Lonely feeling

Lonely Quotes — page 5 of 309

Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist
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“The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others.”

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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
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“A man without any history is like a tree without roots”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosopher
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“Since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my words establish contacts by being spoken and create isolation by remaining unspoken, since an immense moat separates the subjective certitude that I have for myself from the objective reality that I represent to others, since I never stop finding myself guilty even though I feel I am innocent.”

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Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher, Writer
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“I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.”

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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
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“Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.”

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Albert Einstein Physicist
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“Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.”

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Frederic Chopin Composer
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“I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety, dreams - or sleeplessness - melancholy, indifference - desire for life, and the next instant, desire for death; some kind of sweet peace, some kind of numbness, absent-mindedness.”

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Julio Cortazar Novelist, Short Story Writer
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“I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I soon discovered cats, in which I could imagine a condition like mine, and books, where I found it quite often.”

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Frederic Chopin Composer
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“Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.”

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Erich Fromm Psychologist, Philosopher
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“The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis.”