He looked down at me without recognition, and I realized with a little stab of anxiety that he must have forgotten all about me, perhaps for some considerable time, and that he himself was so lost in the labyrinth of his own unquiet thoughts that I did not exist.

~ Daphne Du Maurier

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Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'Stop thinking', swig, 'empty your head', swig, 'now, seriously empty your head'.

~ Gillian Flynn

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i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone

~ James Dashner

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It's so stupid because all I wanted was space and now that I have it, there's this part of me that's achingly lonely I could die.

~ Hannah Harrington

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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

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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 be won.And the magical things you can do with that ballwill make you the winning-est winner of all.Fame! You'll be as famous as famous can be,with the whole wide world watching you win on TV.Except when they don'tBecause, sometimes they won't.I'm afraid that some timesyou'll play lonely games too.Games you can't win'cause you'll play against you.

~ Dr. Seuss

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I don't know why I still feel this pit in my stomach whenever I get a moment to think. I know what the pit is, too; I feel lonely. But I'm not alone, I keep telling myself.

~ Pittacus Lore

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Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing.

~ Stephen King

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Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.

~ Stevie Smith

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You are letting this feeling get cold, I cant blame you, you must know you are free to go... Don't you ever look back... If you wonder why it is because I wont be there.

~ Andres Oliver

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There was something odd for him about not feeling lonely. The very fact that he had ceased to be lonely caused him to fear the possibility of becoming lonely again.

~ Haruki Murakami

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How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and rightfully represented as oneself.

~ Criss Jami

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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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Loneliness is the endless disease that eats at our soul.

~ Jacob Baylis

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When one is just sad one should just be alone.

~ Will Advise

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There must be different kinds of loneliness, or at least different degrees of loneliness, but the most terrifying loneliness is not experienced by everyone and can be understood by only a few. I compare the panic in this kind of loneliness to the dog we see running frantically down the road pursuing the family car. He is not really being left behind, for the family knows it is to return, but for that moment in his limited understanding, he is being left alone forever, and he has to run and run to survive. It is no wonder that we make terrible choices in our lives to avoid loneliness.

~ Charles M. Schulz

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Embracing human frailty, fallibility, and heartbreaking aloneness is crucial for any person seeking to attain self-actualization and self-realization.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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I may be too young to be lonely, but I am too lonely to be young.

~ Caroline Yawn

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...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who long to be social and cannot, somehow, step naturally and unselfconsciously into some friendly group

~ Shirley Jackson

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At that time I was only twenty-four years old. My life then was already gloomy, disorderly, and solitary to the point of savagery.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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To be so lonelyyou told yourself you liked to be this way& almost believed it was true.

~ Natalie Wee

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She's one in a million. And that's why she's lonely.

~ Joyce Rachelle

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We are not lonely, because we chose to be alone.We are not lost, because we chose to disappear.

~ Steven Wilson

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Life is for the loved, not the lonely. She lamented. Although it's the lonely who try to make the world and its inhabitants less so.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

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Nos·tal·gia (n):A feeling that lingers long after the taste is gone.

~ Jenim Dibie

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Maybe this is what alone really is — finding out how tiny your world is, and not knowing how to get anywhere else.

~ David Levithan

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Bukowski was dead wrong, the man was drunk most likely when he said this. Sometimes you get so fucking lonely that it makes no sense whatsoever. That sense losses meaning and usage, that meaning losses context as the sky pushes down upon you and threatens you to act a little more like your fellow human beings or else it'll cut your throat. When one is this lonely insanity is the only logical route and im on it quite well.

~ Samuel K

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I wonder if I might be lonelierif I didn't have loneliness

~ Kelli Russell Agodon

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Sometimes the rainfallsjust for you and meto be the violinplaying in the backgroundof our loneliness's song.

~ Sanober Khan

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You are my favourite part of me.

~ Jenim Dibie

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Every avalanche was once a lonely snowflake, every flood was once an aching raindrop.

~ Jenim Dibie

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Lonely and Alone: There's a difference.

~ Jerhia

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She walked in somber seclusion, unable to connect with women despite her heart's desire to do so while being shadowed by men who hungered for the indefinable; and while she yearned for friendship, they yearned for something more and what she had been in search of remained removed from her, and the more she erected barriers, the more they crossed them and each time they did, she turned from them and hid.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

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Like most cities, London could be a lonely place...

~ Kassandra Cross

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This sometimes happened: from time to time, Dantès, driven out of solitude into the world, felt an imperative need for solitude. And what solitude is more vast and more poetic than that of a ship sailing alone on the sea, in the darkness of night and the silence of infinity, under the eye of the Lord?

~ Alexandre Dumas

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Lonely' is a troubling word and not one to be tossed around lightly. It makes people uncomfortable, summoning up as it does all kinds of harsher adjectives, like 'sad' or 'strange'. I have always been well liked, I think, always well regarded and respected, but having few enemies is not the same as having many friends, and there was no denying that I was, if not 'lonely', more solitary than I'd hoped to be at that time.

~ David Nicholls

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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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We all say we hate being misunderstood and how we desperately want to find people who understand us. But it is not lack of compatible people that keeps us lonely. There is no shortage of people on your journey. The real, secret obstacle that we have against finding authentic, genuine relationships with people is our subconscious fear of growth. If we stick around in the bin of broken toys playing the queen or the king, at least we get to feel some sense of accomplishment at being the most evolved person we know. To find our tribe means finding people we can learn from, people who are better at some things than we are, people who have something to teach. We say we want it, but how many of us fear being a beginner more than loneliness and much more than being in the wrong crowd? There is a strange comfort, a sense of safety, to suffering and loneliness. To be happy, to find our family, we must be willing to let that go.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

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There was a story etched in each wrinkle on his forehead-the stories any long life can amass but that only a lonely life locks forever.

~ Ashay Abbhi

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Dark hair on a white pillow, an ache inside, his face a reflection in her eye.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

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