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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
Hilaire Belloc
Friendship
Loneliness
World
Space
Men
Cold
Air
Outside
Open
Outside World
Disappears
Between
Like
Perish
Left
Which
Then
Planets
Awful
Utterly
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
Lawrence Durrell
Music
Loneliness
Invented
Human
Confirm
The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Loneliness
Man
Soul
Water
Sky
Those
Between
Another
Whole
Two
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
John Steinbeck
Loneliness
Tries
Writer
Inexplicable
Explain
Utter
Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts.
Sam Harris
Love
Loneliness
Thoughts
Emotions
Enjoy
Thinking
Others
Our
Everything
Pleasure
Eat
Purpose
Foods
Feel
Like
Altering
Read
Another
Friendships
Person
Form
Fleeting
Certain
Avoid
Specific
Presence
Consciousness
Tongues
Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.
Thomas Harris
Loneliness
Greed
Nothing
More
Except
Vulnerable
Makes
Than
Us
While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.
Josh McDowell
Life
Future
God
Alone
Loneliness
Too Much
Guilt
Promises
Pain
Too
Our
Perfect
Resurrection
Perfect Life
New
Contend
Leave
While
Loves
Us
Much
Present
Present Life
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich
Alone
Loneliness
Solitude
Word
Language
Pain
Our
Sides
Wisely
Glory
Being
Sensed
Being Alone
Created
Express
Two
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
Tom Wolfe
Loneliness
Vanity
Surest
Cure
I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.
Carla Bruni
Loneliness
Strength
People
Past
Believe
Out
Give
Gives
Just
Cutting
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship
Loneliness
Needs
Solitude
Words
Anguish
No Words
Delivered
What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
Dag Hammarskjold
Loneliness
Burden
Own
My Own
Only
Bear
Anguish
No-One
Share
Makes
I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.
Yousuf Karsh
Alone
Loneliness
Great
Men
Lonely
Seen
High
Ability
Great Men
High Standards
Part
Feel
Also
Because
Understandable
Built
Same
Often
Themselves
Create
Standards
There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.
Alexander Theroux
Loneliness
Marriage
Failed
Like
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
Eric Hoffer
Loneliness
Failure
Own
House
Greater
His
Than
Stranger
Keep in mind that to avoid loneliness, many people need both a social circle and an intimate attachment. Having just one of two may still leave you feeling lonely.
Gretchen Rubin
Loneliness
You
People
Mind
Circle
Lonely
Feeling
Intimate
Having
Both
Attachment
Still
Leave
May
Just
Just One
Social
Avoid
Many
Keep
Two
Need
A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.
Lorraine Hansberry
Loneliness
Woman
People
Challenge
Men
Own
Herself
Willing
Runs
General
Risk
More
Potential
Pursue
Interesting
Much
Who
Exposure
Her
Loneliness comes with life.
Whitney Houston
Life
Loneliness
Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.
Indra Devi
Loneliness
Freedom
Fear
Free
Practice
Way
Ourselves
Constant
Anguish
Yoga
Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.
Martha Beck
Loneliness
Proof
Intact
Your
Connection
Search
Innate
There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.
Tom Hanks
Loneliness
Solitude
Between
Concept
Understand
Difference
Being
While
Monk
It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things at some point in their lives.
Brendan Myers
Loneliness
Me
Experience
Solitude
People
Isolation
Some
Point
Clear
Most
Encounter
Anyone
Anywhere
Lives
Things
The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.
Christopher Hitchens
Loneliness
Me
Bucks
Concept
Continually
Exile
Self-Sufficiency
Up
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
Edward Gibbon
Loneliness
Beginning
Thinking
Final
Ourselves
Longer
Talk
Genuine
End
One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.
Jamaica Kincaid
Loneliness
You
Lonely
Reading
One Of The Things
Makes
Does
Person
Manageable
Essentially
Your
Things
Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.
Joan Collins
Loneliness
People
Problem
Rich
Rich People
Universal
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