Category: LONELINESS & SOLITUDE

  • In time I recognized this, that I was lonely, and that my loneliness was entirely self-inflicted, but by the time I did I couldn’t do anything about it. I felt weighed down by some kind of heavier gravity. I felt like a satellite that’d fallen out of orbit — slowly drifting away into darkness, further and further away from the place I used to be.

    The Irony Of Loneliness, By Daniel Moore

  • “I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in … but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.”

    —Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

  • Sam Fender – People Watching

  • Love in the Afternoon (1972)

  • I fell silent, with a sense of satiety, of futility. I might, I reflected, go on questioning my mother for hours and still not come to a conclusion about anything: her life, and she herself, had by now attained a degree of utter meaninglessness which amounted, in the long run, to a sort of mystery at the same time both dull and impenetrable.

    Boredom
    Alberto Moravia

  • You have a lovely text threads with friends from your childhood or your 20s that pop off every few days.

    But let’s be real: it’s just not enough. When you let yourself think about it, you feel incredibly isolated.

    The Dark Heart of Individualism
    Anne Helen Petersen

  • “The world is weary of me, and I am weary of it.” 

    —Charles D’Orleans

  • “Could I too choose to make the pain stop by staying busy? Eventually, the action was over and everyone had to go home. There is always a point when the doing ends, and then we are faced with the deafening and horrendous silence that is our thoughts.”

    —Joe Watson Jr., The End of Despair

  • I always felt two whiskeys in while everybody I talked to was as polished as a news anchor.

    —Donald Miller, Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy

  • “So in every test, let us say: ‘Thank you, my God, because this was needed for my salvation.’”

    —Elder Paisios of Mount Athos