Lonelinesses
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Lonelinesses
Loneliness is a kind of tax we have to pay to atone for a certain complexity of mind”
Alain de Botton
Loneliness isn’t the physical absence of other people, he said—it’s the sense that you’re not sharing anything that matters with anyone else.
Johann Hari • Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions
So the sense of loneliness or aloneness is the real starting point for compassion.
Reginald A. Ray • In the Presence of Masters: Wisdom from 30 Contemporary Tibetan Buddhist Teachers
There are plenty of moments when we are in solitude, connected to nature or purpose or meaning, and we don’t feel lonely. There are also plenty when we are with other people and are what Vivek calls ‘emotionally alone’, as I had felt in former relationships.
Natasha Lunn • Conversations on Love: with Philippa Perry, Dolly Alderton, Roxane Gay, Stephen Grosz, Esther Perel, and many more
I guess maybe there’s a line between thinking of loneliness as something that can be noticed and interrogated, and loneliness as something that can be isolated and solved for...and the latter zone doesn’t sit right with me.
Can you be my friend.com
it was the escape from loneliness that brought sorrow, not the fact of loneliness, of death; grief was self-pity, not love.