- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Loneliness Quotes
Words on solitude, pain, and quiet comfort
These loneliness quotes note how isolation can follow even great achievement, since high personal standards can leave people feeling apart from others. Some find that reading offers a way to keep Alone-ness at a manageable distance.
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- Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.
- Over
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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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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.
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You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.
- Walk
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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