Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
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Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
The exhilaration was hard to explain. It was a lonely feeling — a somehow melancholy feeling. He was outside; he passed on the wings of the wind, and none of the people beyond the brightly lighted squares of their windows saw him. They were inside, inside where there was light and warmth. They didn't know he had passed them; only he knew. It was a secret thing.
Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.
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.
Distrust brings frustration and fear. So therefore, the lonely feeling automatically come. So, lonely feeling is not creation of environment, but creation of your own mental attitude.
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
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 best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
There is much suffering in the world - physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of others. The material and physical suffering is suffering from hunger, from homelessness, from all kinds of diseases. But the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, having no one. I have come more and more to realize that it is being unwanted that is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.
I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.
The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
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.
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