189 Quotes About Aloneness

و إنّنا لوحيدون في وحدتنا الخاصة نفسها ، هذه التي تظلّ لا قِبَل لنا بها ، دومًا خطرة. أجل ، إنّ ثمّة ثمنًا نؤدّيه لأنّنا جرُؤنا على الخروج و الكتابة

The only one waiting at home for me is my cat!

I always come here when I can't sleep [. . .] every night.

Yet there are moments when I feel a continent apart, when their belonging seems easy and unforced and my own is only pantomime.

And did the distress I was feeling derive from some internal sickness of the soul, or was it imposed on me by the sickness of society? That someone besides me had suffered from these ambiguities and had seen light on their far side... that I could find company and consolation and hope in an object pulled almost at random from a bookshelf—felt akin to an instance of religious grace.

Let's go home together.

I am seated hereAloneA thousand miles awayFrom everybodyBut if I have myselfAnd my sanityI’ve got nothing else to lose

You can pretend we are one or we arealone but the religions based on eachare doors someone drew on a wallin the hope they could make a getawaybefore whoever's wall it was got homeThere's always a gap in the photostreamor a certain dubiousness to the signatureA bird in the air is worth more to itselfthan all the ones in the grip of something

America was an iceberg shattered into a billion fragments, and on each stood a person, rotating like an ice floe in a storm.