Best loneliness & space Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Nonetheless, Scranton had travelled in space. He had known the loneliness of separation from all other human beings, he had gazed at the empty perspectives that I myself had seen.”

Humans Human Beings Space Known Loneliness Perspective Empty Separation Traveler Astronaut Space Travel

Book:Memories of the space age

Source: Memories of the space age

“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

“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.”

“The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up,as if orchards were dying high in space.Each leaf falls as if it were motioning "no."And tonight the heavy earth is fallingaway from all other stars in the loneliness.We're all falling. This hand here is falling.And look at the other one. It's in them all.And yet there is Someone, whose handsinfinitely calm, holding up all this falling.”

Ifs Looks Hands Earth Fall Stars Space Dying Loneliness Calm Heavy Tonight Leafs Orchard

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Pack the one bag. Unpack it, pack it, unpack it, pack it: passeport, ticket, book, taxi, airport, check-in, beer, announcement, stairs, airplane, fasten seat-belt, air born, flight, rocking, sun, stars, space, hips of strolling stewardesses, read, sleep, clouds, falling engine speed, descent, circling, touch down, earth, unfasten seat-belt, stairs, airport, immunization book, visa, customs, questions, taxi, streets, houses, people, hotel, key, room, stuffiness, thirst, otherness, foreignness, loneliness, fatigue, life.”

“Just the way LA is laid out - 30 miles of disparate neighborhoods - adds to the loneliness of the characters. There's a lot more space to feel isolated in. In Los Angeles, you have to meet the person, then walk out separately to your own cars, and follow the person to their neighborhood, and then pray that street parking isn't going to mess things up.”

Way Feels Persons Character Space Walks Streets Car Loneliness Praying Add Miles Mess Neighborhood Los Angeles Isolated Parking

Author:Paul Rust

“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)

“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.”

“Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”

“SOLIDAO, LONELINESS. What is it that we call loneliness. It can't simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely, and you can be among people and yet be lonely. So what is it? ... it isn't only that others are there, that they fill up the space next to us. But even when they celebrate us or give advice in a friendly conversation, clever, sensitive advice: even then we can be lonely. So loneliness is not something simply connected with the presence of others or with what they do. Then what? What on earth?”

People Giving Earth Next Space Advice Loneliness Conversation Lonely Connected Absence Clever Celebrate Sensitive Friendly

Author:Pascal Mercier

“He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.”

World Space Loneliness Forgotten

Book:The Hot Zone: The Chilling True Story of an Ebola Outbreak

Source: The Hot Zone: The Chilling True Story of an Ebola Outbreak

“The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precedes all the great events in the heart's history.”

Ifs Heart Causes Dark Space Love Is Events Loneliness Stress Disappointment Hollow Evaluate Great Events

Book:The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig: Burning Secret, A Chess Story, Fear, Confusion, Journey into the Past

Source: The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig: Burning Secret, A Chess Story, Fear, Confusion, Journey into the Past

“What did falling in love do for you? Can you ever really explain it? It filled empty spaces I never knew were empty. It cured a loneliness I never knew I had. It gave me joy. And freedom. I think that was the most amazing part. I suddenly felt both embraced and freed at the same time.”

Thinking Joy Fall Felt Space Loneliness Empty Filled Falling In Love Most Amazing Empty Space

Book:The Chief Inspector Gamache Series

Source: The Chief Inspector Gamache Series

“I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.”

Space Loneliness Understood Replaced Small Spaces

Book:Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

“Solitude is a condition of peace that stands in direct opposition to loneliness. Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a condition of separateness. Solitude is becoming one with the space around you. It is a condition of union. loneliness is small, solitude is large. loneliness closes in around you; solitude expands toward the infinite. loneliness has its roots in words, in an internal conversation that nodbody answers; solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity.”

Source: Simple Truths: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life

“The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.”

Life Is Spirit Space Loneliness Solitude Pressure Crowds Thrive Zone Midst Time And Space Alienation Being Alone American Life Omission Loneliness And Solitude

Author:Marya Mannes

“I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.”

Reality Wanted Space Loneliness Lonely Empty Cinema Entertaining Being Alone Empty Space

Author:Pedro Almodovar

“But loneliness is as delusive a belief in the pertinence of the world as is love: in choosing to feel lonely, as in choosing to love, one carves a space next to oneself to be filled by others - a friend, a lover, a toy poodle, a violinist on the radio.”

World Feels Next Belief Space Loneliness Lovers Lonely Filled Oneself Radio Toys Feeling Lonely Poodles Violinist Choosing To Love

Author:Yiyun Li

“I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating on a nothing, known by nothing, lonelier and colder than the space between the stars. It was more frightening than being dead.”

Stars Space Known Loneliness Emptiness Frightening Floating Space Between Moors

Author:Peter Carey

“Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.”

Space Loneliness Empty Cinema Empty Space

Author:Pedro Almodovar

“From the clayey soil of northern Wyoming is mined bentonite, which is used as filler in candy, gum, and lipstick. We Americans are great on fillers, as if what we have, what we are, is not enough. We have a cultural tendency toward denial, but being affluent, we strangle ourselves with what we can buy. We gave only to look at the houses we build to see how we build *against* space, the way we drink against pain and loneliness. We fill up space as if it were a pie shell, with things whose opacity further obstructs our ability to see what is already there.”

Ifs Way Looks Enough Pain Used House Ability Space Loneliness Drink Tendencies Denial Soil Shells Pie Candy Lipstick Gum Affluent Ability To See Wyoming Fillers

Author:Gretel Ehrlich

“Lights come and go in the night sky. Men, troubled at last by the things they build, may toss in their sleep and dream bad dreams, or lie awake while the meteors whisper greenly overhead. But nowhere in all space or on a thousand worlds will there be men to share our loneliness.”

Source: The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature

“Well, Frank, my thoughts are very similar. The vast loneliness up here at the moon is awe-inspiring, and it makes you realize what you have back there on earth. The earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.”

Wells Bigs Earth Realizing Space Loneliness Moon Awe Frank My Thoughts Apollo Vastness Oasis Awe Inspiring Vastness Of Space

Author:Jim Lovell

“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

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”

“When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows for the arising of all things: sorrows, loneliness, shame, desire, regret, frustration, happiness.”

Desire Space Meditation Loneliness Regret Sorrow All Things Shame Seats Frustration Compassionate Cushions Monasteries

Author:Jack Kornfield

“Modern life seems set up so that we can avoid loneliness at all costs, but maybe it's worthwhile to face it occasionally. The further we push aloneness away, the less are we able to cope with it, and the more terrifying it gets. Some philosophers believe that loneliness is the only true feeling there is. We live orphaned on a tiny rock in the immense vastness of space, with no hint of even the simplest form of life anywhere around us for billions upon billions of miles, alone beyond all imagining. We live locked in our own heads and can never entirely know the experience of another person. Even if we're surrounded by family and friends, we journey into death completely alone.”

Source: The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

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