Divine Loneliness Quotes

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

Hitler is lonely. So is God. Hitler is like God.

Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!

And God stepped out on space, and He looked around and said: I'm lonely - I'll make me a world.

Why did god create a dual universe? So he might say ‘Be not like me. I am alone.' And it might be heard.

There are many men who are forgotten, who are despised, and who are trampled on by their fellows, but there never was a man who was so despised as the everlasting God has been!

The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to.

I think he is condemned by himself to loneliness. God is One: he was, he is, he will be always One. One is so lonely. Maybe that is why he created human beings--to feel less lonely. But as human beings betray his creation, he may become even lonelier.

There is no one lonelier than God!

...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the real Unitarians who with scimitar in hand have laid waste the world. For it is not well for God to be alone.