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It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.

Being single isn't the cause of loneliness, and marriage is not necessarily the cure. There are many lonely married people as well.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.

Only in Relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness; this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

In 1970 I felt so lonely that I could not give; now I feel so joyful that giving seems easy. I hope that the day will come when the memory of my present joy will give me the strength to keep giving even when loneliness gnaws at my heart.

How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him.

We, unaccustomed to courage_x000D__x000D_exiles from delight_x000D__x000D_live coiled in shells of loneliness_x000D__x000D_until love leaves its high holy temple_x000D__x000D_and comes into our sight_x000D__x000D_to liberate us into life.

So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone-that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

The secret to overcoming a feeling of loneliness is not going outside_x000D__x000D_to meet people. That will only keep you from being alone. The secret_x000D__x000D_is going inside yourself, to realize your true kinship with God and_x000D__x000D_with all the human beings that he created.

Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets_x000D__x000D_loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet today_x000D__x000D_the institutions on which community depends are crumbling in all the_x000D__x000D_techno-societies. The result is a spreading plague of loneliness.

Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television;_x000D__x000D_solitude is herb tea and soft music.

I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a_x000D__x000D_full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy_x000D__x000D_ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness.

The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our_x000D__x000D_separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.

The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.