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When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don’t have a...

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As always when he worked with this much concentration he began to feel a sense of introverting press...

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Poem to Be Read at 3:00 A.M.by Donald JusticeExcepting the dinerOn the outskirtsThe town of Ladoraat...

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…I’ve come to realize that the only truths that matter to me are the ones I don’t, and can’t, unders...

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And I'm hoping there's some larger truth about suffering here, or at least my understanding of it - ...

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...not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am.

Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that lonelines...

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I was lonely, deadly lonely. And I was to find out then, as I found out so many times, over and over...

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Dorothy DayThe Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that lo...

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Dorothy DayThe Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist

I don't know," she said. "We used to squabble a lot when we were going together and then engaged and...

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I think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever Person isn't just ...

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Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest iron...

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Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done!There are points to be scored. There are games to ...

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may came home with a smooth round stoneas small as a world and as large as alone.

He lived on, miserable and misunderstood, as before, and increasingly lonely. One cannot write those...

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I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not be...

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From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were - I have not seenAs others saw - I could not bri...

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The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

I was lonelier than I should be, for a woman in love, or half in love.

Where you used to be there is a hole in the world which I find myself constantly walking around in...

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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in...

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And because no one answered or cared and a conversation went on without her she felt profoundly lone...

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Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these...

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So be lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your...

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I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with yo...

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When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a m...

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I'm here. I love you. I don't care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with yo...

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Loneliness watches and sights, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over... himself, fully d...

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Why would you want any other, when you’re a world within a world?

You think you're alone until you realize you're in it.Now fear is here to stay, love is here for a v...

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I could say it was the nights when I was lonelyand you were the only one who'd talk.I could tell you...

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Mr. Heathcliff, you have nobody to love you; and, however miserable you make us, we shall still have...

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted,One need not be a house;The brain has corridors surpassingMa...

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Emily DickinsonThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

I HIDE myself within my flowerThat wearing on your breast,You, unsuspecting, wear me too—And angels ...

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Emily DickinsonThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his ow...

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There had never been any more between us thanchance had brought. But perhaps that makes a greater in...

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I felt very lonely when they were all there.

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Ernest HemingwayA Farewell to Arms

I know that the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of ...

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let us sleep," he said and he felt the long light body, warm against him, comforting against him, ab...

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Ernest HemingwayFor Whom the Bell Tolls

Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull p...

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In any case, there was only one tunnel, dark and lonely, mine, the tunnel in which I had spent my ch...

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But he wanted to leap up, to say to her, I have been sick and I found out then, only then, how lonel...

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Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and a...

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There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when ...

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He was in love with every pretty woman he saw now, their forms at a distance, their shadows on the w...

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I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the...

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There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aiml...

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I had a strong sudden instinct that I must be alone. I didn’t want to see any people at all. I had s...

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I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the...

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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone...

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Yes it’s me, I myself, what I turned out to be, (…) I’m the one here in myself, it’s me. (…) Whateve...

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Fernando PessoaA Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems

When I was a kid--10, 11, 12, 13--the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted t...

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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can...

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We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own ...

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I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly...

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Little do men perceive what solitude is and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company and f...

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Little do men perceive what solitude is and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company and f...

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Little do men perceive what solitude is and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company and f...

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Little do men perceive what solitude is and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company and f...

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Humans are almost always lonely.

I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that...

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[He] used to be soinsignificant that one literally felt alone in his presence.

[He] used to be so insignificant that one literally felt alone in his presence.

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Franz KafkaThe Metamorphosis and Other Stories

What a fool she was ever to have imagined that there might be some place in the world where she coul...

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

I and me are always too deeply in conversation: how could I endure it,if there were not a friend?The...

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These solitary ones who are free in spirit know thatin one thing or another they must constantly put...

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sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love

I see nothing that can unite us under the auspices of innocence and honor," he wrote to her. "In the...

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But in her loneliness in the palace she learned to know him, they learned to know each other, and sh...

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No matter whom I'm with I'll always be alone," she said. And she added with a roguish touch: "Excell...

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Gabriel García MárquezThe General in His Labyrinth

I'll never fall in love again," he once confessed to José Palacios, the only human being with whom h...

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Gabriel García MárquezThe General in His Labyrinth

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.

Oh yes, it hurts at times to be alone among the stars. But it hurts a lot more to be alone at a part...

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Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased...

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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.

... and for the first time he realized the pain inevitable in any human relationship - pain suffered...

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Perhaps she would have liked to confide all these things to someone. But how tell an undefinable une...

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For some years he had felt weighing on him the burden of loneliness which sometimes overwhelms old b...

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Get married, my friend, you don't know what it means to live alone, at my age. Nowadays feeling alon...

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Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think ...

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Guy de MaupassantLe Horla et autres contes fantastiques

Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours...

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Human beings, in point of fact, are lonely by nature, and one should feel sorry for them and love th...

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Thinking, existentially speaking, is a solitary but not a lonely business; solitude is that human si...

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In other words, Shozaburo Takitani was now alone in the world. This was no great shock to him, howev...

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Don't forget - you're the one who swam across the freezing sea at night.

I was much younger, much hungrier, much more alone. But I was myself, pared down to the essentials.

I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all...

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The two of them on top of the freezing slide, wordlessly holding hands. Once again they were a ten-y...

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I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely.

Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.

There is one thing I can say for certain: the older a person gets, the lonelier he becomes. It's tru...

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From the photo albums, every single print of her had been peeled away. Shots of the both of us toget...

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I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Lone...

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Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.

Sometimes I feel as if I'm racing with my own shadow