Robert Bly Quotes

but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.

Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the Other.

The missing crowds make you lonely. You begin to complain about all the people you could be meeting. But no one listens or sympathizes with you, because this is precisely what you chose when you were alive.

I'm very happy and lonely single old man - and bitter.

Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

I had miracles. I had angels.

When you think about climate change, that means that we won't have an Earth to be lonely on.

I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough

I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you're single among a room full of couples.

Loneliness surrounds me without your arms around me.

They are very young. And on their earth, as they call it, they never communicate with other planets. They revolve about all alone in space." "Oh," the thin beast said. "Aren't they lonely?

Loneliness and solitude are two different things. When you are lonely, it is easy to delude yourself into believing that you are on the right path. Solitude is better for us, as it means being alone without feeling lonely. But eventually it is best to find a person, the person who will be your mirror. Remember, only in another person's heart can you truly see yourself and the presence of God within you.

I've been so lonely for long periods of my life that if a rat walked in I would have welcomed it.

In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.

He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.

Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?

A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.

I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone.

Solitude is bearable only with God.

If I am ever to find these trees meaningful I must have you by the hand. As it is, they stretch dusty fingers into an obscure sky, and the snow looks up like a face dirtied with tears. Should I cry out and see what happens? There could only be a stranger wandering in this landscape, cold, unfortunate, himself frozen fast in wintry eyes.

…I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes that goes to my heart.

Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.

There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely.