“At some point just about all of us experience loneliness. In a sense, it is what it means to be a sentient animal, to have an experience of separation from others.” MeanAnimalLonelinessSeparation Author:Thomas L. Dumm
“There are degrees of loneliness, ways in which the experience of loneliness deepens, becomes something like what we might call a way of life. This way of life is both what is most damaging to us as a culture, and, paradoxically, contributes to its richness. It may in the end be our lasting contribution to the life of our planet.” WayMayEndsMightLife IsCultureLonelinessPlanetsDegreesContributionLastingOur PlanetRichness Author:Thomas L. Dumm
“Usually, we think that "good" loneliness is what we call "solitude," the choice of some alone-time. But I want to press on with the negative dimension, to look at ways in which a fundamental sense of being separated from others shapes who we are and why.” ThinkingWayWantLooksChoicesLonelinessShapesSolitudeNegativeFundamentalsPressesWho We AreDimensionsAlone Time Author:Thomas L. Dumm
“We can never leave loneliness behind completely - it is part of what forms us.” FormBehindsLoneliness Author:Thomas L. Dumm
“One of the reasons I always come back to representations of loneliness in plays, films, and literature is that they give us specific examples of the powerful hold that it has on us, and yet, paradoxically, by representing what can't really be represented, so to speak, they give us ways of going forward even as we fall apart.” WayGivingReasonPlayFilmFallLiteratureSpeakPowerfulLonelinessExampleRepresentationFalling ApartRepresenting Author:Thomas L. Dumm
