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  • #1
    John Steinbeck
    “All great and precious things are lonely.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #2
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #3
    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

  • #4
    Augusten Burroughs
    “I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic.”
    Augusten Burroughs, Dry

  • #5
    Joseph Conrad
    “We live as we dream--alone....”
    Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

  • #6
    Charles Bukowski
    “there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock”
    Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

  • #7
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #8
    Aldous Huxley
    “If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”
    Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

  • #9
    Hermann Hesse
    “We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.”
    Hermann Hesse

  • #10
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #11
    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

  • #12
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #13
    D.H. Lawrence
    “Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.”
    D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

  • #14
    Lili St. Crow
    “I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving.”
    Lili St. Crow, Jealousy

  • #15
    T.S. Eliot
    “This is the way the world ends
    Not with a bang but a whimper.”
    T.S. Eliot

  • #16
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #17
    Mark Twain
    “Be good and you will be lonesome.”
    Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

  • #18
    “But nothing makes a room feel emptier than wanting someone in it.”
    Calla Quinn, All the Time

  • #19
    Albert Einstein
    “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #20
    Marilynne Robinson
    “Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.”
    Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping

  • #21
    Bob Dylan
    “Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.”
    Bob Dylan

  • #22
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.”
    J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

  • #23
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

  • #24
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Éowyn!”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
    tags: pity

  • #25
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #26
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #27
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #28
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

  • #29
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #30
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby



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