#loneliness

Connection is life; disconnection, death. ↗

— Deborah Day

#happiness #loneliness #love #death

may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone. ↗

— E.E. Cummings

#poetry #travel #travel

When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#loneliness #musician #people #society #society

Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#loneliness #sadness #people

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#loneliness #loner #solitude #people

You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves. ↗

— Darren Shan

#loneliness #birth

Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color. ↗

— W.S. Merwin

#loneliness #loss #poetry #influence

All great and precious things are lonely. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#lonely

Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#lonely

The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#loneliness #lonely #people #lonely