Loneliness Quote by Claire Messud Download Open image ““Was this what it meant to grow up, this vast loneliness?”” — Claire Messud ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Loneliness
“There are lots of different ways grown-ups disappear. It's lonely being the one left behind.” — Julia Green Copy Share Image
“You never realise what loneliness is until it creeps up on you - like a disease, it is, something that happens to you gradually.” — Elizabeth Haynes Copy Share Image
“But, I was lead to believe that loneliness was only a minor fracture of why I wanted to be his.” — Valerie King Copy Share Image
“Among the many things it meant was that even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.” — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“For one of us at least, we knew, we were certain - this is how we saw the world - there would never again… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“Utter loneliness was planted in me then, and sent its deep roots down into me.” — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“Maybe loneliness was imprinted in my genes, lying dormant for years but now coming into full bloom.” — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“Maybe that was the key to getting rid of the loneliness, I thought. Treating love as entertainment, not salvation.” — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
I have said it somewhere - our literary lived lives are as important as our literally lived lives. — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“Life is about deciding what matters. It’s about the fantasy that determines the reality. Have you ever asked yourself whether you’d rather fly or… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Life's funny. You have to find a way to keep going, to keep laughing, even after you realize that none of your dreams will… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
The fictional narratives that television, film, and the news provide for girls and young women are appalling. — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“I don't want to sleep,' my mother said. 'I want -- for God's sake, I want to wake up.” — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“It was supposed to say “Great Artist” on my tombstone, but if I died right now it would say “such a good teacher/daughter/friend” instead;… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“Live, my dear Nora. Satisfy your hunger. There's food all around you, you know.' 'What kind of food, I'd like to know?' 'Ah'-he smiled-… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
I digress a lot - it's how I experience the world. I would like to write in a way that will convey that to… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
We think that - as kids, you know - that kids make up stories and live in a sort of fictional place, but that,… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“It makes sense that if you stand almost daily in the middle of a perfect crescent of shore, with a vista open to eternity,… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“Hell is only loneliness, a place without play for the soul, a place without God. How could there be God in loneliness when God… — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
We often refer to loneliness as something negative. And we look at it as a weakness. — Jay Shetty Copy Share Image
There was only the broad square with the scattered dim moons of the street lamps and with the monumental stone arch which receded into… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no one else… — Bruce D. Perry Copy Share Image
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Don't let 'being single' make you feel like a loner. Its better to be alone. Relationships arent cures for loneliness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
