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“Terrified of being alone, yet afraid of intimacy, we experience widespread feelings of emptiness, of disconnection, of the unreality of self. And here the computer, a companion without emotional demands, offers a compromise. You can be a loner, but never alone. You can interact, but need never feel vulnerable to another person.”

Source: The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit

“Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists, heterosexual or homosexual. Loneliness has to do with the sudden clefts we experience in every human relation, the gaps that open up with such stomach-turning unexpectedness. In a brief moment, I and my brother or sister have moved away into different worlds, and there is no language we can share.... It is in the middle of intimacy that the reality of loneliness most dramatically appears.”

Source: A Ray of Darkness

“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”

People Years Enough Would Be Romance Time Opportunity Loneliness Seven Determine Intimacy Openness Sensibility Disposition Seven Years Insufficient Seven Days Marianne Dashwood

Author:Jane Austen

“The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy.”

Love Life Loneliness Opposites Intimacy Togetherness

Author:Richard Bach

“My own study of the networked life has left me thinking about intimacy - about being with people in person, hearing their voices and seeing their faces, trying to know their hearts. And it has left me thinking about solitude - the kind that refreshes and restores. Loneliness is failed solitude.”

People Thinking Knows Trying Heart Kind Persons Faces Left Voice My Own Study Seeing Loneliness Solitude Hearing Uplifting Intimacy

Book:Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

Source: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“Aloneness can lead to loneliness. God's preventative for loneliness is intimacy - meaningful, open, sharing relationships with one another. In Christ we have the capacity for the fulfiling sense of belonging which comes from intimate fellowship with God and with other believers.”

Christ Loneliness Capacity Believer Meaningful Intimacy Intimate Belonging Fellowship Fellowship With God Christian Fellowship

Book:Daily in Christ

Source: Daily in Christ

“The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules of the game forbid assuagement.”

Humans Soul Games Results Loneliness Intimacy Human Soul Framed Proximity Neighbourhoods Rules Of The Game

Book:The Black Prince

Source: The Black Prince

“And even though body has entwined with body, vows have been whispered into the lover’s ears in the throes of unimaginable passion, there’s a pang still. One has not felt understood by the lover. And that is a different quality of loneliness. A constant dull hammering. Like static hum. Dissonance. Ultimately it translates into a plain inability to see the other’s view. We shout betrayal. We shift blame. We feel inadequate. When it is plain inability. So their intimacy has a narrow gap running across, like a rift between two continents and it’s only when you examine it from above, do you really see it. You realize that the gap could be the breadth of a hairline but it is deep. It’s darkness stretches all the way down into a free falling abyss.”

Love Passion Loneliness Betrayal Intimacy Struggles In Relationships

Author:Sakoon Singh