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.”
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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.”
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“Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”
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“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.”
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“The narrow way is difficult, and it can be very lonely.”
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“Be alone—that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born.”
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We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
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It is the loneliness of longing for the love that is God, the loneliness that follows saying ‘no’ to the easy path so you can say ‘yes’ to the good one.
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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.
SO GOOD QUOTES 