Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
Douglas CouplandRead
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Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
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?
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you... There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.
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.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters, the slope of a shoulder, the angle of a hip. Looking at them sideways, I examine them in different lights. My love for them is visual: that is the part of them I would like to possess. Don’t move, I think. Stay like that, let me have that.
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."
It's getting to the point where I am no fun anymore, I am sorry. / Sometimes it hurts so badly I must cry out loud, ' I am lonely.' / I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are, you make it hard.
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
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