#loneliness

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? ↗

— George Eliot

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Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. ↗

— Paul Tillich

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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account. ↗

— Alice Walker

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Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there. ↗

— Joss Whedon

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

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In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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