Sunday, June 10, 2007

solitary confinement...

Aldous Huxley once wrote - 'our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement'. On same subject a few quotes from here and there...

- Loneliness has followed me my whole life, in bars and cars. I can't escape it. I'm God's lonely man. (From Taxi Driver)

- They're sharing a drink they call loneliness, but it's better than drinking alone.

- We suffer a lot in our society from loneliness. So much of our life is an attempt to not be lonely: 'Let's talk to each other; let's do things together so we won't be lonely.' And yet inevitably, we are really alone in these human forms. We can pretend; we can entertain each other; but that's about the best we can do. When it comes to the actual experience of life, we're very much alone; and to expect anyone else to take away our loneliness is asking too much.

- Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self.

- Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

- It doesn't matter how strong you are. No one can defeat loneliness.

- Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space.

- Life is very long when you're lonely.

- At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.

A little difference between solitude and loneliness. Solitude, technically, is more positive and enlightening than loneliness.

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