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“Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.”

Self Suffering Results Attitude Too Much Loneliness Source Extremes Isolation Self Centered Isolation And Loneliness

Author:Dalai Lama

“Travel is in sad case. It is uncomfortable, it is expensive; it is a source of annoyance to our friends, and of loneliness to ourselves.”

Cases Loneliness Source Travel Uncomfortable Expensive Annoyance

Author:Vita Sackville-West

“Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.”

Suffering Poverty Loneliness Policy Emotional Source Elderly Emotional Suffering

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.”

Suffering Poverty Loneliness Emotional Source Emotional Suffering

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth: And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth.”

Earth Heaven Sleep Power Loneliness Source Creatures Lonely Mortals Gentle Frozen Foreheads Lambs Feeling Lonely Marvellous Godlike

Author:William Wordsworth

“The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.”

“We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness. True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner voices become audible. One feels the attraction of one’s most intimate sources. In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives. The more coherent one becomes within oneself as a creature, the more fully one enters into the communion of all creatures.”

Feels Humans Found Voice Loses Loneliness Source Solitude Creatures Consequence Oneself Attraction Obligation Intimate Communion Inner Voice Wild Places

Book:What Are People For?: Essays

Source: What Are People For?: Essays