Loneliness Quotes by Wendell Berry

8 Loneliness quotes by Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry offers eight brief reflections that ground loneliness in nature and simple living. This compact set gives a modest, thoughtful glimpse into his view of being alone.

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Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all…

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“And by it we enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness. Only discord can come of the attempt to share solitude.…

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Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of…

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To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently,…

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Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

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We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness. True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human…

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“I enjoyed coming and going without telling or explaining, being free. I enjoyed listening without talking. I enjoyed being wherever I was…

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“He was lonely because he could imagine himself as anything but himself and as anywhere but where he was. His competitiveness and…

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“That we can prescribe the terms of our own success, that we can live outside or in ignorance of the Great Economy are the…

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“The mind that comes to rest is tended In ways that it cannot intend: Is borne, preserved, and comprehended By what it cannot comprehend.…

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The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.

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The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.

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I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it…

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Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful

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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean…

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