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And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness.
What was the point in such loneliness among people. At least if you were by yourself, you had a good reason to be lonely.
The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.
But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.
Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.
There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.
Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today.
Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art.
Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small.
I felt the kind of loneliness that can happen in a roomful of people when everyone but you seems to be in on the good time.
What makes loneliness an anguish Is not that I have no one to share my burden, But this: I have only my own burden to bear.
I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and sadness.
Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.
You can use your time to build bridges or walls.The latter is not only unChristlike, it limits impact & creates loneliness.
Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.
For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
I think I write serious comedies. I would love to be able to write for pure pleasure, but the undertow is always loneliness.
Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.
How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
It was very relaxing to be away from civilization, and this bothered me. I should not have found the loneliness so welcoming.
for many people, loneliness was an experience of time. 'Not knowing what to do with yourself' was the way it was usually put.
The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
If you are not capable of being alone, your relationship is false. It is just a trick to avoid your loneliness, nothing else.
You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.
There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I used to always cry from loneliness.
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
I embraced loneliness as a kid. I know what loneliness is. When you're at the end of your rope. I never forget those feelings.
who hasn't slept in an empty bed sometimes, longing for the embrace of another person on the achingly short trip to the grave?
We are living in dystopia, in a world that is dominated by technology and disconnect, alienation, loneliness, and dysfunction.
But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back. There is no bruise like the bruise loneliness kicks into your spine.
We're afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever... Instead, acting it out is what makes it last.
I inhale loneliness like it is the sweet smell of virgin earth conquered by fiery rain drops. Within me, I'm a thousand others.
Loneliness is just a thing that I'm not personally interested in. So far, it hasn't been on my docket of things to write about.
Instead of hiding your loneliness, bring it into the light. Honor it. Treat it. Heal it. You'll find that it returns the favor.
The best of community does give one a deep sense of belonging and well-being; and in that sense community takes away loneliness.
The Seasons Difference is a suave and urbane comedy about several immense abstractions - faith, innocence, loneliness, and love.
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.
Celebrate your humanness, celebrate your craziness, celebrate your inadequacies, celebrate your loneliness ... but celebrate YOU!
Sorrow has a name, and its name is loneliness. Sorrow has a shape, and its shape is absence. Sorrow is a sickness like any other.
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
There is a crisis that is not political - an epidemic of loneliness, of sadness - and we're completely unequal to dealing with it.
There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
Whenever I'm around people it causes me to feel nostalgic for the loneliness that drove me into their presence in the first place.
Maybe true love isn't out there for me, but I can sublimate my loneliness with the notion that true love is out there for someone.
I am learning to see loneliness as a seed that, when planted deep enough, can grow into writing that goes back out into the world.