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“To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.”

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Theres a difference between solitude and loneliness”

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Author:Maggie Smith

“Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.”

Source: Under Western Eyes

“The very fine line between loneliness and solitude, reflection; being alone, always appealed to me when I was a kid.”

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Author:Brad Mehldau

“A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.”

“Loneliness is equal to the radius of one's awareness.”

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Author:Yoko Ono

“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.”

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”

“People often expect the other person to respond first in a positive way, instead of taking the initiative to create that possibility. I feel that's wrong; it can act as a barrier that just promotes a feeling of isolation from others. To overcome feelings of isolation and loneliness, your underlying attitude makes a tremendous difference - approaching others with the thought of compassion in your mind is the best way.”

“It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“I don't deliberately look for something dark or bleak or disconnected, in fact that's not something I'm even conscious of in the work as I'm making it. I'm always trying to create beauty, reveal hope, show the sense of longing that exists in isolation and loneliness, and capture the search for something greater inside all of my subjects.”

“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”

Source: George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss

“Everyone says love hurts, but that is not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Envy hurts. Everyone gets these things confused with love, but in reality love is the only thing in this world that covers up all pain and makes someone feel wonderful again. Love is the only thing in this world that does not hurt.”