Rainer Maria Rilke Poet, Novelist “The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up,as if orchards were dying high in space.Each leaf falls as if it were motioning "no."And tonight the heavy earth is fallingaway from all other stars in the loneliness.We're all falling. This hand here is falling.And look at the other one. It's in them all.And yet there is Someone, whose handsinfinitely calm, holding up all this falling.” Fall Stars Loneliness ♥ 6
Ram Dass Spiritual Teacher, Author “Aging has its own beauty. It is a beautiful stage for doing inner work. You have a chance to not be so dependent on social approval. You can be a little more eccentric. You can be more alone. And you can examine loneliness and boredom instead of being afraid of them. There is such an art and a possibility of aging.” Art Beautiful Loneliness ♥ 6
Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father “One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.” Travel Loneliness ♥ 6
Yoko Ono Artist, Musician, Activist “Loneliness is equal to the radius of one's awareness.” Loneliness Awareness Equal ♥ 6
Vincent Van Gogh Painter “It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things—the thought of God comes into one's mind.” Mind God Loneliness ♥ 6
TF Tom Ford Fashion Designer “I think loneliness comes with being creative, because you are obsessed with creation. And it is so satisfying that sometimes, I have noticed, I completely neglect my friends and my family, and they fall away.” Thinking Fall Loneliness ♥ 6
Truman Capote Author, Journalist “...there was a blond misty boy sitting beside me, and he looked at me, and I at him, and we were not strangers: our hands moved towards each other to embrace. I never heard his voice, for we did not speak; it is a shame, I should so like the memory of it. Loneliness, like fever, thrives on night, but there with him light broke, breaking in the trees like birdsong, and when sunrise came, he loosened his fingers from mine, and walked away, that misty boy, my friend.” Night Memories Loneliness ♥ 6
Octavia Butler Author, Novelist “...I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away.” Knows Loneliness I Realized ♥ 6
L. Frank Baum Author “It's so kind of you to want to visit me in my loneliness. - The Wicked Witch of the West. Now I know I have a heart, because it's breaking. - The Tin Woodsman Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.” Heart Loneliness Wicked ♥ 6
F. Scott Fitzgerald Novelist “I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.” Night Loneliness Feeling Lonely ♥ 6
Henri Nouwen Theologian, Author “If you feel a great loneliness and a deep longing for human contact, you have to be extremely discerning...and ask yourself whether this situation is truly God given. Because where God wants you to be, God holds you safe and gives you peace, even when there is pain. To live a disciplined life is to live in such a way that you want only to be where God is with you. The more deeply you live your spiritual life, the easier it will be to discern the difference between living with God and living without God, and the easier it will be to move away from the places where God is no longer with you.” Spiritual Pain Loneliness ♥ 6
