Best Loneliness Proverbs
1612 Loneliness quotes by 1015 unique authors
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I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was…
— Henry David Thoreau
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We all know how important love is, yet how often is it really emoted or exhibited? What so many sick people in this world suffer…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and…
— Renata Adler
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The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and…
— Renata Adler
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An intimate relationship does not banish loneliness. Only when we are comfortable with who we are can we truly function independently in a healthy way,…
— Unknown Author
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The soul hardly ever realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.
— Hubert Van Zeller
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Do not steal something that already belongs to you or pine for people who are sitting right next to you.
— Rob Brezsny
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Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring.
— William Butler Yeats
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Aloneness can lead to loneliness. God's preventative for loneliness is intimacy - meaningful, open, sharing relationships with one another. In Christ we have the capacity…
— Neil T Anderson
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We have to live with our loneliness and the destiny that drives each person to the order of things.
— Cecile de France
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Loneliness comes suddenly like waves and recedes just as fast. That continues on forever. It’s the same for you. It’s the same for everyone.
— Chica Umino
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The Passion of Christ was an experience which included in itself every experience except sin, of every member of the human race. If one may…
— Caryll Houselander
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Photography is a very lonely medium. There’s a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that’s why I’m a photographer.
— Alec Soth
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Rage keeps the person who feels it company. It moves into the hollows left by grief and loss, and turns inside you like a dark…
— Paula Sharp
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Friends, companions, lovers, are those who treat us in terms of our unlimited worth to ourselves. They are closest to us who best understand what…
— Unknown Author
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Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse. Art doesn't work without pain;…
— Till Lindemann
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For too many women pregnancy is just the start of loneliness and abuse. It is a cruel reality.
— Unknown Author
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You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to take the unknown…
— Giorgos Seferis
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Loneliness is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.
— Paulo Coelho
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A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference, nor does he attempt to transform it into a victory. The…
— Paulo Coelho
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Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness.
— Paulo Coelho
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Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.
— Pedro Almodovar
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The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger…
— Mother Teresa
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There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives--the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it.…
— Mother Teresa
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