“She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror stories, and read only romance novels. Because, by God, when a woman picked up one of those steamy books, she had a firm guarantee that there would be a Happily-Ever-After. That though the world outside those covers could bring such sorrow and disappointment and loneliness, between those covers, the world was a splendid place to be.” WorldMindBookStoriesWould BeRomanceNovelMysteryLonelinessGeniusSorrowHorrorUnderstoodMurderDisappointmentWidePsychologicalFirmGuaranteesSplendidThrillersRomance NovelHappily Ever AfterEver AfterGuarantees ThatHorror StoriesMurder MysteriesPsychological ThrillersWhy Her Author:Karen Marie Moning
“I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.” SpiritualFoundLonelinessUnderstoodMadnessSafety Book:The Madman Source: The Madman
“Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book.” BookLonelinessTaughtUnderstood Author:Eva Ibbotson
“I never really understood the word ‘loneliness’. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature.” SkyLonelinessOceanUnderstoodConcerned Author:Bjork
“I am no good without you, Ginesse,” he said. “I spent a lifetime alone, but I never understood loneliness until I was away from you. I never understood happiness until I saw you again.” SaidSawsLonelinessUnderstoodLifetimeWithout YouYou AgainAway From You Author:Connie Brockway
“..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask.” LonelinessUnderstoodMask Author:Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
“I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.” SpaceLonelinessUnderstoodReplacedSmall Spaces Book:Just Kids Source: Just Kids
“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.” MindWellsStillsEndsWantedPainUniverseFeltMy OwnEnemyGoneShareConditionsLonelinessColdUniqueIllusionUnderstoodCornersBonesFleshHeatExceptionMortalityObscureOf My MindHeat And Cold Author:MacDonald Harris
“A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic idea of what blindness is; only the formerly sighted have a real grip on the thing. Ben Hanscom had no sense of being lonely because he had never been anything but. If the condition had been new, or more localized, he might have understood, but loneliness both encompassed his life and overreached it.” IfsKnowsChildrenIdeasRealMightConditionsLonelinessBirthUnderstoodLonelyBlindAcademicBlindnessBeing Lonely Book:It Source: It
“There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed." And I'd say, 'Yeah well, that's not me. I'm just interested in that because I think it makes a funny drawing.' But later I understood it was me in many respects; my hand was doing it ahead of the head's understanding.” PeopleThinkingWellsCharacterWisdomHandsUnderstandingLonelinessUnderstoodLonelyYeahDrawingCartoonDisconnectedSo Lonely Author:Michael Leunig
“The way you feel is your point of attraction, and so, the Law of Attraction is most understood when you see yourself as a magnet getting more and more of the way you feel. When you feel lonely, you attract more loneliness. When you feel poor, you attract more poverty. When you feel sick, you attract more sickness. When you feel unhappy, you attract more unhappiness. When you feel healthy and vital and alive and prosperous-you attract more of all of those things.” ThinkingWayFeelsLawPoorPovertyAliveLonelinessPositive ThinkingHealthyUnderstoodLonelySickAttractionUnhappyLaw Of AttractionSicknessUnhappinessProsperousMagnetFeeling Lonely Author:Esther Hicks
“When children feel understood, their loneliness and hurt diminish. When children are understood, their love for their parent is deepened. A parent's sympathy serves as emotional first aid for bruised feelings. When we genuinely acknowledge a child's plight and voice her disappointment, she often gathers the strength to face reality.” FeelsFirstsChildrenFeelingsRealityFacesParentVoiceHurtLonelinessEmotionalUnderstoodDisappointmentAidsAcknowledgeDiminishBruisedPlight Author:Haim Ginott