So this blessing of loneliness was not really loneliness. Real loneliness was something unendurable. What one wanted when exhausted by the noise and impact of physical bodies was not no people but disembodied people; all those denizens of beloved books who could be taken to one's heart and put away again, in silence, and with no hurt feelings.
Elizabeth GoudgeTags: reading loneliness privacy
We expect more from technology and less from each other.
Sherry TurkleTags: society technology loneliness modern-society
The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the man who learns, in solitude and recollection, to be at peace with his own loneliness, and to prefer its reality to the illusion of merely natural companionship, comes to know the invisible companionship of God. Such a one is alone with God in all places, and he alone truly enjoys the companionship of other men, because he loves them in God in Whom their presence is not tiresome, and because of Whom his own love for them can never know satiety.
Thomas MertonTags: god solitude loneliness meditation contemplation
I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.
David LevithanTags: loneliness evan
Mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. I am still looking for the beauty in that.
Maggie NelsonTags: beauty sadness loneliness thought-provoking
I now understood that real secrets were lonely. They planted themselves inside of you and expanded, until you felt like that was all you were-a lonely little secret, isolated in your experiences.
Yvonne WoonTags: loneliness secrets
A woman's voice answered, "Hello?"
Walter cried back at her, "Hello, oh Lord, hello!"
"This is a recording," recited the woman's voice. "Miss Helen Arasumian is not home. Will you leave a message on the wire spool so she may call you when she returns? Hello? This is a recording. Miss Helen Arasumian is not home. Will you leave a message -"
He hung up.
He sat with his mouth twitching.
On second thought he redialed that number.
"When Miss Helen Arasumian comes home," he said, "tell her to go to hell.
Tags: humor loneliness desperation
At times I feel like a socket that remembers its tooth.
Saul BellowTags: loneliness
When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.
Octavio PazTags: individuality solitude communication loneliness selfhood
My fear of loneliness is like a disease.
Irene TomkinsonTags: fear solitude loneliness
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