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But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
if you are afraid of loneliness, don't get married
Sylvia's dark eyes widened. "You are more than you appear to be" "Yes. I am a monster of Darkness, a beast," he agreed with her. Her lips tilted up. "Can a beast weep in sorrow? Does darkness have the capacity to feel loneliness? I think not.
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When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
Who can really distinguish between the sea and what's reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness?
The one thing I’d learned was that having someone with you all the time did not take away the loneliness. You could be surrounded by people and be lonely. Something was missing. I could almost pinpoint it, but right when it was within my grasp I forgot; it just slipped away.
Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other. Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth for the other. Now there will be no loneliness, for each of you will be companion to the other. Now you are two persons, but there are three lives before you: His life, Her Life, and Your life together.
At that moment i felt lonelier than i'd ever felt before, and that loneliness seemed to squat in my lungs and crush all but my most minimal breathing. There was nothing left to say. Not about this. Not about anything.
...and my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me.
And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness.
You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
No matter how lonely it makes me, and no matter how wide and horrific the loneliness, at least I remember who I am.
People were buying milk, or filling their cars with petrol, or even posting letters. And what no one else knew was the appalling weight of the thing they were carrying inside. The superhuman effort it took sometimes to be normal, and a part of things that appeared both easy and everyday. The loneliness of that.
It was a part of myself that was my enemy; I still had a childish illusion that the flesh on my own bones was somehow unique and precious to the universe, in some obscure corner of my mind I wanted the others to love me and make exceptions for me simply because I felt heat and cold, pain and loneliness as they did. Now this was gone once and for all, and I understood there were no exceptions and on one was invulnerable, we all had to share the same conditions and in the end this was simply mortality, the mortality of things as well as ourselves. After that I didn't expect anybody to love me.
But I know too that if we ever make a world without shadow, if the chemists and scientists and psychologists succeed in abolishing fear, pain, loneliness, death, some of us will find life so intolerable we will probably blow out our brains out of sheer boredom.
I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.
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