Best loneliness & littles Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Loneliness... has very little to do with location. It's a state of mind. In the centre of every city are some of the loneliest people in the world... because our whole planet was just outside the window, I felt even more... connected to the seven billion other people.”

People World Mind Littles States Whole Earth Felt Cities Loneliness Planets Window Seven Connected Billions State Of Mind Location Centre

Author:Chris Hadfield

“You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too. Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev'rybody loves you now.”

Littles Turns Walks Mistake Love You Loneliness Cake Have Your Cake And Eat It Too

Author:Billy Joel

“I enjoy the fact that, as a gay man, there's relatively little pressure on me to act like a grown-up, but also I see the pitfalls that we're susceptible to, addiction, isolation, loneliness, mental illness, not to mention the embarrassing fashion choices.”

Men Littles Facts Choices Enjoy Fashion Loneliness Gay Pressure Addiction Illness Mental Illness Isolation Embarrassing Gay Men Susceptible Pitfalls

Author:Vestal McIntyre

“It was a lot to carry out of a childhood--all those textured layers of thwarted dreams rumbling under the fifties patina--but a lot of us did it. In those manicured lives and choreographed marriages there was an often-pronounced loneliness, an emptiness that we would try to fill with our own accomplishments. And our role, the one we would have so much trouble trying to shed later, was simply to be the best little girls in the world, the high- achieving, make-no-waves, properly behaved little kittens.”

World Trying Littles Dream Girl Roles Trouble Childhood Achieve Loneliness Wave Accomplishment Being The Best Emptiness Layers Shed Kitten

Author:Anne Taylor Fleming

“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.”

People Thinking Feels Writing Littles Reason Feelings Loneliness Lonely

Author:Amy Tan

“Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists, heterosexual or homosexual. Loneliness has to do with the sudden clefts we experience in every human relation, the gaps that open up with such stomach-turning unexpectedness. In a brief moment, I and my brother or sister have moved away into different worlds, and there is no language we can share.... It is in the middle of intimacy that the reality of loneliness most dramatically appears.”

Source: A Ray of Darkness

“This is how the world changes - little by little, table by table, meal by meal, hour by hour. This is how we chip away at isolation, loneliness, fear. This is how we connect, in big and small ways - we do it around the table.”

World Way Littles Bigs Hours Loneliness Tables Meals Isolation Chips

Author:Shauna Niequist

“So, how can we live in joy - and how can we know that we're supposed to live in joy the way people tell us to - when we're believing thoughts that bring on sadness and frustration and anger and alienation and loneliness? When we're believing those thoughts, we think that's the world, rather than what we're believing about the world. We're like lost little children.”

People Thinking Knows World Way Believe Children Littles Joy Lost Sadness Loneliness Frustration Alienation

Author:Byron Katie

“The General Public is a statistical fiction created by a few exceptional men to make the loneliness of being exceptional a little easier to bear.”

Men Littles Fiction Loneliness Bears Easier Exceptional General Public

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release, From little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear The sound of wings.”

Source: Last flight

“She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime.”

Littles Made Crime Loneliness Wistfulness

Book:The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore

Source: The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore

“The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.”

Source: A Simple Path-Open Market

“I know of nobody that is coming, I am sure, unless Charlotte Lucas should happen to call in- and I am sure my dinners are good enough for her, since she is an unmarried woman of seven-and-twenty, and as such should expect little more than a crust of bread washed down with a cup of loneliness.”

Knows Should Littles Enough Happens Loneliness Twenties Seven Dinner Bread Cups Good Enough Charlotte Unmarried

Book:Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Source: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

“...she had come long ago to understand that loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a little above the level of ordinary humanity.”

Littles Long Humanity Levels Loneliness Ordinary Rose Curse Long Ago

Book:The Green Bay Tree Early Autums A Good Woman .

Source: The Green Bay Tree Early Autums A Good Woman .

“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 sadness, the silence, the darkness, the loneliness... all of it held in a simple little moment. It was just so... I don't know. Just so much.”

Knows Littles Moments Simple Silence Darkness Sadness Loneliness Little Moments

Author:Kevin Brooks

“Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.”

People Littles Said Lasts Loneliness Lonely Desert Snakes

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“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

“Under the ground seep the toxins of the population that lives above. If you have to, you will eat roots and earthworms. It is always night. Candles burn in lanterns made from tin cans. When it is nighttime up above, you can crawl out, but only for a little while. You feel ashamed of your matted hair, your torn clothes, the dirt on your face. Who would want to speak to you? They are all shiny and pretty. They have parents and house with gardens. What do you have? The earth. Whole handfuls of it. The lizard people with their slit eyes and scaly skin. Your loneliness. Your longing.”

“Tore up my heart and shut it down. Nothing to do, nowhere to be. A simple little kind of free. Nothing to do, no one but me, and that's all I need. I'm perfectly lonely.”

Needs Heart Kind Littles Simple Loneliness My Heart Lonely

Author:John Mayer

“No shame in saying that I felt a loneliness drifting through me. Funny how it was, everyone perched in their own little world with the deep need to talk, each person with their own tale, beginning in some strange middle point, then trying so hard to tell it all, to have it all make sense, logical and final.”

World Needs Trying Littles Persons Hard Felt Middle Loneliness Strange Shame Finals Tales Make Sense Logical Drifting Trying So Hard

Book:Let The Great World Spin

Source: Let The Great World Spin

“It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness - I’m so accustomed to my Fate - Perhaps the Other - Peace - Would interrupt the Dark - And crowd the little Room - Too scant - by Cubits - to contain The Sacrament - of Him - I am not used to Hope - It might intrude upon - Its sweet parade - blaspheme the place - Ordained to Suffering - It might be easier To fail - with Land in Sight - Than gain - My Blue Peninsula - To perish - of Delight -”

Littles Might Used Suffering Dark Rooms Fate Failing Land Loneliness Sweet Easier Gains Sight Blue Crowds Delight Sacraments Accustomed Parades Peninsulas

Book:Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson

“The numbing mind-ream of knowing you're alone not because people won't accept you but because you find so little worth accepting. An imposed solitude is better than simply tolerating your company in waiting for something better. So loneliness is not such a terrible thing when you consider that the alternative to thought provoking solace is to be surrounded only by remindings of why that solitude is preferable.”

“… that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and writers out of their rooms to seek each other out, to rub shoulders with one another, bully, joke, condescend, feel each other, lay a hand on a shoulder or an arm round a waist, to chat and argue with little nudges, to spy a little, sniff out what is cooking in other pots, flatter, disagree, collude, be right, take offence, apologise, make amends, avoid each other, and seek each other’s company again.”

“To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people to whom your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasphemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs.”

People Needs Littles Age Earth Sound Opinion Middle Subjects Loneliness Bitter Middle Ages Blasphemy

Book:Burmese Days

Source: Burmese Days

“I've never been in love, but I've always imagined it--weirdly--like some sort of OxiClean commercial. The TV host shows a scene from an ordinary day, and then takes a big old sponge soaked in love and swipes away the stains. Suddenly that same scene is missing all the mistakes, all the loneliness. The colors are like jewels, ten times richer than they were before. The music is louder and clearer. "Love," the host will say, "makes life a little brighter.”

Littles Shows Bigs Mistake Missing Loneliness Color Tvs Scene Ten Music Is Ordinary Host Jewels Brighter Stains Sponges Been In Love Ordinary Days

Author:Jodi Picoult

“Grief causes you to leave yourself. You step outside your narrow little pelt. And you can’t feel grief unless you’ve had love before it - grief is the final outcome of love, because it’s love lost. […] It’s the cycle of love completed: to love, to lose, to feel grief, to leave, and then to love again. Grief is the awareness that you will have to be alone, and there is nothing beyond that because being alone is the ultimate final destiny of each individual living creature. That’s what death is, the great loneliness.”

Feels Littles Individual Lost Causes Loses Grief Steps Destiny Awareness Loneliness Creatures Ultimate Finals Outcomes Cycles Lost Love Living Creatures Love Again

Author:Philip K. Dick

“We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.”

Source: A Simple Path-Open Market

“I must conquer my loneliness alone. I must be happy with myself or I have nothing to offer you. Two halves have little choice but to join; and yes, they do make a whole. But two wholes when they coincide... that is beauty. That is love.”

Littles Two Whole Choices Half Love You Loneliness Offers Conquer

Book:Catch me with your smile

Source: Catch me with your smile

“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

“Here in a little lonely room I am master of earth and sea, And the planets come to me.”

Littles Earth Rooms Sea Loneliness Planets Masters Lonely Feeling Lonely

Book:Arthur Symons: Selected Writings

Source: Arthur Symons: Selected Writings

“The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to myself, although I am the only comfort I have, excepting perhaps streets, clouds, the sun, the faces and voices of kids and the aged, and similar accidents of beauty, innocence, truth and loneliness.”

Writing Littles Running Kids Faces Purpose Voice Sun Streets Loneliness Comfort Clouds Accidents Innocence Purpose Of Writing

Author:William Saroyan

“Eva is a story of repetition. It is a story where our protagonist faces the same situation many times over and determinedly picks himself back up again. It is a story of the will to move forward, even if only a little. It is a story of the resolve to want to be together, even though it is frightening to have contact with others and endure ambiguous loneliness. I would be most gratified if you found enjoyment in these four parts as it takes the same story and metamorphoses it into something different.”

“The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.”

“Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took your little circle of loneliness with you.”

Littles Loneliness Circumstances Circles

Book:Nine Coaches Waiting

Source: Nine Coaches Waiting

“It is important to recognize the power of our emotions-and to take responsibility for them by creating a light and positive atmosphere around ourselves. This attitude of joy that we create helps alleviate states of hopelessness, loneliness, and despair. Our relationships with others thus naturally improve, and little by little the whole of society becomes more positive and balanced.”

“Aging has its own beauty. It is a beautiful stage for doing inner work. You have a chance to not be so dependent on social approval. You can be a little more eccentric. You can be more alone. And you can examine loneliness and boredom instead of being afraid of them. There is such an art and a possibility of aging.”

Littles Art Beautiful Social Chance Stage Loneliness Possibility Aging Boredom Dependent Approval Eccentric Being Afraid

Author:Ram Dass

“Accept your loneliness. It is one stage, and only one stage, on a journey that brings you to God. It will not always last. Offer up your loneliness to God, as the little boy offered to Jesus his five loaves and two fishes. God can transform it for the good of others. Above all, do something for somebody else!”

Littles Two Lasts Spirituality Jesus Accepting Boys Five Journey Stage Loneliness Offers Fishes Little Boys

Book:Taking Flight: Wisdom for Your Journey

Source: Taking Flight: Wisdom for Your Journey

“Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism.”

Littles Art Loneliness Criticism Infinite Works Of Art

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“If one's object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York; there is practically no extreme of heat or cold, physical risk, loneliness, hunger or thirst that cannot, with a little ingenuity, be conveniently achieved in the centres of civilization.”

Ifs Littles Risk Loneliness New York Objects Cold Civilization Travel Hunger Extremes London Paris Heat Thirst Centre Ingenuity

Book:The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh

Source: The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh

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