LONELINESS

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“Whoever isolates himself pursues his own selfish desires; He rejects all practical wisdom.” – Prov. 18:1 – King Solomon – HOLY SCRIPTURES

Isolation is a punishment that feels forced upon you.  Solitude is aloneness that you choose and embrace.  Great things can come out of solitude, out of going to a place that is all quiet, except the beating of your heart. – Jeanne Laskes    

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person. – Vic Putnum

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty. – Abigail Van Buren

Solitude is not the same as loneliness.  Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions. – Robert Fulgham

Lack of communication between marriage partners can bring about a situation in which the two lead parallel lives, moving in lines that seldom meet. – Personal viewpoint - LONELINESS in a WORLD of MASS CONNECTION – 2010       

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. – Andrew Gide

We’re all in this…alone. – Lily Tomlin                                                     

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness.  I was not ever into the music of boys.  From my youngest years I was into the music of men. – Eric Clapton

I buy women shoes, and then they use them to walk away from me. – Mickey Rooney        

On stage I make love to 25,000 different people; then I go home alone. – Janis Joplin

People need close friends in whom they can confide or reveal themselves, without fear of being hurt. – Personal viewpoint - LONLINESS—THE HIDDEN TORMENT – 1993

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. – Max Lucado

The cure for boredom is curiosity—there is no cure for curiosity. – Dorothy Parker

“No matter how close to yours another’s steps have grown, in the end there’s the dance you will do alone.” – Jackson Browne – THE DANCE

Life is full of misery, loneliness and suffering—and it’s all over much too soon. – Woody Allen                                                 

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man. – Thomas Carlyle

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on a carousel never gets picked up? – Erma Bombeck

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“Look!  The hour is coming, indeed, it has come, when each one of you will be scattered to his own house and you will leave me alone.  But I am not alone, because the Father is with me.” – Jesus Christ – John 16:32 – Apostle John – HOLY SCRIPTURES

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however distant or far away. – Henry David Thoreau

Nobody cares if you can’t dance well—just get up and dance! – Dave Barry

An artist is always alone – if he is an artist.  No, what the artist needs, is loneliness. – Henry Miller

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television.  What really happens is that the family ‘gets together’ alone. – Ashley Montagu

Remember, behind every cynic is a romantic, and probably an injured one. – Glenn Beck

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. – Mother Teresa

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found. – Claire Danes

Victor Hugo matured in his grief.  One of his daughters went insane.  Adele, his wife, died.  In 1871 one of his sons died.  In 1873 the other died.  He carried these tragedies as a personal portfolio of grief and guilt. Yet at 80 years, Hugo was a sage—and the poet of the common man.  He stayed in political exile on the island of Guernsey for nineteen years. His only companion was the sea. – Gary Pulliam

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with. – Wayne Dyer

The most destructive criticism is indifference. – Edward W. Howe

Increased Internet use can increase social isolation as well as depression when it replaces more tangible forms of human contact. – John T. Cacioppo & William Patrick – Personal viewpoint - LONELINESS—HUMAN NATURE and the NEED for SOCIAL CONNECTION             

Be good and you will be lonesome. – Mark Twain                       

But I also think all the great studies in literature deal with loneliness.  Sometimes it’s by way of heartbreak, sometimes it’s by way of injustice, sometimes it’s by way of fate.  There’s an infinite number of ways to examine it. – Tom Hanks

Loneliness explains the pain of being alone and solitude explains the glory of being alone. – Paul Tillich

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive.  It doesn’t subdue you or make you feel abject.  It stimulates loneliness. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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“Then Jehovah God said: ‘It is not good for the man to continue to be alone.  I am going to make a helper for him, as a compliment to him.’” – Gen. 2:18 – Writer Moses – HOLY SCRIPTURES

Loneliness at its worse is when those close to you cease communicating for unknown reasons. – Gary Pulliam

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our skins, for life. – Tennessee Williams

Music was my refuge.  I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl back into my loneliness. – Maya Angelou

Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome. – Oscar Levant

Being alone does not necessarily cause loneliness. A lone scholar absorbed in his research does not feel lonely.  A lone artist creating a painting does not feel lonely. They welcome a solitary moment, and solitude is their best friend. – Personal viewpoint - LONELINESS—THE HIDDENTORMENT – 1993                    

Too much self-centered attitude brings isolation.  Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering. – Dalai Lama

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life.  The thing that I’m most worried about is just being alone without anyone to care for, or without someone to care for me. – Anne Hathaway

Reading – the best state yet to keep loneliness at bay. – William Styron

Pray that your loneliness may spur you in finding something to live for, great enough to die for. – Dag Hammarskjold

Loneliness is proof that your inner search for connection is intact. – Martha Beck

“A boy’s best friend is his mother.” – Anthony Perkins (Norman Bates) to Janet Leigh (Marion Crane) – PSYCHO – Robert Bloch

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one’s lost self. – Brendan Behan

Cinema can fill the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness. – Pedro Almodovar

Who knows what true loneliness is, not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely these learn it wears like a mask.  The most miserable outcast has some memory or illusion. – Joseph Conrad

There’s a difference between solitude and loneliness.  I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.. – Tom Hanks

No one else is responsible for your loneliness. – Gary Pulliam

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“At hearing this, Jesus departed from there by boat into an isolated place to be alone. But the crowds, getting to hear of it, followed him on foot from the cities.” Apostle Matthew - Matt. 14:13 - HOLY SCRIPTURES

Loneliness is a secret we keep—sometimes from ourselves. – Gary Pulliam 

What loneliness is more lonely than mistrust? – George Elliot

Love is far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it’s the principle means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and woman throughout the greater part of their lives. – Bertrand Russell

Depression is merely anger without the enthusiasm. – Larry, the Cable Guy

Loneliness comes with life. – Whitney Houston

You can’t change the past but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future. – Right on