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And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself,… — Soren Kierkegaard
Better to join in with humanity than to set ourselves apart. — Pema Chodron
Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality. — Anthony de Mello
Perhaps a great love is never returned. Had it been given warmth and shelter by its counterpart in the Other, perhaps it would have been… — Dag Hammarskjold
Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me. — William Wordsworth
Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth:… — William Wordsworth
The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness. — William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight. — William Butler Yeats
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds. — William Butler Yeats
There is no final solution to loneliness until you recognize that you need the resources which are in yourself to enpy, within limits, being alone… — Truman G. Madsen
In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die. — Samuel Johnson
"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud… — Samuel Johnson
Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love. — Richard Bach
Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. — Oliver Goldsmith
Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like the mysterious universe… — Loren Eiseley
Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
I'm very lonely now, Mary, For the poor make no new friends; But oh they love the better still The few our Father sends! — Unknown Author
Love can sweep you off your feet and carry you along in a way you've never known before. But the ride always ends, and you… — Jack Handey
We the living, should not think of the dead as lonely because if they could speak to us, they would say: "Do not weep for… — Helen Keller
No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience. — Ellen Glasgow
One leaf left on a branch and not a sound of sadness or despair. One leaf left on a branch and no unhappiness. One leaf… — David Ignatow
Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world. — Benjamin Hoff
Here in a little lonely room I am master of earth and sea, And the planets come to me. — Arthur Symons
Loneliness comes with life. — Whitney Houston
Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else. — Lillian Hellman

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