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A lot of my songs are about loneliness and losing relationships. Even the ones that are happy, there's a lonely undertone to them.
Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
Any business or enterprise that shaves away loneliness is going to last forever. And like it or not but we've got a lonely society.
I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.
Being single isn't the cause of loneliness, and marriage is not necessarily the cure. There are many lonely married people as well.
What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself's the beginning of all love.
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, "I shall be unhappy without loneliness," shows that he made loneliness his master.
Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible.
So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.
The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.
Aloneness is a state of being, whereas loneliness is a state of feeling. It's like the difference between being broke and being poor.
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.
We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, want, magic - of missing people, avoid others - like loneliness.
Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book.
Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.
Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone.
If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.
Why were we so far apart, even when we were together? It was a nice loneliness, like the sensation of washing your face in cold water.
You ache with loneliness one night so much you weep and I say 'here is a rope tie it around me Hafiz will be your companion for life'.
Who can really distinguish between the sea and what's reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness?
She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.
There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning.
Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.
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.
Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.
We give it up and just look directly with compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat and heartache, no punishment.
Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.
Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.
Travel is in sad case. It is uncomfortable, it is expensive; it is a source of annoyance to our friends, and of loneliness to ourselves.
Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant.
Lost in loneliness and pain. Black and unendurable, Thinking of you with every Corpuscle of my flesh, in Every instant of night And day.
I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain.
Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
...Summer nights held a special kind of loneliness that gave rise to strange imaginings. One walked the beach alone and thought too much.
The definition of the word nerd has changed. It's now any attractive person with a hobby. The loneliness component is no longer included.
I never really understood the word ‘loneliness’. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature.
loneliness has its roots in words,in internal conversation that nodbody answers,solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity.
It is hard going to the door cut so small in the wall where the vision which echoes loneliness brings a scent of wild flowers in the wood.
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness.
Loneliness sucks. It's a slog. It feels wonderful and exhilarating when someone makes it go away. But love is a whole different ball game.
Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egotistical selves.
Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence mid the worlds loud din.
Eleanor Oliphant isn't me or anyone I know. Of course I've felt loneliness - everybody does - but Eleanor and her experiences are fictional.
At first it upset me to realize how many people are, at heart, selfish. Now I take that in stride, but people's loneliness still gets to me.
Loneliness comes suddenly like waves and recedes just as fast. That continues on forever. It’s the same for you. It’s the same for everyone.
The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.