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“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.”

My Own Share Loneliness Bears Burden Anguish Being Alone Being Lonely

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear.”

Needs Hard Kindness Worry Loneliness Bears Difficulty Unsatisfied

Book:Vicent van Gogh, letters from Provence

Source: Vicent van Gogh, letters from Provence

“Leaders who insulate themselves from others and choose to bear their burdens single-handedly are destined for loneliness and burnout. Leaders, like everyone else, need friends and perhaps in light of the load they carry, even more so.”

Needs Light Leader Loneliness Bears Burden Load Destined Burnout Friend In Need

Author:Richard Blackaby

“the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.”

Way Needs Loneliness Bears Need You I Need You

Book:The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Source: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“The General Public is a statistical fiction created by a few exceptional men to make the loneliness of being exceptional a little easier to bear.”

Men Littles Fiction Loneliness Bears Easier Exceptional General Public

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!”

Needs Children Use Purpose Consciousness Loneliness Bears Oneself Immortality Copies Purpose Of Life Germs Alleviate Reproducing

Author:Irvin D. Yalom

“Please make me empty, if I'm empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I'm not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.”

Ifs Mean I Can Loneliness Bears Please Empty Not Alone

Book:Beautiful Losers

Source: Beautiful Losers

“Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.”

People Humans Loneliness Bears Cost Lonely Decline Psychics Allergic Lonely People

Book:A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

Source: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

“She felt as if she bled her regret and loneliness from her very pores, and yet she could not shape those feelings into any sentiment she could imagine her parents could bear reading.”

Ifs Feelings Reading Felt Parent Imagine Loneliness Regret Bears Shapes Sentiments

Book:Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.”

Want Ends Sometimes Time Loses Darkness Sadness Loneliness Bears Sad All Time Being Alone Wide Awake One Tree Hill Voiceover One Tree Hill Opening Short One Tree Hill

Book:The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel

Source: The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel

“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.”

Mean Values Loneliness Self Esteem Bears Birth Solitude Companion Solitary Being Alone Single Being Single Loneliness And Solitude Being Quiet

Author:Eda LeShan

“There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for any kind of sociability, however trivial or cheap, for the tiniest outward agreement with the first person who comes along.”

Firsts Kind Persons Difficult Hours Loneliness Bears Solitude Heavy Agreement First Person Sociability

Book:Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet

“Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.”

Loneliness Bears Solitude Loneliness And Solitude

Author:Paul Tillich

“For I'm afraid of loneliness; shiveringly, terribly afraid. I don't mean the ordinary physical loneliness, for here I am, deliberately travelled away from London to get to it, to its spaciousness and healing. I mean that awful loneliness of spirit that is the ultimate tragedy of life. When you've got to that, really reached it, without hope, without escape, you die. You just can't bear it, and you die.”

Mean Spirit Dies Fear Healing Loneliness Bears Ordinary Ultimate Tragedy London Awful Here I Am Without Hope Spaciousness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth von Arnim (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth von Arnim (Illustrated)