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“Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.”

“The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.”

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Author:Justin Timberlake

“Remember we're all in this alone.”

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Author:Lily Tomlin

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

“God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.”

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Author:Paul Valery

“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”

Source: Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

“Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.”

Source: The Writings of George Washington: pt. I. Official letters relating to the French war, and private letters before the American revolution: March, 1754-May, 1775

“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”

“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.”

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Book:Hide and Seek: A Continuing Journey

Source: Hide and Seek: A Continuing Journey

“Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.”

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Author:Joss Whedon

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself.”

“We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.”

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Author:Tennessee Williams

“Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.”

“Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.”

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Book:You Can't Go Home Again

Source: You Can't Go Home Again

“The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.”

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Author:Tom Wolfe

“The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.”

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Author:Tom Wolfe

“Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.”

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Author:Alain de Botton

“Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.”

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Author:Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”

Source: Shampoo Planet

“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”

“Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.”

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Author:Franz Kafka

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

“I have come to believe that we do not walk alone in this life. There are others, fellow sojourners, whose journeys are interwoven with ours in seemingly random patterns, yet, in the end, have been carefully placed to reveal a remarkable tapestry. I believe God is the weaver at that loom.”

“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.”

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Book:The Way of Zen

Source: The Way of Zen

“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”

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Book:The Portable Nietzsche

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”

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Book:Memories, dreams, reflections

Source: Memories, dreams, reflections

“Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.”

“When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”

Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

“I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you... There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”

“The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.”

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Book:Einstein's Dreams

Source: Einstein's Dreams

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”

Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

“Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.”

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Author:Milan Kundera

“All great and precious things are lonely.”

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Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“We're not alone--at least, we're alone only if we choose to be alone. We're alone only if we choose to go through life relying solely on our own strength rather than learning to draw upon the power of God.”

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Author:Sheri L. Dew

“I need someone. I need to hold somebody close. And I need more than this holding. I need someone to understand how I feel at a time like now. And the understanding must be part of the holding.”

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Book:A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW

Source: A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW

“if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.”

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Author:Richard Yates

“If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.”

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Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks

“In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.”

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Author:Rollo May

“Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.”

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Book:The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton

Source: The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton

“The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.”

“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”

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Book:The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

“I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.”

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Book:I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence

Source: I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence

“All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.”

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Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.”

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Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.”

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Author:Pearl S. Buck

“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.”

“Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.”

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Book:The Sugar Queen

Source: The Sugar Queen

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”

Source: Complete Essays

“It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.”

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Author:Frederic Chopin

“If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.”

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Book:How Did You Get This Number

Source: How Did You Get This Number