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Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone. ↗

— Paul Tillich

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Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me. ↗

— Anne Hathaway

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The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone - at night. That's the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it's also where the title came from for the book. ↗

— Paul Kane

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Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement. ↗

— Alice Koller

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All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing. ↗

— Chantal Kreviazuk

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I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to. ↗

— David Walliams

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Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to. ↗

— Stuart Appleby

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And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone. ↗

— John Irving

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