LONELINESS QUOTES III

quotations about loneliness

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If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

ALDOUS HUXLEY

Brave New World

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Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone.

GAO XINGJIAN

speech presented on receiving the Golden Plate Award at the Forty-first International Achievement Summit of the American Academy of Achievement, Jun. 8, 2002

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Even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.

THEODORE STURGEON

"Saucer of Loneliness"


We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.

HUNTER S. THOMPSON

The Proud Highway

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All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

THE BEATLES

"Eleanor Rigby", Revolver

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The feeling of loneliness is unique to humans. A tree or a bird may seem to be lonely, but this is an attribute bestowed by the person making the observation. The tree or the bird is incapable of perceiving loneliness. This feeling occurs when a person is alone, and, moved by his emotions, associates his own circumstances with those of the bird or the tree that he sees before him. Since this feeling entails an element of self-examination, it is not a purely objective observation. The feeling of loneliness produced is thus a form of aesthetics, in that while observing one's external environment, one is at the same time examining the self that is located within it, and to a certain extent this is an affirmation of one's own personal worth.

GAO XINGJIAN

speech presented on receiving the Golden Plate Award at the Forty-first International Achievement Summit of the American Academy of Achievement, Jun. 8, 2002


We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say -- and to feel -- "Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought."

JOHN STEINBECK

"In Awe of Words", The Exonian, 1930

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Loneliness doesn't have much to do with where you are.

HUGH HEFNER

Esquire, Jun. 2002

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Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.

BRAM STOKER

Dracula

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The survival of the fittest is going to make some man very lonesome some day.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected.

CHIEF SEATTLE OF THE SUWAMISH TRIBE

letter to President Franklin Pierce


Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet today the institutions on which community depends are crumbling in all the techno-societies. The result is a spreading plague of loneliness.

ALVIN TOFFLER

The Third Wave

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It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is as true of men as of dogs.

ERIC HOFFER

"Thoughts of Eric Hoffer", The New York Times Magazine, Apr. 25, 1971

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Everyone's alone -- or so it seems to me.
They make noises, and think they are talking to each other;
They make faces, and think they understand each other.
And I'm sure they don't. Is that a delusion?

T. S. ELIOT

The Cocktail Party


We live as we dream--alone.

JOSEPH CONRAD

Heart of Darkness


Late at night, when you're so lonely,
your shoulders curl toward the center of your body,
you call no one and you don't call out.
This is dignity. This is the pure loneliness
that made Christ think he was God.
This is why lunatics smile at their thoughts.

MICHAEL RYAN

"The Pure Loneliness", New and Selected Poems


Physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance.

ROBERT M. PIRSIG

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself.

HAROLD PINTER

Tea Party

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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

GEORGE ELIOT

Middlemarch

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Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.

HENRY VAN DYKE

"The Prison and the Angel"

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