Loneliness Quotes — Page 27

Poet, Essayist, Feminist

“Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.”

Art Sex Loneliness

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David Foster Wallace

Writer

“Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties - all these chase away loneliness by making me forget my name's Dave and I live in a one-by-one box of bone no other party can penetrate or know. Fiction, poetry, music, really deep serious sex, and, in various ways, religion - these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.”

Party Sex Loneliness

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Conrad Aiken

Poet, Novelist

“Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.”

Knows Loneliness

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T. S. Eliot

Poet, Playwright

“Each way means loneliness -- and communion.”

Mean Way

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Deepak Chopra

Author, Speaker

“Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.”

Teacher Wisdom Loneliness

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David Foster Wallace

Writer

“Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.”

Fiction Loneliness Treated

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David Foster Wallace

Writer

“But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces Mr. Updike wrote about so beautifully -- got to watch all this brave new individualism and self-expression and sexual freedom deteriorate into the joyless and anomic self-indulgence of the Me Generation. Today's sub-40s have different horrors, prominent among which are anomie and solipsism and a peculiarly American loneliness: the prospect of dying without once having loved something more than yourself.”

Children Loneliness Divorce

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Cesare Pavese

Poet, Novelist

“A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.”

Boys Loneliness Single

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Cornel West

Philosopher

“Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression that affect our hearts, minds and souls and remind us of who we are as human beings, the fragility of our human status and the inevitability of death.”

Heart Loneliness Sadness

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Anais Nin

Writer, Diarist

“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them.”

Reality Lonely Loneliness

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Washington Irving

Author

“Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet to become tender and imaginitive in the loneliness of confinement. He banquets upon the honey of his own thoughts, and, like the captive bird, pours forth his soul in melody.”

Loss Bird Loneliness

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William Wordsworth

Poet

“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.”

Sleep Lonely Loneliness

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