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- Nov 07, 2020
Loneliness Quotes
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
To Tennessee Williams we owe a special debt. In a tragic age, he has transformed loneliness by naming it for us, suffered sordidness with beauty, graced poor hurt lives with love and pity.
- Fame
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
- Nov 07, 2020
There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
- Nov 07, 2020
You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.
- Walk
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you walk into a room, and you're the only one of something - the only woman or the only African American - that immediate feeling of loneliness happens.
- Alight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brain's cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age.
- Isolation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never really had any close friends in India, and I felt a terrible loneliness and isolation for many years. Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The loneliest ebb of my life came on that Christmas eve, only one day after my arrival in New York. The abyss of loneliness. I ate a solitary dinner in a small cafe, and the very food tasted bitter with my unshed tears. One doesn't dare cry in America. It is unmanly here.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I do remember about first grade and that year was that it was very lonely. I didn't have any friends, and I wasn't allowed to go to the cafeteria or play on the playground. What bothered me most was the loneliness in school every day.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Aside from doing everything possible to provide programs for people who are seriously ill, I want to do everything humanly possible to help create a more caring society so that we can begin to counter the painful loneliness and sense of helplessness which has engulfed too many of our people.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social acceptance, 'being liked,' has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though loneliness affects so many of us, it has gotten scant research attention compared to related conditions like depression or anxiety.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.'
- Pet
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- Nov 07, 2020
In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad.
- Attending
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- Nov 07, 2020
When even the most strictly logical mind looks round and investigates the phenomena attending its own existence, perhaps the first fact to attract attention by its strongly marked prominence is the remarkable loneliness of man. He stands alone.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only children are weird. The only children I know, including myself, are either superweird or very talented and special or a mix of the two. I think there was always a certain independence and loneliness - I had a lot of imaginary friends as a kid.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties - that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains a roomful of people and then goes home to a lonely bedsit was unbelievably poignant for me because that was exactly what I was doing. I had periods of real loneliness.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Directing is all tied up with childhood loneliness. It's such an odd thing to end up doing.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I write serious comedies. I would love to be able to write for pure pleasure, but the undertow is always loneliness.
- Brain Cells
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just a believer in keeping all of the creative brain cells moving and working even when you're not working because the inevitable loneliness and boring drought in the actor's world, it can eat you alive.
- Insecurity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my early years, I couldn't find a community. I couldn't find anybody like me. I felt so isolated. There was nothing but shame and loneliness.
- Drain
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- Nov 07, 2020
People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even the finest actors will have great difficulty showing somebody's loneliness. To put an actor on a chair and ask him to do nothing and yet tell the viewer everything about the character, it's a difficult task.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Intimate Apparel' is a lyrical meditation on one woman's loneliness and desire. 'Fabulation' is a very fast-paced play of the MTV generation.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Times may have changed, but there are some things that are always with us - loneliness is one of them.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never minded solitude. For a writer, it's a natural condition. But caring for a dementia sufferer leads to a peculiar kind of loneliness.
- Myth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Total intimacy is a myth; that said, a particular kind of loneliness can be both beautiful and fruitful.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
- Attempting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not find that writing a diary with a lead male character differed in any essential way from writing one with a female character. They all had the same challenges in terms of attempting to establish an identity, coping with loneliness, friendships, relationships.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do remember when I was starting acting, going from one set to the next, with not much else going on in my life. And at the end of the day, you get back to your hotel room and just feel this awful loneliness, because the cameras have stopped rolling.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted Jesus in 'A.D.' to be very, very, very human - to have those qualities of vulnerability and doubt and pain and sadness and loneliness. Once the resurrection happens and we see that Jesus has risen, it's almost complete, right? It's all about the joy and the smile and the happiness and the closeness to the disciples.
- Mask
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow.
- Together
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- Nov 07, 2020
The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren't true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a feeling of complete balance. The sea, the house, the loneliness, the light. Everything is clearer. Much more precise. I have the feeling that I am living on a limit, and I'm crossing that limit sometimes.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
- Nov 07, 2020
The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
- Ever
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eleanor Oliphant isn't me or anyone I know. Of course I've felt loneliness - everybody does - but Eleanor and her experiences are fictional.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People may see me as a luxurious star, but I am always thinking I can be represented by my psychological world that is fraught with vanity, loneliness, and always feels inadequate.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Easter tells us of something children can't understand, because it addresses things they don't yet have to know: the weariness of life, the pain, the profound loneliness and hovering fear of meaninglessness.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My sense of loneliness was not particularly great until I reached sixty. From that time on, I would have given an ex-king's ransom if I had been able, in my youth to seduce a lady into thinking of me as a handyman and provider around the house.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020