#loneliness

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. ↗

— Paul Tillich

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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? ↗

— George Eliot

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Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. ↗

— Paul Tillich

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Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there. ↗

— Joss Whedon

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The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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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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Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay. ↗

— William Styron

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