“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.” TruthDeathSpiritualityIndividualPeaceSocietyLonelinessInner PeaceAloneness 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.” ReligionSpiritualitySocietyLonelinessAloneSolution Author:Shunya
“I don't want to die alone, which I guess means I don't want to die.” DeathLonelinessA Softer World Author:Joey Comeau
“You're okay now... You're okay because I'll be holding you like this from now on.” LoveRomanceVampire 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.” SpiritualitySocietyLonelinessSelf LoveSolitudeAwakeningBe 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.” LonelinessLonging 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” NatureLoneliness 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” PeaceLoneliness Author:Emily Brontë
“To be amongst all and yet to stare blankly at the consuming loneliness, to shake hands and yet to feel the penetrating emptiness, to be surrounded by all and yet to feel forsaken--this is the engulfing forlornness as millions suffer from the unseen depression, society's invisible ailment. The world needs a return back to this earth, to feel it, to touch it and to tremble with the joy of it in the raw, real and most powerful way!” LonelinessDepresssion Author:Jayita Bhattacharjee
“I know I want love, but I have no idea who will make me happy. Emptiness doesn't know its own shape.” LoveLonelinessLongingA Softer World Author:Joey Comeau