“This is how the world changes - little by little, table by table, meal by meal, hour by hour. This is how we chip away at isolation, loneliness, fear. This is how we connect, in big and small ways - we do it around the table.” WorldWayLittlesBigsHoursLonelinessTablesMealsIsolationChips Author:Shauna Niequist
“In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad.” ReasonBigsGuySongOrderCitiesBoysLonelinessLowsPopsLustCuresReason WhyShopsPetDressingsEightyDressing UpBig CitiesReally WeirdPop SongRetroHeydayDepeche Mode Author:Rob Sheffield
“I've never been in love, but I've always imagined it--weirdly--like some sort of OxiClean commercial. The TV host shows a scene from an ordinary day, and then takes a big old sponge soaked in love and swipes away the stains. Suddenly that same scene is missing all the mistakes, all the loneliness. The colors are like jewels, ten times richer than they were before. The music is louder and clearer. "Love," the host will say, "makes life a little brighter.” LittlesShowsBigsMistakeMissingLonelinessColorTvsSceneTenMusic IsOrdinaryHostJewelsBrighterStainsSpongesBeen In LoveOrdinary Days Author:Jodi Picoult
“Suffering should not define you as a woman! And just because you’re a man it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t affect you! HELP HER to remove the taboos and the loneliness surrounding this disease; be understanding, show empathy, and don’t accuse her of being sensitive, delicate, or overly dramatic – this is a big opportunity for you guys to show that you care and to be a real man!” MenShouldMeanRealHelpingShowsBigsCareGuySufferingOpportunityUnderstandingLonelinessDiseaseEmpathySensitiveDramaticRemoveDelicateTabooReal MenDefine YouSocial Taboos Author:Susan Sarandon
“Is it possible really to love other people? If I’m lonely and in pain, everyone outside me is potential relief—I need them. But can you really love what you need so badly? Isn’t a big part of love caring more about what the other person needs? How am I supposed to subordinate my own overwhelming need to somebody else’s needs that I can’t even feel directly? And yet if I can’t do this, I’m damned to loneliness, which I definitely don’t want … so I’m back at trying to overcome my selfishness for self-interested reasons.” PeopleIfsWantNeedsFeelsTryingPersonsI CanSelfReasonBigsPainMy OwnLonelinessLonelyOvercomingCaringSelfishnessReliefOverwhelmingSubordinatesI'm BackI'm LonelyCaring More Author:David Foster Wallace
“It's paradoxical that where people are the most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities in the East and West, the loneliness is the greatest... The explanation, I suppose, is that the physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance...” PeopleBigsCitiesLonelinessEthicsDistanceWestEastExplanationPsychicsCrowdedParadoxicalFriendlinessEast And WestCoastal Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“Well, Frank, my thoughts are very similar. The vast loneliness up here at the moon is awe-inspiring, and it makes you realize what you have back there on earth. The earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.” WellsBigsEarthRealizingSpaceLonelinessMoonAweFrankMy ThoughtsApolloVastnessOasisAwe InspiringVastness Of Space Author:Jim Lovell
“Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness. Everything has to be filled in, it seems-appointment books, hillsides, vacant lots-but when all the spaces are filled, the Loneliness really begins. Then the Groups are joined, the Classes are signed up for, and the Gift-to-Yourself items are bought. When the Loneliness starts creeping in the door, the Television Set is turned on to make it go away. But it doesn't go away. So some of us do instead, and after discarding the emptiness of the Big Congested Mess, we discover the fullness of Nothing.” PeopleBookBigsSeemsSpaceClassDoorsGroupsLonelinessTelevisionFilledMessEmptinessGoing AwayItemsFullnessAppointmentsVacantFilled In Author:Benjamin Hoff
“Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.” NeedsImportantPlayBigsEmotionRolesLonelinessNegativeGuiltEnvyHappy LifeNeed A ChangeNegative EmotionsAuthentic Happiness Author:Gretchen Rubin
“Wouldn't it be nice if all the people who are lonesome could live in one big dormitory, sleep in beds next to each other, talk, laugh, and keep the lights on as long as they want to?” PeopleIfsWantLongBigsLightNextSleepLaughingNiceLonelinessBedBeing NiceLonesomeDormitory Book:How to Talk Dirty and Influence People Source: How to Talk Dirty and Influence People