William Goldman Screenwriter, Novelist “When I left you, you were already more beautiful than anything I dared to dream. In our years apart, my imaginings did their best to improve on your perfection. At night, your face was forever behind my eyes. And now I see that that vision who kept me company in my loneliness was a hag compared to the beauty now before me.” Dream Beautiful Loneliness ♥ 3
WW Woodrow Wilson Politician “There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for others as well as for himself, for a nation as well as for individuals. That privacy no man can intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit for the right perhaps no man can assist.” Destiny Lonely Loneliness ♥ 3
T. E. Lawrence Writer, Archaeologist, Military Officer “I had dropped one form and not taken on the other, and was become like Mohammed's coffin in our legend, with a resultant feeling of intense loneliness in life, and a contempt, not for other men, but for all they do.” Men Taken Loneliness ♥ 3
TE Tamer El Said Filmmaker “For me, filmmaking is an ongoing self-reflection process. I kind of push everything to the edge. I feel very exposed and fragile when I make a film. It's a process of dealing with loneliness. And it's also very dramatic - because while you are working on a film, you just realize how incapable you are of dealing with all these things. And you open yourself up, and it's like your heart is utterly exposed. And it's very tiring on a daily basis.” Heart Kind Loneliness ♥ 3
Tao Lin Author and Poet “loneliness can fly a helicopter through a cut-out shape of a helicopter the same size as the helicopter and that's it's only skill and it isn't good enough but it's still amazing.” Cutting Skills Loneliness ♥ 3
Rainer Maria Rilke Poet, Novelist “There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for any kind of sociability, however trivial or cheap, for the tiniest outward agreement with the first person who comes along.” Loneliness Solitude Agreement ♥ 3
Rainer Maria Rilke Poet, Novelist “Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism.” Art Loneliness Criticism ♥ 3
Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter “It was a time of great loneliness. He had a group of friends, and suddenly I had no one and did not understand why. I felt excluded. Some days, the majority was in high school and did not know who to talk to. And that is something really terrible when you're twelve years old.” Years School Loneliness ♥ 3
Samuel Beckett Playwright, Novelist “Until the day when, your endurance gone, in this world for you without arms, you catch up in yours the first mangy cur you meet, carry it for the time needed for it to love it and you it, then throw it away.” Love Loneliness Despair ♥ 3
Vincent Van Gogh Painter “For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear.” Worry Kindness Loneliness ♥ 3
Vinessa Shaw Actress “I believe that dialogue is the key to breaking through our tendency to separate and isolate. Dialogue changes isolation and loneliness into connection and interdependence. This, I believe, is the essence of Buddhism.” Believe Buddhism Loneliness ♥ 3
Rainer Maria Rilke Poet, Novelist “Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness.” Art Loneliness Infinite ♥ 3
