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“...Goddamn himself for letting his independence slip away from him. He didn't even know how it had happened, how he had lost the ability…

— Kimberly Gardner

“For how could he live with himself, if indeed he did live at all, knowing that his life was so inextricably bound to others,…

— Daniel Wallace

“He felt useless and degraded, as if he no longer lived for others but for himself alone.”

— Bernard Werber

“And he could go on in life, existing from day to day, without connection and without hope. For he did not know what to…

— D.H. Lawrence

“The reason he could do none of the necessary things to take care of himself, on the few occasions when he thought of them,…

— Peter Pouncey

“He entered a confectioner's shop to rest, once. He was in a state of nervous excitement and perturbation; he noticed nothing and no one;…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“There were so many people in the world who wasted their aliveness, who hung back when they should reach out, who sat out when…

— Jessie Evans

“He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another.”

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which…

— Jean Paul Sartre

“He felt the guilt of inaction, of simply waiting while his life went to waste. No one was worth the gift of his life,…

— Leonard Gardner

“Who can depart from his pain, and his aloneness without regret??”

— Kahlil Gibran

“He had missed the deepest of all companionships, a relation with the earth itself, with a countryside and a people. That relationship he knew…

— Willa Cather