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“Intimacy is the only shield against insanity. Intimacy, not knowledge. Intimacy, not power.”

Book:The Darkness Outside Us

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“It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from the world, that no one and no thing hurts along with one's burned tongues and skinned knees, that one's aches and pains are all one’s own. Even more terrible, as we grow old, to learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us.”

Loneliness Alone The Secret History Donna Tartt

Book:The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

“অবশেষে জেনেছি মানুষ একা! জেনেছি মানুষ তার চিবুকের কাছেও ভীষণ অচেনা ও একা!”

Loneliness

Book:আবুল হাসানের শ্রেষ্ঠ কবিতা

Source: আবুল হাসানের শ্রেষ্ঠ কবিতা

“Perhaps we see loneliness in others simply to feel less lonely ourselves.”

Loneliness Alone

Book:Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

Source: Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

“Loneliness hardened in Arthur's stomach.... Frequently he could feel his loneliness: he could locate it with his fingers and if pushed too hard, it hurt. If he ate quickly, it hurt. He drank a lot of water, to flush it out, but it never came. He kept expecting to see it after he'd visited the lavatory. Small and blue. Afraid. He did not know what he would do with it. He did not know what he would do without it.”

Loneliness

Book:The Lamplighters

Source: The Lamplighters

“That was a place a person had to travel through alone. I met there a cold indifferent truth: that every person -- even a loved person, and I was not loved -- was alone. On the whole globe, there was no one but myself, and I was shaken and torn down to the merest speck of being.”

Loneliness

Book:A Room Made of Leaves

Source: A Room Made of Leaves

“Su un tram affollato a Roma all'ora di chiusura una sera d'inverno, qualcuno per sbaglio mi tocca la spalla. Non mi giro a guardare chi è e non saprò mai se è un uomo o una donna, una sgualdrina o un prete, ma quel tocco delicato scatena in me un tale desiderio di tenerezza e di cura che sospiro; mi sento cedere le ginocchia. Non è un sospiro profumato di violette né uno spasimo chopinesco: è qualcosa di rozzo e reale come i peli sulla mia pancia”

Memories Loneliness Intimate Rome Tenderness Diary

Book:The Journals of John Cheever

Source: The Journals of John Cheever

“Yes, there is something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds me how lonely I am and how far the two of us are. Not long ago I thought we could swallow all the stars, you and me. Now I look at the night, and it looks cold, you took the warmth of the sky with you and left only the emptiness for me to fall and fade.”

Love Quotes Loneliness Emptiness

Author:Rolf van der Wind

“A stationary stone ship... A granite boat that doesn't pitch... that takes us nowhere... that never docks... Onboard this lighthouse, we'll never get ashore...”

Loneliness Boat Alone Loneliness Quotes Lighthouse Stationary Lighthouse Quotes Ashore Docking

Book:Alone

Source: Alone

“Then the time would come once more when I no longer listened for the steps on the stairs and felt lonely and cried into my pillow every night.”

Loneliness Bed Emotions Crying Bedtime Feeling Alone Diary Entry

Book:The diary of a young girl

Source: The diary of a young girl

“Life was like a waiting room at a doctor's office and my turn never came.”

Life Loneliness Elio

Book:Find Me

Source: Find Me

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