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“He had thought that being with her would make him feel less lonely, but it only gave his loneliness a new stubborn quality, like it was planted down inside him and impossible to kill.”

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“What misery! and all these girls, broken by fatigue, were silly enough to come here at night and make babies, more flesh to toil and suffer! It would never end while they went on getting themselves filled with starvelings.Ought they rather not stop up their wombs and close their thighs tight against approaching disaster? But then, perhaps he was only harbouring these dismal thoughts because he resented being alone, when all the others were pairing off to take their pleasure.”

Loneliness Antinatalism Slave Morality

Book:Germinal

Source: Germinal

“I dream of moon and misty hill Where evening gathers, dark and chill”

Nature Loneliness

Author:Emily Brontë

“For society, you are not even a human; you are just a trained manpower. For them, you can “Rest in Peace” only after death. That too is a lie. To discover the eternal peace inside you, you have to walk alone.”

Truth Death Spirituality Individual Peace Society Loneliness Inner Peace Aloneness

Author:Shunya

“Bananas come in a bunch. So a single banana is the most ignored thing in a fruit shop. Apples come alone. They are liked alone as well as in a group. You were born alone like an apple. You fear being alone because society has programmed you to feel like a banana.”

Religion Spirituality Society Loneliness Alone Solution

Author:Shunya

“I don't want to die alone, which I guess means I don't want to die.”

Death Loneliness A Softer World

Author:Joey Comeau

“You're okay now... You're okay because I'll be holding you like this from now on.”

Love Romance Vampire Knight

Author:Matsuri Hino, Vampire Knight

“To be yourself, you have to be behind closed doors. Outside you are just playing different roles. It's ironic that to free yourself from the prison of society, you have to lock yourself inside a room.”

Spirituality Society Loneliness Self Love Solitude Awakening Be Yourself

Author:Shunya

“But there were moments - when he saw groups of friends sitting in neat, symmetrical rows on pub benches, or couples holding hands in the street, where he felt a wave of embarrassment that he [...] hadn't exchanged so much as a cup of tea with an acquaintance or a flirtatious smile with someone on a train in years - that he scared himself with how intense the feeling of longing was. Because maybe, actually, he did want to find people to be close to, to make friends and perhaps even find someone to spend the rest of his life with.”

Loneliness Longing

Book:How Not to Die Alone

Source: How Not to Die Alone

“In all the lonely landscape round I see no sight and hear no sound Except the wind that far away Comes sighing over the heathy sea”

Nature Loneliness

Author:Emily Brontë

“I'm happiest when most away I can bear my soul from its home of clay On a windy night when the moon is bright And the eye can wander through the worlds of light”

Peace Loneliness

Author:Emily Brontë

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