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30 Quotes That Will Help You Embrace And Appreciate Your Loneliness

The other side of loneliness. 
Rania Naim
July 11, 2016
“Be like the flowing river, 
Silent in the night. 
Be not afraid of the dark. 
If there are stars in the sky, reflect them back. 
If there are clouds in the sky, 
Remember, clouds, like the river, are water. 
So, gladly reflect them too, 
In your own tranquil depths”
— Paulo Coelho, Like The Flowing River
Tagged: Nature, River, Paulo Coelho, Light, Depth, Reflection, Contemplation
“But you know what? Because you are so desperate to win the approval of others, you'll never get rid of their criticisms, no matter how hard you try. ”
— Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi
Tagged: Criticisms, Approval, Judgments, Society, People, Fear
“Can you hear me? When it rains and shines, it's just a state of mind”
— The Beatles, Rain
Tagged: Persepctive, Rain, Shine, The Beatles, Song Lyrics
“ I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Tagged: Loneliness, Depression, Life
“Maybe everybody in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
— John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
Tagged: Loneliness, Solitude, Love
“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. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Tagged: Loneliness, Solitude
“It pains me sometimes but it also heals me. It floods my eyes with tears but it also brings out my depth, my talents, my kindness and my strength. It makes me weak until it makes me strong, it almost kills me before it brings me back to life.”
— Rania Naim, Maybe Loneliness Is Not So Bad After All
Tagged: Loneliness
“If you look closely, loneliness is you.”
— Rania Naim, Maybe Loneliness Is Not So Bad After All
Tagged: Loneliness
“It’s okay if love isn’t on your radar, or if you have a long list of everything you want to do on your own. It’s okay to be by yourself, and to enjoy that solo company. I promise there’s nothing wrong with you. And I promise you’ll still have plenty of time to fall in love.”
— Marisa Donnelly, It’s Okay If You’re Not Lonely
“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“The best thing about the worst time of your life is that you get to see true colours of everyone you cared for. ”
— Anonymous, The best thing about the worst time of your life is that you get to see true colours of everyone you cared for.
Tagged: Loneliness
“The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone. ”
— Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.”
— Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra
“I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.”
— Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
Tagged: Loneliness, Freedom
“The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend. ”
— Edith Wharton,, The Age of Innocence: By Edith Wharton: Illustrated
“If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.
And if you do not know yourself, you will begin to fear the void.”
— Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra
Tagged: Loneliness, Solitude
“Lonely is a funny thing. It's almost like another person. After a while it will keep you company if you let it”
— Ann Packer, The Dive From Clausen's Pier: A Novel
“"Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better." ”
— Henry Rollins, Twitter
“If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and colorful YOU.”
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren’t a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was. ”
— Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
“When I lay alone and lonely in my tent at night I asked, often out loud: Who is tougher than me? The answer was always the same, and even when I knew absolutely there was no way on this earth that it was true, I said it anyway: No one.’”
— Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
“There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.”
— Rumi, Path Of Sufi
“A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.”
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
“She was stronger alone. ”
— Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics)
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. ”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald: 10 quotes on his birthday
Tagged: Literature, Loneliness, Art
“The weird thing about loneliness is that you don’t necessarily have to be alone to feel alone. Someone could be sitting right next to you, talking to you, looking at you, saying things you normally would love to hear, but you still feel like no one is there.”
— Nicole Tarkoff, The Difference Between Loneliness And Emptiness
“You see, to be alone doesn’t mean you are lonely. Loneliness is just a state of mind that grows within yourself because you are disappointed with the universe.”
— Rayi Noormega, The Truth About Loneliness
“Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.”
— Wendell Berry, A Place on Earth: A Novel
“Tonight I want to be alone so I don’t have to force myself to laugh at people’s jokes; the same jokes, the jokes they tell to hide their pain.”
— Rania Naim, I Want To Be Alone Tonight
“Without solitude, no plant or animal can survive, no soil can remain productive for any length of time, no child can learn about life, no artist can create, no work can grow and be transformed.”
— Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra
Tagged: Loneliness, Solitude