Loneliness And Alienation Quotes

#1. Loving and being loved affirmed one's sense of self and conquered feelings of loneliness and alienation. It kept one sane.

Daniel Klein

#2. Alienation and loneliness became a cable that stretched hundreds of miles long, pulled to the breaking point by a gigantic winch. And through that taut line, day and night, he received indecipherable messages.

Haruki Murakami

#3. The void can only be filled with love.

Marty Rubin

#4. The biggest problem is always getting hits. That's the one thing that has never changed. The way of delivering music has changed, the way of listening to it has changed, the way of distributing it has changed, but it's always the music.

Doug Morris

#5. We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards ourselves.

Watchman Nee

#6. Regulation - which is based on force and fear - undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.

Alan Greenspan

#7. The main thing about aliens is that they are alien. They feel no responsibility for fulfilling any of your expectations. (Dark City Lights)

Robert Silverberg

#8. Stories are our gifts to a world that doesn't see us.

Sarah Black

#9. How could your cover be blown in Canada? Why even bother going dark there? How could you tell?

Neal Stephenson

#10. The high is what you crave, what you would kill for... and believe me, you will lie to yourself until it's to late to stop.

H. Alazhar

#11. I wish I could emulate his spectacular lack of inspiration, and his peculiar lack of need for inspiration.

Andre Agassi

#12. Let go of the sorrow, but hold onto the love.

Mark Anthony

#13. I am isolated. I sit in a glass ball, I see people through a glass wall. I scream, but they do not hear me.
- Ellen West

Carl R. Rogers

#14. The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.

Marya Mannes

#15. Loving-kindness challenges those states that tend to arise when we think of ourselves as isolated from everyone else - fear, a sense of deficiency, alienation, loneliness.

Sharon Salzberg

#16. Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising land.

Tariq Ramadan

#17. You and I share the same DNA.
Is there anything more lonely than that?

Charlie Kaufman

#18. Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so 'in-between' things and often so utilitarian, that there are few places where we can feel truly safe.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#19. A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

Mark Twain

#20. Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self.

Maxwell Maltz

#21. Everybody on this planet shares a handful of universal emotional realities: ambition, shame, alienation, loneliness, achievement, regret, hardship, friendship, love, heartbreak. We've all experienced it. The facts change, the feelings are the same.

Mark Manson

#22. Hate can destroy you or it can fuel you. I knew I had to find a way for it to fuel me." Krzyzewski

John Feinstein

#23. Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

Samantha Bond

#24. Our chief marketable skill, coming out of college, is the ability to write authoritatively about things we don't necessarily understand.

Dave Barry

#25. If your beliefs are stressful and you question them, you come to see that they aren't true - whereas prior to questioning, you absolutely believe them. How can you live in joy when you're believing thoughts that bring on sadness, frustration, anger, alienation, and loneliness?

Byron Katie

#26. True liberty in individuals consists in the enjoying of every right that will contribute to one's peace and happiness, so long as the exercise of such a privilege does not interfere with the same privilege in others.

David O. McKay

#27. It occurred to me that a food drive would be a natural way to talk to kids about hunger, which so many of them simply aren't aware of.

K.A. Applegate

#28. Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.

B.W. Powe