#one

Only boxers can understand the loneliness of tennis players - and yet boxers have their corner men and managers. Even a boxer's opponent provides a kind of companionship, someone he can grapple with and grunt at. In tennis you stand face-to-face with the enemy, trade blows with him, but never touch him or talk to him, or anyone else. The rules forbid a tennis player from even talking to his coach while on the court. People sometimes mention the track-and-field runner as a comparably lonely figure, but I have to laugh. At least the runner can feel and smell his opponents. They're inches away. In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement.... ↗

— Andre Agassi

#loneliness #opponents #solitary-confinement #tennis #men

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#loneliness #love #love

I love you, Kitten. Don't try to get out of this. We'll see if you love me when I pay you back. Even then I will love you, Bones called out as I stomped away. ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#cat #love

I want the people I love to get up and speak about me, and even if you cry it'll be OK. I want you to say honest things. ↗

— Jenny Downham

#speak #tessa #love

Admittedly, there was a lot she still didn't know about him, but she did know this: He completed her in a way that she'd never thought possible. Knowledge isn't everything, she told herself, and she knew then that, in Nana's words, he was the toast to her butter. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#the-lucky-one #love

Come here, baby." And with my words, Echo leaned into me soft, pliant, broken. "You're not alone," I whispered into her hair as I cradled her in my arms. "You're not alone, because you have me." And I love you, more than you could ever know ↗

— Katie McGarry

#katie-mcgarry #love #noah-hutchins #not-alone #pushing-the-limits

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

If I were a superhero, I’d be Honesty Man. I’d be so transparent I’d be invisible.
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— Jarod Kintz

#honesty #humor #invisible #super-hero #transparent

If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone ↗

— Stephen King

#fate #ka #love #roland #stephen-king

You get use to someone—start to like them, even—and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves. ↗

— Rachel Ward

#gone #goodbye #leaving #lost #love