3,311 Quotes About Loneliness
- Author Dean Koontz
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Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom.Once you were thus convinced, you were foolish to open the door and let anyone in, not all the way in. You risked the hard-won equilibrium, that tranquility that you called peace
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- Author Nikita Gill
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When no one aids you, you build your own legs.
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- Author Gabriel García Márquez
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sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love
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- Author Joanne Harris
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Online communities are an expression of loneliness.
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- Author Munia Khan
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My past lives alone. That's why my loneliness wants to live in the past
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- Author Haoran Meng
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. . . Like ashes of gold in a cinnamon-flame,My youthful desires have been burnt with the years– And tonight in the chilling sunset-windA cicada, singing, weighs on my heart.
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- Author Simone de Beauvoir
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I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.
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- Author Isabelle Eberhardt
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For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.
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- Author D.S. Mixell
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I would far prefer to be in someone's arms than just in their head.
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