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Quote by Joey Comeau

“I don't want to die alone, which I guess means I don't want to die.”

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Joey Comeau is a Canadian writer born on September 26, 1980. Known for his humorous and self-deprecating style, he has written in various forms including novels, essays, and blogs. more

“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.”

Loneliness Longing

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”

Nature Loneliness

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”

Peace Loneliness

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!”

Loneliness Depresssion

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.”

Love Loneliness Longing A Softer World

Author:Joey Comeau

“Daedalus did not long outlive his son. His limbs turned grey, and all his strength was transmuted into smoke. I had no right to claim him, I knew it. But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation he was to me.”

Love Grief Loneliness Solitude

Book:Circe

Source: Circe

“[Hannah] Arendt wrote about the subjugation of public space - in effect the disappearance of public space, which, by depriving a person of boundaries and agency, rendered him profoundly lonely.”

Loneliness Isolation Totalitarianism Public Space

Book:The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

Source: The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

“I think of Percy and suddenly want to be home so much it hurts. Or not home so much as... I don't know what I'm missing. It's a queer thing, to have a vacant space inside you and not know what it is that carved out the absence.”

Loneliness

Book:The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

Source: The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

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