Category: LONELINESS & SOLITUDE

  • “Sometimes all you need to do to cure your loneliness is to give yourself permission to enjoy the distinct pleasures of solitude.”

    —Ben Fishel

  • “For a lonely person crowds will often serve to amplify, not decrease, the loneliness.”

    —Eric Hyde

  • “The tweaking of us by God in the quiet is the saving of us in public.”

    —Lysa TerKeurst, Uninvited: Living Loved When You Feel Less Than, Left Out, and Lonely

  • But loneliness in marriage can be bitter. Caroline, now 47 and a successful writer, was married for 12 years to a man who, though never cruel, felt increasingly absent. “He was very gregarious,” she says, “always the life and soul of the party, but really very insecure. When we were alone, he would disappear into himself. He didn’t really either talk or listen. There was nothing I could put my finger on, but in a way that was the trouble: there was nothing.”

    In solitude what happiness?

  • As an introvert, living alone was the best decision I made. As a depressed person, living alone was the worst decision I made.

    Just Shower Thoughts

  • “Unless you first live a good life with people, you will not be able to live a good life alone either.”

    —Abba Lucius

  • “Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”

    —Charles Bukowski

  • “Language has created the word ‘loneliness’ to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word ‘solitude’ to express the glory of being alone.”

    —Paul Tillich

  • “The narrow way is difficult, and it can be very lonely.”

    —Archpriest Konstantine Feodoroff, Narrow is the Way

  • “Be alone—that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born.”

    —Nikola Tesla