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Quotes about Loneliness

It's not enough to have lived; we should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.

Leo Buscaglia
Source: My Hero Project
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These are frightening times...when she feels herself annointed by loneliness.

Carol Shields
Source: The Stone Diaries
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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

Dag Hammarskjöld
 
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...It is clear that we must embrace struggle.  Every living thing
conforms to it.  Everything in nature grows and struggles in its
own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost,
against all resistance.  We can be sure of very little, but the
need to court struggle is a surety that will not leave us.  It is
good to be lonely, for being alone is not easy.  The fact that
something is difficult must be one more reason to do it.  To love
is also good, for love is difficult.  For one human being to love
another is perhaps the most difficult task of all, the epitome, the
ultimate test.  It is that striving for which all other striving
is merely preparation.  For that reason young people -- who are
beginners in everything -- cannot yet love; they do not know how to
love.  They must learn it.

Rainer Maria Rilke : German lyric poet & writer, b. Prague, lived in Paris, secretary to A. Rodin
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Source: Letters to a Young Poet, Page: 62..63
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There is no insurmountable solitude.  All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are.  And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence, in order to reach forth to the enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song - but in this dance or in this song there are fulfilled the most ancient rites of our conscience in the awareness of being human and of believing in a common destiny.

Pablo Neruda (1904 - 1973)
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There is much suffering in the world - physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of others. The material and physical suffering is suffering from hunger, from homelessness, from all kinds of diseases. But the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, having no one. I have come more and more to realize that it is being unwanted that is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

Mother Teresa : Macedonian Catholic nun, founder of Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta in 1950
Mother Teresa (1910 - 1998)
 
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The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

Mark Twain : American writer, pen name for Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
 
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It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.

Leo Buscaglia
Source: Love
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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

Wayne Dyer : Gaia Child
Wayne Dyer
 
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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen : American comedian, actor & film director (born Allen Stewart Konigberg)
Woody Allen (1935 - )
 
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Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me.

William Wordsworth : English poet, leader of romantic movement
William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
Source: To the Small Celandine.
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I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils.

William Wordsworth : English poet, leader of romantic movement
William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
 
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Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth: And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth.

William Wordsworth : English poet, leader of romantic movement
William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
Source: Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg.
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I wander'd lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretch'd in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay; Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company: I gazed-and gazed-but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought: For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills; And dances with the daffodils.

William Wordsworth : English poet, leader of romantic movement
William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
 
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The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness.

William Joseph Slim
 
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We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936

William Butler Yeats : Irish poet, playwright & mystic, winner of Nobel prize in 1923
William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
Source: The Letters of W. B. Yeats Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936
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Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring.

William Butler Yeats : Irish poet, playwright & mystic, winner of Nobel prize in 1923
William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
Source: The Winding Stair and Other Poems, 1933;. Quarrel in Old Age
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Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds.

William Butler Yeats : Irish poet, playwright & mystic, winner of Nobel prize in 1923
William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
Source: The Wild Swans at Coole 1919. An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
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And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.

William Butler Yeats : Irish poet, playwright & mystic, winner of Nobel prize in 1923
William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
Source: The Wind Among the Reeds, 1899, Into the Twilight
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People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.

unknown : Gaia Explorer
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No, life may not be easy, it can be lonely. Full of people we think we know, but barely comprehend. Yet we must always remember: it's the challenges that define us best, and the obstacles that illuminate what we're truly capable of. We must welcome adversity and embrace struggle, and no matter what we get from life, never give less than 100 percent. Of course, at the end of every battle weary day, we fold ourselves into peaceful darkness and find comfort in those gentle words . . . good night.

unknown : Gaia Explorer
unknown
Source: Profit
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There is no final solution to loneliness until you recognize that you need the resources which are in yourself to enpy, within limits, being alone being the kind of person that you like to be with, and reaching out to others, not in a grasping way, but in an attempt to be meaningful and loving and of service in their lives.

Truman G. Madsen
Source: Fireside Address, Provo, Utah, 1980.
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Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.

Thomas Harris
 
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Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat in a flock By the embers in hearth-side ease. We pictured the meek mild creatures where They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few would weave In these years! yet, I feel If someone said on Christmas Eve, "Come; see the oxen kneel, In the lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used to know," I should go with him in the gloom, Hoping it might be so.

Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)
Source: “Christmas Eve”
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So lonely 't was, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : English romantic poet & critic
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
Source: The Ancient Mariner. Part vii.
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In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.

Dr. Samuel Johnson : English poet, critic, lexicographer, creator of first English dictionary
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Source: Verses on the Death of Mr. Robert Levet. Stanza ?.
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"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."

Dr. Samuel Johnson : English poet, critic, lexicographer, creator of first English dictionary
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Source: Abyssinia. Rasselas. Chap. iii.
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She used to love jokes, painful ones. She loved hurting people. She thought it would lessen the hurt and loneliness she felt, but it never did.

S. T epper
 
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I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.

Russell Baker
 
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Beauty is ever to the lonely mind A shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind The gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Robert Nathan
 
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