RB Russell Baker Writer “I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.” Years Lonely Loneliness ♥ 7
F. Scott Fitzgerald Novelist “At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner -- young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.” Night Loneliness Twilight ♥ 7
Georges Bernanos Novelist, Essayist “No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.” Lonely Loneliness ♥ 7
Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist, Philosopher “I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.” Loneliness ♥ 7
Marcus Tullius Cicero Politician, Philosopher, Orator “I am never less alone than when alone.” Loneliness Solitude ♥ 7
Nassim Nicholas Taleb Author, Statistician “Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.” Suffering Emotional Loneliness ♥ 7
Hannah Arendt Philosopher, Political Theorist “Men who no longer can make sure of the reality which they feel and experience through talking about it and sharing it with their fellow-men, live in the same nightmare of loneliness and uncertainty which, in a normal world, is the terrible fate of insanity.” Reality Fate Loneliness ♥ 7
Ingmar Bergman Film Director, Screenwriter “I think I'm Swedish because I like to live here on this island. You can't imagine the loneliness and isolation in this country. In that way, I'm very Swedish - I don't dislike to be alone.” Thinking Country Loneliness ♥ 7
Mario Vargas Llosa Novelist, Essayist “Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.” Memories Lonely Loneliness ♥ 7
John Steinbeck Novelist, Journalist “A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling or teaching or ordering. Rather he seeks to establish a relationship of meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.” Stars Teaching Loneliness ♥ 7
MS Morrie Schwartz Professor, Author “All right, that was my moment with loneliness. I'm not afraid of feeling lonely, but now I'm going to put that loneliness aside and know that there are other emotions in the world, and I'm going to experience them as well.” Feelings Lonely Loneliness ♥ 7
Johanna van Gogh-Bonger Art Dealer “I am not without an object in life, but I feel lonely and deserted.” Feels Lonely Loneliness ♥ 7
