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"Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work."
"Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation, and sadness. And our public life lies in shambles, shot through with icy cynicism and paralyzing pessimism. To put it bluntly, beneath the record-breaking stock markets on Wall Street and bipartisan budget-balancing deals in the White House lurk ominous clouds of despair across this nation."
"When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone."
"Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again."
"..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask."
"We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers."
"I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does."
"Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness."
"The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself."
"There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!"
"Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday."
"And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness."
"There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself."
"Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well."
"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god."
"Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits."
"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self."
"I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself."
"We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness."
"In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die."
