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Some quotes from (more or less) important people

• The lonely person is at home everywhere.
• The palace leads to fame, the market to fortune, and loneliness to wisdom.
• Strife is better than loneliness.
• Loneliness breaks the spirit.
• Loneliness is a nest for the thoughts.
• In a choice between bad company and loneliness — the second is preferable.
• Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
• I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.
• It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
• 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 the universal problem of rich people.
• Loneliness is the first thing which God’s eye named, not good
• Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.
• No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
• If you are afraid of being lonely, don’t try to be right.
• If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
• My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.* Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness. * We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.
• Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
• 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.
• There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
• The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
• It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.
• We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.

from: medawarcorner.wordpress.com