#loneliness

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#empathy #loneliness #love #love

Know this and know it more than you've ever bothered to understand anything before: I am, as lonely as they come. As empty as they make them. There is a reason my liver is filled with whiskey. A cloaked rhyme to why my lungs have fallen in love with smoke. I am lonely. But I have come to the conclusion that loneliness, no matter how often it weighs the soul, is sometimes, a beautiful thing. ↗

— Christopher Poindexter

#drink #loneliness #smoke #beauty

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#bookstore #buys #clears #every #him

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#forget #loneliness #out #politics #religion

The surest sign of age is loneliness. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#loneliness #sign #surest

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self. ↗

— Brendan Francis

#deep #innermost #loneliness #lost #powerful

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. ↗

— Ferdinand Marcos

#act #acting #alone #always #coin

While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life. ↗

— Josh McDowell

#contend #future #god #guilt #leave

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#activities #begin #beyond #deepest #desire

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool. ↗

— Liv Ullmann

#hollywood #loneliness #pool #swimming #swimming pool