Don’t surrender your loneliness so quickly. Let it cut you more deeply. Let it ferment and season you as few human and even divine ingredients can. Something missing in my heart tonight has made my eyes so soft, my voice so tender, my need for God absolutely clear.
It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.
And if I’m alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.
Memories consume Like opening the wound I’m picking me apart again You all assume I’m safe here in my room Unless I try to start again.
Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is he and his type writer or word processor. No one else is or can be involved in the matter.
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.
In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone.
All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone.
As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.
Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.
To create art means to be crazy alone forever.
I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.
Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear.
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.