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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- 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.
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- Nov 07, 2020