The cliche of call-centre work is that it's mainly older people who will stay on the line to talk to you. Whether… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
“Unless the heir casts off his “inheritance” by becoming fully conscious of his true past, and thus of his true nature, loneliness… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The pain of loneliness seems to be part of the mortal experience. But the Lord in His mercy has made it so… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“The most terrifying specter that haunts the modern psyche is not death or disease or nuclear annihilation. It is loneliness.” — Terryl L. Givens Copy Share Image
“It was the apparent isolation of the place that touched her; it was somewhere she felt she could be separated from the… — Erica James Copy Share Image
I think loneliness comes with being creative, because you are obsessed with creation. And it is so satisfying that sometimes, I have… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
“He was lonely because he could imagine himself as anything but himself and as anywhere but where he was. His competitiveness and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Despues pinto un poco. Hay tranquilidad y silencio en estos dias y aprovecho que puedo concentrarme. La soledad. Quizas uno escribe y… — Pedro Juan Gutierrez Copy Share Image
“ A CHANGING SOCIETY What does today’s high incidence of social anxiety tell us about modern society? As we’ve seen, social anxiety… — Jonathan Berent Copy Share Image
For all the advances in technology, science and communications, there are signs that we are failing in areas where it matters most:… — Cory Bernardi Copy Share Image
We will come to understand the part a difficult circumstance has played in our lives. Hindsight makes so much clear. The broken… — Karan Casey Copy Share Image
God has spoken very boldly about his desire to be a presence in our lives. If I want to heal the ache… — Tim Hansel Copy Share Image
If you ever start feeling unappreciated you know its time to leave.Care about other peoples feelings so much they can give a… — She's_gone Copy Share Image
“From the photo albums, every single print of her had been peeled away. Shots of the both of us together had been… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I dont fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all — what do they want, a crowd looking over their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
“It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“The most important people in this man's life - the people who have mattered to him most - aren't my Mother or… — Matthew Norman Copy Share Image
Whether we learn how to love ourselves and others will depend on the presence of a loving environment. Self-love cannot flourish in… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“My reputation is largely the creature of the kindly imaginings of my flock, whom I chose not to disillusion, in part because… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“. . . Like ashes of gold in a cinnamon-flame, My youthful desires have been burnt with the years– And tonight in… — Haoran Meng Copy Share Image
We can't afford to live in isolation, and we need to teach our kids that the things that they do not only… — Maya Soetoro-Ng Copy Share Image
I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too… — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
“Loneliness can drive a person mad. There's a place, in every man's soul, that no friend can reach, only a lover, and… — Tionne Rogers Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm around people it causes me to feel nostalgic for the loneliness that drove me into their presence in the first… — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
The wierdest thing happened the other morning...I woke up with tears in my eyes...and one rolling down my cheek...and I knew I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no loneliness when you meditate, you feel eternity. How could you ever be lonely? You just feel God's love for… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Only the survivors of a death are truly left alone. The connections that made up their life--both the deep connections and the… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem most important… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am not the lonely human, plunked down on earth to aimlessly wander. I am a part of that earth and not… — Jay Allison Copy Share Image
“They say, Grace, why don’t you ever smile or laugh, we never see you smiling, and I say I suppose Miss I… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“My entire body vibrated with the sudden knowledge that not only was he dead…he was gone. There is a big difference between… — Catherine Tidd Copy Share Image
Sometimes loneliness isn't such a bad end after all, sometimes it brings out the hidden potential in us and make us realize… — Blaze Olermiday Copy Share Image
“We are like puzzle pieces who are perfectly suited to make a giant picture together, but we are assembling ourselves in the… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
“If we don’t acknowledge the truth in our relationships, they simply become a state of isolation with somebody (some body) still around.” — Dragos Bratasanu Copy Share Image
I prefer to be Alone BUT not too alone cause...I want to change who I am ,and become what I desire in… — No One Important Anymore Copy Share Image
