“And yet, these insights of connectedness and oneness, which make us feel so at home in the world, are so difficult to hold onto. And so, inevitably, we wind up living lives of isolation and loneliness.” WorldFeelsHomeDifficultLonelinessWindInsightOnenessLive LifeGrievingIsolationConnectednessIsolation And Loneliness Author:Irwin Kula
“I believe that it is sometimes less difficult to wake up and feel that I am alone when I really am, than to wake up with someone else and be lonely.” FeelsBelieveSometimesI BelieveDifficultLonelinessLonelyWake Up Author:Liv Ullmann
“The association between failure, loneliness, and solitude is so strong in our culture that people often find it difficult to believe that there are some who like being by themselves.” PeopleBelieveCultureStrongDifficultLonelinessSolitudeAssociationLoneliness And Solitude Book:Lonely in America Source: Lonely in America
“We will come to understand the part a difficult circumstance has played in our lives. Hindsight makes so much clear. The broken marriage, the lost job, the loneliness have all contributed to who we are becoming. The joy of the wisdom we are acquiring is that hindsight comes more quickly. We can, on occasion, begin to accept a difficult situation's contribution to our wholeness while caught in the turmoil.” JobsJoyLostDifficultSituationAcceptingClearOur LivesLonelinessBrokenBecomingCircumstancesCaughtOccasionsContributionWho We AreWholenessTurmoilHindsightDifficult SituationsDifficult CircumstancesBroken Marriage Author:Karan Casey
“My children's favorite, and it's funny because they've seen it but they have a difficult time watching it because it's their dad and they make that connection, but Edward Scissorhands is by far my kids' favorite. They just connect with the character, and they see their dad feeling that isolation, that loneliness. He's a tragic character, so I think it's hard for them. They bawl.” ThinkingChildrenHardCharacterFeelingsKidsDifficultLonelinessDadConnectionsMy ChildrenIsolationTragicDifficult TimesEdward Scissorhands Author:Johnny Depp
“Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.” DifferentRememberDifficultLonelinessSolitudeDrawsDistinctionLoneliness And SolitudeAuthentic Happiness Author:Gretchen Rubin
“I wish other people would write about loneliness more. It's hard to remember that it's not personal. We live in a world that is built to make people lonely... It's difficult to remember that your loneliness is not really about you and everyone has it.” PeopleWorldWritingHardRememberWishDifficultLonelinessBuiltLonely Author:Jessa Crispin
“To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.” LoveHumansPersonsHardEnoughDreamDesireFallCausesEasyDifficultLove IsLonelinessFalling In LoveSteadyQuestsMissing SomeoneComradeFamous LoveThose We LoveNot Falling In LoveEasy Love Author:Anna Louise Strong
“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.” MenWantWritingBookEnjoyDifficultWorkLonelinessSucceedMadSelfishGreedyGood BookBe A ManUnselfishMany FriendsBeing Selfish Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.” DoeEnoughLife IsDifficultWorryLonelinessHabitLife Is Difficult Author:Jorge Luis Borges
“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.” FirstsKindPersonsDifficultHoursLonelinessBearsSolitudeHeavyAgreementFirst PersonSociability Book:Letters to a Young Poet Source: Letters to a Young Poet