Quotes About Aloneness

years later, I still wanted to give up friend, love, starry skies, for a house where no one was home, no one coming back, and all I could drink.

leave me. And it was a great sense of relief. The

A person gets used to being alone, but break it just for a day and you have to get used to it again, all over from the beginning.

No worries about money, success, fear, joy, pain, sorrow, sex, or love. Absolute zero. No father, mother, girlfriend, lover. The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wings. - Garraty's thoughts on death and dying, The Long walk

There wasn't a single thing in there that reminded me of my existence.

One of the down-side factors to living alone is that you sometimes get overly absorbed with how exact segments of time are consumed, and can begin to feel a pleasure with life that is hopelessly tinged with longing.

Was being seen the cost of the right to see? No, the worst of it was that my fate was too personal, too special. Unlike hunger, unrequited love, unemployment, sickness, bankruptcy, natural calamity, criminal exposure, my suffering was nothing I endured in common with other men. My misfortune was forever mine alone. Anyone at all could disregard me completely without feeling the slightest twinge of conscience. And I was not even permitted to protest that disregard.

almost everybody I met gave me, ungrudging, only affability. As long as things did not go any further, everyone put up a fine show. ... Shut off by a wall of affability, I was always completely alone.

Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and in that man I will show you one who will never be admitted into heaven.

As I go about I see a lot of "coffin" men. They have room for themselves and nobody else.

All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night.

Mother my friends are no longer my friends And the games we once played have no meaning I've gone serious and shy and they can't figure why So they've left me to my own daydreaming.

Loneliness is a poison, but aloneness is a catalyst.

Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy as a loon." Lisa Simpson

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

Aloneness is the presence of oneself. Aloneness is very positive... You are so full of presence that you can fill the whole universe with your presence and there is no need for anybody.

Worse, Lee felt isolated. In Texas he skipped meals with others to avoid "uninteresting men," wishing he was back by his campfire on the plains eating his meals alone.211 He avoided sharing quarters and found that he "would infinitely prefer my tent to my-self."212 In a group he felt more alone than out on the prairie, and that "my pleasure is derived from my own thoughts.

All that could happen was alone with me and I was alone with it.

Loneliness is dangerous ... because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self.

Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.

Out of that aloneness - the experience of God. There is no other way; there has never been any and there is never going to be.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly

But he was absolutely alone. No one ever wrote to him. Visited him. Totally alone. And I believe the happiest man I have ever met.

If you don't Understand the color of Darkness and Loneliness Then you must be Blind