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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today.
Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.
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.
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community.
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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.