Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
– Wendell Berry
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- People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this world’s worst kind of pain. – Masashi Kishimoto
- Loneliness in a crowd of people was the worst kind of loneliness, but she couldn’t help it. – Lauren Kate
- Time limits tend to turn everything predictable and mundane into a novelty. – Rhian J Martin
- I say if a novelty Christmas song is funny one time, then it is funny every time. – Calvin – Bill Watterson
- Awareness is the novelty of our youth – Brian Triptow
- Novelty is the fuel on which the imagination runs. – RADelmonico
- Novelty has a way of intensifying memory. The less often you do something, the deeper the memory burrows in. – Meghan Daum
- The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt. – Henry Adams
- To seek contentment is to release the novelty that lies within monotony – Ilyas Kassam
- To lovers of adventure and novelty, Africa displays a most ample field. – James Rennell
- Progressive. n. One who is unable to distinguish between novelty and enlightenment. – Ron Brackin
- Mystique saturates, gluts the air,Adventure’s even more than rare,Excitement’s everywhere to share,And Novelty’s beyond compare. – Mariecor Ruediger
- I think there is a difference between aloneness and loneliness. Aloneness is necessary for the soul to thrive – even to come alive. Not loneliness. – Steve Goodier
- You will never know loneliness when you have a dog, when you lose that dog it will be loneliness like you’ve never known. – Michael P Naughton
- Have you ever considered another type of loneliness; a good and healthy, happy loneliness? – Bryant McGill
- Loneliness is not lack of company. Loneliness is lack of purpose. – Guillermo Maldonado
- …and my loneliness, always my loneliness – that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me. – Tabitha Suzuma