#loneliness

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#hugs #illusion #knows #loneliness #lonely

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#being #being alone #expresses #glory #loneliness

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed. ↗

— Thomas Harris

#greed #loneliness #makes #more #nothing

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it. ↗

— John Huston

#coming #controlling #day #die #directing

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#gatherings #life #loneliness #simultaneously #writer

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#loneliness #surest #vanity

Hey, Hank, I notice all the women around your place lately ... good looking stuff; you're doing all right." "Sam," I say, "that's not true; I am one of God's most lonely men. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#life #loneliness #lonely #men #sex

How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of life--in short, without you, my life is no life. [Written to his wife, Mileva] ↗

— Albert Einstein

#enjoyment #everything #fulfillment #hollow #life

Friends are a strange, volatile, contradictory, yet sticky phenomenon. They are made, crafted, shaped, molded, created by focused effort and intent. And yet, true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless. Best friends are formed by time. Everyone is someone's friend, even when they think they are all alone. If the friendship is not working, your heart will know. It's when you start being less than perfectly honest and perfectly earnest in your dealings. And it's when the things you do together no longer feel right. However, sometimes it takes more effort to make it work after all. Stick around long enough to become someone's best friend. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#best-friend #best-friends #friend #friends #friendship

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

#been #central #every #every man #experience