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“And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look around for something to which to cling, and that tragic, ruthless glance, absolutely sincere, because it is a question of his salvation, will cause him to bring order into the chaos of his life. These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.”

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Soren Kierkegaard

Søren Kierkegaard was a 19th-century Danish philosopher known for his existentialist philosophy and profound explorations of religious, ethical, and aesthetic issues. His ideas have had a profound impact on subsequent philosophers and literature. more

“Perhaps a great love is never returned. Had it been given warmth and shelter by its counterpart in the Other, perhaps it would have been hindered from ever growing to maturity. It "gives" us nothing. But in its world of loneliness it leads us up to the summits with wide vistas - of great insights.”

World Love Giving Has Beens Given Love Is Growing Loneliness Insight Wide Maturity Warmth Shelter Summit Great Love Counterparts Vistas

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me.”

Thinking Book Pleasure Loneliness Lonely Feeling Lonely Shunning

Book:The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Etc

Source: The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Etc

“Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth: And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth.”

Earth Heaven Sleep Power Loneliness Source Creatures Lonely Mortals Gentle Frozen Foreheads Lambs Feeling Lonely Marvellous Godlike

Author:William Wordsworth

“The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness.”

Feelings Military Loneliness Dominant Battlefields Feeling Lonely

Author:William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

“And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.”

World Time Loneliness Lonely Flight Horns Feeling Lonely

Book:The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol X: Later Article: Uncollected Articles, Reviews, and Radio Broadcasts Written After 1900

Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol X: Later Article: Uncollected Articles, Reviews, and Radio Broadcasts Written After 1900

“Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds.”

Men Law Fighting Loneliness Duty Lonely Clouds Crowds Delight Impulse Cheer Feeling Lonely Tumult

Author:William Butler Yeats

“There is no final solution to loneliness until you recognize that you need the resources which are in yourself to enpy, within limits, being alone being the kind of person that you like to be with, and reaching out to others, not in a grasping way, but in an attempt to be meaningful and loving and of service in their lives.”

Way Life Needs Kind Persons Loneliness Limits Solutions Resources Finals Meaningful Reaching Reach Out Grasping Feeling Lonely

Author:Truman G. Madsen

“In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.”

Want Care Dies Known Loneliness Lonely Misery Hopeless Philanthropy Anguish Feeling Lonely Caverns

Book:The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with his life, and notes on his Lives of the poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In eleven volumes ...

Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with his life, and notes on his Lives of the poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In eleven volumes ...

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