Quotes
Quotes about Loneliness
Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh, that is to say over fear: fear of poverty, of suffering, of calumny, of illness, of loneliness and of death. There is no real piety without heroism. Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.
We can feel strongly for primitive man in the dark; for all our science, we have not fully overcome our fear of it or, when human contact is lost, our sense of devastating loneliness in it
Literature, as cities grow, becomes increasingly an expression of loneliness and exile - a cry in the dark, whistling in the dark.
The wasteland of his soul had often seen the loneliness of a shattered but unforgotten dream
I elect loneliness
The physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's the psychic distance.
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the spaces between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small.
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552 Every wise workman takes his tools away from the work from time to time that they may be ground and sharpened; so does the only-wise Jehovah take his ministers oftentimes away into darkness and loneliness and trouble, that he may sharpen and prepare them for harder work in his service.
Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730 Faith is not so much belief about God as it is total, personal trust in God, rising to a personal fellowship with God that is stronger than anxiety and guilt, loneliness and all manner of disaster. The Christian's faith in Christ is trust in a Living Person, once crucified, dead, and buried, and now living forevermore. Call it, if you will, an assumption that ends as an assurance, or an experiment that ends as an experience, Christian faith is in fact a commitment that ends as a communion.
What, after all, are the world's deepest problems? They are what they always have been, the individual's problemsâthe meaning of life and death, the mastery of self, the quest for value and worth-whileness and freedom within, the transcending of loneliness, the longing for love and a sense of significance, and for peace. Society's problems are deep, but the individual's problems go deeper; Solzhenitsyn, Dostoyevsky, or Shakespeare will show us that, if we hesitate to take it from the Bible.
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
Friendship needs no wordsâit is a loneliness relieved of the anguish of loneliness.
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
When the heart is enlivened again, it feels like the sun coming out after a week of rainy days. There is hope in the heart that chases the clouds away. Hope is a higher heart frequency and as you begin to reconnect with your heart, hope is waiting to show you new possibilities and arrest the downward spiral of grief and loneliness. It becomes a matter of how soon you want the sun to shine. Listening to the still, small voice in your heart will make hope into a reality. Sara Paddison, The Hidden Power of the Heart Hope is a higher heart frequency, and as you begin to re-connect with your heart, hope is waiting to show you new possibilities and arrest the downward spiral of grief and loneliness. Listening to the still small voice in your heart will make hope into a reality. Benjamin Franklin, preface, Poor Richard's Almanac, 1758 He that lives upon hope will die fasting. -Sara Paddison.
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 alone.
Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
Who knows what true loneliness isânot the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
