True, he had chosen to live alone, but not unbearably alone. The worst of being unbearably alone was that you had to bear it - either that or you were sunk. You had to work hard to prevent your mind from sabotaging you by its looking hungrily back at the superabundant past.

~ Philip Roth

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I learned much too late that what you called love was nothing but a desperate and irrational fear of a life lived alone.

~ Beau Taplin

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A city full of eight million people. It was all rather lonely sometimes.

~ Kelly Moran

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It is better to be alone than to become a person that loses his soul to the fear of loneliness.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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It is a sound like loneliness—enough to let you know you’re there, but not enough to fill you with life.

~ David Levithan

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You will never feel alone, if you run down the stairs of loneliness; as every solitary step becomes your companion.

~ Munia Khan

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To an optimist loneliness is freedom, to all others it is prison.

~ Amit Kalantri

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One thing that is clearer to me every day is how much we all have in common, and one of those commonalities is that we all think we are alone.

~ Liat Segal

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Suffering does not only insulate. It drops its victim in an ocean desert where he sees men as distant ships passing. I not only feel alone, but very far away from you all.

~ W.n.p. Barbellion

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Loneliness is a poison, but aloneness is a catalyst.

~ Sam Killermann

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For fear you will be aloneyou do so many thingsthat aren’t you at all.

~ Richard Brautigan

Richard Brautigan Alone Loneliness

I inhale loneliness like it is the sweet smell of virgin earth conquered by fiery rain drops. Within me, I'm a thousand others.

~ Faraaz Kazi

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You know how it is. You feel a little different because other people have two parents, even if they’re divorced. It’s like you grow up knowing that you’re missing something important that everyone else has, but you don’t know exactly what it is. I remember hearing my friends talking about how their fathers wouldn't let them stay out late or didn't like their boyfriends. It used to make me so angry because they didn't even realize what they had. Do you know what I mean?

~ Nicholas Sparks

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She doesn't give directions but there is a pot of gold at the end of her rainbow...Find it. If you can.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

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Loneliness wasn't just a state of mind, was it? It was tactile. She could feel it. It was a sixth sense, not in some fanciful play of words, but physically. It hurt... it hurt like phagocytes devouring the white matter of her brain. It was merely that she had no friends. She didn't even have a sanctuary in which she could simply be alone.

~ Tom Wolfe

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Loneliness wasn't just a state of mind, was it? It was tactile. She could feel it. It was a sixth sense, not in some fanciful play of words, but physically. It hurt... it hurt like phagocytes devouring the white matter of her brain. It wasn't merely that she had no friends. She didn't even have a sanctuary in which she could simply be alone.

~ Tom Wolfe

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Jason knew his life would never be the same again. British intelligence now had an ace up their sleeve, and Jason had to overcome his fears and deal with the secret world he was now a part of. He would have to grow a tough shell around himself. Despite his many friends, his grandparents and love of his father, he was painfully aware he was very much alone in this world. When it came down to it, there was only one person he could really rely on in the world,and he was called Jason Steed.

~ Mark A. Cooper

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I used to be fine in my lonelinessbut somethingor someonesnapped me out of itand showed me company. What it’s like to feel at home,and so the going on by myself part wasn’t as easy anymore.Seasons happened and things got colder and harder and suddenly I found myself smoking circles in the airby myself in the snowand I was not okay.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

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I watched the moon alone, unable to share his cold beauty with anyone.

~ Haruki Murakami

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When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm my body or my soul, no friends I could open up to. No clue what I should do every day, no vision for the future. For the most part, I remained hidden away, deep within myself. Sometimes, I'd go a week without talking to anybody.

~ Haruki Murakami

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Being all alone is like the feeling you get when you stand at the mouth of a large river on a rainy evening and watch the water flow into the sea. Have you ever done that? Stand at the mouth of a large river and watch the water flow into the sea?

~ Haruki Murakami

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I doubt even you can begin to understand the depths of her.

~ Samantha Young

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Don’t you realize the Internet is just a way for millions of sad people to be completely alone together?

~ Wayne Gladstone

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Do you have a shoulder to cry on?Someone who would listen to your deepest woes without judging you?Or is it just you and the image in the mirror?

~ Sanhita Baruah

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—Alone, quite alone. You have no fear of that. And you know what that word means? Not only to be separate from all others but to have not even one friend.—I will take the risk, said Stephen.—And not to have any one person, Cranly said, who would be more than a friend, more even than the noblest and truest friend a man ever had.

~ James Joyce

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To the turtle, the concept of loneliness is incomprehensible. She always has been alone, and any other social state is unthinkable.

~ Robert H. Baker

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Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her – a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade, always alone.

~ Sara Sheridan

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My shadow is tired walking with me; but I have yet to be bored walking with myself, all by myself...

~ Munia Khan

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I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

~ Charles Bukowski

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there's no clarity.there was never meant to be clarity.

~ Charles Bukowski

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darkness falls upon Humanityand faces become terriblethingsthat wanted more than therewas.all our days are marked withunexpectedaffronts - somedisastrous, othersless sobut the process iswearing andcontinuous.attrition rules.most givewayleavingempty spaceswhere people shouldbe.and nowas we ready to self-destructthere is very little left tokillwhich makes the tragedyless and moremuch muchmore.

~ Charles Bukowski

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when you're younga pair offemalehigh-heeled shoesjust sittingalonein the closetcan fire yourbones,when you're oldit's justa pair of shoeswithoutanybodyin themandjust aswell.

~ Charles Bukowski

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sometimes all we need to be able to continue aloneare the deadrattling the wallsthat close us in.

~ Charles Bukowski

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When other girls were dreaming about love, she dreamt of love too, but in an entirely different context - the ones they took for granted.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

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-That's kind of sad.-I used to think so. Now I think: you're born a certain way. Later you get to decide how much you want to fight/change that. I don't mind being alone.-You must mind. If you didn't you wouldn't be doing this with me.

~ Doug Dorst

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I never wanted to be alone, but I always opted for loneliness. I am an emotional, sensitive and expressive creature. I cannot detach my feelings, never could I control. I fall in love and I can be easily broken.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

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Arrogance and selfishness are not the only reasons behind our loneliness, but most often we used to be alone because of them.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

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Some people search out solitude without even thinking that they need to do so--it's an innate urge with them, something that they do as a matter of course, without even thinking about the psychological benefits of being alone. These people are very fortunate, for they help themselves in a very important way on a regular basis. Other people are given solitude involuntarily--with me it came from my insecurities and my inability to fit in with others. For me, solitude was very often loneliness, and very often painful. But I know now that I made it painful because of my perspective, and I regret losing so many opportunities that being on my own opened up to me--I'll never be able to get them back. Find or make time for yourself to be with yourself. Spend time thinking about who you are and who you want to be. Examine your strengths and focus on possibilities. Find the friend inside who has accomplished a lot, and learn to love yourself on your own terms. If you can do this, you've taken a very important step towards being able to help others to learn about themselves and to be more content with life.

~ Tom Walsh

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If you try you would never be alone, because the whole world is tired of loneliness.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

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No one loves us here, let’s go to Mars.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

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