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Quotes about loneliness
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No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness. (Bolger Ray)
Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man. (Bolger Ray)
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. Now and then a fatal conjunction of events may lift the veil for an instant. For an instant only. No human being could bear a steady view of moral solitude without going mad. (Bolger Ray)
The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness. (Bolger Ray)
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It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. (Bolger Ray)
Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself. (Bolger Ray)
There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself. (Bolger Ray)
In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely. (Bolger Ray)
We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone. (Bolger Ray)
I was never less alone than when by myself. (Bolger Ray)
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. (Bolger Ray)
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. (Bolger Ray)
It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God. (Bolger Ray)
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone. (Bolger Ray)
The essence of this man [Richard M. Nixon] is loneliness. (Bolger Ray)
Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome. (Bolger Ray)
We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them. (Bolger Ray)
To most people loneliness is a doom. Yet loneliness is the very thing which God has chosen to be one of the schools of training for His very own. It is the fire that sheds the dross and reveals the gold. (Bolger Ray)
All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers. (Bolger Ray)
In our extreme youth, in our most humiliating sorrow, we think we are alone. When we are older we find that others have suffered too. (Bolger Ray)
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. (Bolger Ray)
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man --the one he used to be. (Bolger Ray)
Strife is better than loneliness. (Bolger Ray)
Loneliness breaks the spirit. (Bolger Ray)
If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company. (Bolger Ray)
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