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“For many people, being alone symbolises a failure to live up to the aspirational life that society tells them they should want.”

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Book:Ace Voices: What it Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or Grey-Ace

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“This is no life. No life at all. But where is there any life? Nothing happens. Nothing goes on. Boring. Old. Dead. Ghastly." Every object around him was a sham. Whatever he took up turned to dust. The world was a crumbling affair not to be grasped or held. You fell from emptiness to emptiness. You carried around a sack of darkness inside you. Doctor Otternschlag lived in the uttermost loneliness - although the earth is full of people like him . . .”

Loneliness Isolation

Book:Grand Hotel

Source: Grand Hotel

“Perhaps solitude is a practice as much as an instinct, its pleasures very much contextual. Sometimes being alone is terrible.”

Practice Loneliness Solitude Context

Book:A Horse at Night: On Writing

Source: A Horse at Night: On Writing

“Life had made her an expert at mashing feelings into a storable size. But loneliness has a compass of its own.”

Loneliness Conceal The Pain

Book:Where the Crawdads Sing

Source: Where the Crawdads Sing

“You turn your head and smile at me. I smile back in the tired way the living have of appeasing the dead. How are you supposed to smile at a ghost without feeling lonely?”

Death Loss Grief Loneliness Ghosts

Book:The Thirty Names of Night

Source: The Thirty Names of Night

“I choose my loneliness to be able to write.”

Art Loneliness Poet Writer Artists Life And Living Life Philosophy Writing Philosophy Writing Inspiration

Author:Avijeet Das

“By talking about Mars, Elsa hoped she was making Dylan insecure, was making him realize he loved her more than she loved him, because if that were true then Elsa was safe. As long as his side of their love had more ballast to it, she felt in control and like he would not leave. Everyone left Elsa, and so she needed to be sure.”

Love Loneliness

Author:C. J. Hauser

“You know, I've buried so many of my friends, I got callouses on my hands from carrying caskets. Folks my age, or who would be my age. It's tough, sometimes, just not to find people you can sit with, talk to.”

Death Loneliness Aging

Author:Tracy Letts

“My parents had moved on leaving me emotionally orphaned. I vowed to never put the same amount of physical and emotional space between Mia and me.”

Loneliness Parenting Adulthood

Book:Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

Source: Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

“Sorry.' He lowered his head and sniffed the floor. But, reader, he was not smelling. He was listening, with his big ears, to the sweet sound that no other mouse seemed to hear.”

Inspirational Loneliness

Book:The Tale of Despereaux

Source: The Tale of Despereaux

“I must admit that over time, being single and in solitude can eventually lead to feelings of loneliness. That's at least how I feel about it.”

Loneliness Soulmate Solitude Quotes

Author:Mahsati Abdul

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