#loneliness

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

— Norman Cousins

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Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found. ↗

— Claire Danes

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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? ↗

— George Eliot

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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account. ↗

— Alice Walker

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Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are. ↗

— Tom Hanks

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There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while. ↗

— Tom Hanks

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But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44. ↗

— Tom Hanks

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The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way. ↗

— Janet Fitch

#intelligence