#loneliness

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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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#friends #friendship #life #loneliness #friendship

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self. ↗

— Brendan Francis

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Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not. ↗

— Anna Neagle

#pleasant #solitude

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

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Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool. ↗

— Liv Ullmann

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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

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