Best loneliness & thinking 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.”

“I think I'm Swedish because I like to live here on this island. You can't imagine the loneliness and isolation in this country. In that way, I'm very Swedish - I don't dislike to be alone.”

Thinking Way Country Imagine Loneliness Islands Isolation Dislike Swedish

Book:Ingmar Bergman: Interviews

Source: Ingmar Bergman: Interviews

“When I think about popular culture, I can't help but think that we're living in the age of loneliness. There's this illusion that we all have instant access to each other, but we actually have no real connection.”

Thinking I Can Real Helping Age Culture Loneliness Illusion Connections Access Instant Popular Culture Real Connection

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“I think he is condemned by himself to loneliness. God is One: he was, he is, he will be always One. One is so lonely. Maybe that is why he created human beings--to feel less lonely. But as human beings betray his creation, he may become even lonelier.”

Thinking Feels Humans May God Human Beings Loneliness Creation Lonely Betray So Lonely

Author:Elie Wiesel

“Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.”

Thinking Kids Loneliness College Poet Walking Rain

Book:A fine and private place: The last unicorn

Source: A fine and private place: The last unicorn

“The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.”

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Author:Edward Gibbon

“Yes, you who must leave everything that you cannot control, It begins with your family, and soon it comes round to your soul. Well I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned: When you're not feeling holy your loneliness says that you've sinned.”

Thinking Wells I Can Soul Feelings Loneliness Holy Rounds Your Soul Our Family

Book:Leonard Cohen Anthology (Songbook)

Source: Leonard Cohen Anthology (Songbook)

“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

“And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for. In polaroids you were dressed in women's clothes Were you made ashamed, why'd you lock them in a drawer? Well, I don't think that I ever loved you more Well let the poets cry themselves to sleep And all their tearful words will turn back into steam The sound of loneliness makes me happier.”

Thinking Wells Made Turns Waiting Sound Sleep Loneliness Cry Poet Clothes Bird This Life Ashamed Yellow Locks Steam Drawers Polaroids

Author:Conor Oberst

“Green makes me think of silence, or maybe it's loneliness. I get the feeling of a terribly distant star.”

Thinking Feelings Stars Silence Loneliness Color Green

Author:Kobo Abe

“Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return! whose poetry is too finely spun, whose philosophy is too and mystified for popular demand: perhaps we have experienced feeling which Mr. Wordsworth alludes to, in a poem worthy of simplicity and loneliness of the sentiment "Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure; Sighed to think I read a book Only read perhaps by me!”

Thinking World Book Philosophy Feelings Pleasure Practice Loneliness Taught Return Demand Lonely Simplicity Worthy Poetry Is Sentiments Spun Wordsworth Shunning

Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard

“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

“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

“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

“My children's favorite, and it's funny because they've seen it but they have a difficult time watching it because it's their dad and they make that connection, but Edward Scissorhands is by far my kids' favorite. They just connect with the character, and they see their dad feeling that isolation, that loneliness. He's a tragic character, so I think it's hard for them. They bawl.”

Thinking Children Hard Character Feelings Kids Difficult Loneliness Dad Connections My Children Isolation Tragic Difficult Times Edward Scissorhands

Author:Johnny Depp

“But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it.”

Thinking Way Sometimes Stories Literature Deals Numbers Fate Loneliness Infinite Injustice

Author:Tom Hanks

“I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.”

Thinking God Loneliness Masters Lonely

Book:The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks

Source: The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks

“Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts.”

Thinking Feels Persons Form Purpose Certain Enjoy Pleasure Emotion Consciousness Loneliness Tongue Fleeting Like Love

Author:Sam Harris

“Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.”

Thinking Plans Loneliness Tomorrow Yesterday Flicker

Book:The Proud Highway: Rejacketed

Source: The Proud Highway: Rejacketed

“When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.”

Thinking Needs Life Is Inspiring Loneliness Lonely Cups Tea Need You Cups Of Tea

Author:Audrey Hepburn

“Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.”

Thinking Used Loneliness Travel Realising

Author:David Mitchell

“Usually, we think that "good" loneliness is what we call "solitude," the choice of some alone-time. But I want to press on with the negative dimension, to look at ways in which a fundamental sense of being separated from others shapes who we are and why.”

Thinking Way Want Looks Choices Loneliness Shapes Solitude Negative Fundamentals Presses Who We Are Dimensions Alone Time

Author:Thomas L. Dumm

“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

“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

“For how smart we think we are, how facile with words, we don't have a word for this feeling, the feeling of being blessed by belonging. If the universe is an unfolding bud, then I am a part of its creative surge, along with the flowing of water and the growing of pines. I can find a kind of camaraderie in this universe, once I recover from the astonishment of it. Or maybe not camaraderie exactly. What is the opposite of loneliness?”

Ifs Thinking Kind I Can Feelings Universe Water Creative Growing Loneliness Smart Opposites Blessed Belonging Bud Unfolding Astonishment Camaraderie Being Blessed

Author:Kathleen Moore

“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

“I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future - the timelessness of the rocks and the hills - all the people who have existed there.”

People Thinking Feels Whole Stories Shows Feelings Dream Past Fall Waiting Rocks Loneliness Structure Winter Bones Awful Hills Landscape Timelessness

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“Do not think I do not realise what I am doing. I am making a composition using the following elements: the winter beach; the winter moon; the ocean; the women; the pine trees; the riders; the driftwood; the shells; the shapes of darkness and the shapes of water; and the refuse. These are all inimical to my loneliness because of their indifference to it. Out of these pieces of inimical indifference, I intend to represent the desolate smile of winter which, as you must have gathered, is the smile I wear.”

“I am quite surprised and rather disappointed by the loneliness, isolation and indeed demonisation the sadly misunderstood CO2 is experiencing. Thus, upon leaving the parliament, I am contemplating the foundation of an organisation called 'The Friends of Carbon Dioxide'. Membership will of course be open to all, including the plants whose very existence depends on CO2. I think this organisation's slogan, 'CO2 is not pollution', self-selects. It has both accuracy and melody to commend it.”

“I think there is a weird loneliness that comes with being a comedian. There is something definitely inside the personality of a person who wants to be a comedian, and (he or she) is looking to connect (to the audience) at all times.”

Thinking Want Persons Audience Loneliness Personality All Time Comedian

Author:Chris Gethard

“I noticed that when I was on Prozac my relationship with the landscape improved. I actually stopped thinking about myself for a minute or two, because most of the thoughts one has about oneself are involved with desire or loneliness or isolation or strategies to overcome them.”

Thinking Two Desire Minutes Loneliness Involved Overcoming Strategy Oneself Landscape Isolation Prozac

Author:Leonard Cohen

“So, how can we live in joy - and how can we know that we're supposed to live in joy the way people tell us to - when we're believing thoughts that bring on sadness and frustration and anger and alienation and loneliness? When we're believing those thoughts, we think that's the world, rather than what we're believing about the world. We're like lost little children.”

People Thinking Knows World Way Believe Children Littles Joy Lost Sadness Loneliness Frustration Alienation

Author:Byron Katie

“I think the thing is that you're very affected by your early life, and I think that if you ever had that feeling of outsider, or loneliness or whatever, it just doesn't leave you. You can be happy and successful, whatever, but I think that thing stays inside of you. It doesn't ever really leave you. You kind of always will have that.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Feelings Successful Loneliness Affected Outsiders Early Life

Author:Tim Burton

“What is the emotion of an empty inbox? An unliked Post? An ignored dating app message? I think there's a great loneliness that much of our society is running from, and we search for relief in our phones and computers, our online communities, our social networks of friends.”

Thinking Running Social Community Emotion Loneliness Computer Messages Empty Dating Phones Posts Relief Our Society Online Ignored Social Network Apps Inbox

Author:Alexander Weinstein

“There's a weird loneliness that comes with being a comedian, especially standup. Even with improvisers, I think there are certain moments of truth where you feel really, really connected to audiences, and that's when you're on stage. I think there's definitely something inside the personality of a person who wants to be a comedian that's looking to connect at all times. That's where the adrenaline rushes in their lives come from.”

Thinking Moments Audience Loneliness Personality All Time Comedian Adrenaline

Author:Chris Gethard

“I think we tend to write more uplifting and vibrant music when we're in bleak and lonely surroundings. I think it's because you're channeling your loneliness in a way that you're trying to escape to your situation.”

Thinking Writing Trying Situation Loneliness Lonely Uplifting Bleak

Author:Ed MacFarlane

“If someone were plucked from the group and given those responsibilities, they might find themselves growing more aloof, just by virtue of that promotion. Suddenly the group culture excludes you. I saw this in my own working life, and I don't think it's a coincidence - I sensed a kind of loneliness in middle managers especially.”

Thinking Kind Culture Responsibility Virtue Loneliness Coincidence Promotion Aloof

Author:Joshua Ferris

“I think that cinema is a great place to make stories of loneliness. And being Norwegian, I don't want to make the film about loneliness in being out in nature on a mountaintop; it's about being in the cities.”

Thinking Film Loneliness

Author:Joachim Trier

“Traveling is amazing. You meet so many great, positive people. You get to see new faces all the time. I don't think that loneliness, it's not like you have no one in your life. Well, I'd say it's like . . . you can have everyone you need in your life and still be lonely. Everyone knows that. Being on the road is complicated and shitty; it's also really, really rad.”

People Thinking Loneliness Like You Lonely Complicated

Author:How to Dress Well

“I think loneliness comes with being creative, because you are obsessed with creation. And it is so satisfying that sometimes, I have noticed, I completely neglect my friends and my family, and they fall away.”

Thinking Sometimes Fall Creative Loneliness Creation My Family Obsessed Neglect Be Creative

Author:Tom Ford

“The Lord is near! You're not alone. You may feel alone. You may think you're alone. But there's never a moment in which you face life without help. God is near. God repeatedly pledges his proverbial presence to his people. Don't assume God is watching from a distance. Avoid the quicksand that bears the marker "God has left you!" Don't indulge this lie. If you do, your problem will be amplified by a sense of loneliness. It's one thing to face a challenge, but to face it all alone? Isolation creates a downward cycle of fret.”

People Thinking Moments Helping Problem Lying Challenges Lord Loneliness Distance Assuming Isolation Indulge Not Alone Pledge All Alone Proverbial Quicksand

Author:Max Lucado

“I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.”

People Thinking Loneliness Connections Investigation Being Alone Bonding Being Lonely Like Being Alone

Author:Jason Schwartzman

“When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.”

Thinking Feels Gone Loneliness Lonely Companion

Author:Walter Scott

“I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.”

Thinking Loneliness Unrequited Love Unrequited Poignant

Author:Wilbur Smith

“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

“I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.”

Thinking Poetry Heard Loneliness Singing Mermaid Trousers Flannels

Author:T. S. Eliot

“When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”

Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

“I am going to give you a piece of advice... advice I wish I'd been told in guidance class back in high school, in between the don't-do-acid and don't-drink-and-drive films. I wish our counselors had told us, 'When you grow older a dreadful, horrible sensation will come over you. It's called loneliness, and you think you know what it is now, but you don't. Here is the list of the symptoms, and don't worry—loneliness is the most universal sensation on the planet. Just remember one fact—loneliness will pass. You will survive and you will be a better human for it.”

Source: Shampoo Planet

“I didn't think I was in a morbid mood, but it appears I am. My mind goes round and round trying to figure things out, but I always come back to the same two things: Loneliness and Death. Life ends before we figure anything out, most importantly how not to be lonely. Solitude is fine. But feeling like you have no one to love - abject lonliness - is not alright.”

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Author:Jonathan Ames

“Wounding and healing are not opposites. They're part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate with the wounds of others. It is our limitations that make us kind to the limitations of other people. It is our loneliness that helps us to to find other people or to even know they're alone with an illness. I think I have served people perfectly with parts of myself I used to be ashamed of.”

People Thinking Knows Kind Helping Used Healing Loneliness Opposites Illness Wounds Used To Be Limitation Ashamed Compassionate

Author:Rachel Naomi Remen

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