Existence Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

Without our familiar props, we are faced with just ourselves, a person we do not know, an unnerving stranger with whom we have been…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

Before two human beings come in close physical contact, their auras have mingled; that is the reason why we 'feel the presence of another'…

— Max Heindel

It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries…

— Samuel Johnson

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

— Jean de la Bruyere

As a species of animal that evolved to make connections and work together, it feels strange to suppress our desire for contact. People enjoy…

— Rutger Bregman

You experience life alone, you can be as intimate with another as much as you like, but there has to be always a part…

— Steve Toltz

So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompletenessunited, such strength of self-association that…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

One of the things that happens in our regular lives is that when we're in moments of pain or feeling alone, we may hesitate…

— Vivek Murthy

I think our lack of intimacy with the land has initiated a lack of intimacy with each other. What we perceive as non- human,…

— Terry Tempest Williams

But nothing disturbs the feeling of specialness like the presence of other human beings feeling identically special.

— Jonathan Franzen

Networked, we are together, but so lessened are our expectations of each other that we can feel utterly alone. And there is the risk…

— Sherry Turkle

We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy.

— Sherry Turkle