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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
- 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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