I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
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.
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.
Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.
Men find it more difficult than women to be alone. They function better with someone in their lives. Being married, they are rooted, so they feel safe to go and do what they want to do.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
Times may have changed, but there are some things that are always with us - loneliness is one of them.
We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.