Source: A Natural History of the Senses (1990), Chapter 3 “Taste” (p. 130)
“At our age, loneliness can seem so permanent.”
This is Where I Leave You
Last update June 3, 2021.
History
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "At our age, loneliness can seem so permanent." by Jonathan Tropper?
Jonathan Tropper 38
American writer 1970Related quotes
Peter Porter
(1929–2010) British poet
"The Historians Call Up Pain", first collected in Once Bitten, Twice Bitten (1961); cited from Edward Lucie-Smith and Philip Hobsbaum (eds.) A Group Anthology (London: Oxford University Press, 1963) p. 83.
“Loneliness, her arch enemy, never seemed content.”
David Brin
book
Glory Season
Source: Glory Season (1993), Chapter 9 (p. 150)
Variant: There is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
“Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem—in my opinion—to characterize our age.”
Albert Einstein
(1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
"The Common Language of Science", a broadcast for Science, Conference, London, 28 September 1941. Published in Advancement of Science, London, Vol. 2, No. 5. Reprinted in Ideas and Opinions (1954), the quote appearing on this page http://books.google.com/books?id=OeUoXHoAJMsC&lpg=PP1&pg=PT357#v=onepage&q&f=false.
1940s
Emil M. Cioran
(1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
Source: On the Heights of Despair (1934)