Quotes about loneliness
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David Pearce (philosopher) photo

“My own sense of how to behave in a simulation has more traditional roots in the theory of perception. I’ve long believed that each of us lives in an egocentric simulation of the world run by the mind/brain. Since the zombies of each (waking) simulation have sentient real world counterparts, one should treat them as though they were real. Nonetheless as an angst-ridden teenager, my dawning acceptance of an inferential realist theory of perception made me feel as if I’d been condemned to solitary confinement for life. The sense of loneliness was indescribable. Naïve realism is better for one’s mental health.”

David Pearce (philosopher) (1959) British transhumanist

" Origins and Theory of the World Transhumanist Association https://ieet.org/index.php/IEET2/more/bostrom20071226", Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, 26 Dec. 2007

Health , World , Sense , Life
Luís de Camões photo

“Love is a fire that burns unseen,
A wound that aches yet isn't felt,
An always discontent contentment,
A pain that rages without hurting,A longing for nothing but to long,
A loneliness in the midst of people,
A never feeling pleased when pleased,
A passion that gains when lost in thought.It's being enslaved of your own free will;
It's counting your defeat a victory;
It's staying loyal to your killer.But if it's so self-contradictory,
How can Love, when Love chooses,
Bring human hearts into sympathy?”

Luís de Camões book Rhythmas de Lvis de Camoes

Rimas, Sonnet 81 (as translated by Richard Zenith)
Listen to the poem in Portuguese https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ToldDy8izc&feature=youtu.be&t=33s
Lyric poetry, Não pode tirar-me as esperanças, Amor é fogo que arde sem se ver
Original: (pt) <p> Amor é um fogo qu'arde sem se ver,
É ferida que dói, e não se sente,
É um contentamento descontente,
É dor que desatina sem doer.</p><p>É um não querer mais que bem querer,
É um andar solitário entre a gente,
É nunca contentar-se de contente,
É um cuidar que ganha em se perder.</p><p>É querer estar preso por vontade,
É servir a quem vence o vencedor
É ter com quem nos mata lealdade.</p><p>Mas como causar pode seu favor
Nos corações humanos amizade,
Se tão contrário a si é o mesmo Amor?</p>

Hurt , Pain , Victory , People
Diane Ackerman photo

“Consciousness, the great poem of matter, seems so unlikely, so impossible, and yet here we are with our loneliness and our giant dreams.”

Diane Ackerman book A Natural History of the Senses

Source: A Natural History of the Senses (1990), Chapter 3 “Taste” (p. 130)

Dreams
Paulo Coelho photo

“Sometimes, when loneliness seems about to crush everything, the only way to resist is to keep on loving.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Love has always passed me by

Way , Love

“If night were a thief, it would be steal my happiness or my dreams of life. Maybe she doesn't know that I don't have anything special that she can steal. He finds nothing under my pillow except my sorrows.
If she looks around, she would have found a shining chest kept in a dark corner, when she open it, she would find nothing but my loneliness. she had to go empty handed with remorse.”

Shabdon Ka Jahan
Happiness , Night , Dreams , Life
Michael Ian Black photo

“The thing nobody ever tells you about marriage is that sometimes it makes you lonelier than being alone ever could.”

Michael Ian Black (1971) American comedian, actor, writer, and director

Michael Ian Black, You're Not Doing It Right, Simon & Schuster, 2012. p.159-160

Marriage

“Men build all kinds of worlds in order to defeat fear and loneliness.”

Jack Cady book The Night We Buried Road Dog

Source: The Night We Buried Road Dog (1993), p. 502

World , Fear , Men
Prevale photo

“Life communicates in a strange way: it does so through signals and codes. You think you already know them all, but you don't. Each person who enters your life teaches you a new word: affection, friendship, trust, competition, success, love, pleasure, respect, longing, loneliness, courage, betrayal, disappointment…. My favourite words have always been love, pleasure, respect and trust; the last one I learnt was courage.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La vita comunica in modo strano: lo fa attraverso segnali e codici. Pensate di conoscerli già tutti, ma non è così. Ogni persona che entra nella vostra vita vi insegna una nuova parola: affetto, amicizia, fiducia, competizione, successo, amore, piacere, rispetto, desiderio, solitudine, coraggio, tradimento, delusione... . Le mie parole preferite sono sempre state amore, piacere, rispetto e fiducia; l'ultima che ho imparato è stata coraggio.
Source: prevale.net

Friendship , Personality , Communication , Pleasure
Prevale photo

“Honor to single people, which, despite the loneliness hurts, do not fill it with just anyone.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Onore alle persone single, le quali, nonostante la solitudine faccia male, non la riempiono con chiunque.
Source: prevale.net

Hurt , People
Prevale photo

“Loneliness is not a punishment, but a choice. A choice that simply shows you who stays, when you stop being useful.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La solitudine non è una punizione, ma una scelta. Una scelta che ti mostra semplicemente chi resta, quando smetti di essere utile.
Source: prevale.net

Prevale photo

“Everything you are experiencing today: the struggle, the misunderstanding, the fatigue, even that sense of loneliness, will not be in vain. In the darkest moments, sow. And even if everything seems still, something will already be growing underground. One day it will blossom, powerful and wild, and it will be your name that glitter.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Tutto ciò che state vivendo oggi: la lotta, l'incomprensione, la fatica, persino quel senso di solitudine, non sarà vano. Nei momenti più bui, seminate. E anche se tutto vi sembrerà fermo, qualcosa starà già crescendo sottoterra. Un giorno sboccerà, potente e selvaggio, e sarà il vostro nome a brillare.
Source: prevale.net

Sense