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Loneliness Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- Loneliness is dangerous ... because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self.
- Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.
- Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.
More Loneliness Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between… — Russell Baker
- It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s… — Bruce Barton
- Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact. — Martha Beck
- Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves… — Henry Ward Beecher
- When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the… — Hilaire Belloc
- No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness. — Georges Bernanos
- But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never… — Buffalo Bill
- A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving… — Elizabeth Blackwell
- Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. — Elizabeth Bowen
- It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and… — Benjamin Britten