#eli

If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#meaning #smile #smiles #loneliness

I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#loneliness

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone. ↗

— George Gordon Byron

#solitude #loneliness

A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#passion #loneliness

It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored. ↗

— David Levithan

#loneliness #loneliness

I believe in whatever gets you throught the night. [...] Night is the hardest time to be alive. For me, anyway. It lasts so long, and four A.M.knows all my secrets. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#loneliness

Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort. ↗

— Anne Rice

#loneliness

He was possessed now with that obsession for the cross in which so many lips have worn themselves away on crucifixes. ↗

— Émile Zola

#religious-faith #faith

You take away whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#faith #god #religion #faith

The process of reconciliation implies that people who want to engage in interfaith cooperation should be prepared to reflect critically on their own religious tradition. They should also contemplate what place their own religious tradition assigns to people of other faith traditions. (by Cilliers, Ch. 3, p. 52) ↗

— David R. Smock

#religion #religious-differences #spirituality #faith