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“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.”

“I am going to give you a piece of advice... advice I wish I'd been told in guidance class back in high school, in between the don't-do-acid and don't-drink-and-drive films. I wish our counselors had told us, 'When you grow older a dreadful, horrible sensation will come over you. It's called loneliness, and you think you know what it is now, but you don't. Here is the list of the symptoms, and don't worry—loneliness is the most universal sensation on the planet. Just remember one fact—loneliness will pass. You will survive and you will be a better human for it.”

Source: Shampoo Planet

“To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately lonely lose themselves in mental illness or violence to forget the inner pain.”

People Feels Pain Loses Forget Wonder Violence Loneliness Taste Lonely Illness Mental Illness Unwanted Unloved Being Unloved

Book:Becoming Human

Source: Becoming Human

“I didn't think I was in a morbid mood, but it appears I am. My mind goes round and round trying to figure things out, but I always come back to the same two things: Loneliness and Death. Life ends before we figure anything out, most importantly how not to be lonely. Solitude is fine. But feeling like you have no one to love - abject lonliness - is not alright.”

Thinking Trying Mind Two Ends Feelings Loneliness Figures Like You Fine Solitude Lonely Rounds Mood Two Things Alright Life Death Morbid Lonliness

Author:Jonathan Ames

“How we need another soul to cling to.”

Needs Soul Loneliness Yearning Companionship

Book:The Journals of Sylvia Plath

Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath

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

World Past Loneliness This World Tragedy Being Alone

Book:Einstein's Dreams

Source: Einstein's Dreams

“Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.”

Art Born Loneliness Balance Terror Excess Great Art Instability Inhibitions

Author:Anais Nin

“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

“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them.”

People Knows Ideas Reality Loneliness Lonely Gaps I Am Lonely

Author:Anais Nin

“Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.”

Believe Has Beens Impossible Loneliness Discovery Absolutes

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.”

Looks Loneliness Sweet Solitude Absence Being Alone

Author:Milan Kundera

“My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.”

Loneliness Despair Boredom

Book:Jarhead: A Solder's Story of Modern War

Source: Jarhead: A Solder's Story of Modern War

“The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself.”

World Trying Loneliness Laughter Peer Pressure Lds

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“However contradictory the coroner's report — whether he pronounces Consumption or Loneliness or Suicide to be the cause of death — isn't it plain how the true artist-seer actually dies? I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human conscience.”

Humans Doe Artist Dies Causes Loneliness Produce Color Fool Shapes Conscience Sacred Suicide Reports Heavenly Consumption Contradictory Seers True Artists Scruples

Author:J. D. Salinger

“Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices.”

Source: Mad at Miles: a blackwoman's guide to truth

“Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.”

Life Inspirational Believe Heart Soul Helping Feelings Can Do Loneliness Cry Shame Painful Your Soul Shantaram So Sad

Author:Gregory David Roberts

“All great and precious things are lonely.”

Loneliness Lonely Being Alone Being Lonely Precious Things East Of Eden I Am Lonely Lonely And Alone Alone Lonely Lonely Heart

Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“It's so kind of you to want to visit me in my loneliness. - The Wicked Witch of the West. Now I know I have a heart, because it's breaking. - The Tin Woodsman Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.”

Knows Want Heart Kind Made Loneliness West Practicals Wicked Witch Tin Unbreakable Wicked Witch Wicked Witch Of The West

Author:L. Frank Baum

“...to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that can not be ravaged in the dark without great consequence.”

Pain Speak Dark Loneliness Humour Consequence Hunger Loud Visible Can Not

Book:The Vagina Monologues

Source: The Vagina Monologues

“Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come to the joint conclusion that the purpose of writing fiction was “a way out of loneliness.” (NY Times article on the memorial service of David Foster Wallace.)”

Way Writing Years Said Purpose Fiction Roles Loneliness Conversation Letters Conclusion Novelists Ethical Articles Joints Memorial Writing Fiction Memorial Service Purpose Of Writing

Author:Jonathan Franzen

“She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime.”

Littles Made Crime Loneliness Wistfulness

Book:The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore

Source: The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore

“I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.”

Men Water Rooms Darkness Loneliness Pride Solitude Each Day Dependent Sunlight Another Man

Author:Charles Bukowski

“Every one of Joel's important songs--including the happy ones--are ultimately about loneliness. And it's not 'clever lonely' (like Morrissey) or 'interesting lonely' (like Radiohead); it's 'lonely lonely,' like the way it feels when you're being hugged by someone and it somehow makes you sadder.”

Way Feels Important Song Interesting Loneliness Lonely Including Clever Radiohead

Book:Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

“Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They are the enemies of our loneliness, our doubt, our anxiety, our tendencies to abdicate. To continue to be in good conversation over our enormous and terrifying problems is to be calling out to each other in the night. If we attend with imagination and devotion to our conversations, we will find what we need; and someone among us will act—it does not matter whom—and we will survive.”

“Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.”

Realizing Loneliness Hungry Starvation

Book:Faithless: Tales of Transgression

Source: Faithless: Tales of Transgression

“Wounding and healing are not opposites. They're part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate with the wounds of others. It is our limitations that make us kind to the limitations of other people. It is our loneliness that helps us to to find other people or to even know they're alone with an illness. I think I have served people perfectly with parts of myself I used to be ashamed of.”

People Thinking Knows Kind Helping Used Healing Loneliness Opposites Illness Wounds Used To Be Limitation Ashamed Compassionate

Author:Rachel Naomi Remen

“There is no holy life. There is no war between good and evil. There is no sin and no redemption. None of these things matter to the real you. But they all matter hugely to the false you, the one who believes in the separate self. You have tried to take your separate self, with all its loneliness and anxiety and pride, to the door of enlightenment. But it will never go through, because it is a ghost.”

Believe War Real Self Matter Spiritual Evil Sin Doors Loneliness Pride Holy Anxiety Enlightenment Ghost Redemption Good And Evil No War Real You Holy Life

Author:Deepak Chopra

“When I left you, you were already more beautiful than anything I dared to dream. In our years apart, my imaginings did their best to improve on your perfection. At night, your face was forever behind my eyes. And now I see that that vision who kept me company in my loneliness was a hag compared to the beauty now before me.”

Years Mind Said Enough Dream Eye Beautiful Faces Night Behinds Company Vision Forever Loneliness Perfection Your Face Buttercup

Author:William Goldman

“I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.”

Inspirational Giving Trying Heart I Can Darkness Loneliness Danger My Heart Defeat Hunger Uncertainty Bribe

Book:Poesía completa

Source: Poesía completa

“But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.”

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

“Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”

Real Loneliness

Author:Charles Bukowski

“Divinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in the falling snow; Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued Elations when the forest blooms; gusty Emotions on wet roads on autumn nights; All pleasures and all pains, remembering The boughs of summer and the winter branch. These are the measures destined for her soul.”

Soul Pain Remember Night Fall Passion Pleasure Emotion Loneliness Summer Rain Winter Mood Snow Forests Grieving Branches Divinity Autumn Wet Destined Elation Autumn Nights

Book:Harmonium

Source: Harmonium

“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.”

Needs Feels Feelings Understanding Loneliness Being Alone Feeling Lonely Feeling Lost Feeling Empty

Book:A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW

Source: A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW

“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.”

Ifs Fall Half Loneliness Proportion Companion Being Alone Plight Thoughtlessness

Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks

“loneliness can fly a helicopter through a cut-out shape of a helicopter the same size as the helicopter and that's it's only skill and it isn't good enough but it's still amazing.”

Stills Enough Cutting Loneliness Shapes Skills Size Good Enough Helicopters

Author:Tao Lin

“She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror stories, and read only romance novels. Because, by God, when a woman picked up one of those steamy books, she had a firm guarantee that there would be a Happily-Ever-After. That though the world outside those covers could bring such sorrow and disappointment and loneliness, between those covers, the world was a splendid place to be.”

“Life is loneliness, broken only by the gods taunting us with friendship and the odd bonk”

Life Is Loneliness Broken Odd Taunting

Book:Fool

Source: Fool

“The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.”

Source: A Simple Path-Open Market

“I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.”

Loneliness

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all.”

Loneliness Organs

Book:The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.”

Made Night Loneliness Reflection Torture Good Night Savoring Best Night Great Night

Author:Poppy Z. Brite

“Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.”

Knows Men Age Time Cases Loneliness Hair Promise Decades Lists Enthusiasm Thirty Feeling Lonely Single Man 30th Birthday Great Gatsby American Dream

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.”

Spiritual Found Loneliness Understood Madness Safety

Book:The Madman

Source: The Madman

“Too many dogs continue to be abused and abandond - one is too many - and people continue to kill people for money and envy and no reason at all. Bad people succeed and good people fail, but that's not the end of the story. Miracles happen that nobody sees, and among us walk heroes who are never recognised, and people live in loneliness because they cannot believe they are loved”

People Believe Ends Reason Stories Happens Walks Failing Dog Loneliness Hero Succeed Miracle Envy No Reason Good People Bad People

Author:Dean Koontz

“What was the point in such loneliness among people. At least if you were by yourself, you had a good reason to be lonely.”

People Ifs Reason Loneliness Lonely Oleanders

Book:White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

“Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.”

Matter Character Spiritual Political Social Loneliness Consequence Deeds Right Thing Daring Masculinity Personal Responsibility Manliness Bluffs Bravado Deeds Not Words

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star.”

Long Evil Stars Liberty Loneliness Healthy Wings Guides Faculty Uncertain Employed Peril New Years Resolution Start The Day Uncertain Future Villette

Book:Villette

Source: Villette

“I know of nobody that is coming, I am sure, unless Charlotte Lucas should happen to call in- and I am sure my dinners are good enough for her, since she is an unmarried woman of seven-and-twenty, and as such should expect little more than a crust of bread washed down with a cup of loneliness.”

Knows Should Littles Enough Happens Loneliness Twenties Seven Dinner Bread Cups Good Enough Charlotte Unmarried

Book:Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Source: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

“Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”

Dark Loneliness Solitude Consolation Deep Dark

Book:Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus

Source: Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus

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