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“I drink out of desperation. Life is too dreary to endure. The misery, loneliness, crampedness - they're heartbreaking.[...] What feelings do you suppose a man has when he realizes that he will never know happiness or glory as long as he lives? Hard work. All that amounts to is food for the wild beasts of hunger.”

Knows Men Long Hard Feelings Life Is Realizing Loneliness Hard Work Amount Drink Glory Misery Endure Hunger Beast Desperation Heartbreaking Dreary Wild Beasts

Book:The Setting Sun

Source: The Setting Sun

“The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.”

Culture Education Teach Loneliness Strive Endure Strife Deficiency Culture And Education

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I never had a dog that showed a human fear of death. Death, to a dog, is the final unavoidable compulsion, the least ineluctable scent on a fearsome trail, but they like to face it alone, going out into the woods, among the leaves, if there are any leaves when their time comes, enduring without sentimental human distraction the Last Loneliness, which they are wise enough to know cannot be shared by anyone.”

Ifs Knows Humans Enough Lasts Faces Death Wise Dog Loneliness Endure Finals Woods Distraction Going Out Scent Sentimental Trails Fear Of Death Compulsion

Author:James Thurber

“It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness.”

Ifs Men Wells Feelings Loneliness Endure Envy Odd Farewell Tested

Author:Isak Dinesen

“In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion-the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to help. It is enough that they exist. Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply. It is from these things that it flowers.”

Ifs War Enough Helping Suffering Friendship Silence Loneliness Flower Roots Distance Mere Endure Confusion Sickness Powerless Imprisonment Funny Friend

Author:Pam Brown

“One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.”

Two Joy Loneliness Sorrow Angel Endure Glad Being Alone Eulogy

Book:A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard

Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard

“The reason that extended solitude seemed so hard to endure was not that we missed others but that we began to wonder if we ourselves were present, because for so long our existence depended upon assurances from them.”

Ifs Long Hard Reason Existence Wonder Loneliness Solitude Endure Assurance

Book:Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir

Source: Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir

“Often nothing keeps the pupil on the move but his faith in his teacher, whose mastery is now beginning to dawn on him .... How far the pupil will go is not the concern of the teacher and master. Hardly has he shown him the right way when he must let him go on alone. There is only one thing more he can do to help him endure his loneliness: he turns him away from himself, from the Master, by exhorting him to go further than he himself has done, and to "climb on the shoulders of his teacher."”

Way Done Helping Moving Turns Can Do Teacher One Thing Teaching Loneliness Masters Goes On Concern Endure Shoulders Dawn Climbs Mastery Right Way Pupils Let Him Go

Author:Eugen Herrigel

“Eva is a story of repetition. It is a story where our protagonist faces the same situation many times over and determinedly picks himself back up again. It is a story of the will to move forward, even if only a little. It is a story of the resolve to want to be together, even though it is frightening to have contact with others and endure ambiguous loneliness. I would be most gratified if you found enjoyment in these four parts as it takes the same story and metamorphoses it into something different.”

“Great eagles fly alone; great lions hunt alone; great souls walk alone-alone with God. Such loneliness is hard to endure, and impossible to enjoy unless God accompanied. Prophets are lone men; they walk alone, pray alone and God makes them alone.”

Men Soul Hard Enjoy Walks Impossible Loneliness Praying Endure Prophet Lions Hunts Eagles Lone Great Souls Alone With God

Author:Leonard Ravenhill

“I would argue that it might be easier to endure loneliness than to endure the idea that you might disappear.”

Ideas Might Loneliness Easier Endure Disappear Arguing

Author:Susan Orlean

“The great loneliness- like the loneliness a caterpillar endures when she wraps herself in a silky shroud and begins the long transformation from chrysalis to butterfly. It seems we too must go through such a time, when life as we have known it is over- when being a caterpillar feels somehow false and yet we don’t know who we are supposed to become. All we know is that something bigger is calling us to change. And though we must make the journey alone, and even if suffering is our only companion, soon enough we will become a butterfly, soon enough we will taste the rapture of being alive.”