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“I may stay here in this town another day or I may go on to another town. No one knows where I… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
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“That was the worst truth of all: alone. The word was a kind of death.” — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
“She was a stray after all. A stray not only in its plantation meaning-orphaned, with no one to look after her-but in… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Modern life seems set up so that we can avoid loneliness at all costs, but maybe it's worthwhile to face it occasionally.… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“America was an iceberg shattered into a billion fragments, and on each stood a person, rotating like an ice floe in a… — Rene Denfeld Copy Share Image
“... all humans are frightened of their own solitude. Yet only in solitude can man learn to know himself, learn to handle… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
“There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with anyone ineligible. Before that, it was… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
“THE CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE ATMAN, THE SOUL. The first meaning is: in this world, only consciousness is yours. The word atman means:… — Osho Copy Share Image
“We all are individual and lonely, like stars which appear so close but millions of miles apart.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“Her, enveloped in the smell of the snow, and her cold fingertips, and the sound of the black clouds drifting through the… — Makoto Shinkai Copy Share Image
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“You don't have to do this," Ronan said. "There isn't anything else, man." "There's reality." Kavinsky laughed the word. "Reality! Reality's what… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“I was surrounded by friends, my work was immense, and pleasures were abundant. Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly,… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Now, as an adult, my hopes for the future were simple: I wanted to be alone, and to be surrounded by flowers.… — Vanessa Diffenbaugh Copy Share Image
“A night of exhilaration, of boredom and terror, in which the merest of sounds took on other forms - grew large in… — richard skelton Copy Share Image
“Love is for the faint of hearts. The emotionally depraved In need of something to make them feel safe.” — Yefon Isabelle Copy Share Image
“I have continued to come here for that kind of aloneness, so very different from being lonely with someone.” — Shirley Rousseau Murphy Copy Share Image
