“When we examine the moments, acts, and statements of all kinds of people- not only the grief and ecstasy of the greatest poets, but also the huge unhappiness of the average soul, as evidenced by the innumerable strident words of abuse, hatred, contempt, mistrust, and scorn that forever grate upon ou…”— Thomas Wolfe, unz.orgTagged: Moments, Unhappiness, Abuse, Hatred, contempt
“The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.”— Thomas Wolfe, unz.orgTagged: Belief, Loneliness, Existence