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Loneliness Quotes by Sylvia Plath
- So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in…
- Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.
- How we need another soul to cling to.
- God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we…
- Now I know what loneliness is, I think. Momentary loneliness, anyway. It comes from a vague core of the self - - like a disease…
- And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find…
- So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of my loneliness, in the…
- No, I won't try to escape myself by losing myself in artificial chatter 'Did you have a nice vacation?' 'Oh, yes, and you?' I'll stay…
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