Loneliness Quotes - Page 7

When I reach the end of one row, I continue straight on away from the barn and the farm and the road. I walk until I come to a pile of hay bales and plop myself down. The sun is bright and the air is sharp. In the distance I hear the lowing of cows. It's so peaceful here.

"Merry Christmas, " I whisper to myself. "Merry Christmas, Nate.

One day, your beauty will manifest in someone's eye.

Separation

Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.

may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.

People Die...
Beauty Fades...
Love Changes...
And You Will Always Be Alone

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean.
Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

loneliness can fly a helicopter through a cut-out shape
of a helicopter the same size as the helicopter
and that's it's only skill
and it isn't good enough
but it's still amazing.

There's a book of poetry
in the lines of my hands
that no one wants to read

I'm everyone everywhere with you without you unbound set free in limbo lost at sea.

To you who eat a lot of rice because you’re lonely,
To you who sleep a lot because you’re bored,
To you who cry a lot because you are sad, I write this down.

Chew on your feelings that are cornerned like you would chew on rice.
Anyway, life is something that you need to digest.

Every avalanche was once a lonely snowflake, every flood was once an aching raindrop.

The sun loved me again when it saw that the stars would not abandon me.

Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.

To an optimist loneliness is freedom, to all others it is prison.

People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.

It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us.

But if as you read this book you're saying to yourself: "I'd rather be miserably married than be alone." Well young lady, take out your clown shoes and buckle your seat belt - it's going to be a very bumpy one-woman circus.

Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.

You get lonely, is what it is. A person's not supposed to go through life with absolutely nobody. It's not normal. The longer you go by yourself the weirder you get, and the weirder you get the longer you go by yourself. It's a loop and you gotta do something to get out of it.

We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity even if we must manufacture it from our time on the Web and our use of calling cards to connect long distance. We must “log on” somewhere, and if it is only in cyberspace, that is still far better than nowhere at all. (264)