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“For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live.”

Two Ends Stories Events Loneliness Memorable Seconds Locked Glances

Book:Animal Farm and 1984

Source: Animal Farm and 1984

“He began to cry, not hysterically or screaming as people cry when concealed rage with tears, but with continuous sobs who has just discovered that he's alone and will be for long. He cried because safety and reason seemed to have left the world. Loneliness was a reality, but in this situation madness was also remotely a possibility.”

People World Long Reason Reality Left Situation Loneliness Cry Possibility Tears Madness Safety Rage Cried Concealed

Author:Stephen King

“And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.”

Ifs Feels Looks Lying Certain Universe Company Sky Loneliness Bed Window Look Up

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Leave my loneliness unbroken”

Loneliness Unbroken

Book:Edgar Allan Poe

Source: Edgar Allan Poe

“In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their most familiar surroundings, those people who either are foreigners or who suffer a singular point of view that makes them feel as if they’re foreigners - even in their native lands. In our hearts... there also abides a certain suspicion that such people need to feel set apart from their society. But people who initiate loneliness are no less lonely than those who are suddenly surprised by loneliness, nor are they undeserving of our pity.”

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Author:John Irving

“She didn't want to go far, just out of the trees so she could see the stars. They always eased her loneliness. She thought of them as beautiful creatures, burning and cold; each solitary, and bleak, and silent like her.”

Want Beautiful Stars Tree Loneliness Cold Creatures Silent Burning Solitary Bleak Like Her Beautiful Creatures

Author:Kristin Cashore

“Loneliness is a mirror, and recognizes itself.”

Loneliness Mirrors

Book:The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.”

Loneliness Solitude Solve Hated Conundrums

Book:Life After Life

Source: Life After Life

“But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.”

People Loss Grief Loneliness Vulnerable Grief And Loss

Book:Life Expectancy

Source: Life Expectancy

“She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.”

Wells Done Grief Loneliness Shoulders

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one more gregarious; his thoughts are weightier, stranger, and never without a tinge of sadness. . . . Loneliness fosters that which is original, daringly and bewilderingly beautiful, poetic. But loneliness also fosters that which is perverse, incongruous, absurd, forbidden.”

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Author:Thomas Mann

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

People Knows World Feels Believe Kind Reality Loses Worst Loneliness Isolation Believe In Me Misunderstood Brooks All Alone Being Misunderstood

Book:Inferno: (Robert Langdon Book 4)

Source: Inferno: (Robert Langdon Book 4)

“I hate loneliness, but it loves me.”

Hate Loneliness I Hate

Author:Tite Kubo

“I thought I knew what loneliness was before he found me, but I had no clue. You don't know what real loneliness is until you've known the opposite.”

Knows Real Found Known Loneliness Opposites Clue

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.”

Self Loneliness Hatred Self Hatred

Book:In One Person: A Novel

Source: In One Person: A Novel

“The English language needs a word for that feeling you get when you badly need help, but there is no one you can call because you're not popular enough to have friends, not rich enough to have employees, and not powerful enough to have lackeys. It is a very distinct cocktail of impotence, loneliness and a sudden stark assessment of your non-worth to society? Enturdment?”

Needs Enough Helping Feelings Language Powerful Rich Loneliness Employee English Language Cocktails Assessment Starks Impotence Need Help Lackeys That Feeling You Get

Author:David Wong

“You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith.”

Moments Doubt Loneliness Anxiety Certainty Brida

Author:Paulo Coelho

“We remember what it was like to meet someone new. We remember what it was like to grant someone possibility. You look out from your own world and then you step into his, not really knowing what you’ll find there, but hoping it will be something good. Both Ryan and Avery are doing this. You step into his world and you don’t even realize your loneliness is missing. You’ve left it behind, and you don’t notice because you have no desire to turn back.”

World Looks Remember Desire Turns Left Realizing Behinds Steps Knowing Missing Loneliness Possibility Grants

Book:Two Boys Kissing

Source: Two Boys Kissing

“Sometimes, the loneliness probably got to be too much and anyone seemed better than no one.”

Sometimes Too Much Loneliness

Book:The White Rabbit Chronicles: Alice in Zombieland\Through the Zombie Glass\The Queen of Zombie Hearts

Source: The White Rabbit Chronicles: Alice in Zombieland\Through the Zombie Glass\The Queen of Zombie Hearts

“I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.”

Knows Lost Company Loneliness Findings Terrified Crippled Tobias Lost Everything Finding Myself

Author:Veronica Roth

“You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.”

Source: The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking

“When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.”

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Author:Ronald Anthony Cross

“The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.”

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Author:Cyril Connolly

“Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.”

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Book:The Complete Poetry

Source: The Complete Poetry

“Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.”

World Writing Book Memories Cutting Loneliness Lonely Obsession Being Alone Writing A Book Good Memories Submerged

Author:Mario Vargas Llosa

“I have friends who I get along with who I know get very uncomfortable being alone, unless they're with people, talking all the time. Whether it's on the phone, or in person, they're never by themselves. Whereas I could be alone for months.”

People Knows Persons Talking Loneliness Months Phones Uncomfortable Being Alone People Talking

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.”

Poverty Loneliness Ultimate Being Alone Feeling Lonely Being Lonely

Author:Abigail Van Buren

“A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.”

“All we ask is to be let alone.”

Asks Loneliness Revolution Being Alone

Author:Jefferson Davis

“When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?”

Needs Light Remember Darkness Doors Loneliness Genius Not Alone Being Alone Darkness Within

Book:The Discourses as Reported by Arrian: The Manual, and Fragments

Source: The Discourses as Reported by Arrian: The Manual, and Fragments

“The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.”

Matter Loneliness Acceptance Birth Lonely Tricks Frightened Being Alone Announcements

Author:Wendy Wasserstein

“They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.”

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Book:The Sidneys of Penshurst

Source: The Sidneys of Penshurst

“Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.”

Knows Known Loneliness Being Alone

Author:Conrad Aiken

“A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.”

Men Book Loneliness Stores Being Alone Bookstores Being Lonely

Book:Eleanor Rigby: A Novel

Source: Eleanor Rigby: A Novel

“Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.”

Loneliness Cold Fame Lonely Ice Being Alone I Am Lonely North Pole

Book:Grand Hotel

Source: Grand Hotel

“Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.”

Conditions Loneliness Gathering Being Alone Being Lonely

Author:Jerzy Kosinski

“Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.”

Loneliness Hollywood Swimming Pool Being Alone Being Lonely Swimming Pool

Author:Liv Ullmann

“I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.”

Believe I Believe Loneliness Disease Anxiety Lonely Being Alone Being Lonely

Author:Tom Cochrane

“We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.”

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Author:Dorothy Day

“Writing is an antidote for loneliness.”

Writing Loneliness Being Alone Antidote Being Lonely

Author:Steven Berkoff

“One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.”

Two Joy Loneliness Sorrow Angel Endure Glad Being Alone Eulogy

Book:A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard

Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard

“There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.”

Men Loneliness He Man Lonely Being Alone Feeling Lonely Being Lonely I Am Lonely Lonely Man

Author:Abraham ibn Ezra

“I was never less alone than when by myself.”

Loneliness Solitude Introvert Being Alone Loner Loneliness And Solitude Feeling Alone

Book:Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire

Source: Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire

“Be good and you will be lonely.”

Loneliness Lonely Be Good Being Alone Peer Pressure

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“Feeling lonely and ignoble indicates that you haven't been patient.”

Feelings Loneliness Havens Lonely Patient Being Alone Feeling Lonely Ignoble

Book:'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian

Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian

“Solitude is a condition of peace that stands in direct opposition to loneliness. Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a condition of separateness. Solitude is becoming one with the space around you. It is a condition of union. loneliness is small, solitude is large. loneliness closes in around you; solitude expands toward the infinite. loneliness has its roots in words, in an internal conversation that nodbody answers; solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity.”

Source: Simple Truths: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life

“There's nothing terribly wrong with feeling lost, so long as that feeling precedes some plan on your part to actually do something about it. Too often a person grows complacent with their disillusionment, perpetually wearing their "discomfort" like a favorite shirt.”

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Author:Jhonen Vasquez

“There is absolutely no point in sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself. The great power you have is to let go ... focus on what you have, no that which has been mean or unkindly removed.”

Mean Has Beens Feelings Focus Loneliness Letting Go Sitting Sorry No Point Being Alone Great Power Sitting Around Feeling Sorry Feeling Sorry For Yourself

Author:Minnie Driver

“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.”

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Book:The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel

Source: The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel