Darkness Quote by Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of…

— Bernard Malamud

“A man becomes a solitary at the moment when, no matter what may be his external surroundings, he is suddenly aware of his own…

— Thomas Merton

“The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But…

— Thomas Merton

“The man who is too isolated grows timid, abstracted, a little odd: He stumbles along amid realities like a sailor who has just come…

— Antonin Sertillanges

“In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable... The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing…

— John Steinbeck

Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who…

— Octavio Paz

Man is alone in the world, in tremendous eternal isolation. He has no object outside himself; lives for nothing else; he is far removed…

— Otto Weininger

Only man has become an outsider - and because of his own efforts. On his own, he has separated himself from existence.

— Rajneesh

Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.

— Khalil Gibran

Loneliness is a darkness of the soul

— N.K. Jemisin

“A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than…

— Thomas Mann