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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
George Eliot
Loneliness
Lonely
Distrust
More
Than
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
Germaine Greer
Loneliness
Communicate
Someone
More
Never
Cruel
Felt
Close
Than
Who
What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.
Chief Seattle
Loneliness
Great
Man
Beast
Gone
Would
Spirit
Beasts
Without
Were
Die
My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.
Franz Kafka
Myself
Loneliness
Will
Alcohol
Dissipate
Lately
Peers
Intoxication
Through
Cheat
Well
Force
Makes
However
Cannot
Sociable
Them
Means
Use
Companionship
Found
Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions.
Robert Fulghum
Loneliness
Solitude
Solitary
Possible
Same
Boat
Sea
Companions
Floating
Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone.
Rollo May
Positive
Alone
Loneliness
Solitude
Values
Omnipotent
Threat
Prospect
Conception
Times
Frightened
Being
Being Alone
Little
Persons
Painful
Many
Even
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
Albert Schweitzer
Loneliness
Together
Dying
Much
We can all fight against loneliness by engaging in random acts of kindness.
Gail Honeyman
Kindness
Loneliness
Fight
Random
Against
Engaging
Acts
Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.
Joss Whedon
Loneliness
Out
Scariest
About
Thing
Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.
Thomas Merton
Loneliness
You
Vision
Obscurity
Beyond
Without
Motion
Limits
Discover
Labor
Begin
Repose
Infinity
Act
Fulfillment
Activities
Whose
Deepest
Extend
Profound
Here
Desire
Feelings such as loneliness, longing or love are sometimes hard to put into words; maybe that's why we all love music, because it resonates with something we can't share.
Agnes Obel
Love
Music
Loneliness
Words
Sometimes
Feelings
Longing
Resonates
Something
Share
Put
Because
Maybe
Hard
Why
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
Anton Chekhov
Loneliness
You
Marry
Afraid
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
Joseph Conrad
Alone
Loneliness
Memory
Word
Illusion
Lonely
Miserable
Mask
Naked
Outcast
Wears
Some
True
Most
Knows
Terror
HUGS
Conventional
Themselves
Who
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
Kurt Vonnegut
Today
Loneliness
People
Young
Daring
Most
Obviously
Terrible
Cured
Disease
Stable
Which
Young People
Create
Should
Communities
Many
Lives
Thing
Things
Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.
Pauline Phillips
Loneliness
Poverty
Ultimate
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Benjamin Britten
Love
Beautiful
Music
Loneliness
Strength
Freedom
Nature
You
Disappointment
Beauty
Pain
Monotony
Cruel
Know
Should
Everlasting
To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.
Stanley Hauerwas
Friendship
Loneliness
Food
You
Charity
Money
Gift
Another
Does
Overwhelm
Lack
May
Mean
Poor
Grips
Means
Many
Lives
Extend
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
Tom Wolfe
Life
Myself
Loneliness
Rare
Men
My Life
Inevitable
Few
Conviction
Other
Solitary
Rests
Fact
Existence
Curious
Human
Being
Central
Human Existence
Far
Whole
Belief
Now
Phenomenon
Peculiar
If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.
Sharon Salzberg
Loneliness
You
Heart
World
Fear
Isolation
Own
Living
Go
Your
Less
Deeper
One of the illusions that we live by is that we can really know anybody else, and we're often surprised by traits in people that we thought we knew very well. The struggle to overcome loneliness, which is sort of our universal burden, leads us to leap to conclusions about who other people are.
Thomas McGuane
Loneliness
Struggle
People
Overcome
Burden
Thought
Live
Other
Else
Our
About
Knew
Leads
Know
Leap
Well
Sort
Conclusions
Surprised
Very
Traits
Often
Anybody
Anybody Else
Which
Us
Really
Who
Illusions
Universal
Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.
Tom Hanks
Loneliness
Me
You
Cinema
Lonely
Power
Everybody
Something
Feel
Make
Always
Up
Movies
Them
Even
Thing
I'm learning to deal with my loneliness because then nobody can muck me around any more.
Amanda Eliasch
Loneliness
Me
Learning
More
Nobody
Because
Around
Deal
Any
Then
The surest sign of age is loneliness.
Annie Dillard
Loneliness
Age
Sign
Surest
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
Anna Louise Strong
Love
Loneliness
Love Is
Worth
Cause
Fall
Difficult
Enough
Our
Easy
Find
Steadily
Steady
Remain
Through
Comrade
Becomes
Making
Quest
Person
Human
Hard
Even
Whose
Presence
Desires
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
Ferdinand Marcos
Alone
Loneliness
Leadership
Leader
Other
Side
Everything
Must
He
Accept
Always
Act
Acting
Who
Coin
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
Henry Miller
Alone
Loneliness
Needs
He
Always
Artist
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