Pastoral Resources

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.

The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.

The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness.

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.