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“It is said that life is too short, and that’s quite true, unless you are lonely. Loneliness can bring time to its knees; an absolute and utter standstill.”

Said Life Is Loneliness Lonely Absolutes Knees Too Short Life Is Too Short Standstill

Book:Losing Julia

Source: Losing Julia

“Loneliness is the fundamental force that urgees mystics to a deeper union with God... An experience of God quenches this thirst for the absolute but at the same time, paradoxiacally, whets it, because this is an experience that can never be total; by necessity, the knowledge of God is always partial. So loneliness opens up mystics to a desire to love each other and every human being as God loves them.”

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Author:Jean Vanier

“Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.”

States Reading Loneliness Absolutes Library Being Lonely

Author:William Styron

“Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.”

Believe Has Beens Impossible Loneliness Discovery Absolutes

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated mind, one that is capable of reason and poetry but which grasps at straws when it comes to understanding another, a mind aware of the impossibility of absolute understanding. The difficulty of having a mind that understands that it will always be misunderstood.”

Mind Humans Reason Understanding Loneliness Solitude Capable Difficulty Absolutes Spokes Sophisticated Impossibility Misunderstood Straws

Book:Man Walks Into a Room

Source: Man Walks Into a Room

“It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun. It is as if loneliness were a hard and absolute condition of existence; the envelope of flesh and blood on which our eyes are fixed melts before the outstretched hand, and there remains only the capricious, unconsolable and elusive spirit that no eye can follow, no hand can grasp.”

Source: Lord Jim

“To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes.”

Source: Rise of Endymion

“Man is like an island set in isolation in a fathomless sea enveloped by darkness, saying that the loneliness his self knows is so utterly absolute because even he knows not his self completely.”

Knows Men Self Darkness Sea Loneliness Absolutes Islands Isolation

Author:Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

“Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren't true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react.”

Men Play Stories Games Sports Loneliness Absolutes

Author:Jennifer Beals

“There is nothing more lonely than eternity. And nothing is more cozy for us than to be a human being. This indeed is another contradiction-how can we keep the bonds of our humanness and still venture gladly and purposefully into the absolute loneliness of eternity?”

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Book:Fire from Within

Source: Fire from Within

“Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.”

Dream Action Walks Vision Watches Loneliness Absolutes Ease Relative Unlimited

Book:The critic as artist (low cost). Limited edition

Source: The critic as artist (low cost). Limited edition