Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?
God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
Man finally knows that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the Universe, from which he emerged by accident.
Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?
It's really hard to do this life - to be a human being alone.
It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today.
For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor.
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely.
I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love.
that pathetic short-cut suggested by Nature the supreme joker as a remedy for our loneliness, that ephemeral communion which we persuade ourselves to be of the spirit when it is in fact only of the body - durable not even in memory!
