Well Of Loneliness Quotes

#1. I had been right the first time. His sonorous voice echoed through a hollow place of sorrow, catching its reverberations from those ragged walls. His gaiety masked a deep well of loneliness; he was a bright outward shape wrapped around shadows.

Sharon Shinn

#2. I have a life that's just been a well of loneliness.

Jessica Lange

#3. He knew too well the sting of loneliness and how over time it stole you away, piece by piece, until a mere shell remained.

Katherine McIntyre

#4. The myth of self-sufficiency demands optimism without end, downplays life's challenges, and shames us when, inevitably, we fall short.

Ashton Applewhite

#5. The best of community does give one a deep sense of belonging and well-being; and in that sense community takes away loneliness.

Henri Nouwen

#6. Yes, Doc, I'm not feeling too well.'

Which was true enough, Kwang Meng considered.

He had honestly not been feeling too well since he contracted poverty, loneliness, boredom, sexual frustration and periodic coughs and colds. Not to speak of his dreary job.

Goh Poh Seng

#7. They flank me - depression on my left, loneliness on my right. They don't need to show their badges. I know these guys very well ... Then they frisk me. They empty my pockets of any joy I had been carrying there. Depression even confiscates my identity; but he always does that.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#8. She had said that she preferred to be alone for so many years that it was now one of those things that equally well might or might not be true.

Joyce Ballou Gregorian

#9. As soon as whatever provisional well of confidence dries up, I will feel like a frightened motherless child. And I will - what? Lessee, I'll beg friends to assure me I'm fascinating, that my soul is complex so I can once more conduce to irony. An abyss opens up.

Maryse Holder

#10. My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication
it makes them sociable.
I, however, cannot force myself to
use drugs to cheat on my loneliness
it is all that I have
and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

Franz Kafka

#11. I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him.

Jose Saramago

#12. When you're young
a pair of
female
high-heeled shoes
just sitting
alone
in the closet
can fire your
bones;
when you're old
it's just
a pair of shoes
without
anybody
in them
and
just as
well.

Charles Bukowski

#13. I am never lonely, Galahad. Or rather I never suffer from loneliness. I suffer much from the idea that my loneliness might be taken away from me by a lot of mercilessly well-meaning people.

Leonora Carrington

#14. Being single isn't the cause of loneliness, and marriage is not necessarily the cure. There are many lonely married people as well.

Renee Jones

#15. Loneliness is at the heart of Ender's Game, and the reason it works so well is because it carries with it the firm assurance that even though Ender never feels himself to belong,the reader knows he does belong, that he is the ultimate insider even though he stands outside.

Orson Scott Card

#16. We didn't need light & shade, irony or humor. An iconic Daltrey bellow could convey an extrodinary range of human emotion; withering sadness, self pity, loneliness, abandonment, spiritual desperation, the loss of childhood, as well as the more obvious rage & frustration, joy & triumph.

Pete Townshend

#17. Well, Frank, my thoughts are very similar. The vast loneliness up here at the moon is awe-inspiring, and it makes you realize what you have back there on earth. The earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.

Jim Lovell

#18. All right, that was my moment with loneliness. I'm not afraid of feeling lonely, but now I'm going to put that loneliness aside and know that there are other emotions in the world, and I'm going to experience them as well.

Morrie Schwartz.

#19. People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being.

Daniel Kahneman

#20. Do we have any food that wasn't brutally slaughtered?" Homer: "Well, I think the veal died of loneliness.

Matt Groening

#21. Let us remember with humility the loneliness of being man in a universe we do not understand and the vulnerability of the human condition. The animals could do very well without us, but we cannot do without them.

Gerald Carson

#22. Do you believe in God, Martin?'
And he answered, 'Yes, because of His trees. Don't you?'
'I'm not sure ... '
'Oh, my poor, blind Stephen! Look again, go on looking until you do believe.

Radclyffe Hall

#23. And if one's goal is self-recovery, to be well in one's soul, honesty and realistically confronting loneliness is party of the healing process.

Bell Hooks

#24. Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.

Andrew Wyeth

#25. Do you know that feeling - The feeling of being alive and dead, both at the same time? When it seems like you are just going through with different notions of life, without actually living it. I do, I know that feeling very well. I live with it, eat with it and often sleep with it.

Bhavya Kaushik

#26. Solitude, the joy of being alone, stems from, as well as promotes, a state of maturity and inner richness.

Neel Burton

#27. It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war against himself we build our successes as well as our failures. Making it the city of all cities most like Man himself - loneliest creation of all this very old poor earth.

Nelson Algren

#28. Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime ...

John Green

#29. Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry ... I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you.

Charles M. Schulz

#30. Loneliness is no respecter of persons. It invades the palace as well as the hut.

Billy Graham

#31. We didn't need light & shade, irony or humor. An iconic Daltrey bellow could convey an extrodinary range of human emotion; withering sadness, self pity, loneliness, abandonment, spiritual desperation, the loss of childhood, as well as the more obvious rage & frustration, joy & triumph.

Pete Townshend

#32. [A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed.

Rainer Maria Rilke