#loneliness

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

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

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. ↗

— Henry Miller

#alone #always #artist #loneliness #needs

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#drop #else #everyone #falling #hostility

The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#age #become #creates #generation #greater

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#contributor #country #family #gets #happens

Dinner conversations with telemarketers are so much livelier than saying you’re not interested and then checking your new message afterwards. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #loneliness #phones #telemarketing #funny

For better or worse, she was the lady Soraya. And the lady Soraya would never dream of missing the warm bulk of Casia's body between her and the hearth, or the comforting drone of Ludo's snores. Or the wry laughter of a slave... a slave, for Azura's sake! The lady Soraya needed no one. The lady Soraya cried herself to sleep. ↗

— Hilari Bell

#loneliness #soraya #dreams

As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio. ↗

— Jason Schwartzman

#angeles #as far as #because #city #drive

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness. ↗

— Jason Schwartzman

#alone #also #being #being alone #bonding