Great eagles fly alone; great lions hunt alone; great souls walk alone-alone with God. Such loneliness is hard to endure, and impossible to enjoy unless God accompanied. Prophets are lone men; they walk alone, pray alone and God makes them alone.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Unconventional Lonely And Alone quotations
The hardest walk is walking alone, but it's also the walk that makes you the strongest.
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.
Be willing to walk alone. Many who started with you won't finish with you.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving.
When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.
It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.
Snuggle in God's arms. When you are hurting, when you feel lonely, left out. let Him cradle you, comfort you, reassure you of His all-sufficient power and love.
Trees are much like human beings and enjoy each other's company. Only a few love to be alone.
The woman who follows the crowd will usually go on further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.
When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go downtown.
Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.
there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.
Be strong enough to stand alone, be yourself enough to stand apart, but be wise enough to stand together when the time comes.
All great and precious things are lonely.
It's 2 o'clock in the morning and I just can't sleep Outside the rain is pourin', I'm lonely as can be Maybe 2night'll be different than the nights before I need 2 feel someone beside me, I can't be alone no more
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers.
I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche.
It is better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.
Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.
If you want to be happy, learn to be alone without being lonely.
Learn that being alone does not mean being unhappy. The world is full of plenty of interesting and enjoyable things to do and people who can enrich your life.
This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
Don't be afraid of being outnumbered. Eagles fly alone. Pigeons flock together.
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.
Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seen important to you.
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
Be good and you will be lonely.
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
Alone and lonely is not the same thing.
Being alone does not mean you are lonely, and being lonely does not mean you are alone.
When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.
It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.
It's easy to stand with the crowd. It takes courage to stand alone.
Every time a child organizes and completes a chore, spends some time alone without feeling lonely, loses herself in play for an hour, or refuses to go along with her peers in some activity she feels is wrong, she will be building meaning and a sense of worth for herself and harmony in her family.
A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.
The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter.
It's your road, and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.
Don't let ignorance blind you. Open your eyes, heart and your mind. And if you're feeling alone, know that the world can be a lonely place, but it would be lonelier without you in it.
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
I like to record with people. I don't particularly enjoy standing alone and recording my own voice or my own stuff. It's sometimes fun to do for demos and stuff, but I really enjoy the social act of recording records, because writing it is so lonely. And it has to be.
