We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we… — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
“I used to be fine in my loneliness but something or someone snapped me out of it and showed me company. What… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“From the late eighteenth century onwards, it is no longer from the practice of community but from being a wanderer that the… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
Our society’s failure to recognize and care for the social and emotional well-being of our boys contributes to a nation of young… — Jennifer Siebel Newsom Copy Share Image
“You want to know what I really learned? I learned that people don’t consider time alone as part of their life. Being… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“We see much more of this loneliness now. It's paradoxical that that where people are the most closely crowded in the big… — Robert Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Seven years ago, I joined a support group. The loneliness of my Clemlessness—privately, that’s what I called it—had become so acute that… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
When I was Surgeon General, I spent a lot of time talking to people in living rooms and town halls all across… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
Wishing to turn back the time, the moment when my lips are full of smile,,, that nobody can hurt me, even my… — Bloodyheart Copy Share Image
“Can you be alone without being lonely? Can you spend time by yourself without craving noise or company of other people? Have… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
“I always feel myself being thrust back into loneliness when someone tells me it's cold on a hot day. It isn't good… — Yōko Tawada Copy Share Image
There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“It was always with her now, that sadness, like one of those rare orchids you saw clinging to jungle branches on TV,… — Michael Knight Copy Share Image
It's so effortless to let my loneliness defeat me, make me mold myself to whatever would (in some way - but not… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
You sense my loneliness, (...) my bitterness at being shut out of life. My bitterness that I'm evil, that I don't deserve… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I have experienced loneliness at many, many points in my life and felt this profound sense of shame about it - all… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
“First agriculture, and then industry, changed two fundamental things about the human experience. The accumulation of personal property allowed people to make… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
My own study of the networked life has left me thinking about intimacy - about being with people in person, hearing their… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“The forest is quiet but I can still hear the sound of trickling water and the trees whispering to each other in… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
Look on each day that comes as a challenge, as a test of courage. The pain will come in waves, some days… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Loneliness sucks, having a empty feeling in your heart is what makes it ache. But I guess really and truly you don't… — Justin Lee Riner Copy Share Image
My sense of loneliness was not particularly great until I reached sixty. From that time on, I would have given an ex-king's… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
There was a loneliness because kids my age had video games, tennis. They traveled. They had beautiful clothes. I was wearing my… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
“He needed her so badly, to reassure himself of his own existence, that he never comprehended the desperation in her dazzling, permanent… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Forget so-called peer-pressure. It’s more like peer-hunger. No? We enter a spiritual puberty where we snap to the fact that the great… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“There must be different kinds of loneliness, or at least different degrees of loneliness, but the most terrifying loneliness is not experienced… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other. After all, if we look closer into ourselves, shall we not admit that… — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
What, after all, are the world's deepest problems? They are what they always have been, the individual's problemsâthe meaning of life and… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
“Gradually, after being the target a few times of a similar capriciousness, which he discerned as default behavior for most people, and… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Yes, you who must leave everything that you cannot control, It begins with your family, and soon it comes round to your… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Lonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavelengths, do not know how to carry themselves, are lost when… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“No I am not Prince Hamlet nor was meant to be Am an attendant lord one that will do To swell a… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Next, I went in the shower to lather every inch of my body and stayed for so long inside, I walked away… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
“r o l l t h e d i c e if you’re going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don’t… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The people at the very top could fall by and grace you with their presence and give you a little largesse, and… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation;… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“My friends, tonight we bring you something entirely different. Something special. The poets will rest, the sonnets will be silent, and what… — Charles Grant Copy Share Image
So, how can we live in joy - and how can we know that we're supposed to live in joy the way… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
