Jean Vanier Quotes About Loneliness

Quotes about: Loneliness

• To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately lonely lose themselves in mental illness or violence to forget the inner pain.

  Jean Vanier

  Lonely, Pain, Loneliness

  Jean Vanier (2008). “Becoming Human”, p.10, Paulist Press

• [...] We have to realize that this wound [of loneliness] is inherent in the human condition and that what we have to do is walk with it instead of fleeing from it. We cannot accept it until we discover that we are loved by God just as we are, and that the Holy Spirit in a mysterious way is living at the centre of the wound.

  Jean Vanier

  Loneliness, Fleeing, Way

• People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition.

  Jean Vanier

  Loneliness, People, Community

• Loneliness is the fundamental force that urgees mystics to a deeper union with God... An experience of God quenches this thirst for the absolute but at the same time, paradoxiacally, whets it, because this is an experience that can never be total; by necessity, the knowledge of God is always partial. So loneliness opens up mystics to a desire to love each other and every human being as God loves them.

  Jean Vanier

  Loneliness, Desire, Fundamentals

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