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Venerable Bede · Loneliness

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Venerable Bede

And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

Knowledge

Henry David Thoreau

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Loneliness

James Baldwin

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid the state of being alone.

Loneliness

Sophocles

Time alone reveals the just man but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

Loneliness