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“Happiness was not the only virtue. After all, loneliness wrote great symphonies and could paint masterpieces. It was the imperfections and miseries that necessitated the magic.”

Book:The Measure of Gold

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The Measure of Gold

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“Loneliness, Stephan. That's why you and I memorialize our dead. There's the briefest of moments before we kill, where we literally hold their life in our hands, and then rip it away, and we're left with nothing. So gathering other people's letters or writing their names on a wall, is a reminder that in the end we're left infinitely and utterly alone.”

Loneliness

Author:klaus mikaelson

“She was not unhappy. But she was alone. Her parents had once seen so much of the world, they had lived in it. But when they'd taught her about what they'd seen and done, it had not made their child want to seek it out for herself. She was content in this cottage on her own land by the water.”

Loneliness Introvert

Book:Plain Bad Heroines

Source: Plain Bad Heroines

“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.”

Loneliness

Author:Sally Rooney

“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

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