Quotes with loneliness

  • 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.
  • It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.
  • Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
  • It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
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  • Brendan Francis At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
    Brendan Francis
    Irish poet and writer (1923 - 1964)
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  • Janet Malcolm Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.
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  • Mother Teresa Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Eugene O'Neill Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
    Eugene O'Neill
    American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature (1888 - 1953)
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  • Carl Sandburg Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, and Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at TV. They had loneliness and knew what to do with it. They knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • George Eliot What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bernard Malamud 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 a loneliness and men know it best.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • B. W. Powe Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
    Towards A Canada of Light Third Meditation, p. 157
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Naomi Campbell Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.
    Naomi Campbell
    English model (1970 - )
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  • Brendan Myers At the risk of sounding like a spoilsport, I'd say that pagans have about the same experience of otherness and isolation as anyone else. We're not special in that regard. But this is because the problem of loneliness is almost universal - and that, to my mind, makes it much more serious.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Buffalo Bill But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.
    An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (1920)
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Amelia Earhart Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.
    Amelia Earhart
    American aviation pioneer and author (1897 - 1937)
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  • Vicki Baum Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
    Vicki Baum
    Austrian writer (1888 - 1960)
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  • Brendan Myers If loneliness is part of our essence, that is, our essential nature, that is only because of the way, in practical terms, we actually exist; that is, the way we move and work and live in the world.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Alice Meynell If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.
    Alice Meynell
    British poet, writer (1847 - 1922)
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  • Anton Chekhov If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Alberto Giacometti In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Benjamin Britten It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
    Benjamin Britten
    English composer, conductor, and pianist (1913 - 1976)
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  • Bruce Barton It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Brendan Myers It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things at some point in their lives.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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