Breaking point Quote by Haruki Murakami

“If you live with fear and consider yourself as something special then automatically, emotionally, you are distanced from others. You then create the basis…

— Dalai Lama XIV

“Anxiety, alienation, loneliness, emptiness, and meaninglessness are the fruits of living as an isolated subject admist a multitude of lifeless objects. Although our scope…

— Stephen Batchelor

“Loving-kindness challenges those states that tend to arise when we think of ourselves as isolated from everyone else—fear, a sense of deficiency, alienation, loneliness.”

— Sharon Salzberg

Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.

— B. W. Powe

“My daddy has a chain five miles long, on each link a heart for a lover he has lost.”

— Dolly Parton

It was unknowable then, but so much of the progress that would define the 20th century, on both sides of the Atlantic, came down…

— Barack Obama

My band, Miles Long, is a jazz-funk spoken word band. There's jazz sensibilities, but I'm a bass player, so I'm very much into the…

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; and American thinks a hundred years is a long time

— Diana Gabaldon

“In Trout's novel, The Pan-Galactic Memory Bank, the hero is on a space ship two hundred miles long and sixty-two miles in diameter. He…

— Kurt Vonnegut

It's amazing the way one can take a step ten and a half miles long and still always land in a cowpat.

— Diana Wynne Jones

In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the Old Silurian…

— Mark Twain

It was unknowable then, but so much of the progress that would define the 20th century, on both sides of the Atlantic, came down…

— Barack Obama