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“I felt like I was in danger of vanishing, though at the same time the feelings I had were so raw and overwhelming that I often wished I could find a way of losing myself altogether, perhaps for a few months, until the intensity diminished.”

Book:The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

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“You have to remember that I've been lonely for a long time. Loneliness is like ice. After you've been lonely long enough you don't realize you're cold, but you are... I don't know, maybe at the center of me there's some ice that never will melt, maybe it's just been there too long. But you mustn't worry. You didn't put it there.”

Loneliness

Book:The Last Picture Show

Source: The Last Picture Show

“There was something odd for him about not feeling lonely. The very fact that he had ceased to be lonely caused him to fear the possibility of becoming lonely again.”

Loneliness Lonely

Book:Tony Takitani

Source: Tony Takitani

“Today isn’t my epilogue with Neil—it’s a beginning. I’ll leave the happily-ever-afters in the books.”

Romance Ya Happily Ever After

Book:Today Tonight Tomorrow

Source: Today Tonight Tomorrow

“I didn’t have the vaguest idea of what to do – I couldn’t keep staring at the wall forever, I told myself. But even that admonition didn’t work. A faculty advisor reviewing a graduation thesis would have had the perfect comment: you write well, you argue clearly, but you don’t have anything to say.”

Loneliness

Book:Pinball, 1973

Source: Pinball, 1973

“Squiffy, have you ever felt a sort of strange emptiness in the heart? A sort of aching void of the soul?' 'Oh, rather!' 'What do you do about it?' 'I generally take a couple of cocktails.”

Humor Comedy Loneliness Sorrow Depression Alcohol Emptiness Desolation Alcohol Addiction

Book:Doctor Sally

Source: Doctor Sally

“I stood where they'd left me. I watched them get smaller and smaller as they went down the hallway, leaving me there without a word, not even looking back. Only I was getting smaller and smaller, being swallowed up in the suffocating emptiness of the silent house; so that by the time they came back again, I would have disappeared.”

Loneliness Isolation

Book:Catspaw

Source: Catspaw

“He lived a quiet existence where the future was easy to predict and the past was a cancer in remission. It was meaningful, of course. But it was lonely.”

Loneliness Conscience Sorry Isolation Repentance Meaninglessness Restitution

Book:Consequence

Source: Consequence

“The morgue is a Victorian update of a system established by Alfred the Great. It's the place where certain deaths are resolved - those where the cause is unclear or is the result of some intended or accidental violence. The bodies are almost always victims in some way - of crime, suicides and car crashes, but also victims of loneliness. It's where you go if you die alone in your flat and your body lies undisturbed for days. It's where you go if no one knew you were dying and no GP attended your final hours. It's where you go if no loved one held your hand as you slipped away. In one way or another, then, all the people who pass through this room are the people who die screaming.”

Death Loneliness Morgue Post Mortem Coroner

Author:Stephen Armstrong

“It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have an idea, you become a minority of one.”

Ideas Creativity Loneliness

Author:E. Paul Torrance

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