This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann or Marian Evans
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
Character | Distrust | Loneliness |
Every man is an island. Each person radiates feelings to others, but ultimately we are alone. For me, the essence of life is how we handle our loneliness. There are moments when we manage to resolve this loneliness through personal relationships, especially through love. But there are also certain situations in which you feel truly alone, when even words and affection cannot ease your fears.
Character | Feelings | Life | Life | Loneliness | Love | Man | Words |
Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
Joseph Conrad, born Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski
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.
Illusion | Loneliness | Memory | Terror | Wisdom |
At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
Loneliness | Self | Wisdom |
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
One ought to love society, if he wishes to enjoy solitude. It is a social nature that solitude works upon with the most various power. If one is misanthropic, and betakes himself to loneliness that he may get away from hateful things, solitude is a silent emptiness to him.
Loneliness | Love | Nature | Power | Society | Solitude | Wisdom | Wishes |
Loneliness is a game of pretense, for the essential loneliness is an escape from an inescapable God.
God | Loneliness |
D. W. Harding, fully Denys Clement Wyatt Harding
A necessary quality for the attainment of individuality is the ability to tolerate some degree of loneliness in the sense of independent adherence to values that those around you will not support.
Ability | Attainment | Individuality | Loneliness | Sense | Will |
The secret to overcoming a feeling of loneliness is not gong outside to meet people. That will only keep you from being alone. The secret is going inside yourself, to realize your true kinship with God and with all the human beings that he created.
God | Loneliness | People | Will | God |
The most isolating form of loneliness is not to be apart from people; it is to be apathetic to them, to be indifferent to them, to feel unrelated to them.
Loneliness | People |
Its effects on the soul is to be measured neither by the guilt nor by the temporal punishment inexorably fixed, but by that deep sense of loneliness it brings with it.
Guilt | Loneliness | Punishment | Sense | Soul |
Jim Lovell, fully James "Jim" Arthur Lovell
The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring - the earth from here is a vast ovation to the big vastness of space.
Awe | Earth | Loneliness | Space |
When one has too many answers, and when on ejoins a chorus of others chanting the same slogans, there is, it seems to me, a danger that one is trying to evade the loneliness of a conscience that realizes itself to be in an inescapably evil situation. We are under judgment.
Conscience | Danger | Evil | Judgment | Loneliness | Danger |
Amelia Earhart, fully Amelia Mary Earhart
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear, nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear the sound of wings.
Courage | Fear | Joy | Life | Life | Little | Loneliness | Peace | Price | Soul | Sound |
Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
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.
Desire | Loneliness | Love | Means | Men |
A book can give greater riches than any; other form of recreation but it cannot provide the last answers. They must be found in the loneliness of a man's own mind. Books can help a man be ready for those moments. But neither books nor teachers can provide the answers.
Books | Loneliness | Man | Mind | Recreation | Riches | Riches |