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Max Ehrmann Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
John Corry Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease.
Woody Allen Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Dag Hammarskjold Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Cyril Connolly The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
Maya Angelou Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Amelia Earhart Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things Knows not the livid loneliness of fear.
Akhenaton The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.
Elijah Wood 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.
Andrew Wyeth I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.
F Scott Thirty-the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
Anna Louise Strong 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.
Chief Seattle What is man without the beasts If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected.
Jorge Luis Borges A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer - to be living a kind of double li
Paul Johannes Tillich Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
Jed Seidel Marriage. Why do we do it Everybody knows the stats. One in two marriages end up in broken dishes and a trip to Tijuana. Is it loneliness Partly. Is it teamwork Definitely. Things just kind of go easier when there's two of you. One of you can wait in line at the movie theater while the other guy parks the car. Get better seats that way. Better room rate when it's a double. Are you ready to file jointly...Above you is the sun and sky. Below you, the ground. Like the sun, your love should be constant, like the ground, solid.
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
Loneliness is a strange gift.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the worst poverty of all.
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it to know yourself... know what you want.
People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.
Your travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and
Americans become unhappy and vicious because their preoccupation with amassing possessions obliterates their loneliness. This is why production in America seems to be on such an endless upward spiral: every time we buy something we deepen our emotional de
"I'm kind of edgy lately. I guess it's my...loneliness." -- Radar
"Loneliness begins when the spaces are filled." -The Tao of Pooh
"This is loneliness. Oh, what a bitter thing." Companion/Hedford
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.
"need to contaminate to alleviate this loneliness"
"Sentenced to loneliness, forever!"
"Day after day, night after night, loneliness creeps in her window."
It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is whe

 

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