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    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”
    ― Edna St. Vincent Millay
    tags: loneliness, loss, yearning
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë
    tags: companionship, loneliness, marriage, single, spinsterhood
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: loneliness, passion
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Will’s voice dropped. “Everyone makes mistakes, Jem.”
    “Yes,” said Jem. “You just make more of them than most people.”
    “I —”
    “You hurt everyone,” said Jem. “Everyone whose life you touch.”
    “Not you,” Will whispered. “I hurt everyone but you. I never meant to
    hurt you.”
    Jem put his hands up, pressing his palms against his eyes. “Will —”
    “You can’t never forgive me,” Will said in disbelief, hearing the
    panic tinging his own voice. “I’d be —”
    “Alone?” Jem lowered his hand, but he was smiling now, crookedly. “And
    whose fault is that?”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
    tags: clockwork-prince, jem-carstairs, loneliness, mistakes, will-herondale
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    Daniel Keyes
    “I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
    ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
    tags: happiness, loneliness, melancholy, philosophy, psychology
    2688 likes

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    Audrey Hepburn
    “When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.”
    ― Audrey Hepburn
    tags: aloneness, loneliness
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    David Levithan
    “It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.”
    ― David Levithan, Every Day
    tags: ignored, loneliness
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Sometimes I feel so- I don’t know - lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you’re used to has been ripped away. Like there’s no more gravity, and I’m left to drift in outer space with no idea where I’m going’
    Like a little lost Sputnik?’
    I guess so.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
    tags: loneliness
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    Phoebe Stone
    “Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.”
    ― Phoebe Stone, The Boy on Cinnamon Street
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    James Dashner
    “i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone”
    ― James Dashner, The Scorch Trials
    tags: absence, alone, breakup, broken, day, felt, forgive, gone, her, i, i-love-you, in, it, know, like, loneliness, lonely, mirror, miss, mouth, need, no, one, run, sad, separated, sorry, teeth, the, they, to, up, waking, want, was, were, with, wouldn-t, you, your
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    Henry Rollins
    “Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”
    ― Henry Rollins
    tags: henry-rollins, loneliness
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    Poppy Z. Brite
    “Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.”
    ― Poppy Z.Brite
    tags: evening, loneliness, night, reflection, torture
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    Criss Jami
    “If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: adversity, alone, beautiful, compassion, difficulties, finding-oneself, hardship, humanity, loneliness, misunderstanding, pain, sadness, solitude, understanding
    774 likes

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    D.H. Lawrence
    “It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
    tags: life, loneliness, philosophy
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    David Foster Wallace
    “Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
    tags: humans, loneliness, lonely-people, relationships
    722 likes

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    Lisa Schroeder
    “Was it hard?" I ask.
    Letting go?"

    Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.”
    ― Lisa Schroeder
    tags: heartbreak, life, love
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight
    tags: at-first-sight, emotions, healing, heartbreak, love, nicholas, nicholas-sparks, sparks
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran
    tags: emotion, heartbreak, lost-love, love, parting
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    Audrey Niffenegger
    “I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.”
    ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
    tags: heartbreak, love
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing...”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert
    tags: heartbreak, love, mourning
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Hearts are breakable," Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before".”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels
    tags: broken-hearted, healing, heartbreak, inspirational, love
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez
    tags: bereavement, broken-hearted, heartbreak
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    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”
    ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
    tags: grief, grief-inspirational, heartbreak, life, life-lessons, love, love-hurts, love-story, price-of-love, prices, romance, sad, sad-but-true, sadness, true-love
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    Stephen King
    “Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.”
    ― Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis
    tags: heartbreak
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    Gayle Forman
    “Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal”
    ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
    tags: heartbreak, if-i-stay, love
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    Lisa Kleypas
    “Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.”
    ― Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy
    tags: fate, hardy-cates, heartbreak, liberty-jones, sugar-daddy, travises
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    L. Frank Baum
    “I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.”
    ― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
    tags: heartbreak, relationships
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    Mineko Iwasaki
    “Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.”
    ― Mineko Iwasaki
    tags: betrayal, heartbreak
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    Tabitha Suzuma
    “I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can't be you?”
    ― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden
    tags: heartbreak, hope, lochan, love, maya
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    Gayle Forman
    “I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.”
    ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
    tags: drama, fight, heartbreak, letting-go, life, reality
    1049 likes



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