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Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it read more
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.
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.
So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.
To be adult is to be alone.
To be adult is to be alone.
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
Be good and you will be lonely.
Be good and you will be lonely.
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.