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  • #1
    Charles Bukowski
    “being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”
    Charles Bukowski, Women

  • #2
    Mother Teresa
    “The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #3
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”
    Simone de Beauvoir

  • #4
    Haruki Murakami
    “But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.”
    Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

  • #5
    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

  • #6
    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

  • #7
    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

  • #8
    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

  • #9
    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

  • #10
    Poppy Z. Brite
    “Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.”
    Poppy Z.Brite

  • #11
    May Sarton
    “Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.”
    May Sarton

  • #12
    Haruki Murakami
    “I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Do you understand what I am saying? A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself.”
    Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

  • #13
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

  • #14
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert

  • #15
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #16
    Karl Lagerfeld
    “People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.”
    Karl Lagerfeld

  • #17
    Haruki Murakami
    “Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.”
    Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

  • #18
    Anne Frank
    “Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.”
    Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

  • #19
    Dorothy Day
    “We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.”
    Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist – A Greenwich Village Journalist's Conversion and Commitment to Peace and Justice

  • #20
    Jean Webster
    “Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.”
    Jean Webster

  • #21
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for those like us, our fate is to face the world as orphans, chasing through long years the shadows of vanished parents. There is nothing for it but to try and see through our missions to the end, as best we can, for until we do so, we will be permitted no calm.”
    Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans

  • #22
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #23
    “...
    از کوچه بر می گردم و این ابر ِ بی صبر
    با گام من، همراه من، ره می سپارد
    در خویش می گریم شگفتا: «این چه جادوست
    ابری که خاموشانه بر ابری ببارد.»
    .”
    محمد رضا شفیعی کدکنی

  • #24
    John Green
    “We all want to do something to mitigate the pain of loss or to turn grief into something positive, to find a silver lining in the clouds. But I believe there is real value in just standing there, being still, being sad.”
    John Green

  • #25
    Virginia Woolf
    “She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach.”
    Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
    tags: life

  • #26
    Veronica Roth
    “Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other”
    Veronica Roth



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