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Quotes of the Day for 9 October 2004 - Loneliness

By subscriber request, today's theme is Loneliness. I've been there, it hurts. In my experience, activity helps, even solitary activity. With seven billion people on the planet, you can bet that it will pass.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely, or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature, and God. Because only there does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
     - Anne Frank, 1929 - 1945

Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.
     - Blaise Pascal, 1623 - 1662

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself.
     - Carl Gustav Jung, 1875 - 1961

What a lovely surprise to discover how un-lonely being alone can be.
     - Ellen Burstyn

The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness.
     - Norman Cousins, 1915 - 1990

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
     - Jules Renard, 1864 - 1910

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