“The loneliness, bleakness, wretchedness you feel without this person you love existed before you fell in love. What you call love is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If same-sex relationships are really sinful, then why do they so often produce good fruit-loving families, open homes, self-sacrifice, commitment, faithfulness, joy?… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“Ice vs. fire; free choice vs. necessity; weight vs. lightness; emptiness vs. meaning...speaking of emptiness, there was a time today when my… — Sarah Emily Miano Copy Share Image
I always thought that the location of this film [Girl In The Train] was on the train and inside her imagination, and… — Erin Cressida Wilson Copy Share Image
“Da mu kažem: sam sam, hafiz-Muhamede, sam i tužan, pruži mi ruku i samo za čas budi mi prijatelj, otac, sin, drag… — Meša Selimović Copy Share Image
I was also thinking about isolation on an evolutionary scale as well, like when you think of an island like Madagascar where… — Colin Stetson Copy Share Image
Christ's boundless grace confronts our deep necessities. Christ's promised presence confronts our sad and gloomy loneliness. Jesus thus filled with grace so… — Octavius Winslow Copy Share Image
“The companionship which Adam the second is seeking is not to be found in the de-personalized regimentation of the army, in the… — Joseph B. Soloveitchik Copy Share Image
He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated mind, one that is capable of reason and poetry but… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
We eat pancakes to escape loneliness, yet within moments we want nothing more than our freedom from ever having so much as… — Donald Antrim Copy Share Image
When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“Things go backward. And then, one day, whatever it is we had, it’s gone. It won’t come back. We both know it.… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of my… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“My skin hungered for you. You were warm, and alive, and in my bed, and I wanted you so bad I could… — Julio-Alexi Genao Copy Share Image
“I didn’t have the vaguest idea of what to do – I couldn’t keep staring at the wall forever, I told myself.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“How lonely I was, even when I was with him. How it felt, him not making love to me, being affectionate, making… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
“As always when he worked with this much concentration he began to feel a sense of introverting pressure. There was no way… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Anxiety, the other characteristic of modern man, is even more basic than emptiness and loneliness. For being “hollow” and lonely would not… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“There's not much to say about loneliness, for it's not a broad subject. Any child, alone in her room, can journey across… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If Tomorrow I die & don't get a chance again to say How Much I Love You. Just always remember, that once… — Ali Bassam Copy Share Image
Of God's love we can say two things: it is poured out universally for everyone from the Pope to the loneliest wino… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
“For no reason that she could discern, she put down the novel and picked up her cell phone. She was lonely, yes,… — Ron Parsons Copy Share Image
“Until then we're going to keep making memories like this, moments when we're the only two people in the whole world. And… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I am quite surprised and rather disappointed by the loneliness, isolation and indeed demonisation the sadly misunderstood CO2 is experiencing. Thus, upon… — Nick Minchin Copy Share Image
The first bowl sleekly moistened throat and lips, The second banished all my loneliness The third expelled the dullness from my mind,… — Lu Tong Copy Share Image
When you're awake at 4am & you don't miss anyone, Then you know you've been gone for too long, and you just… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He prayed for the recovery of that inward privacy which the purpose of his vigil demanded that he seek: a clean parchment… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
“ The Rider A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, and loneliness. You will see that the world is not on… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“But I wasn’t lonely. Loneliness, I think, has very little to do with location. It’s a state of mind. In the center… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
“She talked about wanting to be a part of something, wanting to be desired, to be 'special', craving to be loved. She… — Cupcake Brown Copy Share Image
Being single only sucks when you're boring, still stuck on your last relationship, and CHOOSE to be alone rather than going out… — Eric Jacob Copy Share Image
I am not sure what lonliness is," she said. "If it is not literally being solitary, is it the fear of solitude,… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“So now it’s this thing I do. I go away, ever so often, by myself, for myself, to new places with foreign… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image