Loneliness is a prerequisite
Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone. Gao Xingjian
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Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone. Gao Xingjian
Goodbye, you who are, for me, the postmarks again of shattered towns–Xenia, Burnt Cabins, Hornell– their loneliness given away in poems, only their solitude kept. Galway Kinnell
The worst thing baldness causes is loneliness. Gail Porter
Often, feelings of sadness, uneasiness, and loneliness are vague and unattached to specific events. This makes it more challenging to find ways to turn you mood around. When you find yourself in a funk, focus on what you’re feeling. G. Alan Marlatt
If one’s object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York; there is practically no extreme of heat or cold, physical risk, loneliness, hunger or thirst that cannot, with a little ingenuity, be conveniently achieved in the centres of civilization. Evelyn Waugh
…to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that can not be ravaged in the dark without great consequence. Eve Ensler
To love women, to love our vaginas, to know them and touch them and be familiar with who we are and what we need. To satisfy ourselves, to teach our lovers to satisfy us, to be present in our vaginas, to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness … Read more
The survival of the fittest is going to make some man very lonesome some day. Evan Esar
Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood – it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book. Eva Ibbotson
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life. Eugene O’Neill