. If you would have good health then you must imagine this as vividly as you fearfully imagine ill health.”

“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

“Loneliness is the penalty of leadership, but the man who has to make the decisions is assisted greatly if he feels that there is no uncertainty in the minds of those who follow him, and that his orders will be carried out confidently and in the expectation of success.”

Ifs Men Feels Mind Order Decision Loneliness He Man Expectations Uncertainty Penalties

Book:South

Source: South

“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

“What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit”

Ifs Men Spirit Dies Gone Loneliness Beast Biodiversity

Book:Chief Seattle's Testimony

Source: Chief Seattle's Testimony

“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

“The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up,as if orchards were dying high in space.Each leaf falls as if it were motioning "no."And tonight the heavy earth is fallingaway from all other stars in the loneliness.We're all falling. This hand here is falling.And look at the other one. It's in them all.And yet there is Someone, whose handsinfinitely calm, holding up all this falling.”

Ifs Looks Hands Earth Fall Stars Space Dying Loneliness Calm Heavy Tonight Leafs Orchard

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“If there are 1,500 people in a theater and they're all there to see you, there are no other guys. You're the guy. So it is a monastic life, it is very lonely, if I was prone to loneliness. It's a lot like wrestling, no one can throw a block for you, no one can give you a pass. Nobody can hand the ball off to you, it's you only for an hour and a half every night.”

People Ifs Giving Hands Night Guy Hours Half Loneliness Lonely Balls Theater Block Wrestling Every Night Other Guys Monastic Life

Author:Jay Mohr

“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

“I always wished I could go to confession. I was so full of things I couldn't name and had an instinct to hide. I felt burdened by the loneliness of my interior life. I wanted some container that I could empty myself into, some ear that would never be shocked, even if it offered me some kind of penance.”

Ifs Kind Wanted Names Felt Loneliness Empty Ears Instinct Confession Shocked Interiors Containers Penance

Author:Melissa Febos

“It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.”

Ifs Men World Progress Loneliness Lonely Every Man Being Alone Being Lonely Loneliness And Solitude I Am Lonely Lonely And Alone Alone Lonely Like Being Alone Lonely Man Lonely World

Author:Bruce Barton

“The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.”

Ifs Want Feels Moving Memories Loneliness Like You Picks Window Embrace

Author:Ajay Naidu

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”

“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

“If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.”

Ifs Trying Loneliness Solitude Lonely Funny Inspirational Being Alone Feeling Lonely Being Lonely Loneliness And Solitude Feeling Alone I Am Lonely Lonely Feeling Lonely And Alone Alone Lonely Like Being Alone Lonely Life Sitting Alone

Author:Jules Renard

“If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.”

Ifs World Heart Loneliness Deeper Isolation Isolation And Loneliness

Author:Sharon Salzberg

“If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.”

“We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. We are weaned from our timidity In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.”

“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.”

“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.”

Ifs Moments Happiness Night Heard Sadness Loneliness Divine Down And Stealing Teeth This Life Curse Judgement Demon Spokes What If Recurrence

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that it contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the joy that is felt by the least in Heaven, would have no weight that could be registered at all. Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good.”

Ifs Moments Joy Heaven Felt Loneliness Succeed Hatred Weight Envy Scales Itching Great Divorce Being Bad

Author:C. S. Lewis

“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

“A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion. What I wonder tonight pedaling hard down King William Street is if it translates to bicycles. A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street corner while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas, pink petals that have never felt loneliness, no matter how slowly they fell.”

Source: Fuel: Poems

“I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you... There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”

Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

“Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They are the enemies of our loneliness, our doubt, our anxiety, our tendencies to abdicate. To continue to be in good conversation over our enormous and terrifying problems is to be calling out to each other in the night. If we attend with imagination and devotion to our conversations, we will find what we need; and someone among us will act—it does not matter whom—and we will survive.”

“If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.”

Ifs Fall Half Loneliness Proportion Companion Being Alone Plight Thoughtlessness

Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks

“What was the point in such loneliness among people. At least if you were by yourself, you had a good reason to be lonely.”

People Ifs Reason Loneliness Lonely Oleanders

Book:White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

“If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.”

Ifs Stories Loneliness Disease Cures

Author:Richard Ford

“...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness of ego to control its world and secure itself. We give up our clingings to superiority and self-preservation...It means giving up searching for a home, becoming a refugee, a lonely person who must depend on himself...Fundamentally, no one can help us. If we seek to relieve our loneliness, we will be distracted from the path. Instead, we must make a relationship with loneliness until it becomes aloneness.”

Loneliness Quotes

Related topics

Loneliness Quotes