“Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused.”
Source: Forever Odd (2005), Chapter 21; musings of Odd Thomas
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“People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this world’s worst kind of pain.”
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Source: Complete Prose of Marianne Moore
“Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.”
Variant translation: Friendship needs no words — it is a loneliness relieved of the anguish of loneliness.
Markings (1964)
The Human Comedy (1943)
Context: Everything is changed — for you. But it is still the same, too. The loneliness you feel has come to you because you are no longer a child. But the whole world has always been full of that loneliness. The loneliness does not come from the War. The War did not make it. It was the loneliness that made the War.