Habits Quote by Alessandro Baricco

“Periodically throughout his life, he would seek comfort in his troubles by lurching into the wilderness, only to find more loneliness there and end…

— Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith ·

“Sometimes he felt his loneliness. But these moments of solitude and loneliness gave meaning to his existence. He would keep drifting from moment to…

— Avijeet Das

“He felt light, lighter than ever in all his years. He had severed all relationships. It occurred to him that he had been alone…

— Joseph Roth

“In his life he'd passed through long periods of gratefulness and good cheer, but he'd scarcely even imagined this level of thorough contentment with…

— Chad Harbach

“Not loneliness, but solitude. Not suffering, but endurance, the discovery of grim kinship with the rocks and sky. And the finding here of a…

— Diana Gabaldon

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

— Wendell Berry

Loneliness itself is material for sacrifice. The very longings themselves can be offered to Him who understands perfectly. The transformation into something He can…

— Elisabeth Elliot

“...this blessing of loneliness was not really loneliness. Real loneliness was something unendurable. What one wanted when exhausted by the noise and impact of…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“He felt very lonely, yet there was a kind of pride in his loneliness.”

— Michael Ende

“When loneliness is a constant state of being, it harkens back to a childhood wherein neglect and abandonment were the landscape of life.”

— Alexandra Katehakis

“She had forgotten how to transmute loneliness into mere aloneness, how not to fall into the hole of his absence.”

— Bar Fridman-Tell

“If he'd learned one thing while he'd been away, it was that loneliness is the most taboo subject in the world. Forget sex or…

— Douglas Coupland