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“All the lonely people, where do they all come from?”

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Author:Paul McCartney

“Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity.”

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Author:Mason Cooley

“I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.”

“Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.”

“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

“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 know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.”

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Book:A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

“Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the depth of their loneliness, and they are capable of laughing like hyenas. When something touches their emotions, it runs through them like Paul Revere, awakening feelings that gather into great armies.”

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Book:Winter's Tale

Source: Winter's Tale

“Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.”

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Book:A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

Source: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

“So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.”

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Author:Pico Iyer

“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

“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.”

“Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.”

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Author:Joan Collins

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

“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

“However, I must admit that keeping myself to myself has not always been comforting. At times, I seemed to suffer spells of depression and loneliness, longing to become healthy again; of going out and facing a world of injustices, of misery, of widespread indifference.”

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Book:Strangers In Another Country

Source: Strangers In Another Country

“The silence in the house was painful, but I had begun to realize that half of it belonged to me.”

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Book:Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

Source: Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance