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“Krys Lee has written a book of unforgettable stories, each one building on the other to create a complex, moving portrait of contemporary Korea and its diaspora. She guides us surely through the fallout of war, immigration, and financial crisis, always alert to the possibility of tenderness, transcendence, and even humor along the way. Lee is a writer who really understands loneliness, but her voice is so appealing, and her perceptions so wise, that we feel all the less lonely for knowing her characters and experiencing their lives.”

“Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices.”

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

“Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to make wonderful worlds better than this one, comforters, companions in loneliness. Keepers of secrets, speakers of the truth...all those glorious words.”

World Voice Secret Wonderful Magic Loneliness Building Pages Block Glorious Companion Speakers Keepers Building Blocks Comforter Wonderful World

Author:Cornelia Funke

“The loneliness caused by not hearing Ren's voice... I felt it deep in the night. I felt it deeper than anyone else. Even now at times I look back. In this ordinary life without Ren, I think my life with him was like a dream. Especially on a snowy night like this. On a night as cold as this. Someone keep this guy warm for me, please.”

Thinking Looks Dream Night Guy Felt Voice Loneliness Cold Please Ordinary Deeper Hearing Warm This Guy Ordinary Life Snowy

Author:Ai Yazawa

“The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to myself, although I am the only comfort I have, excepting perhaps streets, clouds, the sun, the faces and voices of kids and the aged, and similar accidents of beauty, innocence, truth and loneliness.”

Writing Littles Running Kids Faces Purpose Voice Sun Streets Loneliness Comfort Clouds Accidents Innocence Purpose Of Writing

Author:William Saroyan

“My own study of the networked life has left me thinking about intimacy - about being with people in person, hearing their voices and seeing their faces, trying to know their hearts. And it has left me thinking about solitude - the kind that refreshes and restores. Loneliness is failed solitude.”

People Thinking Knows Trying Heart Kind Persons Faces Left Voice My Own Study Seeing Loneliness Solitude Hearing Uplifting Intimacy

Book:Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

Source: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“The lack of human voices really gets to me. I never realized that we need to talk with other people just to know that we exist. That we matter. Loneliness is a howling, empty cavern inside of me that just keeps growing.”

People Knows Needs Humans Matter Voice Growing Loneliness Empty Human Voice Caverns

Author:Cheryl Rainfield

“We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness. True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner voices become audible. One feels the attraction of one’s most intimate sources. In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives. The more coherent one becomes within oneself as a creature, the more fully one enters into the communion of all creatures.”

Feels Humans Found Voice Loses Loneliness Source Solitude Creatures Consequence Oneself Attraction Obligation Intimate Communion Inner Voice Wild Places

Book:What Are People For?: Essays

Source: What Are People For?: Essays

“When children feel understood, their loneliness and hurt diminish. When children are understood, their love for their parent is deepened. A parent's sympathy serves as emotional first aid for bruised feelings. When we genuinely acknowledge a child's plight and voice her disappointment, she often gathers the strength to face reality.”

Feels Firsts Children Feelings Reality Faces Parent Voice Hurt Loneliness Emotional Understood Disappointment Aids Acknowledge Diminish Bruised Plight

Author:Haim Ginott

“...there was a blond misty boy sitting beside me, and he looked at me, and I at him, and we were not strangers: our hands moved towards each other to embrace. I never heard his voice, for we did not speak; it is a shame, I should so like the memory of it. Loneliness, like fever, thrives on night, but there with him light broke, breaking in the trees like birdsong, and when sunrise came, he loosened his fingers from mine, and walked away, that misty boy, my friend.”

Source: Some postwar American writers

“Willy DeVille knows the truth of a city street and the courage in a ghetto love song. And the harsh reality in his voice and phrasing is yesterday, today, and tomorrow - timeless in the same way that loneliness, no money, and troubles find each other and never quit for a minute.”

Knows Way Reality Today Song Voice Cities Trouble Streets Minutes Loneliness Tomorrow Quitting Yesterday Harsh Timeless Never Quit No Money Ghetto City Streets Today And Tomorrow Harsh Reality

Author:Doc Pomus

“To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.”

Source: Healology