Pastoral Resources

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.

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

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.

If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth.

The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.