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“I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy's door.”

Seems Doors Loneliness Mercy Lions Forsaken

Book:The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham

Source: The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham

“The distances between the stars seem brief by contrast to the distances between each of us and his fellows.”

Seems Stars Loneliness Fellows Distance Contrast

Author:Thomas M. Disch

“Scary is time passing and sickness and dying and regret and isolation and loneliness and relationship problems - as opposed to a guy in a hockey mask, which didn't seem that scary.”

Problem Seems Guy Dying Loneliness Regret Scary Passing Passings Isolation Sickness Mask Hockey Time Passing Time Passes Relationship Problem Isolation And Loneliness

Author:Charlie Kaufman

“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

“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

“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.”

Seems Would Be Loneliness Lonely Selfish Paradox Being Selfish Selfish People So Lonely One Tree Hill Voiceover One Tree Hill Opening Short One Tree Hill One Tree Hill Life Selfish Love One Tree Hill Memorable Cat On A Hot Tin Roof Selfish Person I Am Selfish

Book:Camino Real

Source: Camino Real

“There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths and contains the rocker. It's an inside kind--wrapped tight like skin. Then there is the loneliness that roams. No rocking can hold it down. It is alive. On its own. A dry and spreading thing that makes the sound of one's own feet going seem to come from a far-off place.”

Kind Seems Sound Alive Feet Loneliness Arms Skins Ships Knees Dry Smooth Holding On Rockers

Author:Toni Morrison

“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”

People Inspirational Doe Important Seems Certain Views Loneliness Profound Chaos Oneself Communicate Gifted Being Alone Memories Dreams Reflections

Book:Memories, dreams, reflections

Source: Memories, dreams, reflections

“The song is languid and speaks of love and loneliness and loss. Why does love seem to go with the sad things?”

Doe Seems Song Speak Loss Loneliness Sad Things

Book:A Map of the Known World

Source: A Map of the Known World

“It seems to be that loneliness is a small price to pay for peace and quiet.”

Seems Pay Loneliness Quiet Peace And Quiet

Book:The Brothers Bishop

Source: The Brothers Bishop

“...to the glory of His name let me witness that in far away lands, in loneliness (deepest sometimes when it seems least so), in times of downheartedness and tiredness and sadness, always always He is near. He does comfort, if we let Him. Perhaps someone as weak and good-for-nothing as even I am may read this. Don't be afraid! Through all circumstances, outside, inside, He can keep me close.”

Ifs May Doe Sometimes Inspiration Seems Names Sadness Land Loneliness Circumstances Comfort Glory Weak Let Me Witness Far Away Tiredness

Author:Amy Carmichael

“I felt the kind of loneliness that can happen in a roomful of people when everyone but you seems to be in on the good time.”

People Kind Seems Happens Felt Loneliness Good Times

Book:The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy

Source: The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy

“You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.”

World Seems Political Loneliness Lonesome

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“Physician Albert Scheweitzer said. " We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness." Professor Leo Buscaglia notes, "There seems to be accumulating evidence that there is actually an inborn need for this togetherness, this human interaction, this love. It seems that without these close ties with other human beings, a new born infant, for example, can regress developmentally, lose consciousness, fall into idiocy and die.”

Needs Humans Said Seems Together Dies Fall Born Loses Human Beings Consciousness Dying Loneliness Example Evidence Notes Ties Professors Interaction Physicians Infant Togetherness Idiocy

Author:Gary Chapman

“It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like spring water. He breathes deep and slow, feeling with each breath himself diffuse in the natural grayness, becoming one with loneliness and quiet that has never known fury or despair. "That was all I wanted," he thinks, in a quiet and slow amazement. "That was all, for thirty years. That didn't seem to be a whole lot to ask in thirty years.”

“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

“There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.”

Seems Left Mankind Loneliness Solitude Devil Adam Solitary

Book:A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published

Source: A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published

“Everyone's alone - or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make faces, and think they understand each other. And I'm sure they don't. Is that a delusion?”

Thinking Seems Faces Talking Loneliness Noise Delusion

Book:Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950

Source: Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950

“Most of the world's great souls have been lonely. Loneliness seems to be one price the saint must pay for his saintliness... Always remember: you cannot carry a cross in company. Though a man were surrounded by a vast crowd, his cross is his alone and his carrying of it marks him as a man apart. Society has turned against him; otherwise he would have no cross. No one is a friend to the man with a cross.”

Men World Has Beens Soul Seems Christian Remember Pay Company Loneliness He Man Crosses Lonely Mark Saint Crowds Christian Inspirational Remember You Remembers You Great Souls

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“The pain of loneliness is one way in which he wants to get our attention. We may be earnestly desiring to be obedient and holy. But we may be missing the fact that it is here, where we happen to be at this moment and not in another place or another time, that we may learn to love Him - here where it seems He is not at work, where He seems obscure or frightening, where He is not doing what we expected Him to do, where He is most absent. Here and nowhere else is the appointed place. If faith does not got to work here, it will not work at all.”

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Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“Sometimes I feel... that my cross is heavy beyond endurance... My heart seems worn out and bruised beyond repair, and in my deep loneliness I often wish to be gone, but God knows best, and I want to do every ounce of work He wants me to do.”

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Author:Charles Studd

“Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness. Everything has to be filled in, it seems-appointment books, hillsides, vacant lots-but when all the spaces are filled, the Loneliness really begins. Then the Groups are joined, the Classes are signed up for, and the Gift-to-Yourself items are bought. When the Loneliness starts creeping in the door, the Television Set is turned on to make it go away. But it doesn't go away. So some of us do instead, and after discarding the emptiness of the Big Congested Mess, we discover the fullness of Nothing.”

People Book Bigs Seems Space Class Doors Groups Loneliness Television Filled Mess Emptiness Going Away Items Fullness Appointments Vacant Filled In

Author:Benjamin Hoff

“The great loneliness- like the loneliness a caterpillar endures when she wraps herself in a silky shroud and begins the long transformation from chrysalis to butterfly. It seems we too must go through such a time, when life as we have known it is over- when being a caterpillar feels somehow false and yet we don’t know who we are supposed to become. All we know is that something bigger is calling us to change. And though we must make the journey alone, and even if suffering is our only companion, soon enough we will become a butterfly, soon enough we will taste the rapture of being alive.”