Pastoral Resources

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease.

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

Fame doesn't end loneliness.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

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

I would have to say loneliness is next to uncleanliness.

In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.