Wendell Berry Quotes About Loneliness

Quotes about: Loneliness

• We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness. True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner voices become audible. One feels the attraction of one’s most intimate sources. In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives. The more coherent one becomes within oneself as a creature, the more fully one enters into the communion of all creatures.

  Wendell Berry

  Loneliness, Wild Places, Voice

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.11, Counterpoint

• To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration. In such desecration we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness, and others to want.

  Wendell Berry

  Spiritual, Loneliness, Food

• Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.

  Wendell Berry

  Stars, Loneliness, Night

• Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation. (pg.99, "The Body and the Earth")

  Wendell Berry

  Loneliness, Healing, Opposites

• Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

  Wendell Berry

  Fear, Loneliness, Novelty

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.9, Counterpoint Press

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