GR Geneen Roth Author “We need to build our friendships on truth and wholeness. We need friends who can be with us in our loneliness, not people who will cheer us up so that we don’t feel it. We need friends who get furious with us when we are not being real or true to ourselves, not when we don’t do what they want us to do.” Real Loneliness Cheer ♥ 3
Margaret Fuller Transcendentalist, Writer “Tragedy is always a mistake; and the loneliness of the deepest thinker, the widest lover, ceases to be pathetic to us so soon as the sun is high enough above the mountains.” Mistake Loneliness Mountain ♥ 3
Haruki Murakami Writer “It made her think of Laika, the dog. The man-made satellite streaking soundlessly across the blackness of outer space. The dark, lustrous eyes of the dog gazing out the tiny window. In the infinite loneliness of space, what could the dog possibly be looking at?” Eye Dog Loneliness ♥ 3
Haruki Murakami Writer “Who can really distinguish between the sea and what's reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness?” Fall Rain Loneliness ♥ 3
Haruki Murakami Writer “In his or her own way, everyone I saw before me looked happy. Whether they were really happy or just looked it, I couldn't tell. But they did look happy on this pleasant early afternoon in late September, and because of that I felt a kind of loneliness new to me, as if I were the only one here who was not truly part of the scene.” Looks Loneliness Afternoon ♥ 3
George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic “Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.” Thinking Loneliness France ♥ 3
Gerald Carson Author “Let us remember with humility the loneliness of being man in a universe we do not understand and the vulnerability of the human condition. The animals could do very well without us, but we cannot do without them.” Nature Humility Loneliness ♥ 3
Leonard Cohen Singer-Songwriter “Shouldering your loneliness like a gun that you will not learn to aim, you stumble into this movie house then you climb, you climb into the frame.” Art Gun Loneliness ♥ 3
Leonard Cohen Singer-Songwriter “I noticed that when I was on Prozac my relationship with the landscape improved. I actually stopped thinking about myself for a minute or two, because most of the thoughts one has about oneself are involved with desire or loneliness or isolation or strategies to overcome them.” Thinking Two Loneliness ♥ 3
Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor “Look, it's a monster. He's walking alone. Look, he's pulling something out of his pocket. He threw it on the ground. Let's go see what it is. It's a black box. You open it... ok... Look, it's sorrow, misery and pain. It's loneliness and longing. Boy, he'll be sorry he lost these.” Pain Sorry Loneliness ♥ 3
Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer “In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.” Men Lonely Loneliness ♥ 3
Leonard Cohen Singer-Songwriter “When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned.” Feelings Loneliness Holy ♥ 3
