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Saturday, May 28, 2022

Loneliness Quotes

Quotes about Loneliness
  • Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they’ve got to come. You can’t force them. --D. H. Lawrence
  • I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master of my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same. --Martha Gellhorn, writer
  • I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being. --Hafiz, Persian poet
  • Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. --Henry Rollins
  • Loneliness is equal to the radius of one’s awareness. --Yoko Ono
  • Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. --Bruce Lee
  • Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. --Janet Fitch, author
  • Many people need desperately to receive this message: “I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.” --Kurt Vonnegut
  • Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. –Maya Angelou
  • People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. --Joseph Fort Newton, Baptist minister
  • Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star. --Charlotte Brontë
  • That little-discussed subject — loneliness. That is a great taboo, isn't it? No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life. --Bill Murray
  • We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community. –Dorothy Day, journalist and social activist
  • When I get lonely these days, I think: So be lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. --Elizabeth Gilbert, author
  • When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. --Tennessee Williams
  • You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. --A.A. Milne, “Winnie-the-Pooh”



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Psalm 25:16 NIV - 16 Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted.
Psalm 68:6 NIV - 6 God sets the lonely in families, he leads out the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.
Mark 1:45 NIV - 45 Instead he went out and began to talk freely, spreading the news. As a result, Jesus could no longer enter a town openly but stayed outside in lonely places. Yet the people still came to him from everywhere.
Luke 5:16 NIV - 16 But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.

Loneliness
    God is concerned about our loneliness (Genesis 2:18)
    God encourages the lonely (1 Kings 19:14–18)
    God takes care of lonely people (Psalm 68:6)
    Friends help in times of loneliness (Ecclesiastes 4:10–11)
    God remains with us (Matthew 28:20)


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