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“My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.”

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Author:Warsan Shire

“I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.”

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Author:Warsan Shire

“If love is universal, no one can be left out.”

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Author:Deepak Chopra

“When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.”

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Author:Alfred Polgar

“The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.”

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Author:Marya Mannes

“The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.”

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Author:Erich Fromm

“Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music.”

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

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

“The secret to overcoming a feeling of loneliness is not going outside to meet people. That will only keep you from being alone. The secret is going inside yourself, to realize your true kinship with God and with all the human beings that he created.”

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Author:Amy Grant

“I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness.”

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Author:Jim Harrison

“Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.”

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Book:The Autumn Garden: Play in Three Acts

Source: The Autumn Garden: Play in Three Acts

“Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet today the institutions on which community depends are crumbling in all the techno-societies. The result is a spreading plague of loneliness.”

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Author:Alvin Toffler

“Without great solitude no serious work is possible.”

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Author:Pablo Picasso

“So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.”

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Book:The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Source: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

“One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.”

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Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone-that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born.”

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Author:Nikola Tesla

“We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.”

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Author:Maya Angelou

“How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him.”

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Book:Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“Only in Relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness; this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.”

“The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.”

Source: The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

“When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.”

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Author:Eda LeShan

“A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.”

“Being single isn't the cause of loneliness, and marriage is not necessarily the cure. There are many lonely married people as well.”

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Author:Renee Jones

“The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. The remarkable thing is that the cessation of the inner dialogue marks also the end of our concern with the world around us. It is as if we noted the world and think about it only when we have to report it to ourselves.”

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Author:Eric Hoffer

“It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.”

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Author:Eric Hoffer

“Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.”

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Book:Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.”

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Author:Janet Malcolm

“If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.”

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Book:The Collected Works of Anton Chekhov: Novellas, Short Stories, Plays, Letters & Diary: Three Sisters, Seagull , The Shooting Party, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Chameleon, Tripping Tongue, On The Road, Vanka, Ward No. Six, Swedish Match, Nightmare, Bear, Reluctant Hero, Joy…

Source: The Collected Works of Anton Chekhov: Novellas, Short Stories, Plays, Letters & Diary: Three Sisters, Seagull , The Shooting Party, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Chameleon, Tripping Tongue, On The Road, Vanka, Ward No. Six, Swedish Match, Nightmare, Bear, Reluctant Hero, Joy…

“People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.”

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Book:A doctor's visit: short stories

Source: A doctor's visit: short stories

“The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness.”

Liberty Loneliness Eagles

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“It's getting to the point where I am no fun anymore, I am sorry. / Sometimes it hurts so badly I must cry out loud, ' I am lonely.' / I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are, you make it hard.”

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Author:Stephen Stills

“When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.”

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Author:Don Williams

“A valuable lesson I've learned from making music is to never let anyone intimidate me. Every student, celebrity, CEO and math teacher in the world has experienced love, loneliness, fear and embarassment at some point. To understand this is to level an often very lopsided playing field.”

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Author:Anna Nalick

“Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.”

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Author:Lou Dorfsman

“It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.”

“Since God intends to make you like Jesus, he will take you through the same experiences Jesus went through. That includes loneliness, temptation, stress, criticism, rejection, and many other problems.”

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Book:The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?

Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?

“When you are praying alone, and your spirit is dejected, and you are wearied and oppressed by your loneliness, remember then, as always, that God the Trinity looks upon you with eyes brighter than the sun; also all the angels, your own Guardian Angel, and all the Saints of God.”

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Author:John of Kronstadt

“There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!”

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Author:Mark Twain

“Some nights, valor and cold purpose aren't enough.”

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Author:Janet Morris

“When Christ said: I was hungry and you fed me, he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness. He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by. Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.”

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Book:Meditations on the Way of the Cross

Source: Meditations on the Way of the Cross

“Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.”

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Book:The Death Of The Heart

Source: The Death Of The Heart

“‎Niko and his women will be the death of all the Stepsons yet.”

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Book:The Sacred Band

Source: The Sacred Band

“We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.”

World Loneliness Leave Me Alone Home Plate

Author:James Anthony Froude

“Some nights, one wants to tell beloveds everything that's been waiting to be said. Some nights, a man needs flesh and blood and warm breath and a loving heart.”

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Author:Janet Morris

“It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.”

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Author:Thomas Reed

“There is much suffering in the world - physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of others. The material and physical suffering is suffering from hunger, from homelessness, from all kinds of diseases. But the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, having no one. I have come more and more to realize that it is being unwanted that is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.”

“This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.”

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Author:Elie Wiesel

“Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”

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Book:Of Mice and Men: Teacher's Deluxe Edition

Source: Of Mice and Men: Teacher's Deluxe Edition

“Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.”

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Author:Deepak Chopra

“To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.”

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Author:Joseph Wood Krutch

“There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for any kind of sociability, however trivial or cheap, for the tiniest outward agreement with the first person who comes along.”

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Book:Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet