Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

The most difficult part for me is feeling connected to the people that I love but always being on the go to different places.

What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?

The entire time I was in Portland, which was the five years, I had absolutely no contact with any of my family.

My abiding theme is separations.

I'm used to living in a disassociated universe.

Everything else outside me seems far, far away.

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

Those reflective moments for me usually come from loneliness and separation from people.

I hate the feeling when I'm overseas, away from Australia, that I'm trapped, blocked by an ocean from getting to the people I love. That gives me anxiety.

To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.

They had stopped now and he gave a glance up at the sky, through the trees, as though to see how much time was left. Amber, watching him, was suddenly struck with panic. Now he was going--out again into that great world with its bustle and noise and excitement--and she must stay here. She had a terrible new feeling of loneliness, as if she stood in some solitary corner at a party where she was the only stranger. Those places he had seen, she would never see; those fine things he had done, she would never do. But worst of all she would never see him again.

I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone.

Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.

It is sad that the air is the only thing we share. No matter how close we get to each other, there is always air between us.

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.

We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.

What goes by the name of love is banishment, with now and then a postcard from the homeland, such is my considered opinion, this evening.

Now we're like planets, holding to each other from a great distance. [...] Now we're hundreds of miles apart, our short arms keep us lonely, no one hears what's in my head. [...] It's March, even the birds don't know what to do with themselves.

You said you're going far away," Tamaru said. "How far away are we talking about?" "It's a distance that can't be measured." "Like the distance that separates one person's heart from another's.

In the end, the only thing between us was silence.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.

I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above-- Know that you aren't alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.

We found ourselves veiled and separated from our friends.

Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.