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    John Steinbeck
    “All great and precious things are lonely.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: loneliness
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    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
    tags: loneliness, misattributed
    7852 likes

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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
    3085 likes

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    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
    tags: loneliness, lonely, sad, sadness, sorrow
    2338 likes

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    Joseph Conrad
    “We live as we dream--alone....”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
    tags: dream, loneliness
    2490 likes

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    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
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: loneliness, secret-knowledge, secrets, solitude
    1911 likes

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    Aldous Huxley
    “If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: loneliness
    2314 likes

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    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
    tags: loneliness, solitude, spirit
    1432 likes

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    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
    tags: loneliness
    1269 likes

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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
    1361 likes

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    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
    tags: loneliness
    1595 likes

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    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
    tags: loneliness
    880 likes

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    Lili St. Crow
    “I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving.”
    ― Lili St. Crow, Jealousy
    tags: death, holding-on, leaving, left, loneliness, strange-angels
    748 likes

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    T.S. Eliot
    “This is the way the world ends
    Not with a bang but a whimper.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: apocalypse, despair, poetry
    3279 likes

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    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
    tags: despair, gandalf, hope
    1156 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Be good and you will be lonesome.”
    ― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
    tags: goodness, loneliness
    396 likes

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  • #18
    “But nothing makes a room feel emptier than wanting someone in it.”
    ― Calla Quinn, All the Time
    tags: distance, loneliness, missing, missing-someone, missing-you
    644 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: reality
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    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
    tags: loneliness
    261 likes

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    Bob Dylan
    “Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.”
    ― Bob Dylan
    tags: beautiful, behind, kind, of, pain, thing
    2934 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.”
    ― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
    tags: doubt, friendship, loneliness
    274 likes

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    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
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    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
    156 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: faith
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    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
    tags: hope, inspirational, love
    8264 likes

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    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
    tags: belonging, company, desires, literature, longings
    6581 likes

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    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
    tags: lost-innocence, memories
    5276 likes

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: f-scott-fitzgerald
    5878 likes

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  • #30
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: affection, amity, love
    4069 likes



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