Quote by Paul Ricoeur

“He had missed the deepest of all companionships, a relation with the earth itself, with a countryside and a people. That relationship he knew…

— Willa Cather

“No one goes anywhere alone, least of all into exile—not even those who arrive physically alone, unaccompanied by family, spouse, children, parents, or siblings.…

— Paulo Freire

“I realized that even if no one ever found me, and even if I lived out the rest of my life here, always missing,…

— Catherine Lacey

“But the longing within him had grown even greater, the overpowering need to be alone. Locked in an empty room, entirely unwitnessed, silent and…

— Philip K. Dick

“I understood that no one lives forever, but there are certain people whose power and presence so thoroughly penetrate your view of things that…

— Walter Kirn

“Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the household of millions upon…

— Søren Kierkegaard

“He did not often think of people as individuals, but rather as antidotes for the poison of his loneliness, as escapes from the imprisoned…

— John Steinbeck

“Like a real traveller, he looks for whatever he has in common with the people he encounters, to a point where the sense of…

— Mateo Cabello

“Absent- that was what he was: so absent from everything most densely real and near to those about him that it sometimes startled him…

— Edith Wharton

“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

“Not the criticism of individual contemporaries will decide the truth or falsity of these discoveries, but future generations. There are things that are not…

— Carl Jung

“For the first time I envisaged the idea that we - that is, our family - were not the only people in the world,…

— Leo Tolstoy