"Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay."

Solitude, Loneliness, Reading, State

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"Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay."

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"It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into night to make a great arching line of which I couldn't see the end, a night in which I roamed alone under cold, mindless stars."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Solitude, Night, Alone, Stars, Isolation

"This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude."

Elizabeth Gilbert, American Novelist

Solitude, Peace, Healing, Self

"A wounded heart needs aloof."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Solitude, Healing, Truth, Power, Today

"I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative."

David Levithan, American Author

Solitude, Loneliness, Acceptance, Desire, Alone

"Everything hurt. I closed my eyes, pressing my cheek to the street, and waited. What for, I didn't know. To be rescued. Or found. But no one came. All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

Solitude, Pain, Isolation, Waiting, Desire

"The time of solitude is actually an opportunity to make time work for you."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Solitude, Time, Opportunity, Value

"Solitude is a greater treasure than money."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Solitude, Treasure, Value, InnerPeace

"In solitude, you listen to the sacred voice."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Solitude, Listening, Voice, Sacred

"Alone! yesterday, today and forever."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Solitude, Loneliness, Isolation, Emotion

"I am but a stranger ... as we all are. Lonely inside our separate skins, we cannot know each others pain and must bear our own in solitude. For my part, I have found that walking soothes it; and that, given luck, sometimes we find one to walk besides us ... at least for a little way."

Alan Moore, British Writer

Solitude, Loneliness, Companionship, Pain

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"The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis."

Age

"Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain."

Experience

"Let's face it, writing is hell."

Hell

"Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever."

Death

"The writer's duty is to keep on writing."

Duty

"I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends."

Friendship

"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it."

Reading

"I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell."

Struggle

"And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars."

Stars

"Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay."

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