For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people’s faces.
Quote from Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human Read More Ā»
I lay there with my mind running amuck, on the brink of madness. And somehow, gradually, early Sunday morning, I became calm. I can’t think of any other word for it. I was thinking about the beach poem again, and I started to feel that I was being looked after, that everything was OK. It was strange: if there was ever a time in my life when I had the right to feel alone this was it. But I lost that sense of loneliness. I felt like there was a force in the room with me, not a person, but I had a sense that there was another world, another dimension, and it would be looking after me. It was like, “This isn’t the only world, this is just one aspect of the whole thing, don’t imagine this is all there is.
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There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessnessālike how a person alone for too long cannot feel comfortable when with others; cannot neglect that underlying the feeling of belongingness is the certainty, really, of loneliness, and nothingness, and so experiences life in that hurried, worthless way one experiences a mistakeāhe could no longer get at.
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People would rather live in a community with unreasonable claims, than face loneliness with their truth
Quote from Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity Read More Ā»
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
Quote from Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Read More Ā»
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
Quote from Arthur C. Clarke Read More Ā»
Claiming to love self, but willingly default to cheating at the first sign of trouble is nothing short of playing yourself. Your ego may feel avenged – temporarily – but your heart and soul, the true self, will suffer the long term affects of karma’s justifiable sting.