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“One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world. Individual loneliness is a personal drama; one can feel lonely even in the midst of great natural beauty. An outcast in the world, indifferent to its being dazzling or dismal, self-consumed with triumphs and failures, engrossed in inner drama—such is the fate of the solitary. The feeling of cosmic loneliness, on the other hand, stems not so much from man's subjective agony as from an awareness of the world's isolation, of objective nothingness. It is as if all the splendors of this world were to vanish at once, leaving behind the dull monotony of a cemetery. Many are haunted by the vision of an abandoned world encased in glacial solitude, untouched by even the pale reflections of a crepuscular light. Who is more unhappy? He who feels his own loneliness or he who feels the loneliness of the world? Impossible to tell, and besides, why should I bother with a classification of loneliness? Is it not enough that one is alone?”
― Emil M. Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

“When the time to die comes, it does not matter how and when it happens.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942

“My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.”
― Warsan Shire

“وحدي أدافع عن هواء ٍ ليس لي

وحدي أدافع عن هواء ٍ ليس لي

وحدي على سطح المدينة واقف ٌ

أيوب مات ، وماتت ِ العنقاء ُ ‘ وانصرف َ الصحابة

وحـــدي . أراود نفسي َ الثكلى فتأبى أن تســاعدني على نفسي

ووحـــدي …. كنت وحدي

عندما قاومت وحــدي … وحدة الروح الأخيــرة”
― محمود درويش, مديح الظل العالي