Loneliness Quotes — Page 33

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Thomas Merton

Writer, Monk

“I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul.”

Soul Loneliness Solitude

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Seth

Musician

“You must watch the pictures that you paint with your imagination. Your environment and the conditions of your life at any given time are the direct result of your own inner expectations. If you imagine dire circumstances, ill health or desperate loneliness, these will be 'automatically' materialized, for these thoughts themselves bring about the conditions that will give them a reality in physical terms. If you would have good health then you must imagine this as vividly as you fearfully imagine ill health.”

Reality Loneliness Health

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Karl Lagerfeld

Fashion Designer, Photographer

“People who can't be alone have a problem. Loneliness is a luxury for people like me.”

People Loneliness

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

“There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.”

Loneliness Allies

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Sigmund Freud

Neurologist, Psychoanalyst

“Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.”

Darkness Loneliness

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Sylvia Plath

Poet, Novelist

“No, I won't try to escape myself by losing myself in artificial chatter 'Did you have a nice vacation?' 'Oh, yes, and you?' I'll stay here and try to pin that loneliness down.”

Nice Loneliness Vacation

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Madonna Ciccone

Singer

“I must confess that I am usually drawn to sadness, and loneliness has never been a stranger to me. But love tried to welcome me, but my soul drew back, guilty of lust and sin.”

Loneliness Sadness Lust

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Maggie Nelson

Poet

“I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do. It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem.”

Trying Loneliness Solitude

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Jack London

Novelist, Journalist

“The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise.”

Men Hate Loneliness

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Henri Nouwen

Theologian, Author

“It is precisely when you are loved a lot that you might realize a second loneliness which is not to be solved but lived. This second loneliness is an existential loneliness that belongs to the basis of our being. It's where we are unfulfilled because only God can fill us.”

Might Realizing Loneliness

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George Orwell

Writer, Journalist

“For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live.”

Two Loneliness Memorable

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Leonard Cohen

Singer-Songwriter

“Yes, you who must leave everything that you cannot control, It begins with your family, and soon it comes round to your soul. Well I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned: When you're not feeling holy your loneliness says that you've sinned.”

Thinking Soul Loneliness

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