loneliness

Don't forget - you're the one who swam across the freezing sea at night.

Once I accepted the fact that I was bad luck, I shied away from group activities. And groups. And activities. I started spending a lot of time in my room, tucked under my covers reading books. There__ only so much damage a book can do, and I wasn__ worried about hurting myself. Accidentally hurting yourself is way better than hurting other people.Sure, I got lonely for a while. But getting invited to slumber parties just wasn__ worth the stress of wondering if I might accidentally burn down the house with my flat iron or be the only survivor of a freak sleepover massacre. And loneliness is just like everything else__f you endure it long enough, you get used to it.

I am never lonely when I am reading the Bible. Nothing dissolves loneliness like a session with God__ Word.

Margie Flynn was in my head like a bad cold, blurring everything. It was a new kind of loneliness, a hurt I couldn__ stop picking at.

And I'm okay with drowning.

I wish to spend a lifetime near a lighthouse where loneliness will be the glimmer of luminous prancing upon ocean waves_ rising and falling only for my breathing.

When you are alone you can easily judge yourself.

He lived a quiet existence where the future was easy to predict and the past was a cancer in remission. It was meaningful, of course. But it was lonely.

I was much younger, much hungrier, much more alone. But I was myself, pared down to the essentials.

I__ mad with loneliness and you__e been haunting me all day

I also often ask my guests about what they consider to be their invisible weaknesses and shortcomings. I do this because these are the characteristics that define us no less than our strengths. What we feel sets us apart from other people is often the thing that shapes us as individuals. This may be especially true of writers and actors, many of whom first started to develop their observational skills as a result of being sidelined from typical childhood or adolescent activities because of an infirmity or a feeling of not fitting in. Or so I__e come to believe from talking to so many writers and actors over the years.

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

The thing you did to alleviate the loneliness was to take off your clothes and touch someone, even if you didn__ really know the person well.

I am never lonely when I am praying, for this brings me into companionship with the greatest friend of all__esus Christ. He said, __ call you not servants; . . . but . . . friends_ [John 15:15 KJV].

Isolation might be more hazardous than splendor.

There's nothing like standing kissing-close to a beautiful stranger to make you really feel your loneliness.

I have a very childlike rage, and a very childlike loneliness.

The kind of society we live in can contribute to loneliness. Mobility and constant change tend to make some individuals feel rootless and disconnected.