Loneliness Quotes
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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Touch is... one of the most ancient transactions, a defiance of the plasma membrane and the loneliness it brought.
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Loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the absence of objective meaning from the universe.
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The loneliness of a one night stand is hard to take.
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Loneliness is the most compelling force in the universe.
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I embraced loneliness as a kid. I know what loneliness is. When you're at the end of your rope. I never forget those feelings.
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Once we have a firm practice of compassion our state of mind becomes stronger which leads to inner peace, giving rise to self-confidence, which reduces fear. This makes for constructive members of the community. Self-centredness on the other hand leads to distance, suspicion, mistrust and loneliness, with unhappiness as the result.
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A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory.
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My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.
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My goal was not to have huge luxuries. As a child, I wanted a house with a garden, which I have today. This is what I dreamed of. I’d never worry about age if I knew I could go on being loved and having the possibility to love... So it isn’t age or even death that one fears, as much as loneliness and the lack of affection.
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One should have the courage of one's loneliness.
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What I need is courage, and this often fails me. And it is also a fact that since my disease, when I am in the fields I am overwhelmed by a feeling of loneliness to such a horrible extent that I shy away from going out. But this will change all the same as time goes on. Only when I stand a painting before my easel do I feel somewhat alive. Never mind, this is going to change too, for now my health is so good that I suppose the physical part of me will gain the victory.
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Usually there's no specific reason for loneliness - it's a broad feeling.
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Sylvia's dark eyes widened. "You are more than you appear to be" "Yes. I am a monster of Darkness, a beast," he agreed with her. Her lips tilted up. "Can a beast weep in sorrow? Does darkness have the capacity to feel loneliness? I think not.
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I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature.
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Loneliness comes over us sometimes as a sudden tide. It is one of the terms of our humanness, and, in a sense, therefore, incurable. Yet I have found peace in my loneliest times not only through acceptance of the situation, but through making it an offering to God, who can transfigure it into something for the good of others.
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And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.
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It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves. There was some element of loneliness involved--so easy to be loved--so hard to love.
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When my mother left us, he [Stalin] was left completely alone. And I think what came next, in the late 30s and after the war in the 40s - I think that was a result of his complete loneliness on top of the world. Nobody would argue with him anymore.
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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.
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We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.
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Once in a while, people enter our lives and lessen the loneliness of being away from Home.
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Who can really distinguish between the sea and what's reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness?
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I have always photographed loneliness because that is my life.
