#loneliness

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#music #refuge #music

being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#solitude #women

I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides don't match up with my outsides.' 'Do anyone's insides and outsides match up?' 'I don't know. I'm only me.' 'Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.' 'But it's worse for me.' 'I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him.' 'Probably. But it really is worse for me. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#differences #emotions #loneliness #people #personality

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#alone #come #compel #every #every man

Know this and know it more than you've ever bothered to understand anything before: I am, as lonely as they come. As empty as they make them. There is a reason my liver is filled with whiskey. A cloaked rhyme to why my lungs have fallen in love with smoke. I am lonely. But I have come to the conclusion that loneliness, no matter how often it weighs the soul, is sometimes, a beautiful thing. ↗

— Christopher Poindexter

#drink #loneliness #smoke #beauty

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#bookstore #buys #clears #every #him

The surest sign of age is loneliness. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#loneliness #sign #surest

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#alive #feel #get #loneliness #make

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#activities #begin #beyond #deepest #desire

I’m great at giving advice to singles; I’ve been coping with loneliness for a long time, and I have a lot of experiences to share for 3.99 a minute. ↗

— Bauvard

#loneliness #love #relationships #single #experience