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Quotes About Loneliness

But as time went by, fewer camera crews turned up at the gates each morning. After all, how many hours of drooling can an audience be expected to sit through? Gradually the LEP crews were downsized from a dozen to six and finally to a single officer per shift. Where could Opal Koboi go? the
~ Eoin Colfer
He was gonna die here alone. He would never be great. Artemis felt his brain going spiraling off into a black tunnel. Concentrate, he told himself. Focus.
~ Eoin Colfer
He was gonna die here alone. He would never be great. Artemis felt his brain going, spiraling off in a black tunnel. 'Concentrate,' he told himself. 'Focus.
~ Eoin Colfer
It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs. -
~ Eric Hoffer
Baby, ain't no fun being a queen living in a kingless castle.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
We disconnected. And I wondered if we had ever truly connected.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
Jewell Stewark smiled at me from a billboard, the rain giving her face tears.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
Glitch or not, we seem to need a power greater than ourselves. We seem to need enormous shadows of divinity stalking us. We know we are weak. Alcoholics are, above all, lonely, fearful pepole who make a fetish of loneliness, who think they--we--are too good to be part of the human race. And we have to be humbled to remember who we are--stumbling human beings, more ape than angel.
~ Erica Jong
Children are no antidote to loneliness.
~ Erica Jong
A po co mia?bym pisa? do Pana Boga? - Mo?e poczu?by? si? mniej samotny? - Mniej samotny z kim?, kto nie istnieje? - Spraw, ?eby istnia?. Pochyli?a si? w moj? stron?. - Za ka?dym razem, kiedy w niego uwierzysz, b?dzie troch? bardziej istnia?. Je?li si? uprzesz, zacznie istnie? na dobre. I wtedy ci pomo?e.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
PoÈ›i suferi de singur?tate chiar fiind în mijlocul alor t?i? Asta-i soarta omului care gândeÈ™te cu capul lui.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent — people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.
~ Erich Fromm
Greed?has no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome.
~ Erich Fromm
A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet "for sale," who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence—briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing—cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society.
~ Erich Fromm
I think that the word bored does not get the attention it deserves. We speak of all sorts of terrible things that happen to people, but we rarely speak about one of the most terrible things of all : that is, being bored, being bored alone and, worse than that, being bored together.
~ Erich Fromm
Somehow her later years had become a mirror of her lonely childhood.
~ Amanda Eyre Ward
Charlotte sipped her coffee and gazed at the rocky coastline, the deep green hills, clouds like smoke. How lonely it was to have no witness to her life. No one to guard her passage into slumber, no one to know that she had made it through the night.
~ Amanda Eyre Ward
Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.
~ Amanda Heggs
And no one ever told her anything at all. Tears and shouted questions got her nothing but pitying looks and new dolls. While the dolls were nice, she still wanted to know where her mother had really gone and when her real papa was coming back to her. That was when she learned to be quiet and watch. When she tucked herself away in corners, people forgot she was there and talked about things in quiet, calm ways with no baby-speak. Bea hated baby-speak.
~ Amanda McCabe
There is so much unnecessary loneliness in the world. Marriage is not necessarily the answer, at least not for women. But an enduring friendship is a great gift and a blessing.
~ Amanda Quick
Letting go is a very hard thing," he said. "Grief and guilt, even loneliness, can become a comfort. A touchstone. The road behind us, littered as it is with mistakes and heartache, can often be more appealing than the open road in front of us.
~ Amanda Stevens
I've heard people say that the hardest thing in the world is to live with someone you don't love. But I've always thought it would be far more difficult to live with someone who doesn't love you.
~ Amanda Stevens
Have you ever heard wolves howl in a place where wolves do not reside?
~ Amber Tamblyn
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things Knows not the livid loneliness of fear.
~ Amelia Earhart