When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death – ourselves.
Tag: loneliness,
Quote from Isabelle Eberhardt, The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt
Quote from Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper
Quote from Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!
Quote from John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love
Quote from Evan Sutter, Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World
We all need a technological detox; we need to throw away our phones and computers instead of using them as our pseudo-defence system for anything that comes our way. We need to be bored and not have anything to use to shield the boredom away from us. We need to be lonely and see what it is we really feel when we are. If we continue to distract ourselves so we never have to face the realities in front of us, when the time comes and you are faced with something bigger than what your phone, food, or friends can fix, you will be in big trouble.
Quote from Mario Fingarov
Quote from Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and other stories
Quote from Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you’d be doomed. You’d be as ruined as God. You’d be a stone. You’d never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You’d never love anyone, ever again. You’d never dare to.