Best loneliness & pain Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.”

“We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.”

Pain Fear Waiting Dark Poverty Loneliness Particular Creatures Thirds Fourth Ridicule Fifth Physical Pain Ambush

Author:Horace Walpole

“Please, God. Help me. Take this pain away. Please fill this loneliness with your love. Help me, God, please, help me.”

Helping Pain Loneliness Please Help Me God Help God Help Me

Author:David

“The pains that you suffer, the loneliness that you encounter, the experiences that are disappointing or distressing, the addictions and seeming pitfalls of your life are each doorways to awareness. Each offers you an opportunity to see beyond the illusion that serves as the balancing and growth of your soul.”

Soul Pain Suffering Opportunity Growth Awareness Loneliness Offers Illusion Addiction Your Soul Encounters Seeming Disappointing Doorways Pitfalls Distressing

Author:Gary Zukav

“Some days, 24 hours is too much to stay put in, so I take the day hour by hour, moment by moment. I break the task, the challenge, the fear into small, bite-size pieces. I can handle a piece of fear, depression, anger, pain, sadness, loneliness, illness. I actually put my hands up to my face, one next to each eye, like blinders on a horse.”

I Can Moments Hands Eye Pain Faces Next Hours Challenges Break Too Much Pieces Sadness Loneliness Tasks Horse Size Illness Handle Bites Hands Up Small Pieces Blinders

Author:Regina Brett

“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“Lost in loneliness and pain. Black and unendurable, Thinking of you with every Corpuscle of my flesh, in Every instant of night And day.”

Thinking Pain Night Lost Black Loneliness Flesh Instant Thinking Of You Unendurable

Book:The Collected Shorter Poems

Source: The Collected Shorter Poems

“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

“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.”

“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

“I dont fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.”

Years Pain Imagine Loneliness Beach Holiday Fear Of Death Senility Prologue

Author:Mary Roach

“We live a pleasant life shopping at the Food Shoppe . . . taking the kids to the Weinery-Beanery, . . . and eating bran flakes . .. and then, with no warning, we wake up one morning stricken with middle age, full of loneliness, dumb, in pain. Our work is useless, our vocation is lost, and nobody cares about us at all. This is not bearable. In despair, we go do something spectacularly dumb, like run away with Amber the cocktail waitress, and suddenly all the women in our life look at us with unmitigated disgust.”

“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

“... 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.”

“When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.”

Pain Joy Boys Dog Loneliness Pigs Rats Love Pain

Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“To diminish the suffering of pain, we need to make a crucial distinction between the pain of pain, and the pain we create by our thoughts about the pain. Fear, anger, guilt, loneliness and helplessness are all mental and emotional responses that can intensify pain.”

Needs Pain Suffering Loneliness Emotional Buddhism Mindfulness Guilt Response Distinction Crucial Our Thoughts Diminish Helplessness Emotional Response

Author:Howard Cutler

“In fact, numerous scientific laboratory tests and field observations have led to the conclusion that animals are conscious, intelligent, emotional beings. They are not machines and truly feel physical pain when it is inflicted upon them. They are capable of experiencing a wide range of emotions, including loneliness, embarrassment, sadness, longing, depression, anxiety, panic, and fear, as well as joy, relief, surprise, happiness, contentment, and peace.”

“The worst part is the unknown. The pain of being alone, the loneliness, is familiar. You've dealt with that. You understand it. But loving someone, risking everything, is unknown. There's no way to know how bad it's going to be. You barely survive the pain of being alone, so how can you deal with anything worse? So you don't bother to try.”

Knows Way Trying Pain Fear Deals Know How Worst Loneliness Familiar Bother Be You Loving Someone

Book:Susan Mallery's Hometown Heartbreakers Books 4-6: Part-Time Wife\Holly and Mistletoe\Husband by the Hour

Source: Susan Mallery's Hometown Heartbreakers Books 4-6: Part-Time Wife\Holly and Mistletoe\Husband by the Hour

“While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.”

Pain Perfect Too Much Loneliness Promise Guilt God Love Resurrection God Loves Us Perfect Life Present Life

Book:Evidence for the Resurrection: What It Means for Your Relationship with God

Source: Evidence for the Resurrection: What It Means for Your Relationship with God

“Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.”

Mind Pain Literature Grief Behinds Beauty Loneliness Shadow Lonely Fleeting Being Alone Visitors Feeling Lonely Souvenirs

Author:Christopher Morley

“Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.”

“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.”

“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

“My plea...is a plea to save the children. Too many of them walk with pain and fear, in loneliness and despair. Children need sunlight...They need kindness and refreshment and affection. Every home, regardless of the cost of the house, can provide an environment of love which will be an environment of salvation.”

Needs Children Home Pain House Walks Kindness Environment Loneliness Cost Despair Salvation Affection Sunlight Refreshments Save The Children

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.”

“To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately lonely lose themselves in mental illness or violence to forget the inner pain.”

People Feels Pain Loses Forget Wonder Violence Loneliness Taste Lonely Illness Mental Illness Unwanted Unloved Being Unloved

Book:Becoming Human

Source: Becoming Human

“...to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that can not be ravaged in the dark without great consequence.”

Pain Speak Dark Loneliness Humour Consequence Hunger Loud Visible Can Not

Book:The Vagina Monologues

Source: The Vagina Monologues

“Divinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in the falling snow; Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued Elations when the forest blooms; gusty Emotions on wet roads on autumn nights; All pleasures and all pains, remembering The boughs of summer and the winter branch. These are the measures destined for her soul.”

Soul Pain Remember Night Fall Passion Pleasure Emotion Loneliness Summer Rain Winter Mood Snow Forests Grieving Branches Divinity Autumn Wet Destined Elation Autumn Nights

Book:Harmonium

Source: Harmonium

“...the pain of the constant, bone-chilling loneliness she'd accustomed herself to. And learned to live with it.”

Pain Loneliness Constant Bones Accustomed Chill

Book:A Well Pleasured Lady: Well Pleasured #1

Source: A Well Pleasured Lady: Well Pleasured #1

“There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them.”

Love May Pain Mother Poor Our Lives Loneliness Terrible Parenting Hunger Calcutta Blessed Mother Anti Valentine Poor Family Anti Valentines Day Funny Anti Valentines Day Silence Of The Heart Hunger For Love

Author:Mother Teresa

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”

Needs Moments Pain Memories Worst Loneliness Lonely Domestic Violence Giver Feeling Lonely I Am Lonely Lonely Feeling Old Memories Lonely Heart Past Pain

Book:The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition

Source: The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition

“The pain of being alone is completely out of this world, isn't it? I don't know why, but I understand your feelings so much, it actually hurts.”

Knows World Feelings Pain Hurt Loneliness This World

Author:Masashi Kishimoto

“Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.”

Life Inspirational Sometimes Pain Deals Sadness Share Loneliness Sad Overcoming Being Alone Leave Me Alone Loneliness And Solitude

Book:The Sugar Queen

Source: The Sugar Queen

“In San Francisco - life goes on. Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. The sound of music floats down a dark street. A young girl looks out a window and wishes she were married. A drunk sleeps under a bridge. It is tomorrow.”

“A thousand recollected lives were passing through her, a thousand stories - of love and work, of parents and children, of duty and joy and grief. Beds slept in and meals eaten, and the bliss and pain of the body, and a view of summer leaves from a window on a morning it had rained; the nights of loneliness and the nights of love, the soul in it's body keeping always longing to be known.”

Source: The Passage

“It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.”

People Love Inspirational Giving Home Pain Easy Love You Loneliness Easier Diversity Hunger Cups Far Away Philanthropy Our Love Rice Calcutta Unloved Hunger For Love Being Unloved

Author:Mother Teresa

“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

“There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.”

Heart Light Pain Loneliness Sorrow Comfort Bed Hot Rays Now And Then Soup Pain And Sorrow Rays Of Light Hot Soup

Author:Hubert Selby, Jr.

“You know what? I was wrong. You are an idiot. My life happens to, on occasion, suck beyond the telling of it. Sometimes more than I can handle.”

“But I know too that if we ever make a world without shadow, if the chemists and scientists and psychologists succeed in abolishing fear, pain, loneliness, death, some of us will find life so intolerable we will probably blow out our brains out of sheer boredom.”

Ifs Knows World Pain Brain Loneliness Succeed Shadow Scientist Blow Bored Boredom Sheer Psychologist Chemist

Author:MacDonald Harris

“It was a part of myself that was my enemy; I still had a childish illusion that the flesh on my own bones was somehow unique and precious to the universe, in some obscure corner of my mind I wanted the others to love me and make exceptions for me simply because I felt heat and cold, pain and loneliness as they did. Now this was gone once and for all, and I understood there were no exceptions and on one was invulnerable, we all had to share the same conditions and in the end this was simply mortality, the mortality of things as well as ourselves. After that I didn't expect anybody to love me.”

“Memories begin to creep forward from hidden corners of your mind. Passing disappointments. Lost chances and lost causes. Heartbreaks and pain and desolate, horrible loneliness. Sorrows you thought long forgotten mingle with still-fresh wounds.”

Mind Long Stills Pain Lost Causes Memories Chance Loneliness Sorrow Forgotten Disappointment Corners Wounds Horrible Passing Passings Creeps Desolate Lost Cause

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“Is it possible really to love other people? If I’m lonely and in pain, everyone outside me is potential relief—I need them. But can you really love what you need so badly? Isn’t a big part of love caring more about what the other person needs? How am I supposed to subordinate my own overwhelming need to somebody else’s needs that I can’t even feel directly? And yet if I can’t do this, I’m damned to loneliness, which I definitely don’t want … so I’m back at trying to overcome my selfishness for self-interested reasons.”

“I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.”

Needs Pain Imagination Loneliness My Imagination

Book:Other Colours

Source: Other Colours

“People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this world’s worst kind of pain.”

People World Kind Pain Winning Worst Loneliness This World

Author:Masashi Kishimoto

“The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.”

Source: The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

“It's getting to the point where I am no fun anymore, I am sorry. / Sometimes it hurts so badly I must cry out loud, ' I am lonely.' / I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are, you make it hard.”

Sometimes Hard Pain Fun Hurt Loneliness Cry Mines Lonely Sorry Loud Apology It Hurts Being Alone I Am Sorry Am Sorry I Am Lonely Lonely And Alone Sometimes It Hurts

Author:Stephen Stills

“Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.”

Love Doe Pain House Seeing Loneliness Lonely Relation Lays Touching So Lonely Solicitude

Book:The Death Of The Heart

Source: The Death Of The Heart

“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

“I was trundling around with my inadequacies, and inner pain and loneliness. I yearned, desperately, to be something. I yearned to get out from where I was ... some deep discontent within myself, actually some deep dislike of myself.”

Pain Loneliness Solitude Dislike Discontent Inadequacy

Author:Anthony Hopkins

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