Loneliness

(313 votes)   People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.

Joseph Fort Newton

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(619 votes)   Be good and you will be lonely.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(537 votes)   On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

Janis Joplin
American Folk Singer

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(385 votes)   When Christ said: ''I was hungry and you fed me,'' he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness. He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by. Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.

Mother Teresa
1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary

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(367 votes)   It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

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(302 votes)   There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought --a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(291 votes)   Strife is better than loneliness.

Irish Proverbs
Sayings of Irish Origin

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(286 votes)   We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.

James A. Froude
1818-1894, British Historian

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(275 votes)   Loneliness breaks the spirit.

Jewish Proverbs
Sayings of Jewish Origin

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(260 votes)   What torments my soul is its loneliness. The more it expands among friends and the daily habits or pleasures, the more, it seems to me, it flees me and retires into its fortress. The poet who lives in solitude, but who produces much, is the one who enjoys those treasures we bear in our bosom, but which forsake us when we give ourselves to others. When one yields oneself completely to one's soul, it opens itself to one, and then it is that the capricious thing allows one the greatest of good fortunes... that of sympathizing with others, of studying itself, of painting itself constantly in its works.

EugFne Delacroix
1798-1863, French Artist

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(259 votes)   Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.

Elizabeth Bowen
1899-1973, Anglo-Irish Novelist

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(251 votes)   A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

John Cheever
1912-1982, American Author

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(251 votes)   There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.

Abraham Ibn Esra

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(245 votes)   All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.

Carson Mccullers
1917-1967, American Author

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(241 votes)   The essence of this man [Richard M. Nixon] is loneliness.

Henry Kissinger
1923-, American Republican Politician, Secretary of State

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