Joseph Conrad Novelist, Short Story Writer “It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun. It is as if loneliness were a hard and absolute condition of existence; the envelope of flesh and blood on which our eyes are fixed melts before the outstretched hand, and there remains only the capricious, unconsolable and elusive spirit that no eye can follow, no hand can grasp.” Eye Stars Loneliness ♥ 4
John Keats Poet “Closer of lovely eyes to lovely dreams, Lover of loneliness, and wandering, Of upcast eye, and tender pondering! Thee must I praise above all other glories That smile us on to tell delightful stories.” Dream Eye Loneliness ♥ 4
Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun “Of all the diseases I have known, loneliness is the worst.” Loneliness Disease ♥ 4
Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun “Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty.” Feelings Use ♥ 4
JM Jocelyn Murray Author, Historian “Hate engenders loneliness and despair” Hate Loneliness Despair ♥ 4
Matsuo Basho Poet “The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, "I shall be unhappy without loneliness," shows that he made loneliness his master.” Facts Loneliness Unhappy ♥ 4
Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun “On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.” Spiritual Loneliness Poverty ♥ 4
E. M. Forster Novelist, Essayist “He stretched out his hands as he sang, sadly, because all beauty is sad…The poem had done no ‘good’ to anyone, but it was a passing reminder, a breath from the divine lips of beauty, a nightingale between two worlds of dust. Less explicit than the call to Krishna, it voiced our loneliness nevertheless, our isolation, our need for the Friend who never comes yet is not entirely disproved.” Hands Loneliness Dust ♥ 3
Banana Yoshimoto Novelist “Why were we so far apart, even when we were together? It was a nice loneliness, like the sensation of washing your face in cold water.” Nice Water Loneliness ♥ 3
Paulo Coelho Writer “Join with those who sing, tell stories, talk pleasure in life, and have joy in their eyes, because joy is contagious, and can prevent others from becoming paralysed by depression, loneliness and difficulties.” Eye Joy Loneliness ♥ 3
Pema Chodron Buddhist Teacher, Author “It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is a part of being alive, something we all share. We react against the possibility of loneliness, of death, of not having anything to hold on to. Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.” Moving Alive Loneliness ♥ 3
