#lone

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#joke #listen #lonesome #medium #millions

Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before. ↗

— Ben Folds

#before #ever #feeling #found #i

These roads do not serve transportation alone, they also bind our Fatherland. ↗

— Fritz Todt

#also #bind #fatherland #our #roads

We're all in this alone. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#alone #body #brain #dream #every

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#black #contained #ever #experience #father

Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#curriculum #do you know #find #fit #group

But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time. ↗

— Bulent Ecevit

#army #building #economic #hopefully #just

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

— Paul Valery

#companion #created #feel #finding #gave

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#eternal #his #human #human being #individual