It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.
If loneliness is part of our essence, that is, our essential nature, that is only because of the way, in practical terms, we actually exist; that is, the way we move and work and live in the world.
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.
Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.
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.
The world is becoming nicer and easier, but that doesn't mean we are any less lonely or any more connected.
At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking.