Quote About Loneliness and Longing by Heinrich Böll

„Isn't it incredible that we suffer immensely from our loneliness and yet long passionately to be alone?“

Heinrich BöllA thoughtful quote by Heinrich Böll about loneliness, longing, and the contradictory desire to be alone.
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Heinrich Böll was a German writer and an important author of the postwar period.

Heinrich Böll reflects on the contradictory human desire for connection and solitude.


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Heinrich Theodor Böll (1917–1985) was a German writer from Cologne. As a narrator of postwar German literature, he depicted urban destruction, the hunger and hardship of survivors, and the homecoming and disillusionment of returning soldiers. His well-known short stories include “Wanderer, kommst du nach Spa…,” “The Bread of Our Early Years,” and “Dr. Murke’s Collected Silences.”

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"As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know. Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible." Carl Gustav Jung
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