“And because no one answered or cared and a conversation went on without her she felt profoundly lonely, suspecting once more for… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
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“I once read that most people are afraid to live alone because to live alone means to die alone. They have visions… — Jessica Anthony Copy Share Image
“I know what it feels like, and it sucks, it really does, when you are up in the middle of the night… — Abraham M. Alghanem Copy Share Image
Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“This much freedom leaves you on your own. More Americans than ever before live alone, but even a family can exist in… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
And yet, standing behind her son, waiting for the traffic light change, she remembered how in the midst of it all there… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
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“In the parking lot, she drove and parked in a dark area with no other cars around. She reclined her seat, and… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Sometimes at night I suddenly become aware of all the things Im missing out on right now, and all the people who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Betrayal is too kind a word to describe a situation in which a father says he loves his daughter but claims he… — Margaret Smith Copy Share Image
Traveling is amazing. You meet so many great, positive people. You get to see new faces all the time. I don't think… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
Krys Lee has written a book of unforgettable stories, each one building on the other to create a complex, moving portrait of… — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is collective; it is a city. As to how to inhabit it, there are no rules and nor is there any… — Olivia Laing Copy Share Image
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“your homecoming will be my homecoming̣- my selves go with you, only i remain; a shadow phantom effigy or seeming (an almost… — E. E. Cummings Copy Share Image
And I was to find out then, as I found out so many times, over and over again, that women especially are… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling with denying… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If your beliefs are stressful and you question them, you come to see that they aren't true - whereas prior to questioning,… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
“It is lonely behind these boundaries. Some people-particularly those whom psychiatrists call schizoid-because of unpleasant, traumatizing experiences in childhood, perceive the world… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“The second sort was waking up alone. That was characterised by an awareness that he was alone in bed, alone in life,… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t a lonely kid—I was good at being alone. I’d read books, play with the toy that I had, make up… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
The Lord is near! You're not alone. You may feel alone. You may think you're alone. But there's never a moment in… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
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He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself. But the street ran on: catlike, one… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
In San Francisco - life goes on. Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Relaxing with something as familiar as loneliness is good discipline for realizing the profundity of the unresolved moments of our lives. We… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
But where pain was, healing could come; where loneliness was, new relationships could be formed; where rejection was, new love could be… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
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I went through a period in my life when I had no friends, when the phone never rang, when I thought I… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
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“If silence were your only friend, know that the universe understands you. If solitude is your only company, know that loneliness has… — Amarjyoti Acharya Copy Share Image
“...that’s where love is revealed: in abandoning the outcome, casting the self aside, inviting the consequences that will come. Even if the… — Jenna Brooks Copy Share Image
There is something to be said about the relationship with life and death and the marriage between the two. Coming to terms… — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
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