Loneliness Quotes
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My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.
Warsan Shire
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A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.
Nawal El Saadawi
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...I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away.
Octavia E. Butler
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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
Dag Hammarskjold
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
Hanya Yanagihara
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
Rachel Swirsky
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But where pain was, healing could come; where loneliness was, new relationships could be formed; where rejection was, new love could be found. It was a moment. And moments changed. She would have to live through the moment to get to the next.
Cecelia Ahern
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I kind of crave loneliness.
Sam Heughan
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Suicide is a crime of loneliness, and adulated people can be frighteningly alone. Intelligence does not help in these circumstances; brilliance is almost always profoundly isolating.
Andrew Solomon
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Love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness.
Nadeem Aslam
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There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.
Maggie Smith
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I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
Dag Hammarskjold
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Civilization... is another word for respect for life. One can't have too much respect for a loveliness that's brittle as spun glass.
Elizabeth Goudge
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...to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that can not be ravaged in the dark without great consequence.
Eve Ensler
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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Dag Hammarskjold
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They're sharing a drink they call loneliness But it's better than drinking alone.
Billy Joel
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If you are afraid of loneliness, don't get married.
August Strindberg
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Be mobile at all times, even if it causes you suffering or feelings of loneliness. Unless you're willing to do that, you're never going to get the bigger rewards.
Oleg Cassini
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Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.
Naomi Campbell
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Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Among all the wisdom and facts I learned from Giannon, I also learned the loneliness of incarnation, in which there is inevitably a separation of souls because of the uniqueness of our faces and our experiences. And I learned also the moments when the current of my life joins the current of another life, and I can glimpse for a moment the one flowing body of water we all compose.
Kate Horsley
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I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.
Carla Bruni