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“If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.”

Ifs Men Happens Earth Spirit Dies Animal Gone Loneliness Son All Things Connected Beast Whatever Happens Seattle Nature And Environment

Author:Chief Seattle

“A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.”

Knows Men Way Matter Body Stars Easy Mystery Loneliness Lonely Islands Cosmos Insects Easy Way

Book:Dubin's Lives: A Novel

Source: Dubin's Lives: A Novel

“All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.”

Men Loneliness Spring Hatred Misfortunes Being Alone Misfortunes Of Others

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory.”

Men Humans Book Loneliness Victory Tools Shirts

Book:The essential Neruda: selected poems

Source: The essential Neruda: selected poems

“His face set in grim determination, Richard slogged ahead, his fingers reaching up to touch the tooth under his shirt. Loneliness, deeper than he had never known, sagged his shoulders. All his friends were lost to him. He knew now that his life was not his own. It belonged to his duty, to his task. He was the Seeker. Nothing more. Nothing less. Not his own man, but a pawn to be used by others. A tool, same as his sword, to help others, that they might have the life he had only glimpsed for a twinkling. He was no different from the dark things in the boundary. A bringer of death.”

Source: Wizard's First Rule

“For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor.”

Thinking Men Saws Fronts Loneliness Wall Metaphor Wave Invisible Instant Frozen

Book:Journey to Ixtlan

Source: Journey to Ixtlan

“I had dropped one form and not taken on the other, and was become like Mohammed's coffin in our legend, with a resultant feeling of intense loneliness in life, and a contempt, not for other men, but for all they do.”

Men Feelings Form Taken Loneliness Intense Contempt Legends Coffins Loneliness In Life

Book:Seven Pillars of Wisdom & The Evolution of a Revolt (Complete Edition with Original Illustrations and Maps): Lawrence of Arabia's Account and Memoirs of the Arab Revolt and Guerrilla Warfare during World War One

Source: Seven Pillars of Wisdom & The Evolution of a Revolt (Complete Edition with Original Illustrations and Maps): Lawrence of Arabia's Account and Memoirs of the Arab Revolt and Guerrilla Warfare during World War One

“Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness.”

Ifs Men Believe Ends Left Loneliness Praise Faithful Offering Praise God

Book:The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)

Source: The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)

“It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun. It is as if loneliness were a hard and absolute condition of existence; the envelope of flesh and blood on which our eyes are fixed melts before the outstretched hand, and there remains only the capricious, unconsolable and elusive spirit that no eye can follow, no hand can grasp.”

Source: Lord Jim

“I felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of the living”

Men Felt Loneliness Tears Hot Sweetness Haunting Hot Tears

Book:Full of life

Source: Full of life

“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.”

Men Want Writing Book Enjoy Difficult Work Loneliness Succeed Mad Selfish Greedy Good Book Be A Man Unselfish Many Friends Being Selfish

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“…Forgive us, O Lord, we acknowledge ourselves as type of the common man, Of the men and women who shut the door and sit by the fire; Who fear the blessing of God, the loneliness of the night of God, the surrender required, the deprivation inflicted; Who fear the injustice of men less than the justice of God; Who fear the hand at the window, the fire in the thatch, the fist in the tavern, the push into the canal, Less than we fear the love of God.”

Source: The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot

“We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist. So, for a time, if such a passion come to fruition, the man will get what he wants. He will get the moral support, the encouragement, the relief from the sense of loneliness, the assurance of his own worth. But these things pass away; inevitably they pass away as the shadows pass across sundials. It is sad, but it is so. The pages of the book will become familiar; the beautiful corner of the road will have been turned too many times. Well, this is the saddest story.”

Source: The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion

“You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch other people, but you never watch yourself because you strive against loneliness. If you read a book, or shuffle a deck of cards, or care for a dog, you are avoiding yourself. The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all. If it were otherwise, men would never have bothered to make an alphabet, nor to have fashioned words out of what were only animal sounds, nor to have crossed continents - each man to see what the other looked like.”

Source: West with the Night

“Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.”

Men Loneliness Lonely Isolation Wretchedness Isolationism Isolation And Loneliness

Book:Past and Present

Source: Past and Present

“The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the man who learns, in solitude and recollection, to be at peace with his own loneliness, and to prefer its reality to the illusion of merely natural companionship, comes to know the invisible companionship of God. Such a one is alone with God in all places, and he alone truly enjoys the companionship of other men, because he loves them in God in Whom their presence is not tiresome, and because of Whom his own love for them can never know satiety.”

People Knows Men May Matter Wisdom Reality Enjoy Natural Loneliness Solitude Illusion Lonely Invisible Surround Companionship Recollection Tiresome Satiety Alone With God

Author:Thomas Merton

“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!”

Men Should Mean Real Helping Shows Bigs Care Guy Suffering Opportunity Understanding Loneliness Disease Empathy Sensitive Dramatic Remove Delicate Taboo Real Men Define You Social Taboos

Author:Susan Sarandon

“But at least this got Mouth thinking about how his loneliness wasn't unique. We all suffered. And I guess we all had good times too. Man - if every person who ever felt lonely killed himself, the world would be littered with corpses. And far lonelier.”

Ifs Thinking Men World Persons Would Be Felt Loneliness Unique Mouths Lonely Good Times Corpses

Book:Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie

Source: Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie

“A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.”

“A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.”

Men Book Loneliness Stores Being Alone Bookstores Being Lonely

Book:Eleanor Rigby: A Novel

Source: Eleanor Rigby: A Novel

“There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.”

Men Loneliness He Man Lonely Being Alone Feeling Lonely Being Lonely I Am Lonely Lonely Man

Author:Abraham ibn Ezra

“It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.”

Men Heart Sadness Dog Loneliness Sad Noise Heartbroken Missing Someone Missing You I Miss You Sad Life Sadness And Love Missing You Love Sad Feeling

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.”

People Knows Men Kind Doe Loneliness Stupid Ignorance Trust Fame Betrayal Journalism Vanity Deception Journalist Betray Remorse

Author:Janet Malcolm

“When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.”

Men Heart Felt Loneliness Finals Being Alone Refrain Sparrows Hush Feeling Sad

Author:Don Williams

“Some nights, one wants to tell beloveds everything that's been waiting to be said. Some nights, a man needs flesh and blood and warm breath and a loving heart.”

Men Want Love Needs Heart Said Night Waiting Blood Loneliness Breaths Warm Flesh Flesh And Blood

Author:Janet Morris

“It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.”

Men Political Loneliness Truth Is Lonely Being Lonely Lonely Life Loneliness In Life

Author:Thomas Reed

“Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.”

Men Feels States Passion Effort Loneliness Boredom Emptiness Occupation Bores Dependence Helplessness Inadequacy Diversion

Author:Blaise Pascal

“I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.”

Men World Years Father Black Boys Sadness Loneliness Musician Wisdom Experience Sadness And Loneliness

Author:Eric Clapton

“Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds.”

Men Law Fighting Loneliness Duty Lonely Clouds Crowds Delight Impulse Cheer Feeling Lonely Tumult

Author:William Butler Yeats

“Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like the mysterious universe itself, the unique, the strange, the unexpected. Numerous observers have testified upon the loneliness of the process.”

Men Artist Universe Process Dark Creativity Creative Loneliness Strange Degrees Unique Scientist Mysterious Unexpected Void Nurture Observers Withdrawal Creative Power Mysterious Universe

Author:Loren Eiseley

“Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world.”

Men World Feelings Spiritual Spirituality Belief Natural Modern Dangerous Loneliness Illusion Weakness Difficulty Separation Emptiness Natural World Feeling Lonely Modern Man

Author:Benjamin Hoff

“In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.”

Men Loneliness He Man Solitude Lonely Crowds Lonely Man

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

“Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.”

Ifs Thinking Men Loneliness Solitude Midst

Author:Romain Rolland

“My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I negotiated the no man's land between the country of my past and the continent of my present.”

Men Firsts Country Past Mother Felt Novel Land Loneliness Daughter Acknowledge Continents Tigers My Past

Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“Isolation, not solitude, breaks men. If I could not find the means to deal with the isolation, then my options were severely limited. I began to call up memories of places, people, events, food-anything I could do to occupy my mind and remind myself that, even if I was being treated like an animal, I was still a living breathing human being.”

People Ifs Men Mind Humans Mean Stills Memories Human Beings Animal Deals Break Events Loneliness Solitude Treated Breathing Isolation If I Could

Author:Shawn Thompson

“Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you always talk of their envy, without understanding that what they ask of you is not so much your worldly goods, as something very hard to define, which they themselves can put no name to; yet at times it consoles their loneliness; a dream of splendor, of magnificence, a tawdry dream, a poor man's dream -and yet God blesses it!”

Men Should Mind Hard Dream Form Asks Names Understanding Simple Poor Loneliness Moved Envy Goods Bless Worldly Fidelity Splendor God Bless Poor Man Console Magnificence Simple Minds

Author:Georges Bernanos

“The American appetite for loneliness impressed me, and there was something about this solitude that freed conversation. One night at a bar, I met a man, and within five minutes he explained that he had just been released from prison. Another drinker told me that his wife had passed away, and he had recently suffered a heart attack, and now he hoped that he would die within the year. I learned that there's no reliable small talk in America; at any moment a conversation can become personal.”

“Our society’s failure to recognize and care for the social and emotional well-being of our boys contributes to a nation of young men who navigate adversity and conflict with an incomplete emotional skill set. Whether boys and later men have chosen to resist or conform to this masculine norm, there is loneliness, anxiety, and pain.”

“Man is like an island set in isolation in a fathomless sea enveloped by darkness, saying that the loneliness his self knows is so utterly absolute because even he knows not his self completely.”

Knows Men Self Darkness Sea Loneliness Absolutes Islands Isolation

Author:Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

“I had to fight hard against loneliness, abuse, and the knowledge that any mistakes I made would be magnified because I was the only black man out there... I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.”

Men Made Hard Would Be Fighting Black Mistake Loneliness Acceptance Respect Abuse

Author:Jackie Robinson

“Most of the world's great souls have been lonely. Loneliness seems to be one price the saint must pay for his saintliness... Always remember: you cannot carry a cross in company. Though a man were surrounded by a vast crowd, his cross is his alone and his carrying of it marks him as a man apart. Society has turned against him; otherwise he would have no cross. No one is a friend to the man with a cross.”

Men World Has Beens Soul Seems Christian Remember Pay Company Loneliness He Man Crosses Lonely Mark Saint Crowds Christian Inspirational Remember You Remembers You Great Souls

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“The Passion of Christ was an experience which included in itself every experience except sin, of every member of the human race. If one may say this with reverence, the fourteen incidents of the Stations of the Cross show not only the suffering but the Psychology of Christ. Above all, they show, in detail, his way of transforming suffering by love. He shows us, step by step, how that plan of love can be carried out by men, women, and children today, both alone in the loneliness of their individual lives and together in communion with one another.”

“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

“Lights come and go in the night sky. Men, troubled at last by the things they build, may toss in their sleep and dream bad dreams, or lie awake while the meteors whisper greenly overhead. But nowhere in all space or on a thousand worlds will there be men to share our loneliness.”

Source: The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature

“We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936”

Men May Death Dies Women Friendship Loneliness Poet Letters Olivia

Author:William Butler Yeats

“The completeness of this transformation appalled me. It was unlike anything I had imagined. I became two men, the serving one, and the one who panicked, who felt Negroid even to the depths of my entrails. I felt the beginings of great loneliness, not because I was a Negro, but because the man I had been, the self I knew, was hidden in the flesh of another.”

Men Two Self Felt Loneliness He Man Transformation Depth Flesh Serving Completeness

Author:John Howard Griffin

“Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.”

Men Way Destiny Wise Loneliness Endeavor

Author:Hermann Hesse

“Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren't true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react.”

Men Play Stories Games Sports Loneliness Absolutes

Author:Jennifer Beals

“Let us remember with humility the loneliness of being man in a universe we do not understand and the vulnerability of the human condition. The animals could do very well without us, but we cannot do without them.”

Men Humans Wells Remember Universe Nature Animal Conditions Loneliness Humility Vulnerability Pet Human Condition Animals In Nature

Book:Men, beasts, and gods: a history of cruelty and kindness to animals

Source: Men, beasts, and gods: a history of cruelty and kindness to animals

“That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.”

Men Love Loneliness Desert

Book:Samuel Beckett, Björnstjerne Björnson, Pearl Buck [and] Ivan Bunin

Source: Samuel Beckett, Björnstjerne Björnson, Pearl Buck [and] Ivan Bunin