Best loneliness & people Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.”

People Feels Writing Hate Felt Loses Compassion Loneliness Sorrow Forgiving

Author:Louise Penny

“Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.”

People Fear Loneliness Concepts Majority Introvert Companionship Introversion

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They show us that conversations are possible across distances.”

People Want Writing Book Ends Shows Loneliness Conversation Distance Before And After

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“Because of my childhood where I was constantly by myself, I always feel lonely. I have a lot of people that I absolutely love and I know love me but I can't get rid of that feeling of loneliness no matter who I'm with - even with my children.”

People Knows Feels Children I Can Matter Feelings Childhood Loneliness Lonely My Children Feeling Lonely

Author:Natalia Vodianova

“All the lonely people, where do they all come from?”

People Loneliness Lonely Lonely People Beatles Love

Author:Paul McCartney

“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

“It brings spiritual warfare and suffering for the priest as he identifies with those who suffer, and shares the frustrations, anger, and incomprehensibility of that suffering in what it does to those who suffer. The priest shares in these struggles of his suffering people, the uncertainties it brings, the sense of divine abandonment it induces, and the loneliness caused.”

People Doe Spiritual Suffering Struggle Share Loneliness Divine Uncertainty Frustration Priests Warfare Abandonment Spiritual Warfare

Author:Arthur Middleton

“Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, Emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up the batteries of spiritual energy. Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness.”

People Mind Spiritual Energy Water Silence Clear Loneliness Hot Noise Emptiness Messy Batteries Clear Water Spiritual Energy

Author:Benjamin Hoff

“People who can't be alone have a problem. Loneliness is a luxury for people like me.”

People Problem Loneliness Like Me Luxury

Author:Karl Lagerfeld

“Physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance.”

People Loneliness Distance Psychics

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you--these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones.”

People Feelings Dark Loneliness Produce Genuine Pity Contempt

Book:Day watch

Source: Day watch

“Loneliness Got a mind of its own The more people around The more you feel alone”

People Feels Mind Loneliness

Author:Bob Dylan

“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

“How on earth can religious people believe in so much arbitrary, clearly invented balderdash?....The acceptance of a creed, any creed, entitles the acceptor to membership in the sort of artificial extended family we call a congregation. It is a way to fight loneliness. Any time I see a person fleeing from reason and into religion, I think to myself, There goes a person who simply cannot stand being so goddamned lonely anymore.”

Source: Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

“for many people, loneliness was an experience of time. 'Not knowing what to do with yourself' was the way it was usually put.”

People Way Knowing Loneliness Not Knowing Knowing What To Do

Book:Alone in America: the search for companionship

Source: Alone in America: the search for companionship

“A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him. I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.”

People Made Loneliness Identity Essentials Independent Weather

Author:Carson McCullers

“loneliness is not a longing for company, it is a longing for kind. And kind means people who can see you who you are, and that means they have enough intelligence and sensitivity and patience to do that.”

People Kind Mean Enough Company Loneliness Who You Are Longing Sensitivity Mean People

Book:The Women's Room

Source: The Women's Room

“The association between failure, loneliness, and solitude is so strong in our culture that people often find it difficult to believe that there are some who like being by themselves.”

People Believe Culture Strong Difficult Loneliness Solitude Association Loneliness And Solitude

Book:Lonely in America

Source: Lonely in America

“of all the deprivations which afflict humankind, none is more dreadful than loneliness. A corrosive, it eats the heart out. People were meant to live by twos, with someone close with whom to share good and bad, to hear breathing in the dark room at night. Being alone is the one unnatural act.”

People Heart Night Dark Rooms Share Loneliness Breathing Live By Humankind Good And Bad Unnatural Deprivation Dark Room

Author:Zelda Popkin

“It's when you have friends that you can afford to be lonely. When you know a lot of people, loneliness becomes a luxury. It's only when you're forced to be lonely that it's bad.”

People Knows Loneliness Lonely Luxury

Author:Vera Caspary

“Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.”

People Knows Way Art Feelings Literature Given Sex Loneliness Connected Isolation Relief

Author:Adrienne Rich

“Single people slip out of the dating market for many social, economic, psychological, and ideological reasons including marriage, illness, bankruptcy, job promotion, exhaustion, and common sense. Inevitably, however, they return because of divorce, boredom, loneliness, and memory loss.”

“Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.”

People Thinking Loneliness Conscious Biggest Fear

Author:Andrew Stanton

“love all the people you can. The sufferings from love are not to be compared to the sorrows of loneliness.”

People Suffering Loneliness Sorrow

Book:Letters of Susan Hale

Source: Letters of Susan Hale

“your soul needs to be lonely so that its strangest elements can moil about, curl and growl and jump, fail and get triumphant, all inside you. Sociable people have the most trouble hearing their unconscious. They have trouble getting rid of clichés because clichés are sociable.”

People Needs Soul Failing Trouble Loneliness Elements Lonely Hearing Your Soul Unconscious Curls Triumphant Sociable

Book:The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature

Source: The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature

“It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties - that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains a roomful of people and then goes home to a lonely bedsit was unbelievably poignant for me because that was exactly what I was doing. I had periods of real loneliness.”

People Real Home Existence Loneliness Periods Lonely Twenties Comedian Bizarre Cliche Poignant

Author:Paul Merton

“I think that part of being human is being alone, and being lonely. I think one of the stresses on a lot of our friendships is that we require the people we love to take away that loneliness. and they really can't. And so, when we still feel lonely, even in the company of people we love, we become angry with them because they don't do what we think they're supposed to. Which is really something that they can't do for us.”

People Thinking Feels Humans Stills Company Loneliness Lonely Stress Angry Being Human Feeling Lonely Being Lonely

Author:Rich Mullins

“Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity.”

People Self Loneliness Lonely Curiosity Console Absorption Self Absorption Lonely People

Author:Mason Cooley

“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

“Fitzgerald describes the social disillusionments and ballroom romanticism of the young people of the upper classes and the loneliness of Gatsby, who gives large parties and has an extensive social life; yet he is lonely, and his guests scarcely know him.... Hemingway's characters live in a tourist world, and one of their major problems is that of consuming time itself. It is interesting to observe that his works are written from the stand point of the spectator. His characters are usually people who are looking--looking at bullfights, scenery, and at one another across cafe tables.”

“Courage looks you straight in the eye. She is not impressed with power trippers, and she knows first aid. Courage is not afraid to weep, and she is not afraid to pray, even when she is not sure who she is praying to. When she walks it is clear she has made the journey from loneliness to solitude. The people who told me she was stern were not lying. they just forgot to mention she was kind.”

People Knows Firsts Looks Kind Made Eye Lying Walks Clear Journey Loneliness Praying Solitude Aids Not Sure Not Afraid Impressed Not Impressed

Author:J. Ruth Gendler

“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

“What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself's the beginning of all love.”

People Care Loneliness Like You Better Than You Offence Do You Care

Book:The wanderer

Source: The wanderer

“It'd be preposterous for me to propose a universal cure to loneliness but I will say that people who do the things they find interesting, either creatively or vocationally, tend to become unlonely very quickly.”

People Interesting Loneliness Universal Cures Propose

Author:Douglas Coupland

“My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people; which is one reason why I'm not subject to what is known as loneliness. I have plenty of company.”

People Real Reason Character Company Known Subjects Loneliness Plenty Reason Why

Author:William S. Burroughs

“People don't acknowledge loneliness in themselves, and don't appreciate its benefits, the reflection and attentiveness that come with it, the deepened acquaintance with oneself.”

People Loneliness Benefits Reflection Appreciate Oneself Acknowledge Acquaintance Attentiveness

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“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

“With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.”

People Eye Loneliness Solitude Reflection Lonely Being Alone All Alone Loneliness And Solitude

Book:The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms

Source: The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms

“Jesus never tried to hide his loneliness and dependence on other people. He chose his disciples not as servants but as friends. He shared moments of joy and grief with them, and asked for them in times of need. They became his family, his substitute mother and brothers and sisters. They gave up everything for him, as he had given up everything for them. He loved them, plain and simple.”

“Cinema is a wonderful art form for talking about loneliness. We can experience films together with other people. It can be a collective experience of loneliness. We're alone in the dark of the theater, but with other people.”

People Art Together Film Form Dark Talking Wonderful Loneliness Theater Cinema Collectives Alone In The Dark

Author:Joachim Trier

“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

“A lot of people have said that the main thread in my work is loneliness or just wanting to create a world with someone who doesn't really have much in their life, so maybe I'm looking for someone who's lonely and wants to try to create something with me as a subject for my videos.”

People World Want Trying Said Subjects Loneliness Lonely Video Thread

Author:Laurel Nakadate

“Sometimes I felt lonely because I pushed people away for so long that I honestly didn't have many close connections left. I was physically isolated and disconnected from the world. Sometimes I felt lonely in a crowded room. This kind of loneliness pierced my soul and ached to the core. I not only felt disconnected from the world, but I also felt like no one ever loved me. Intellectually, I knew that people did, but I still felt that way.”

People World Way Kind Long Stills Soul Sometimes Left Felt Rooms Loneliness Lonely Connections Honestly Core My Soul Isolated Crowded Disconnected

Author:Jenni Schaefer

“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 is something we [all people] go through. We go through mourning and longing. We make some bad choices sometimes because we're desperate for something, and that's okay. That's part of life.”

People Sometimes Choices Loneliness Okay Longing Mourning Desperate Parts Of Life Bad Choices

Author:Jennifer Lee

“So often loneliness comes from being out of touch with parts of oneself. We go searching for those parts in other people, but there's a difference between feeling separate from others and separate from oneself.”

People Feelings Differences Loneliness Oneself

Book:A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis

Source: A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis

“Suicide is a crime of loneliness, and adulated people can be frighteningly alone. Intelligence does not help in these circumstances; brilliance is almost always profoundly isolating.”

People Doe Helping Crime Loneliness Circumstances Suicide Brilliance

Author:Andrew Solomon

“Jesus . . . wants us to see that the neighbor next door or the people sitting next to us on a plane or in a classroom are not interruptions to our schedule. They are there by divine appointment. Jesus wants us to see their needs, their loneliness, their longings, and he wants to give us the courage to reach out to them.”

Source: Out of the Saltshaker and into the World: Evangelism As A Way Of Life

“A book is not an end in itself; it is only a way to touch someone - a bridge extended across a space of loneliness and obscurity - and sometimes it is a way of winning other people to our causes.”

People Way Book Ends Sometimes Winning Causes Space Loneliness Bridges Obscurity Touch Someone

Book:Paths of Resistance: The Art and Craft of the Political Novel

Source: Paths of Resistance: The Art and Craft of the Political Novel

“Remember that hate is not the opposite of love as people think. Hate is love standing upside down; it is not the opposite of love. The real opposite of love is fear. In love one expands, in fear one shrinks. In fear one becomes closed, in love one opens. In fear one doubts, in love one trusts. In fear one is left lonely. In love one disappears; hence there is no question of loneliness at all. Love is when you have known your inner sky. There is no higher religion than love”

People Thinking Real Remember Hate Left Love Is Known Doubt Sky Loneliness Higher Standing Lonely Opposites Disappear Shrinks Upside Down

Author:Rajneesh

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