Best loneliness & way Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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

“Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all one way, the way home. Telegraph poles ahead looked like half-used pencils; the small cross on the steeple glittered with a sharp and shapely permanence.”

Way Home Used Half Loneliness Fields Wind Higher Bird Crosses One Way Pencils Permanence Way Home Telegraph Foliage Steeples

Author:A. E. Coppard

“Each way means loneliness -- and communion.”

Way Mean Loneliness Communion

Book:The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot

Source: The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot

“It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem. Can blue solve the problem, or can it at least keep me company within it?-No, not exactly. It cannot love me that way; it has no arms. But sometimes I do feel its presence to be a sort of wink-Here you are again, it says, and so am I.”

Way Feels Sometimes Problem Courses Company Loneliness Arms Easier Solitude Dignity Blue Solve

Book:Bluets

Source: Bluets

“Loneliness isn't about being by yourself. That's fine, right and good, desirable in many ways. Loneliness is about finding a landing-place, or not, and knowing that, whatever you do, you can go back there. The opposite of loneliness isn't company, it's return. A place to return.”

Way Company Knowing Loneliness Fine Return Findings Opposites Being Yourself Desirable Landing

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“The first cup caresses my dry lips and throat, The second shatters the walls of my loneliness, The third explores the dry rivulets of my soul Searching for legends of five thousand scrolls. With the fourth the pain of past injustice vanishes through my pores. The fifth purifies my flesh and bone. With the sixth I commune with the immortals. The seventh conveys such pleasure I am overcome. The fresh wind blows through my wings As I make my way to Penglai.”

“One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.”

Way Love May Soul Artist Loneliness Smoke Blazing Chimneys Wisps

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness.”

Way Magic Sea Loneliness Solitude Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Rapture Fly Fishing

Author:John D. Voelker

“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

“I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me.”

Way Needs Loneliness Noise Kill Me Discomfort Interruptions Irritation Starters

Author:Anita Brookner

“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

“Krys Lee has written a book of unforgettable stories, each one building on the other to create a complex, moving portrait of contemporary Korea and its diaspora. She guides us surely through the fallout of war, immigration, and financial crisis, always alert to the possibility of tenderness, transcendence, and even humor along the way. Lee is a writer who really understands loneliness, but her voice is so appealing, and her perceptions so wise, that we feel all the less lonely for knowing her characters and experiencing their lives.”

“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

“Writing can be a lonely business. But gradually your characters, or the scenes and peopl from your past, begin to rise up around you, and you find yourself writing your way out of loneliness, writing into your own company.”

Way Writing Character Past Company Loneliness Scene Lonely Finding Yourself Our Past Your Past

Book:A Year of Writing Dangerously: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement

Source: A Year of Writing Dangerously: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement

“One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. I mean it's one of the things that goes way back; loneliness is not good for the world. And so, whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural, and healthy to want somebody to go through life with. It's central to our humanity.”

World Way Want Mean Humanity Natural Loneliness Healthy Gay Normal Bones Ache

Author:Rob Bell

“As an artist, the most important feeling is loneliness. So when I say artists need to isolate themselves from society this is what I mean: You have to look for that feeling of loneliness again. Only this way can you have something that is purely your own.”

Way Needs Looks Mean Important Feelings Artist Loneliness

Author:Zhang Xiaogang

“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

“There are degrees of loneliness, ways in which the experience of loneliness deepens, becomes something like what we might call a way of life. This way of life is both what is most damaging to us as a culture, and, paradoxically, contributes to its richness. It may in the end be our lasting contribution to the life of our planet.”

Way May Ends Might Life Is Culture Loneliness Planets Degrees Contribution Lasting Our Planet Richness

Author:Thomas L. Dumm

“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

“One of the reasons I always come back to representations of loneliness in plays, films, and literature is that they give us specific examples of the powerful hold that it has on us, and yet, paradoxically, by representing what can't really be represented, so to speak, they give us ways of going forward even as we fall apart.”

Way Giving Reason Play Film Fall Literature Speak Powerful Loneliness Example Representation Falling Apart Representing

Author:Thomas L. Dumm

“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

“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

“Working alone on stories, I began to feel the anonymity of motels on interstate highways reached by jet planes and rental cars. It was hard to have a good time, and the only way I could make the loneliness excusable was by taking pictures I thought were very good, even valuable.”

Source: Pictures under discussion

“Deepen you knowledge of Jesus which ends loneliness, overcomes sadness and uncertainty, gives real meaning to life, curbs passions, exalts ideals, expands energies in charity, brings light into decisive choices. Let Christ be for you the Way, the Truth, and the Life.”

Way Giving Real Ends Light Choices Passion Jesus Energy Christ Sadness Loneliness Ideals Overcoming Charity Uncertainty Curb Meaning Life

Author:Pope John Paul II

“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

“The worst part is the unknown. The pain of being alone, the loneliness, is familiar. You've dealt with that. You understand it. But loving someone, risking everything, is unknown. There's no way to know how bad it's going to be. You barely survive the pain of being alone, so how can you deal with anything worse? So you don't bother to try.”

Knows Way Trying Pain Fear Deals Know How Worst Loneliness Familiar Bother Be You Loving Someone

Book:Susan Mallery's Hometown Heartbreakers Books 4-6: Part-Time Wife\Holly and Mistletoe\Husband by the Hour

Source: Susan Mallery's Hometown Heartbreakers Books 4-6: Part-Time Wife\Holly and Mistletoe\Husband by the Hour

“This is how the world changes - little by little, table by table, meal by meal, hour by hour. This is how we chip away at isolation, loneliness, fear. This is how we connect, in big and small ways - we do it around the table.”

World Way Littles Bigs Hours Loneliness Tables Meals Isolation Chips

Author:Shauna Niequist

“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've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.”

Way Helping Loss Growing Up Growing Sadness Loneliness Weapons Help Me Songwriting Love And Loss Sadness And Loneliness

Author:Taylor Swift

“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.”

“the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.”

Way Needs Loneliness Bears Need You I Need You

Book:The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Source: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.”

Knows World Way Soul Self Spirit Suffering Loneliness Solitude Overcoming Bitter Midst Multiplicity Indivisible Spirit And Soul

Author:Hermann Hesse

“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

“Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come to the joint conclusion that the purpose of writing fiction was “a way out of loneliness.” (NY Times article on the memorial service of David Foster Wallace.)”

Way Writing Years Said Purpose Fiction Roles Loneliness Conversation Letters Conclusion Novelists Ethical Articles Joints Memorial Writing Fiction Memorial Service Purpose Of Writing

Author:Jonathan Franzen

“Every one of Joel's important songs--including the happy ones--are ultimately about loneliness. And it's not 'clever lonely' (like Morrissey) or 'interesting lonely' (like Radiohead); it's 'lonely lonely,' like the way it feels when you're being hugged by someone and it somehow makes you sadder.”

Way Feels Important Song Interesting Loneliness Lonely Including Clever Radiohead

Book:Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

“There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessness–like how a person alone for too long cannot feel comfortable when with others; cannot neglect that underlying the feeling of belongingness is the certainty, really, of loneliness, and nothingness, and so experiences life in that hurried, worthless way one experiences a mistake–he could no longer get at.”

Way Feels Persons Long Feelings Felt Mistake Alive Loneliness Comfortable Certainty Enjoyment Neglect Nothingness Worthless Meaninglessness

Author:Tao Lin

“A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.”

Knows Men Way Matter Body Stars Easy Mystery Loneliness Lonely Islands Cosmos Insects Easy Way

Book:Dubin's Lives: A Novel

Source: Dubin's Lives: A Novel

“Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom. Once you were thus convinced, you were foolish to open the door and let anyone in, not all the way in. You risked the hard-won equilibrium, that tranquility that you called peace”

Way Kind Hard Enough Given Doors Conditions Loneliness Solitude Reflection Ideals Convinced Foolish Convince Tranquility Something Better Enough Time Equilibrium

Book:The Good Guy

Source: The Good Guy

“Once I heard my mother say that each of us lives in a separate universe, one we have dreamed into being. We love pople when their dream coincides with ours, the way two cutout designs laid one on top of the other might match. But dream worlds are not static like cutouts; sooner or later they change shape, leading to misunderstanding, loneliness and loss of love.”

World Way Two Dream Might Mother Universe Loss Heard Loneliness Design Shapes Sooner Or Later Misunderstanding Static Dream World Love Loss

Author:Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.”

Way Feels Heart Lasts Waiting Answers Loneliness Identity Masters Wander

Book:The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings

Source: The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings

“It's so effortless to let my loneliness defeat me, make me mold myself to whatever would (in some way - but not wholly) relieve it. I must never forget it... I want sensuality and sensitivity, both... Let me never deny that... I want to err on the side of violence and excess, rather than to underfill my moments.”

Way Want Moments Sides Forget Violence Loneliness Let Me Defeat Deny Sensuality Never Forget Excess Sensitivity Forget It Mold Effortless

Author:Susan Sontag

“[...] We have to realize that this wound [of loneliness] is inherent in the human condition and that what we have to do is walk with it instead of fleeing from it. We cannot accept it until we discover that we are loved by God just as we are, and that the Holy Spirit in a mysterious way is living at the centre of the wound.”

Way Humans Spirit Realizing Walks Accepting Conditions Loneliness Holy Wounds Mysterious Holy Spirit Human Condition Inherent Centre Fleeing Mysterious Ways

Author:Jean Vanier

“It didn't occur to him that she might have chosen to remain this way. That where he saw reserve and loneliness, Cassandra saw self-preservation and the knowledge that it was safer when one had less to lose.”

Way Self Might Loses Saws Loneliness Chosen Reserves Preservation Self Preservation

Book:The Forgotten Garden: A Novel

Source: The Forgotten Garden: A Novel

“We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — "Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought."”

Way Feels Trying Stories Animal Our Lives Loneliness Method Ancient Storytelling Listeners Storyteller Begging Telling Stories Lonesome Lonesomeness

Author:John Steinbeck

“As for fame, fame felt like nothing. Fame was not a sensation like love or hunger or loneliness, welling from within and invisible to the outside eye. It was rather entirely external, coming from the minds of others. It existed in the way people looked at him or behaved towards him. In that, being famous was no different from being gay, or Jewish, or from a visible minority: you are who you are, and then people project onto you some notion they have.”

People Way Mind Different Eye Felt Loneliness Gay Fame Projects Who You Are Notion Hunger Invisible Visible Minorities Sensations Like Love Being Gay Being Famous

Book:Beatrice & Virgil

Source: Beatrice & Virgil

“I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.”

People Way Want Needs Believe Literature I Believe Change Destiny Loneliness Lonely Method What You Want Behave Be You Your Destiny Future Destiny I'm Lonely Control Your Destiny

Author:Leo Buscaglia

“I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead, my brother dead, my mother faraway, my sister and my wife far away, nothing here but my own tragic hands that once were guarded by a world, a sweet attention, that now are left to guide and disappear their own way into the common dark of all our deaths, sleeping in me raw bed, alone and stupid: with just this one pride and consolation: my broke heart in the general despair and opened up inwards to the Lord, I made a supplication in this dream”

Source: Visions of Cody

“What we don't let out traps us. We think, No one else feels this way, I must be crazy. So we don't say anything. And we become enveloped by a deep loneliness, not knowing where our feelings come from or what to do with them. Why do I feel this way?”

Thinking Way Inspirational Feels Feelings Knowing Crazy Loneliness Not Knowing Traps Say Anything Being Alone Being Crazy

Author:Sabrina Ward Harrison

“I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.”

People Way Feels Light Church Behinds Grace Doors Awareness Loneliness Blessing Solitude Mercy Single Being Single

Book:Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel

Source: Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel

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