Zitat des Tages über Einsamkeit / Loneliness:
Peter Pan is kind of this metaphor for someone or something that makes you feel at home, that brings you out of loneliness, that makes you free. And that's exactly what music does for me.
It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.
I love my mother the most in the world. She has seen a lot of poverty and loneliness and is very simple. Whenever I am in trouble, I go far away from her, as she is not at all strong. If I see her breaking, I break.
If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.
I think I'd like to be able to heal people's pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever.
Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.
One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.
The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
One major challenge within happiness is loneliness. The more I've learned about happiness, the more I've come to believe that loneliness is a terrible, common, and important obstacle to consider.
As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.
I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
Maybe true love isn't out there for me, but I can sublimate my loneliness with the notion that true love is out there for someone.
If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore.
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This loneliness is different from being 'alone': You can be lonely even surrounded by people. The feeling I'm talking about stems from the sense that we can never fully share the truth of who we are. I experienced this acutely at an early age.
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
My sense of loneliness was not particularly great until I reached sixty. From that time on, I would have given an ex-king's ransom if I had been able, in my youth to seduce a lady into thinking of me as a handyman and provider around the house.
No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
Some days, 24 hours is too much to stay put in, so I take the day hour by hour, moment by moment. I break the task, the challenge, the fear into small, bite-size pieces. I can handle a piece of fear, depression, anger, pain, sadness, loneliness, illness. I actually put my hands up to my face, one next to each eye, like blinders on a horse.
Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.
A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.
There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.
Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
The surest sign of age is loneliness.
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
I make a genuine distinction between loneliness and aloneness. I know what each is like. There are times I'm lonely. But there are also many times when I need to be alone, when I don't want the feeling of someone else in the house other than the cats.
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
Fame doesn't end loneliness.