In 1970 I felt so lonely that I could not give; now I feel so joyful that giving seems easy. I hope… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the absence of objective meaning from the universe.” — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
Sometimes you never feel lonelier than when you are always doing tons of things and traveling all over the place. There is… — Nicolas Ghesquiere Copy Share Image
“when you're young a pair of female high-heeled shoes just sitting alone in the closet can fire your bones; when you're old… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I don't know if I'll ever make this right, cause I'm just so broken by the bitterness of loneliness, and I'm so… — Lindsey Copy Share Image
“I have always preferred isolation. Less chance of betrayal. Occasionally, as I get older, I wonder if perhaps it might once have… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
“He lived a quiet existence where the future was easy to predict and the past was a cancer in remission. It was… — Adelheid Manefeldt Copy Share Image
There are times when I can find myself in a book, too, for two or three hours. But afterward I have such… — David Ignatow Copy Share Image
“The people you think are the happiest are usually the saddest; that's because they see more and feel deeper than others do.… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
“Only boxers can understand the loneliness of tennis players - and yet boxers have their corner men and managers. Even a boxer's… — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
It is not good that man should be alone. ... Hitherto all things that have been named, were approved of God to… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Love is a joint experience between two persons—but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“Sometimes failing is what's needed. I think it can put people in a good mood, to see someone fail. Let people entertain… — Rivka Galchen Copy Share Image
“I guess it was about loneliness. And it’s funny, because I don’t really think of myself as lonely. But there was something… — Becky Albertalli Copy Share Image
Whatever the cause, I could not meet his sunshine with cloud. If this were my last moment with him, I would not… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“But a lonely man is an unnatural man, and soon comes to perplexity. From perplexity to fantasy. From fantasy to madness.” — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
One major challenge within happiness is loneliness. The more I've learned about happiness, the more I've come to believe that loneliness is… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I was really devastated following the loss of my first pregnancy, not just a physical pain, but an aching sense of loss… — Porsha Williams Copy Share Image
“If someone had asked him, “Ben, are you lonely? , ” he would have looked at that someone with real surprise. The… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The worst feeling in the wrld is when u know that u both love each other…but still u jst cn't b 2gether...… — Fighter_Gurl007 Copy Share Image
I believe that dialogue is the key to breaking through our tendency to separate and isolate. Dialogue changes isolation and loneliness into… — Vinessa Shaw Copy Share Image
The definition of the word nerd has changed. It's now any attractive person with a hobby. The loneliness component is no longer… — Gary Gulman Copy Share Image
“Nothing is everything. In order to grow strong, you must first sink your roots deep into nothingness. Learn to face your loneliest… — Pinchas Perry Copy Share Image
“But even thinking that brought on an incredible isolation, a suspicion she'd always had, she didn't belong anywhere, she was going to… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her – a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade,… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“I'm quite all right. I'm not even scared. You see, I've learned from looking around, there is something worse than loneliness--and that's… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I almost never get lonely. I love being alone. I'm glad I'm married, and I love my wife. But there's never been… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
There's a romance to danger. There's a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of… — Joey Comeau Copy Share Image
Let us remember with humility the loneliness of being man in a universe we do not understand and the vulnerability of the… — Gerald Carson Copy Share Image
I'm still prone to periods of isolation, still more fearful of the world out there and more averse to pleasure and risk… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
“I was a lonely boy. I spent all my time reading books and watching the world. [some] tried to draw me out… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“I've had a lot of time to think and even though the silence is new, the loneliness isn't. How is it possible… — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
“Only worse thing than being cold, and too tired to defend yourself, is to be cold and alone. And I wouldn't ever… — Steven J. Carroll Copy Share Image
Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
If you are feeling alone Reach out to someone who's bereaved; Tyou both will find encouaragement And loneliness will be relieved — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
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