“It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.” PeopleIfsKnowsHumansMayWholeMy OwnConditionsLonelinessPaintingCommunicationReflectionHuman ConditionLack Of Communication Author:Edward Hopper
“What makes loneliness an anguish Is not that I have no one to share my burden, But this: I have only my own burden to bear.” My OwnShareLonelinessBearsBurdenAnguishBeing AloneBeing Lonely Author:Dag Hammarskjold
“Desire, loneliness, wind in the flowering almond— surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjects to which my predecessors apprenticed themselves. I hear them echo in my own heart, disguised as convention.” HeartDesireMy OwnSubjectsLonelinessWindConventionsEchoesPredecessorsFloweringAlmonds Author:Louise Glück
“I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead, my brother dead, my mother faraway, my sister and my wife far away, nothing here but my own tragic hands that once were guarded by a world, a sweet attention, that now are left to guide and disappear their own way into the common dark of all our deaths, sleeping in me raw bed, alone and stupid: with just this one pride and consolation: my broke heart in the general despair and opened up inwards to the Lord, I made a supplication in this dream” WorldWayWritingHeartMadeBookDreamHandsMotherDiesFatherLeftDarkMy OwnSleepCommonAttentionLordWifeLonelinessStupidSweetBrotherPrideBedDespairMy WifeDisappearGuidesBrokeMy BrotherTragicMy SisterFar AwayConsolationMy Own LifeGuardedHeart BrokeSleeping InSupplication Book:Visions of Cody Source: Visions of Cody
“I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same.” IfsLoveAgeMy OwnLonelinessMastersSafetyFear Of LoveLove Death Author:Martha Gellhorn
“It was a part of myself that was my enemy; I still had a childish illusion that the flesh on my own bones was somehow unique and precious to the universe, in some obscure corner of my mind I wanted the others to love me and make exceptions for me simply because I felt heat and cold, pain and loneliness as they did. Now this was gone once and for all, and I understood there were no exceptions and on one was invulnerable, we all had to share the same conditions and in the end this was simply mortality, the mortality of things as well as ourselves. After that I didn't expect anybody to love me.” MindWellsStillsEndsWantedPainUniverseFeltMy OwnEnemyGoneShareConditionsLonelinessColdUniqueIllusionUnderstoodCornersBonesFleshHeatExceptionMortalityObscureOf My MindHeat And Cold Author:MacDonald Harris
“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
“When the chips are down, you are alone, and loneliness can be terrifying. Fortunately, I've always had a chum I could call. And I love to be alone. It doesn't bother me one bit. I’m my own company.” BitsMy OwnCompanyLonelinessBotherChipsChum Author:Audrey Hepburn
“Most of my life I have needed more time to be on my own.” My OwnLonelinessNeededSolitudeMore Time Author:P. D. James
“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.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingHeartKindPersonsFacesLeftVoiceMy OwnStudySeeingLonelinessSolitudeHearingUpliftingIntimacy 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
“My loneliness...still comes over me sometimes...It's a liminal, lost sensation of having wandered wide, endless boulevards, among rows of orange trees, winter butterflies, seasons reversed and out of order, dogs barking from behind fences meant to keep out intruders. It's not the place that impoverishes me but I who bring my own sense of poverty, of loss, to the place. It's a sense of near nothingness, as though I were not so much a blank slate as an erased chalkboard, still bearing illegible smudges of smoothed-over writing.” WritingStillsSometimesOrderLostMy OwnLossBehindsPovertyTreeDogLonelinessSeasonsWinterWideEndlessSensationsButterflyBlankNothingnessFenceOrangeSlateBoulevardIntrudersBlank SlatesChalkboardsOrange Trees Author:Marco Roth
“God has spoken very boldly about his desire to be a presence in our lives. If I want to heal the ache and loneliness in my own life, one of the things I need to do is get away, alone with God. . . . In the silence God will speak to you most powerfully. Too often his words to us get muffled, lost, or covered by the crowd of many noises both inside and outside of us. We must have a quiet heart in order to hear God's distinctive message to us.” IfsWantNeedsHeartGodDesireOrderLostSpeakMy OwnSilenceOur LivesLonelinessQuietMessagesCrowdsHealGods WillNoiseGet AwayMost PowerfulCoveredAcheMy Own LifeDistinctiveInside And OutsideAlone With GodQuiet Heart Author:Tim Hansel