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#1

“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”
― Bette Davis

tags: clichés, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, misogyny, opinions, speaking-out, stereotypes, women

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#2

“It is time to teach society on how to be empathetic with people grieving.”
― Nathalie Himmelrich, Grieving Parents: Surviving Loss as a Couple

tags: grieving, grieving-parents, loss-of-a-child, parental-bereavement

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#3

“You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

tags: live-in-the-here-and-now, memory, recollection

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#4

“There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it's up to you how you respond to it.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

tags: self-determination

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#5

“Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

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#6

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: disappointment, loneliness, loner, solitude

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#7

“When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: advantage, alienation, alienation-versus-humanity, art, artist, authenticity, awkward, brain, compromise, craft, creative, fierce, genuine, humanity, humanity-versus-alienation, imagination, introversion, isolation, life, loner, originality, perspective, purity, social, socially-awkward, solitude, writing

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#8

“I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else. I will never feel the pressure of peers or the burden of parental expectation. I can view everyone as pieces of a whole, and focus on the whole, not the pieces. I have learned to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present because that is where I am destined to live.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

tags: drifter, future, lonely, loner, past

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#9

“I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.”
― Arundhati Roy

tags: loner

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#10

“Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: albert-einstein, einstein, inspirational, loner

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#11

“In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

tags: brooding, enlightenment, expression, face, faces, life, loneliness, loner, peace, pensive, restlessness, silence, sorrow, thought, wandering, wisdom, wise-man

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#12

“Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

tags: absorbent, ambivert, assumption, awareness, bias, cool, crazy, culture, discernment, down-to-earth, extrovert, friendly, intelligent, introversion, introvert, judgment, knowledge, learned, loner, misunderstood, mysterious, normal, observation, odd, prejudgment, prudence, psychology, quiet-people, reality, reflection, shy, silence, social, social-awareness, strange, thinking, underestimated, understanding, weird, wisdom

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#13

“I felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be charming (or merely verbal) incapacitates me.”
― Peter Cameron, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

tags: humor, loner, social-awkwardness

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#14

“Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: affable, alone, amicable, anchoress, anchorite, anthropocentric, anthropocentrism, antisocial, approachable, ascetic, by-oneself, chummy, cloistered, clubby, communicative, companionable, companionless, convivial, cordial, eremite, extrovert, forthcoming, friendless, friendly, genial, gregarious, hail-fellow-well-met, hermit, hermitic, incommunicado, introvert, isolate, isolation, lone-wolf, lonely, loner, lonesome, marabout, misanthrope, misanthropy, on-one-s-own, open, outgoing, recluse, reclusive, responsive, seclude, secluded, sociable, solitarian, solitary, solitudinarian, troglodyte, unaccompanied, unsociable, warm, withdrawn

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#15

“I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all but, to tell you the truth I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.”
― Bela Lugosi

tags: hearts, loner, minds, people

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#16

“He craved silences and solitude. He simply could not get lost in another person’s life.”
― Sreesha Divakaran, A Little Chorus of Love

tags: commitment, crave, loner, solitude

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#17

“An experienced loner does not fall for the same trick twice.”
― Wataru Watari, やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている。2

tags: aloneness, foolhardiness, hachiman-hikigaya, loner, tricks, wataru-watari

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#18

“You are the leader here. Obviiusly your skills are far superior to mine. I don't think I could fit into your life. I'm a loner, not the first lady.”
― Christine Feehan, Dark Prince

tags: fit, lady, life, loner

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#19

“I found, increasingly, that I did not particularly care and I tried to fake a little kindness, a little sweetness, tried to mirror Luna back at herself, but that exhausted me after a week and I concluded that I was not meant for this sort of thing, friends, friendliness, no, I wasn't meant for it.”
― Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing

tags: antisocial, catherine-lacey, don-t-care, exhausting, faking-it, friendless, friendliness, friends, friendship, isolation, loner, misanthrope, no-friends, nobody-is-ever-missing, relationships

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#20

“He liked to get off by himself, a mile or so from camp, and listen to the country, not the men.”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

tags: alone, apart, like, loner, self

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#21

“I do not mind someone talking to me, as long as they do not mind me not listening or talking to them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: art, artist, genius, introvert, lone-wolf, loner, quietude, silence, solitude, writing

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#22

“The best adventures are embarked on alone.”
― Lidia Longorio, Hey Humanity

tags: adventure, alone, loner

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#23

“Miller sighed. This was exactly the kind of thing that made him want to live in an igloo on a glacier. Even penguins seemed like too much company at a moment like this.”
― Sidney Bell, Loose Cannon

tags: introvert, loner

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#24

“On a whim, I told Mom once about seeing the world as a series of grays, and she told me I was depressed. This didn’t feel like that. This emptiness was different.”
― Kayla Krantz, What I Did

tags: alien-feelings, depression, empty, gray, isolation, loner, not-human, outsider

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#25

“True acceptance doesn’t require you to fit in or change who you are. It doesn’t have to be sought; it’s given to you.”
― Yong Kang Chan, Reconnect to Love: A Journey From Loneliness to Deep Connection

tags: acceptance, belonging, fitting-in, loneliness, loner, outcast, people-pleasing, relationships, seeking-approval

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#26

“Sometimes all you have to do is tell people the truth. They won't believe you. After that they leave you alone.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

tags: introvert, loner

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#27

“Do not be sad Edward. They exclude you because they don’t understand you. Be happy you are the single one that differs from their normal community”
― Dean Mackin

tags: anxiety, anxiety-quotes, anxious, apsergers-syndrome, aspergers, judged-by-others, loner, social-anxiety, weirdo

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#28

“I want to be cut off from people like Marloe. Being a real person oneself is a matter of setting up limits and drawing lines and saying no. I don't want to be a nebulous bit of ectoplasm straying around in other people's lives. That sort of vague sympathy with everybody precludes any real understanding of anybody . . . And it precludes any real loyalty to anybody.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

tags: boundaries, discerning, iris-murdoch, loner, loyalty, relationships, setting-limits, the-black-prince, understanding

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