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Loneliness Quotes
"I stayed in the town until earlyevening, and when the sun began to sink, my heart did too. This is your last chance to goback, I told myself. Once it gets completely dark, you might never be able to leave here. Iwent home on the same buses that had brought me there. I arrived before seven, and no onenoticed that I had run away."
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"Loneliness was like an ogre hovering over those activities."
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"You are alone, I am alone; we don't get together why we complain so much."
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"Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship."
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"There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one, two is two thousand times one."
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"I have found no other cure for loneliness than to befriend it."
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"We all are individual and lonely, like stars which appear so close but millions of miles apart."
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"He was lonely because he could imagine himself as anything but himself and as anywhere but where he was. His competitiveness and self-centeredness cut him off from any thought of shared life. He wanted to have more because he thought that having more would make him able to live more, and he was lonely because he never thought of the sources, the places, where he was going to get what he wanted to have, or of what his having it might cost others. It was loneliness that sometimes even he felt; you could see it. A self-praiser has got to accept a big loneliness in order to accept a little credit."
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"I wake up, I feel the inescapable oppression of the sunlight pouring through my bedroom window, and I am struck by the fact that I am alone. And that everyone is alone. And that everything I understood seven hours ago has already changed, and that I have to learn everything again."
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"We both were there, but alone. "Bye," she said and left; I was alone; again, one more time."
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"Loneliness will give you the greatest chance of ever having a beautiful relationship with another person."
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"A box sits empty,wanting to hold and protect.Hollow tears it cries."
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"Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age."
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"I seek the city because there is nothing sweeter than not being alone in your loneliness."
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"I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already."
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"If it's about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my life; save the one I'm sitting in."
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"My past lives alone. That's why my loneliness wants to live in the past."
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"One moment you see that you aren't so Original... people leave you... people start ignoring you... people start making excuses."
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"One thing I've learned is that in the midst of your darkest moments of tribulation, there is no such thing as mass friends."
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