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• A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.

  Truman Capote

  Salt, Hunger, Breakfast At Tiffanys

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.28, Vintage

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• Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Land, Dying, Humans

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “V.”, p.11, Penguin

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• There was just one moon. That familiar, yellow, solitary moon. The same moon that silently floated over fields of pampas grass, the moon that rose--a gleaming, round saucer--over the calm surface of lakes, that tranquilly beamed down on the rooftops of fast-asleep houses. The same moon that brought the high tide to shore, that softly shone on the fur of animals and enveloped and protected travelers at night. The moon that, as a crescent, shaved slivers from the soul--or, as a new moon, silently bathed the earth in its own loneliness. THAT moon.

  Haruki Murakami

  Animal, Moon, Night

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• There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Alone With God, World

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• Don't you understand? Listen carefully to what I'm saying. If you do, you'll get it. you can grasp this easily. In short...in short, I shut myself in because I'm lonely. Because I don't want to face any more loneliness, I shut myself away.

  Tatsuhiko Takimoto

  Lonely, Want, Faces

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• Loneliness doesn’t exist on any single plane of consciousness. It’s generally a low throb, barely audible, like the hum of a Mercedes engine in park, but every so often the demands of the highway call for a burst of acceleration, and the hum becomes a thunderous, elemental roar, and once again you’re reminded of what this baby’s carrying under the hood.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Baby, Demand, Parks

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• Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to help. We are probably those referred to as "our brother's keepers," possessed of one of the oldest and possible one of the most futile and certainly one of the most haunting instincts. It will not let us go.

  Norman Maclean

  Brother, Haunting, Helping

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• Someone once wrote that musicians are touched on the shoulder by God, and I think it's true. You can make other people happy with music, but you can make yourself happy too. Because of my music, I have never known loneliness and never been depressed.

  John Berendt

  Thinking, People, Musician

  John Berendt (2010). “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil”, p.106, Vintage

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• Loneliness is the worst pain in this world. It constantly eats away the person's heart, and can cause the person to hate, to feel enraged. It is like a wound of the heart; the type of wounds that cannot go away with a kiss or a hug. The only thing that can make this great pain go away is love and compassion, another human heart to pull them out of this hell.

  Princess Diana

  Pain, Hate, Heart

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• Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

  Max Ehrmann

  Born, Fatigue, Strength Of Spirit

  Max Ehrmann (2003). “Desiderata: Words for Life”, p.31, Scholastic Inc.

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• We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place. We stay there even though we go away and there are things in us we can find again only by going back there. We travel to ourselves when we go to a place. We have covered a stretch of our life no matter how brief it may have been but by traveling to ourselves we must confront our own loneliness. And isn’t it so that everything we do is done out of fear of our loneliness? Isn’t that why we renounce all the things we will regret at the end of our life?

  Pascal Mercier

  Regret, Going Away, Done

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• I've decided that the worst part of loneliness isn't being alone. It's being forgotten.

  Tawni O'Dell

  Forgotten, Worst, Decided

  Tawni O'Dell (2010). “Fragile Beasts: A Novel”, p.129, Crown

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• The great loneliness- like the loneliness a caterpillar endures when she wraps herself in a silky shroud and begins the long transformation from chrysalis to butterfly. It seems we too must go through such a time, when life as we have known it is over- when being a caterpillar feels somehow false and yet we don’t know who we are supposed to become. All we know is that something bigger is calling us to change. And though we must make the journey alone, and even if suffering is our only companion, soon enough we will become a butterfly, soon enough we will taste the rapture of being alive.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Life, Change, Being Alone

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• Define loneliness?
  Yes.
  It's what we can't do for each other.

  Claudia Rankine

  Claudia Rankine (2004). “Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric”, Graywolf Press

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• The joy of the gospel fills the hearts and lives of all who encounter Jesus. Those who accept His offer of salvation are set free from sin, sorrow, inner emptiness, and loneliness. With Christ joy is constantly born anew.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Heart, Joy

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.5, BookBaby

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• Lonely? Give it to Jesus. The loneliness itself is material for sacrifice.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Lonely, Jesus, Sacrifice

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• Even in this world where you’re getting everything you need and having this nice life, there’s still loneliness and longing and disconnection.

  Spike Jonze

  Nice, Needs, World

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• He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the open, like some old stone lying on the sand; he looked as if he had become physically what was always at the back of both of their minds-that loneliness which was for both of them the truth about things.

  Virginia Woolf

  Running, Lying, Water

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.387, Wordsworth Editions

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• After close to a year of traveling, I had seen things in the world and in myself, both good and bad, that I had never noticed before. I was struggling daily with pride and insecurity, homesickness and loneliness, with the burden of picking up my cross and following Jesus. This journey produced a new hunger for redemption in me.

  Bethany Dillon

  Jesus, Struggle, Pride

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• When we look within ourselves with psilocybin, we discover that we do not have to look outward toward the futile promise of life that circles distant stars in order to still our cosmic loneliness. We should look within; the paths of the heart lead to nearby universes full of life and affection for humanity.

  Terence McKenna

  Stars, Heart, Order

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

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• God has spoken very boldly about his desire to be a presence in our lives. If I want to heal the ache and loneliness in my own life, one of the things I need to do is get away, alone with God. . . . In the silence God will speak to you most powerfully. Too often his words to us get muffled, lost, or covered by the crowd of many noises both inside and outside of us. We must have a quiet heart in order to hear God's distinctive message to us.

  Tim Hansel

  God, Heart, Order

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• We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life.

  Marina Keegan

  Love, Women, Opposites

  Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Happy Life, Play, Envy

  "Balanced Life — 6 Tips for Battling Loneliness" by Gretchen Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2011.

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• People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition.

  Jean Vanier

  People, Community, Competition

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• Fundamentally, diaries are about loneliness.

  Kenneth Williams

  Diaries, Journal

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