Best loneliness & men Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also the claims of conscience), leads to a wasteland of withered hopes and crying loneliness, empty of God and man: the wilderness in which Satan tempted Christ was not more dreadful than the arid expanse of intellectual vanity deprived of tradition and intuition, where modern man is tempted by his own pride.”

Source: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot

“One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.”

Men House Loneliness Lonely One Man

Book:Selected Early Poems of Robert Frost

Source: Selected Early Poems of Robert Frost

“Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and death.”

Men Loneliness Illness Rejection Identical Inferiority Masquerade Illness And Death

Author:Joshua L. Liebman

“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.”

“Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart.”

Men Trying Heart Soul Poverty Break Loneliness Try Me

Author:Sam Rayburn

“The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his desert through the marketplace and deploys his talents as a smiling leper, a mountebank of the irreparable.”

Men Suffering Talent Loneliness He Man Desert Midst Abandoned Drag Solitary Marketplace Leper Irreparable

Book:A short history of decay

Source: A short history of decay

“The survival of the fittest is going to make some man very lonesome some day.”

Men Loneliness Survival Survival Of The Fittest Lonesome

Author:Evan Esar

“All the suffering that humanity ever knew can be traced to the one fact that no man in the history of the Galaxy ... could really understand one another. Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed.”

Men Humans Facts Suffering Humanity Human Beings Behinds Loneliness Wall Galaxy Mist Choke

Author:Isaac Asimov

“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

“I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him.”

Men Wells Dies House Behinds Doubt Doors Loneliness Convinced

Author:Jose Saramago

“There was nothing lonelier than a man with a million friends.”

Men Millions Loneliness

Book:The Ashes of Eden

Source: The Ashes of Eden

“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

“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

“In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.”

Men Loneliness He Man Solitude Lonely Solitary Multitudes Solitary Man

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for others as well as for himself, for a nation as well as for individuals. That privacy no man can intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit for the right perhaps no man can assist.”

Men Wells Spirit Individual Nations Destiny Loneliness Terrible Holy Conscience Lonely Affair Every Man Isolation Privacy

Book:Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917

Source: Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917

“A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.”

People Men Running Challenges Interesting Risk Loneliness Willing Pursue Exposure Being Alone Interesting Man

Author:Lorraine Hansberry

“The economic dependence of woman and her apparently indestructible illusion that marriage will release her from loneliness and work and worry are potent factors in immunizing her from common sense in dealing with men at work.”

Men Work Common Marriage Worry Economic Loneliness Illusion Common Sense Factors Release Dependence Indestructible Working Man

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn't love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I felt without roots, like a man without a country.”

Men Country Felt Known Loneliness Discovery Roots Relation Race Relations Distressing

Book:The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition

Source: The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition

“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

“The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise.”

Men Doe Hate Loneliness He Man Despise

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)

“The best talk is artless, the talk of people trying to reassure or comfort themselves, women in the sun, grouped around baby carriages, talking about their weeks in the hospital or the way meat has gone up, or men in saloons, talking to combat the loneliness everyone feels.”

People Men Way Feels Trying Talking Sun Gone Week Loneliness Baby Comfort Meat Hospitals Combat Carriages Saloons

Book:My Ears Are Bent

Source: My Ears Are Bent

“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

“A lot of people think that my work is about mocking or making fun of things, but a lot of it is about discomfort and making myself as uncomfortable as the men feel, or putting myself in a situation where I'm revealing my loneliness as much as they're revealing theirs.”

People Thinking Men Feels Fun Situation Loneliness He Man Uncomfortable Revealing Discomfort

Author:Laurel Nakadate

“There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity. All young people should be taught now to put up with loneliness ... because the less man is compelled to come into contact with others, the better off he is.”

People Men World Should Young Choices Loneliness Taught Contact Compelled Better Off Vulgarity

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“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

“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.”

“Michael Jackson plays the wounded puppy very well. 'I must be the loneliest man in the world'. Well, you're not a man. And the loneliness is self inflicted, so sod off you pathetic puerile pimp. I wonder what color his willy is.”

Men World Wells Self Play Wonder Loneliness Color Wounded Pathetic Puppy Pimp Self Inflicted Sod

Author:John Lydon

“Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.”

Men Doe Lying Choices Loneliness Despair Destruction Alternatives

Book:Love

Source: Love

“Each man lives love in his limited fashion and does not seem to relate the resultant confusion and loneliness to his lack of knowledge about love.”

Men Doe Seems Fashion Loneliness Confusion Relate Love Life Lack Of Knowledge

Book:Love

Source: Love

“I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.”

Men Feels Ability Loneliness Standards Built Lonely Great Men Being Alone Being Lonely High Standards Loneliness And Solitude I Am Lonely Lonely Feeling Lonely And Alone Alone Lonely Alone Life I Feel Lonely

Author:Yousuf Karsh

“Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.”

Men Believe Two Death Faith Dying Loneliness Solitude Every Man Two Things Death And Dying Being Alone Dying Death Loneliness And Solitude Standing Alone Funerals And Death Dying Alone

Author:Martin Luther

“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 more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.”

Men Kind Jobs Realizing Loneliness Figures Majors Lonely Complaining Complaints Feeling Lonely Figure Skating Public Figures Lonely Man

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.”

Men Political Loneliness Solitude Lonely Being Alone Fears Of Life Loneliness In Life

Author:Eugene O'Neill

“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”

Men Inspirational Able Peace Rooms Loneliness Solitude Quiet Misery Being Alone Hipster Loneliness And Solitude Sitting Alone Quiet Room Alone Man

Author:Blaise Pascal

“A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.”

Men World Used Company Boys Worst Loneliness This World Youth Used To Be Single Being Single Grown Man

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.”

Knows Men Humans Facts Conditions Loneliness Solitude Human Condition Being Alone Loneliness And Solitude One Tree Hill Voiceover One Tree Hill Opening Short One Tree Hill Alone Man

Author:Octavio Paz

“When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.”

Men World Left Space Air Loneliness Planets Cold Disappear Awful Being Alone Outside World Space Between Lost Friendship

Book:Delphi Works of Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated)

“Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.”

Source: Marriage and Morals

“God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.”

Men Feels Religion Women Loneliness Solitude Findings Companion

Author:Paul Valery

“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

“The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.”

Men Life Humans Whole Facts Belief Existence Loneliness Conviction Curious Inevitable Phenomenon Peculiar Solitary Being Alone Human Existence Loneliness In Life Solitary Life Solitary Man

Author:Tom Wolfe

“In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in his cosmic loneliness. And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done." And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close to mud as man sat, looked around, and spoke. "What is the purpose of all this?" he asked politely. "Everything must have a purpose?" asked God. "Certainly," said man. "Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this," said God. And He went away.”

Thinking Men Said Done Earth Purpose Speak Loneliness Creatures Sat Spokes Cosmic Mud Cradle Living Creatures Cats Cradle Bokonon

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

“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

“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 was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.”

Men Water Rooms Darkness Loneliness Pride Solitude Each Day Dependent Sunlight Another Man

Author:Charles Bukowski

“Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.”

Knows Men Age Time Cases Loneliness Hair Promise Decades Lists Enthusiasm Thirty Feeling Lonely Single Man 30th Birthday Great Gatsby American Dream

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.”

Men Spiritual Born Virtue Loneliness Faults Silent Foam Talkative

Book:The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

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