Top 17 Quotes About Loneliness Being Good
#1. Loneliness isn't about being by yourself. That's fine, right and good, desirable in many ways. Loneliness is about finding a landing-place, or not, and knowing that, whatever you do, you can go back there. The opposite of loneliness isn't company, it's return. A place to return.
Jeanette Winterson
#2. Usually, we think that "good" loneliness is what we call "solitude," the choice of some alone-time. But I want to press on with the negative dimension, to look at ways in which a fundamental sense of being separated from others shapes who we are and why.
Thomas L. Dumm
#3. Anne-Marie Costallat, born October 8, 1944. I was beginning high school and masturbating twice a day, curling over it like a dead leaf, when she was born, in a bed of violets, as she says - all French mothers tell their children that.
James Salter
#4. You look at me and tell me you think you're some goddamn obligation to me. You look at me and tell me that we're pretending when the connection between us is the most tangible, overpowering thing I've ever felt in my life. If this is pretending, then I damn sure don't want to know what reality is.
Maya Banks
#5. You really, really have to care about animals to want to kill one. You have to learn all this stuff about them and start thinking like them.
Joel Stein
#6. I always feel myself being thrust back into loneliness when someone tells me it's cold on a hot day. It isn't good to talk so much about the weather - weather is a highly personal matter, and communication on the subject inevitably fails.
Yoko Tawada
#7. Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth.
Alan Ladd
#8. Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
Charles Bukowski
#9. When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#10. It's easy to solve a problem that everyone sees, but it's hard to solve a problem that almost no one sees.
Tony Fadell
#11. The Annex is an ideal place to hide in. It may be damp and lopsided, but there's probably not a more comfortable hiding place in all of Amsterdam. No, in all of Holland.
Anne Frank
#12. Outwardly I was all confidence and openness; inwardly I was spiteful and lonely and unaware of how to relate to the world. I wanted so much to be good but only knew how to appear that way by being bad.
M.E. Thomas
#13. What is true never fears investigation; what is false ... fears everything.
Guy Finley
#14. Of all the deprivations which afflict humankind, none is more dreadful than loneliness. A corrosive, it eats the heart out. People were meant to live by twos, with someone close with whom to share good and bad, to hear breathing in the dark room at night. Being alone is the one unnatural act.
Zelda Popkin
#15. She's mad but she's magic. There is no lie in her fire.
Karina Halle
#16. If you ask the average guy on the street to name five companies that have truly transformed themselves over the few decades, Hewlett-Packard would be on everybody's list. You'd also put on this list GE and Johnson & Johnson.
Clayton Christensen
#17. Gratitude develops faith. The surest path out of a slump is marked by the road sign "thank you, God."
Max Lucado
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