Best Loneliness Lines
1612 Loneliness quotes by 1015 unique authors
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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything…
— Ferdinand Marcos
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These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful Acceptance, Wordlessness, Non-intellectuality,…
— Reginald Horace Blyth
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In every seed to breathe a flower, In every drop of dew To reverence a cloister star Within the distant blue; To wait the promise…
— John B. Tabb
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When does the loneliness of old age begin?
— Janusz Korczak
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Isolation, not solitude, breaks men. If I could not find the means to deal with the isolation, then my options were severely limited. I began…
— Shawna Thompson
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In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.
— Geoffrey Fisher
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If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more prevalent than the…
— R. D. Laing
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Given the proper suggestion, the Subconscious Mind will manifest success from failure, health from disease, prosperity from poverty, friendship and love from loneliness and isolation.…
— Uell Stanley Andersen
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Real love is not an escape from loneliness, real love is an overflowing aloneness. One is so happy in being alone that one wud like…
— Rajneesh
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Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.
— Paul Tillich
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There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed." And I'd say, 'Yeah well,…
— Michael Leunig
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It's paradoxical that where people are most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities of the East and West, the loneliness is the greatest...The explanation…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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Often nothing keeps the pupil on the move but his faith in his teacher, whose mastery is now beginning to dawn on him .... How…
— Eugen Herrigel
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How many human beings anywhere, hold on to a relationship merely because it exists? This fear of loneliness, abandonment, or failure can, if we let…
— Walter Inglis Anderson
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A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship.…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to myself, although I…
— William Saroyan
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It's a long road when you face the world alone, when no one reaches out a hand for you to hold. You can find love…
— Mariah Carey
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My own study of the networked life has left me thinking about intimacy - about being with people in person, hearing their voices and seeing…
— Sherry Turkle
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To the people that claim to hate Love: Remember that the thing that hurt you was a person, not love. If it had been love,…
— Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the…
— Peter Kreeft
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Do we have any food that wasn't brutally slaughtered?" Homer: "Well, I think the veal died of loneliness.
— Matt Groening
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When traveling is made too easy and comfortable, its spiritual meaning is lost. This may be called sentimentalism, but a certain sense of loneliness engendered…
— Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
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Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship to formula. Laughter and love, pain…
— Louis Orr
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Loneliness is failed solitude.
— Sherry Turkle
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