Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.

Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

When you feel totally alone in your thoughts and feelings, there's someone out there who is going through what you went through, even if it's the strangest, weirdest thing you could think of.

If you're understood in maybe, I don't know, 60% of your soul by your partner, that's fantastic. Don't expect that it's going to be 100%. Of course you will be lonely.

Sometimes things happen in life, and you kind of need a friend.

I think people come to my music just to feel less lonely.

I think everyone should definitely know they're not alone.

I have always been very interested in the idea of loneliness and the presumption that romantic relationships are supposed to rid you of that.

My mom keeps khabar of everything, so I don't feel lonely.

What women want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What men want: Tickets to the World Series.

A man needed somebody. There wasn't anybody around, so you had to make up somebody, make him up to be like a man should be. It wasn't make-believe or cheating. The other way was make-believe and cheating: living your life without a man like him around.

I cannot cure everybody. I cannot help everybody. But to tell the lonely person that I am not far or different from that lonely person, that I am with him or her, that's all I think we can do and we should do.

Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.

The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely.

I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn't such a bad feeling. It was like the stillness of the pin oak after the little birds had flown off.

It's because I'm alone.. If I could just feel it, it would be different, because I would not be alone. But if I were not alone, everybody would know it. And he could do so much for me, and then I would not be alone. Then I could be all right alone.

When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.

Music is your only friend until the end...

How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately?

Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

Genuine love will always feel urged to communicate joy - to be a joy-giver. Mankind needs joy.

I don't know if anyone has noticed but I only ever write about one thing: being alone. The fear of being alone, the desire to not be alone, the attempts we make to find our person, to keep our person, to convince our person to not leave us alone, the joy of being with our person and thus no longer alone, the devastation of being left alone. The need to hear the words: You are not alone.

It's proper that people have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely.

When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.