The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
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.
Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved.
Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
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.
The pain of loneliness seems to be part of the mortal experience. But the Lord in His mercy has made it so that we need never deal with the challenges of mortality alone.