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He [Kierkegaard] suffers from one great literary defect, which is often found in lonely geniuses: he... Video

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He [Kierkegaard] suffers from one great literary defect, which is often found in lonely geniuses: he never knows when to stop. Lonely people are apt to fall in love with the sound of their own voice, as Narcissus fell in love with his reflection, not out of conceit but out of despair of finding another who will listen and respond.
Auden, Wystan Hugh
Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.
W. H. Auden
As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.
Daniel J. Boorstin
There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.
Esra, Abraham Ibn
We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.
Unknown, Source
Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.
Bowen, Elizabeth
It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.
Eliot, George
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.
Mansfield, Katherine
There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man -- that is, the more divine -- the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
Unamuno, Miguel De
Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.
Suso, Heinrich
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