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“Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.”

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Author:Anne Hathaway

“Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.”

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Author:Eugene O'Neill

“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.”

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Book:Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel

Source: Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel

“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”

“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

“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

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

Source: Shampoo Planet

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

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Author:Thomas Wolfe

“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

“God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.”

Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I had dropped one form and not taken on the other, and was become like Mohammed's coffin in our legend, with a resultant feeling of intense loneliness in life, and a contempt, not for other men, but for all they do.”

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Book:Seven Pillars of Wisdom & The Evolution of a Revolt (Complete Edition with Original Illustrations and Maps): Lawrence of Arabia's Account and Memoirs of the Arab Revolt and Guerrilla Warfare during World War One

Source: Seven Pillars of Wisdom & The Evolution of a Revolt (Complete Edition with Original Illustrations and Maps): Lawrence of Arabia's Account and Memoirs of the Arab Revolt and Guerrilla Warfare during World War One

“Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.”

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

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”

“There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.”

Source: Inferno

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

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Author:Mark Twain

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

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Author:Dorothy Day

“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

“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

“I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.”

“Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.”

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Author:Woody Allen

“The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.”

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Book:The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortality and infinity

Source: The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortality and infinity

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