#lines

This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#loneliness #life

We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#loneliness #solitary-confinement #solitude #life

I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#loneliness #love #love

In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#humanity #loneliness #love #space #love

You fall in love, it's intoxicating, an for a little while you feel like you've actually become one with the other person. Merged souls, and so on. You think you'll never be lonely again. Only it doesn't last and soon you realize you can only get so close and you end up brutally disappointed, more alone than ever, because the illusion-the hope you'd held on to all those years-has been shattered. ↗

— Nicole Krauss

#loneliness #love #love

. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#isolation #loneliness #personality #solitude #love

You can think whatever you want, do whatever you want. I'm going to just go on loving you, even if it's hopeless. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#bloodlines-series #sydney-sage #sydrian #the-indigo-spell #love

The pain we feel in separation is the price we pay for love. ↗

— Hatef Mokhtar

#love #romance #sacrifice #separated #love

Anyone who knows how scary it is to be alone, can't help loving others." ~Rin Sohma ↗