Total intimacy is a myth; that said, a particular kind of loneliness can be both beautiful and fruitful.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.
Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.
Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
I would have to say loneliness is next to uncleanliness.
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.
Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.
There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.
Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.