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“in the end, everyone can understand themselves only. You are the only one to which you never have to explain what you mean. Everything else is misunderstanding.”

Book:Buitenstaanders

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Buitenstaanders

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“After listening to a lot of these stories, I began to think that American loneliness is a completely different creature from anything we experience in this country, and it made me glad I was born Japanese. The type of loneliness where you need to keep struggling to accept a situation is fundamentally different from the sort you know you'll get through if you just hang in there.”

Life Struggle Loneliness Japan Americans

Book:In the Miso Soup

Source: In the Miso Soup

“I was by now used to people being surprised by me and my background, and their surprise offended me. I was always having to be what I was looking for in the world, wishing the person I would become already existed — some other I before me. I was forever finding even the tiniest way to identify with someone to escape how empty the world seemed to be of what I was.”

Loneliness Identity Aspiration Minorities Essays Mixed Race Alexander Chee

Book:How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

Source: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

“To the loner, loneliness is a treasure that cannot be traded, even for the nicest of companies.”

Loneliness Alone Being Alone Loner Outcast Antisocial Lonely People Alone But Not Lonely Loners Socially Awkward

Book:The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

Source: The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“The idea of not being alone -- of having someone who sees me, same way I see the things that no one else can see, makes me feel like I'm real. Like I deserve to exist on this planet alongside everyone else. That I get to be here because there's someone else who wants me here too.”

Wanted Loneliness Alone Belonging Companionship Deserving Realness Seen

Book:Hurricane Child

Source: Hurricane Child

“Though I knew in my mind that others had felt such loss, this loss was mine, and I felt that no one would ever understand it, and to try to explain the lonliness and pain I felt would be futile.”

Loss Grief Loneliness

Book:Dreams Unleashed

Source: Dreams Unleashed

“I think that if we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we’re alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange.”

Loneliness Loving

Book:By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

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