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“If I had stayed on that mattress forever and Luke had stayed on top of his bed and turned away from me I would have lived forever seeing his shadow.”

Book:To Rest Our Minds and Bodies

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“I’m about to begin halfway saying that— —that she was incompetent. Incompetent for life. She had never figured out how to figure things out. She was only vaguely beginning to know the kind of absence she had of herself inside her. If she were an expressive creature she would say: the world is outside me, I am outside me.”

Loneliness Identity Melancholy Introspection Alienation Bleak Psychological Fiction Absurdism Existential Angst Feminist Literature

Book:The Hour of the Star

Source: The Hour of the Star

“Pride...bitterness...anger...do you know what you are, Maria? What all human behaviour is, when you boil it down? It's a response. That's all. A response to your painful inability to be alone.”

Loneliness Behavior

Book:Jim Henson's Labyrinth: Coronation, Vol. 2

Source: Jim Henson's Labyrinth: Coronation, Vol. 2

“ქარბუქს შეეყარა შორიგზად, ვრცელ შარას მიჯნაზე ახლოს ჰიუდსპეტის ქაუნტთან, სადაც ძველად რკინიგზის საზოგადოებას უნდა ეყარა თავი. გრძელი საღამო ბუნიობდა სულნაკლულ მხარეში და არა უჩანდა დასასრული ლამპადთა ყოველ მომდევნოს, მაღლა იღერძებოდნენ რეზოლუტად როგორც მუდრი ნიშანნი უსასრულო სიხეტიალისა. ძველმანი პალტოს ქამარი შემოიჭირა ბალთაზედ, რომ ღამინდს არ ჩამოერთმია მისთვის ერთადერთი კუთვნილი ამაგი მოკვდილობის წინ, და როგორც მოხერხდებოდა ისე, ქანცი სიარულით სვლა განაგრძო სადმე უსახელოურის მიმართულებით, სანამ რა ჟამს მაგისტრალი არ ახვეტდა მის განაბულ სხეულს და არ შეისრუტავდა მას, როგორც გვარად უცნობი დაკარგულისა.”

Lost Nature Mystery Loneliness Melancholy Agony Hopelessness Wanderer Emptyness

Author:luka tsotsoria

“What one person might call sorrowful loneliness, another might call the joyful act of accumulating peace of mind!”

Loneliness Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes Loneliness Quotes Loneliness Quotations

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Leave anyone too long alone with their own thoughts and every possibility will be not only explored, but poked and prodded until it raises it's shaggy head, settles it's lidless eyes on you. Such is the price of isolation and that mulling that never ceases.”

Loneliness

Book:The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

Source: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

“...If you're going to be alone, you have the right to secrets. A right not to explain yourself, not even to yourself.”

Loneliness Solitude Being Alone Motivations Explanations

Book:The Wilderness

Source: The Wilderness

“I am going now. But whenever you call, I shall come… Wherever you call, I shall come! _ Maria Puder”

Love Loneliness Classic Turkish Literature Sabahattin Ali

Book:Madonna in a Fur Coat

Source: Madonna in a Fur Coat

“The world does not know how to stay beside those who are broken yet alive. They walk among us as reflections of their own lost dreams, and as shadows of the ambitions of others. This is the story of how I died, yet remained alive.”

Loneliness Depression Survival Mental Health Memoir Brokenness

Book:Shadows Over Highgard: Visual & Song Edition

Source: Shadows Over Highgard: Visual & Song Edition

“Sonetimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself.”

Romance Historical Fiction World War Two

Author:Sarah Sundin

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