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“When the silence and the aloneness press down and around me, crushing me, carving through me like ice, I need to speak aloud sometimes, if only for proof of life.”

Book:Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

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“Listen: I am ideally happy. My happiness is a kind of challenge. As I wander along the streets and the squares and the paths by the canal, absently sensing the lips of dampness through my worn soles, I carry proudly my ineffable happiness. The centuries will roll by, and schoolboys will yawn over the history of our upheavals; everything will pass, but my happiness , dear, my happiness will remain,in the moist reflection of a street lamp, in the cautious bend of stone steps that descend into the canal's black waters, in the smiles of a dancing couple, in everything with which God so generously surrounds human loneliness.”

Loneliness

Book:Selected Letters, 1940-1977

Source: Selected Letters, 1940-1977

“I decided that maybe we left each other alone too much. Leaving each other alone was killing us.”

Loneliness Solitude

Book:Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Source: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“The lonely mind in the busy city yearns for connection because it thinks human-to-human connection is the point of everything. But amid pure nature (or the ‘tonic of wildness’ as Thoreau called it) solitude took on a different character. It became in itself a kind of connection. A connection between herself and the world. And between her and herself.”

Nature Loneliness Solitude Connection

Book:The Midnight Library

Source: The Midnight Library

“I spent the rest of the day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs.”

Reading Loneliness Books Escape Kate Die For Me

Book:Die for Me

Source: Die for Me

“At bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed.”

Loneliness Solitude

Book:Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet

“Feelings had transpired without permission, conspired without his brain, working with what was left of his heart.”

Romance Fantasy Young Adult

Book:We Hunt the Flame

Source: We Hunt the Flame

“I can't deceive myself that out of the bare stark realization that no matter how enthusiastic you are, no matter how sure that character is fate, nothing is real, past or future, when you are alone in your room with the clock ticking loudly into the false cheerful brilliance of the electric light. And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide.”

Loneliness Future Depression Suicide

Book:The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“It's so stupid because all I wanted was space and now that I have it, there's this part of me that's achingly lonely I could die.”

Space Loneliness Lonely

Book:Saving June

Source: Saving June

“Believe me, I know what it's like to feel all alone...the worst kind of loneliness in the world is the isolation that comes from being misunderstood, It can make people lose their grasp on reality.”

Loneliness Solitude Misunderstood

Book:Inferno

Source: Inferno

“Rain makes me feel less alone. All rain is, is a cloud- falling apart, and pouring its shattered pieces down on top of you. It makes me feel good to know I'm not the only thing that falls apart . It makes me feel better to know other things in nature can shatter.”

Loneliness Sad Depression Rain Lonely Weather Suicidal Falling Apart Depressed Sad Love Cloud

Author:Lone Alaskan Gypsy

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