“One of the great paradoxes of life is that self-awareness breeds anxiety. Fusion eradicates anxiety in a radical fashion—by eliminating self-awareness. The… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Karaoke was my family's happy secret. In those early years in America, like many immigrants, my parents struggled with poverty and loneliness,… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
“we fear solitude. We mistake it for loneliness and attempt to fill the emptiness, the silence with activity and noise and people.… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
“Solitude removes us from the mindless humdrum of everyday life into a higher consciousness which reconnects us with ourselves and our deepest… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
“Moreover, I was beginning to experience something new - the fear of being alone. I had not been alone since I walked… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Finally, ultimately, you write music for yourself. I mean, I need a public, I need people to play, I need everything else.… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
“Mostly she just missed Vaughn. Missed all those quiet, unspectacular moments that, when added up, showed how entwined their lives had become.… — Sarra Manning Copy Share Image
“Miscarried Dreams I tested all the atoms of loneliness; I found only remnants of agony and isolation. Probably I did not exist.… — Amany Al-Hallaq Copy Share Image
“Rain makes me feel less alone. All rain is, is a cloud- falling apart, and pouring its shattered pieces down on top… — Lone Alaskan Gypsy Copy Share Image
Poetry is, above all, a singing art of natural and magical connection because, though it is born out of one's person's solitude,… — Brendan Kennelly Copy Share Image
I took the test for AIDS. I began to hate people who were not sick. Those people are monsters, I would think,… — Isabelle Adjani Copy Share Image
“Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“People that consider the world divided in two parts, are attached to the illusion of reality. There are not such thing as… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“It was only that I’d suffered like that, hour after hour, that I’d gone into the circle of hell and come back… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
When asked "What do we need to learn this for?" any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“The loneliness I endured during that time of my life is something I hope never to experience again. It's more than just… — Leanne Waters Copy Share Image
One leaf left on a branch and not a sound of sadness or despair. One leaf left on a branch and no… — David Ignatow Copy Share Image
There are so many things that are incompatible with a single life. No one can learn fully in one life the lessons… — J. M. E. McTaggart Copy Share Image
“Loneliness wasn't just a state of mind, was it? It was tactile. She could feel it. It was a sixth sense, not… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Perhaps twenty minutes later he realized she had gone to sleep. He quietly removed his now stiff arm, then turned away. It… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“I won't waste your time with the injuries of my childhood, with my loneliness, or the fear and sadness of the years… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up,as if orchards were dying high in space.Each leaf falls as if it… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Yet this distance, all those abysses unbridged and then unbridgeable by radio, television, cheap travel and the rest, was not wholly bad.… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
If you learn to love yourself, and believe that you deserve the goodness life has to offer, then you will attract loving… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“Thinking, existentially speaking, is a solitary but not a lonely business; solitude is that human situation in which I keep myself company.… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Loneliness comes over us sometimes as a sudden tide. It is one of the terms of our humanness, and, in a sense,… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“Don’t attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you’re lonely. Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Whoever has been poor and lonely himself understands other poor and lonely people all the better. At least we should learn to… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
“He thought in silence before answering. “I don’t think loneliness is a thing that can be borne: it’s so heavy and crushing… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
“On Love and Happiness:When someone embarks on his research, if he ever makes it, (there is, in addition, a contingency that he/she… — Katerina Kostaki Copy Share Image
Jesus went without comfort so that you might have it. He postponed joy so that you might share in it. He willingly… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
But he [Depression] just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on my table and lights… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
In the country, I stopped being a person who, in the words of Sylvia Boorstein, startles easily. I grew calmer, but beneath… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“There I sat, probably looking so dreadful that nothing had the courage to stand by me; not even the candle, which I… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“No, it really isn't, but trust me, getting divorced and having to start over is the least in life that isn't fair.… — Jay Crownover Copy Share Image
“All of us are lonely at some point or another, no matter how many people surround us. And then, we meet someone… — Helene Wecker Copy Share Image
The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
As an artist, the most important feeling is loneliness. So when I say artists need to isolate themselves from society this is… — Zhang Xiaogang Copy Share Image
![“But he [Depression] just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on my table and lights a cigar, filling the place with his awful smoke. Loneliness watches and sighs, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He's going…” quote by Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c6f/elizabeth-gilbert-131_awful_but-he-depression-just-gives-me-that-dar_1617889.jpg)
