Loneliness Quotes
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.
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But where pain was, healing could come; where loneliness was, new relationships could be formed; where rejection was, new love could be found. It was a moment. And moments changed. She would have to live through the moment to get to the next.
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...I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away.
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I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.
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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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Suicide is a crime of loneliness, and adulated people can be frighteningly alone. Intelligence does not help in these circumstances; brilliance is almost always profoundly isolating.
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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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I kind of crave loneliness.
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Civilization... is another word for respect for life. One can't have too much respect for a loveliness that's brittle as spun glass.
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Be mobile at all times, even if it causes you suffering or feelings of loneliness. Unless you're willing to do that, you're never going to get the bigger rewards.
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
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I believe that dialogue is the key to breaking through our tendency to separate and isolate. Dialogue changes isolation and loneliness into connection and interdependence. This, I believe, is the essence of Buddhism.
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It is to do nothing that the elect exist. Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.
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I think 'In The Heat Of The Night' was one of the most influential films on me. Looking back now, I can see how influential it was on my screenwriting because here you have what looks to be a crime procedural, and it's actually a study in race and loneliness, and a perception of an era.
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maybe the lonely places are the only things that make human beings of us all.
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Loneliness surrounds me without your arms around me.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, don't get married.
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I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.
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Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound.
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Love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness.
